[pca] different directory for patches

[Stevenson, Bradley (NE)]

Great! Does anyone know if the script will do disk space checking so it knows
How much disk space it needs to install the patches. Or does anyone have a
Script to do this ?

Brad



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From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Brookins, Neil (Philadelphia)
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 9:30 AM
To: 'pca at lists.univie.ac.at'
Subject: Re: [pca] different directory for patches

Last week, after reading Dagobert's email about the loopback, I tested it on one of my servers which had a sym link for /var/sadm and it worked beautifully.
I was able to reboot and it mounted the loopback correctly from the vfstab entry too. Now I'm able to install new patches without the sym link getting removed.

What had been happening (with the sym link) is that some patch installs worked ok, others would blow away the sym link. Then the next patch attempt would fail because it thought the dependency was missing because the list of existing patches was no longer accessible.


Neil Brookins

----- Original Message -----
From: Stevenson, Bradley (NE) [mailto:Bradley.Stevenson at gd-ais.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 09:30 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion <pca at lists.univie.ac.at>
Subject: Re: [pca] different directory for patches

What if its /var/sadm that is linked. Would using the loopback Method work in this case as well ?



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From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Martin Paul
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:20 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: Re: [pca] different directory for patches

Am 23.01.2013 15:06, schrieb Stevenson, Bradley (NE):
> Was there a solution to this problem ?  We are considering the use of 
> this tool in our Environment but we do have linked directories for /var/sadm/pkg on some of our servers.

The solution is to *not* use a symbolic link for /var/sadm/pkg/. That's an issue with Suns/Oracles patch tools (like patchadd), BTW, and not PCA.

As Dagobert mentioned, use a loopback mount instead:

   rm /var/sadm/pkg
   mkdir /var/sadm/pkg
   mount -F lofs /apps/sadm/pkg /var/sadm/pkg

You can also make this permanent via vfstab.

hth,
Martin.



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