[SunHELP] Problems installing patches

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Kuthonuzo Luruo wrote:

| Hi List,
|
| while trying to install the set of recomended patches from the sun website
| on an ULTRA 60 solaris 7 box, i'm getting an error similar to the
| following for EVERY patch:
|
| # patchadd 107544-03
|
| Checking installed patches...
| One or more patch packages included in
| 107544-03 are not installed on this system.
|
| Patchadd is terminating.
|
| am unable to install ANY patch on my system.
|
| thanks for any help!

Did you by chance ever delete all of /var/sadm or one of it's
subdirectories?

I bet you did.

/dale