[SunHELP] error when applying patch

[Dale Ghent]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Edward Chase wrote:

| I'm trying to apply a patch for the recently announced snmp exploit.
|
| I'm getting the following error...
|
| # more /var/sadm/patch/108869-15/log
|
| This appears to be an attempt to install the same architecture and
| version of a package which is already installed.  This installation
| will attempt to overwrite this package.
|
| /export/home/echase/108869-15/SUNWmibii/install/checkinstall: /export/home/echa
| se/108869-15/SUNWmibii/install/checkinstall: cannot open
| pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully
| Dryrun complete.
| No changes were made to the system.

Try:

chown -R nobody /export/home/echase/108869-15

and then adding the patch.

/dale