[SunHELP] Downloading patches

[Thomas Cameron]

Written for a Linux environment, but can easily be adapted to Solaris:

Keeping Up with Change in a Large Scale Linux Environment:

http://cedar.intel.com/cgi-bin/ids.dll/content/content.jsp?cntKey=Generic%20Editorial::linux_largscale&cntType=IDS_EDITORIAL

Should be one line, but my MUA sucks and will probably break it into two.

Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Cameron Technical Services, Inc.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simoncini, Matthew" <Matthew.Simoncini at bsci.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 11:02 AM
Subject: [SunHELP] Downloading patches


> Hello gurus,
>
> I have a large number of patches to install on several different servers,
> mostly Solaris 2.6 systems. I've thought about how to get all the patches
> without a lot of manual effort and couldn't come up with any ideas except
to
> manually ftp these patches from sunsolve. I've looked into the Sun Patch
> Manager utility and wonder if that's the solution or could I write a
script
> to get the patches from SunSolve. Given all the knowledgeable people on
this
> list, I'm sure someone has come up with a way to make this task easier.
Does
> anyone have a solution that they use that they'd be willing to share?
>
> TIA.
>
> Matthew Simoncini
> Boston Scientific / Accenture
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