[SunHELP] error when applying patch

[canderson1 at worldbank.org]

You know, I'm not too sure but I think I remember a problem where I couldn't
install software because the path that I had it in was too long.. As soon as I
moved it to something shorter (like /tmp in your case), it worked with no
problem... And I think I had an error similar to yours.. but this is all from my
fuzzy memory so maybe I'm crazy..

Changa



                                                                                                                                           
                    Edward Chase                                                                                                           
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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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