<font color="#3333ff"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Aydin,<br>Email including the script sent.<br><br>-GGR</font></font><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br>--</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Rajiv G Gunja</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Blog: <a href="http://ossrocks.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://ossrocks.blogspot.com</a></span><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 14:31, Coskun, Aydin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Aydin.Coskun@blueshieldca.com">Aydin.Coskun@blueshieldca.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hi Rajiv, </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">In your wrapper script there is a reference
to uninstall script but it is not posted on your blog. Can you share it?</span></font></p>
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<a href="mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at" target="_blank">pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at" target="_blank">pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Rajiv Gunja<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 26, 2011
11:27 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> PCA
(Patch Check Advanced) Discussion<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [pca] patch delta
between two dates</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font color="#3333ff" face="Verdana" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Van,<br>
I have a wrapper script and create patch bundles for servers in 1 location -
local PCA Patch Proxy. This method
allows me to keep a copy of the list of patches generated along with the Xref
file with which it was generated on the PCA
Patch Proxy server. pca -l missing in html format or text format on a
web-server does work well when audit needs to performed.<br>
Storing multiple files per server with date will work if you have less than 200
servers, I have about 3000 servers, so 1 html file with date in its filename
works better for me.<br>
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On the server, where the patch is being installed, I have a wrapper script,
which writes to /var/log/installpatches.log and each time a bundle is
installed, the older one is backed up and the new log is appended to this file.
This file also contains the date/time on which it was installed.<br>
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Please check my blog for the wrapper script, if you need more information,
please send me an email.<br>
Thanks<br>
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-GGR<br clear="all">
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Rajiv G Gunja<br>
Blog: <a href="http://ossrocks.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://ossrocks.blogspot.com</a></span></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 13:37, Van Bommel, Paul <<a href="mailto:Paul.VanBommel@gdcanada.com" target="_blank">Paul.VanBommel@gdcanada.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I've been asked to
provide a list of patches that have been applied to a<br>
system over a period of time. (about a year). These have been applied in<br>
3-4 patching sessions.<br>
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We use PCA and it works very well.
We record details in a single<br>
directory on each system per patching session. Things like the download<br>
and install output in a log file, the patchdiag.xref used on that date,<br>
any local pca.conf file, and the patch zip files. The zip files<br>
sometimes get cleaned out from the local system to save space.<br>
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My log file has a lot of details, and I was able to generate a list of<br>
"Successfully" installed patches, but I don't trust this technique.
Am I<br>
on the right track here. (egrep '^Installing|^Successful' log.txt)<br>
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I'm starting to think I should have recorded the three files used by PCA<br>
uname.out, showrev.out, and pkginfo.out with all the other files I was<br>
storing. Then run PCA on the old
input files with the last "baseline"<br>
patchdiag.xref<br>
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Does anyone have a good technique to determine the delta of patches<br>
added in a period of time. (using PCA
or other tools)<br>
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What info do you record in a patch session to make your life easier when<br>
questions like this popup?<br>
The worst part is that I cannot go back in time to produce these file. I<br>
can only start recording now.<br>
I wish the base OS had some kind of version control. (not ZFS, something<br>
in the package/patch database)<br>
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Thanks in advance.<br>
Paul Van Bommel<br>
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