Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. For servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. The etcsystem file is automatically updated with the new information and the etclvm file is updated removing a stripe. Does anyone know of a command that would show the list of patches installed and the date it was installed. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. In the patch system test lab, we currently have solaris 10 systems with 7gb used in var and this will continue to grow over the lifetime of solaris 10. How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network or cdrom. Only as a last resort should you remove a patch without understanding the reason why it needs to be removed. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem.
Analyzing a patchadd or patchrm failure in the solaris os. When you back out a patch, the patchrm command restores all files modified by that patch, unless the patch was installed with patchadd d which instructs patchadd not to save copies of files being updated or replaced. Removing volumes using solaris 9 volume manager commands. Removing a solaris patch system administration guide. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. The readme, the install log, plus and backout scripts for patches you installed are copied to varsadmpatches, not the actual patches themselves. Now in case of losing any state database replica svm determines the valid state database replica by using majority consensus algorithm. Find answers to how to remove the solaris 10 sparc patch. Any other special or nongeneric installation instructions should be described below as special instructions. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. If you are able to regularly patch your systems, then apply the recommended patch cluster, which one can download if one has an oracle technology network login gratis which is tied to a.
The following example will remove all database state replicas from all twelve drives. The etclvm file is automatically updated with the new information. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. This example upgrade has been done in x86 virtual machine in virtual box. State database replicas can be created on dedicated slices, or on slices that will later become part of a simple metadevice concatenation or stripe or raid5 metadevice. These patches are the sun recommended patches for solaris 10 frozen from may 14th, 2010 how can i uninstall the patch. It updates the patch packages pkginfo file with information about patches made obsolete by the patch being installed, other patches required by. Upgrading to solaris 10 engineering computer network. However, since oracle took over, in my view there has been a loss of interest in small to mediumsized. This should give you just a few hits such as 12361104 which you can then go to sunsolve and find patches for, or at least find out the latest recommended level, bug lists, etc. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express.
I neglected to mention the solaris version and no longer have a recent solaris box to check this on, so check the manpages and give it a try if it seems appropriate. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. Patchreport is written in perl, and does require the addition of several perl modules, libnet, datadumper, md5, libperl, and io. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Although i can use showrev p, and get individual patch information, i cant find a quick, easy or consistent way to determine which cluster was last installed. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support. It determines the solaris version number of the managing host and the target host.
Im here presenting the steps worklogs that i gathered while i performed the live upgrade of solaris 9 operating environment to solaris 10 operating environment. There is nothing in solaris 10 and earlier patches to identify the date, and this is on purpose. How many state database replicas are needed to be available for the system to continue to run. For the solaris 10 release, refer to the online manual pages for instructions on using patchadd and patchrm scripts provided with solaris. My understanding is that showrev p would show patches but not the date they were installed. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. Most of the solaris administrators will search for solaris 11 os patch bundle like how we use to get for solaris 10 but you wont get it. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to. Command to find out when the patches are installed in.
They are only valid on sparc hardware that uses the openboot rmware. I highly recommend upgrading to a current release, either solaris 10 update 9 or solaris 11 express. The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and selected issues identified by oracle proactive services and the oracle technical support center, for the solaris 10 operating system for sparc. Use the fixlets on the various solaris sites to apply oracle patches and updates to your deployment. Then yes, youre running an old solaris express development release. The updated solaris 10 os recommended patchset will be available by the next day, wednesday, assuming there are new patches released which meet its inclusion criteria that is, patches which address security or other critical issues.
Required patches for solaris 10 bmc proactivenet 9. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems before you install the solaris patch, make sure that you have backed up the files listed in preinstallation considerations. For information about the available fixlet sites for solaris, see supported platforms and updates patch content caching must be done through the download plugin. How to split a root mirrored with solaris volume manager prior to updating software. The state database contains the configuration and status information of all volumes, hot spares and disk sets. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the. Address linux list lvm mysql openvz performance proxmox redhat centos repository rhn satellite sds sharepoint 2007 solaris solaris 10 solaris 11 spacewalk ssh ubuntu ubuntu debian unity update usefull. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. For example to remove the 11978417 patch, perform the following steps. This document is based upon sparc solaris 10 obp all the following commands are to be run from the obp and not the os. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command line cli march 11, 2008 by kevin all the mainstream sun documentation on the sun connection or update manager expects the server to have a gui, which i completely dont understand. First things first, you must umount any volumes on that disk, disable swap on it, and in every other.
The zones update on attach feature and patching in the solaris 10 os. Remove a patch from a solaris operating system my sysad blog. Issue the following command, which displays the list of pools. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. The value needs to be a commaseparated set of colonseparated values. To add and remove patches on solaris systems, use the patchadd and patchrm commands, which are provided with the os. Solaris 10 patches now on monthly release cadence oracle. The eeprom command can be used from the os to view or set openboot rmware variables. To remove all of the database replica with one command, you will need to use the f option. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. I am trying to find a good way to determine which patch cluster is installed on a solaris 10 system. The metadb command creates and deletes replicas of the metadevice state database.
This last weekend saw the switch off of sunsolve and the migration of the old sun support system across to oracles my oracle support. When youre installing a patch, the patchadd command copies files from the patch directory to the local systems disk. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install the patch on the global zone only g. For this example, you must be booted from at least the solaris 10 10 08 os media. In this example we removed a custom idr patch provided by oracle.
To verify that the patch was removed, you can run the patchadd command with the p option and search for the specific patch id. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. If there is insufficient space in var of an existing system, the recommended solution is to extend the size of the var partition. As far as i know patches were never made available for that. Mount the mirror root disk and replace the svm related entries in the etcvfstab and etcsystem to prevent svm to start on boot from the root mirror disk. New solaris 10 os patches are now available from mos by the tuesday closest to 17th of each month. To provide redundancy we create multiple copies of the state database called as state database replicas. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. Solaris volume manager has been configured on a solaris 10 system and it has two state database replicas on each of three disks in the system. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology.
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