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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hey Rajiv, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I just noticed the luinstpatches.sh in your
Create_Patch_Bundle.sh and could not find it in your website. Can you provide
this as well?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Coskun,
Aydin</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 27, 2011
8:26 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">PCA</st1:PersonName>
(Patch Check Advanced) Discussion<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [pca] patch delta
between two dates</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thank you Rajiv ,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Rajiv Gunja<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 27, 2011
6:59 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">PCA</st1:PersonName>
(Patch Check Advanced) Discussion<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [pca] patch delta
between two dates</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#3333FF'>Aydin,<br>
Email including the script sent.<br>
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-GGR<br>
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Rajiv G Gunja<br>
Blog: <a href="http://ossrocks.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://ossrocks.blogspot.com</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 14:31, <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Coskun, Aydin</st1:PersonName>
<<a href="mailto:Aydin.Coskun@blueshieldca.com">Aydin.Coskun@blueshieldca.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:navy'>Hi Rajiv, </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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><o:p></o:p></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <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> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">PCA</st1:PersonName>
(Patch Check Advanced) Discussion<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [pca] patch delta
between two dates</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 color="#3333ff" face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Verdana;color:#3333FF'>Van,<br>
I have a wrapper script and create patch bundles for servers in 1 location -
local <st1:PersonName w:st="on">PCA</st1:PersonName> 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 <st1:PersonName w:st="on">PCA</st1:PersonName>
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>
<br>
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>
<br>
Please check my blog for the wrapper script, if you need more information,
please send me an email.<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
-GGR<br clear=all>
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--<br>
Rajiv G Gunja<br>
Blog: <a href="http://ossrocks.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://ossrocks.blogspot.com</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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>
<br>
We use <st1:PersonName w:st="on">PCA</st1:PersonName> 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>
<br>
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>
<br>
I'm starting to think I should have recorded the three files used by <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">PCA</st1:PersonName><br>
uname.out, showrev.out, and pkginfo.out with all the other files I was<br>
storing. Then run <st1:PersonName w:st="on">PCA</st1:PersonName> on the old
input files with the last "baseline"<br>
patchdiag.xref<br>
<br>
Does anyone have a good technique to determine the delta of patches<br>
added in a period of time. (using <st1:PersonName w:st="on">PCA</st1:PersonName>
or other tools)<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
Thanks in advance.<br>
Paul Van Bommel<br>
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