SUMMARY: What does this mean from "showrev -p": showrev: get_env_var(SPROswmgr, SUNW_PATCHID)

From: Ed Finch (efinch@eos.EAST.HITC.COM)
Date: Sun Aug 02 1998 - 13:45:17 CDT


The original message:

> We recently installed the latest security/recommended and y2k bundles,
> as well as some miscellaneous patches on several systems. Now, on one of
> the machines, when we execute "showrev -p" it displays:
>
> showrev: get_env_var(SPROswmgr, SUNW_PATCHID)
>
> and terminates. I don't think the patch process ran out of free space:
>
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 1010590 506406 403134 56% /
> /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6 741542 273509 393883 41% /usr
> /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
> fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
> /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 1414510 946743 326317 75% /data
> /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s0 1952573 614922 1142401 35% /lab
> swap 438660 128 438532 1% /tmp
>
> Output from uname -a:
>
> SunOS dms1 5.5.1 Generic_103640-20 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20
>
> What happened?

Suggestions:

1) I may have installed a patch which added this "feature"; Solaris 2.6
   apparently prevents non-root users from retrieving patch information.

2) Look for a core file in /var/sadm.

3) A directory under /var/sadm/pkg has the wrong permissions.

Solution:

/var/sadm/pkg/SPROswmgr had permissions of 700.

Thanks to:

John Bradley <john.bradley@sr5.chinalake.navy.mil
Sean Ward <sdward@uswest.com
Line Printer <lps@rahul.net

Regards,
Ed

   Q: Why do PCs have a reset button on the front?
   A: Because they are expected to run Microsoft operating systems.



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