[pca] Logging

[Rajiv Gunja]

Martin,
I agree with you on this. Log output shown in the previous email is just
overkill. Why on earth would any Engineer want to look at such verbose
output. If we did that at our office which has about 6000+ Solaris servers,
it will drive us insane by the time we finish a dozen.

In fact, my wrapper scripts only shows the install and fail notice to the
Engineer on the tty and sends the rest of the pkgadd output to a log file.

If there is a patch failure, pkgadd keeps a detailed log of that path under
/var/tmp/*.log for each patch. Looking through those files will give us
enough information to diagnose the issue.

In fact, in the last 2.5 months, we have patched about 137+ servers and to
our luck or the standards we use, we have had zero patch install failure
which were unexpected. All patches are being installed using PCA on an ABE
(live upgrade environment)

-GGR

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Rajiv G Gunja
Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com
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