[SunHELP] error when applying patch

Edward Chase echase at postoffice.providence.edu
Thu Feb 21 15:14:37 CST 2002


No change in results...


At 04:13 PM 2/21/2002 -0500, Dale Ghent wrote:
Try:

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

and then adding the patch.


>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.

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