[SunHELP] another patch error

[Edward Chase]

For anyone interested, it seems that our installed Solstice Enterprise 
Agents Simple Network Management Protocol was too old to be patched.

We just shut it off and disabled it from starting up in the future.

This was on an Intel Solaris 2.6 machine...


At 04:11 PM 2/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Attempting to install the latest snmp patch on a Solaris 2.6 x86 machine.
>
>I'm getting the following...
>
>
># ./installpatch .
>
>WARNING: /usr/sbin/patchadd is being used to install this patch.
>Installpatch will be removed from Solaris patches in
>the next release of Solaris.
>
>
>Checking installed patches...
>One or more patch packages included in
>106872-17 are not installed on this system.
>
>Patchadd is terminating.
>
>
>I'm thinking as I read this that other patches are required before 
>applying this one, however the README for the patch states there are no 
>required patches.
>
>Am I reading this error correctly?

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