[pca] unable to download readme ..

[David Stark]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:43:07PM +0200, dpecka wrote:
> David, would you provide please a output with --debug option?
> 
> i'd like to see, how it is working for you .. as far as the most people here have a same problem, because saved README file has 0b size.

This is a bit odd. PCA downloading readme's direct from Sun doesn't work, but using the pca proxy is fine. I've cleared all the README* files from the cache directory, so it's definitely downloading them.

Is the pca proxy download different from the pca normal download?

>From PCA using the proxy (after 'rm /pca/READ*'):
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[das at cpunxpca01s ~]$ ./pca --readme 119254-67
Downloading README for 119254-67
Trying http://cpunxpca01s.glasgow.gov.uk/cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi?
Done
Patch-ID# 119254-67

NOTE:
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READ THE TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT") IN THE LEGAL_LICENSE.TXT
FILE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE. BY USING THE SOFTWARE, YOU
AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE
TERMS, PROMPTLY DESTROY THE UNUSED SOFTWARE.
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For further information on patching best practices and resources, please
see the Big Admin Patching Center, http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/patches/ 
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Keywords: security patchadd patchrm pspool global zone upgrade rlogin telnet par
allel patching
Synopsis: SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities Patch
Date: Aug/04/2009
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>From /tmp/pca-proxy-debug.txt:
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[das at cpunxpca01s ~]$ tail /tmp/pca-proxy-debug.txt 
Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: Auto update
Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: pca mtime : Thu Jul 23 10:56:40 2009
Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: pca now   : Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009
Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: pca ctime : Mon Aug 17 11:47:59 2009
Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: pca age   : 4904
Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: age lower than interval
Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: Requested file: README.119254-67
Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: Downloading README for 119254-67
Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: Trying /pca/119254-67.zip
Mon Aug 17 13:09:43 2009: Done
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PCA going direct to Sun gives a 0 byte file.
> 
> thanks daniel
> 
Dave
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