[SunHELP] error when applying patch

[Edward Chase]

If anyone is interested, this patch was successfully installed only after 
installing from /tmp.  A suggestion from Sun support.

This was on a Solaris 8 machine.  I was able to install the equivalent 
Solaris 7 patch from my own home directory.


At 02:28 PM 2/21/2002 -0500, 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.
>
>Is this telling me that the machine does not need to be patched?  If so, 
>why would that be?  This is a newly announced exploit.  I haven't applied 
>any patches in over a month.

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