I only recv'd one reply to this question (beyond the typical auto responder barrage that one gets) Big thanks to: Nathan Bardsley from LeadFusion Answer: Use the command line version! I didn't know this but smpatch is really a wrapper around the 'pprovsvc' command. So just use that. On Solaris 8 machines it'll be located in /opt/SUNWppro/bin and on Solaris 9 boxes they've moved it to /usr/sbin. Works like a charm! cheers ian On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 09:15 -0700, Ian Wallace wrote: > Hello Gurus! I've been searching the archives, and trying to figure out > via different man pages/Sun documents how to do this but with no luck. > I manage a mixed environment of Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 boxes. Each has > the smpatch utility installed on it. > > When I run 'smpatch analyze' on the Solaris 8 boxes it just returns a > nice list of suggested patches. > > On Solaris 9 the same command instead prompts me for the root password > (the user I'm running the command as). We don't give out the root > password though ... so I don't know it (we use sudo). > > I scanned the man page, and it suggested that I needed to use 'local > only mode' by spec'ing the '-L' option. So I tried: > > smpatch analyze -L > > And it *still* prompts for a password. Is there any way to get the > Solaris 8 behaviour out of this tool on Solaris 9? I'd like to just be > able to pop on the machine and analyze what it's missing (without having > to have the root password). > > TIA > > ian _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Mar 29 10:10:35 2005
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