If I want to determine what patch levels different machines are at, how
does one tell?
I have some examples below fromprobing on some systems, but I'd like to
know the ways one can find what is the latest version of
patches installed on the system. It seems as if the best way is to look at
the /var/adm/patch/log/session.log file, but the Rev level displayed
via uerf must have meaning.
Is there a simple correspondence between Rev level and Patch Kit level?
Regards, and I will summarize
Bruce
On a DU V4.0d system which I believe has patch kit 3 installed, I can look
in uerf -R |more and see:
----- EVENT INFORMATION -----
EVENT CLASS OPERATIONAL EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 300. SYSTEM STARTUP
SEQUENCE NUMBER 1.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Tue Aug 24 10:47:31 1999
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM nice
SYSTEM ID x0000000C CPU TYPE: DEC 7000
SYSTYPE x00000000
MESSAGE Alpha boot: available memory from
_0x2aec000 to 0x7ff58000
Digital UNIX V4.0D (Rev. 878)
Or, I can look in /var/adm/patch/log, and do a more session.log, and find
the string:
Do you want to proceed with the pre-installation check with this setup? [y]: y
KITNAME><DUV40DAS00003-19990208> OSF425
which suggests patch kit 3 for V4.0d
Or, I can do a setld -i |more and find entries like:
OSFACCT425 installed System Accounting Utilities (System
Administration)
OSFADVFS425 installed POLYCTR advfs (System Administration)
OSFADVFSBIN425 installed POLYCTR advfs Kernel Modules (Kernel Build
Environment)
OSFADVFSBINOBJECT425 POLYCTR advfs Kernel Objects (Kernel
Software Development)
etc...
On a V4.0E system, I can find:
EVENT CLASS OPERATIONAL EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 300. SYSTEM STARTUP
SEQUENCE NUMBER 1.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Tue Jul 27 17:57:55 1999
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM comport3
SYSTEM ID x00020009 CPU TYPE: DEC 2100
SYSTYPE x00000000
MESSAGE Alpha boot: available memory from
_0x898000 to 0x3fee000
Digital UNIX V4.0E (Rev. 1091)
and in /var/adm/patch/log I see:
KITNAME><DUV40EAS00001-19990202> OSF435
which suggests patch kit 1 for 4.0E
or, I can do a setld -i |more and find:
AFAADVANCED435 Advanced File System Advanced Utilities,
v4.0e, r435(General Applications)
AFAADVANCED436 installed Advanced File System Advanced Utilities,
v4.0e, r436(General Applications)
AFAADVDAEMON435 Advanced File System Daemon, v4.0e,
r435(General Applications)
AFAADVDAEMON436 installed Advanced File System Daemon, v4.0e,
r436(General Applications)
AFAADVGUI435 Advanced File System Graphical User
Interface, v4.0e, r435(General Applicat
ions)
AFAADVGUI436 installed Advanced File System Graphical User
Interface, v4.0e, r436(General Applicat
ions)
AFAADVMAN435 Advanced File System Advanced Utilities
Reference Pages, v4.0e, r435(Genera
l Applications)
AFAADVMAN436 installed Advanced File System Advanced Utilities
Reference Pages, v4.0e, r436(Genera
l Applications)
NASBASE800 installed Digital NAS Packages for Digital UNIX
OSFACCT435 installed System Accounting Utilities (System
Administration)
OSFADVFS435 installed POLYCTR advfs (System Administration)
OSFADVFSBIN435 installed POLYCTR advfs Kernel Modules (Kernel Build
Environment)
OSFADVFSBINOBJECT435 installed POLYCTR advfs Kernel Objects (Kernel
Software Development)
OSFAFM435 installed Adobe Font Metric Files (Printing Environment)
OSFATMBASE435 installed ATM Commands (Network-Server/Communications)
OSFATMBIN435 installed ATM Kernel Modules (Kernel Build Environment)
+--------------------------------------+
Bruce B. Platt, Ph.D.
Comport Consulting Corporation
78 Orchard Street, Ramsey, NJ 07446
Phone: 201-236-0505 Fax: 201-236-1335
bbp_at_comport.com, bruce_at_ bruce.platt_at_
OR, bruce_at_bbplatt.com
Received on Fri Aug 27 1999 - 13:48:13 NZST