Home / server / Questions / 310960
Accepted
danboh
Asked: 2011-09-14 08:20:28 +0800 CST

Solaris 10 Get latest Installed patches

  • 772

I'm trying to find out a way to display the LATEST patches installed in a Solaris box. I know the existence of the commands:

showrev - p
patchadd -p

But I'd like to see a list of patches sorted by install date just to confirm that the box has the latest patch installed.

solaris patch-management

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Patches are packages, packages live in in a directory tree for each package which is here:

    /var/sadm/pkg

    The patches are in 

    /var/sadm/patch

    ls -lrt for each one shows the order they were created on the system. Patches are NOT necessarily applied in chronological order. This gives you a rough idea, though.

    Did you try the smpatch utility to see if there are pending required patches?

    smpatch analyze

    shows what smpatch thinks you are missing.

    Reply to sockets issue: java 1.6.0.10 has issues that cause this for smpatch Bug ID: 2173292 Bug ID: 6771432 See bugs.sun.com or sun.com

    • 3

  2. Check PCA Patch Check Advanced

    It's a perl script. You will need an Oracle account and access to internet.

    If you want to know if a patch is installed, obsoleted or there is an update with "pca " will show it

    PCA is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for Oracle Solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. By default, if run without any option or operand, PCA shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision.

    Here's some sample output from pca -l all, which shows a list of all installed and missing patches:

  Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Feb/29/04
  Host: myhost (SunOS 5.9/Generic_117171-09/sparc/sun4u)
  List: all (7/2182)
  Patch  IR   CR RSB Age Synopsis
  ------ -- - -- --- --- --------------------------------------------------
  112785 42 < 43 RS-  18 X11 6.6.1: Xsun patch
  112787 01 = 01 --- 999 X11 6.6.1: twm patch
  112807 10 = 10 RS-   9 CDE 1.5: dtlogin patch
    • 1