The easiest/safest answer was to use the 'patchadd -u' which unconditionally installs the patch. It worked! Thanks to all for responding. -- Jim ---------- Original message ---------- I was crusing along on my keyboard, installing various packages on Solaris 8 with pkgadd, and accidently installed the /dev/random patch (112438-02) with pkgadd instead of patchadd. Before I realized this, I rebooted to activate /dev/random, but it doesn't exist. A coworker suggested trying 'reboot -- -r', but that didn't activate it either. Now I cannot install the patch with patchadd, because Solaris thinks it's already installed. I'm thinking about using pkgrm to remove the five packages in the patch (SUNWcarx, SUNWcsr, SUNWhea, SUNWmdb, SUNWmdbx), but when I started that, there are many packages that depend on these. I found a few other references to people that had done this in the past, but no solutions. Any ideas on how to safely get /dev/random going? -- Jim Winkle, UNIX System Administrator, UW-Madison, DoIT. Contact info: BioComp: help_at_biocomp.doit.wisc.edu http://www-biocomp.doit.wisc.edu/ Other: jwinkle_at_doit.wisc.edu http://jwinkle.doit.wisc.edu/ Or use 264-HELP for help with services, 262-9507 to reach me directly. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Feb 17 16:20:40 2004
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