[pca] reconfig required

[Laurent Blume]

Shawn Singh a écrit :
> Hello List,
> 
> I'm new to the list and fairly new to administering Solaris. My question
> is with regard to patching. When I do a --pretend run to see what will
> require a reboot, I note that some patches recommend doing a reconfig.
> 
> Not sure what needed to be done in those cases, I've done some searching
> and found an article where there was some discussion about whether or
> not one should perform a 'boot -r' after patching. In the article, the
> respondants were mainly talking about patchadd, and some brief mention
> of smpatch and from reading it, I got the impression that each
> application handles reconfiguration differently (how much differently, I
> don't know). In the case of PCA, once I run it and it has updated my
> system, do I need to reconfigure the system (reboot it, and use boot -r)?

The easiest way is to do:

# touch /reconfigure
# init 6

The only issue with boot -r is that it's SPARC specific, it won't work
on x86 (it's more convoluted there).

Please note that some patches that need reconfigure already create the
file, and IIRC, PCA adds it itself if it detects it's needed. So when
you see at the end that a reconfigure reboot is needed, just check the
file is there, if not, create it, then do a clean reboot.

Laurent
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