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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I don’t know why there is a whitelist at all or why it overrides the wishes of the user. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I will look to see if I can find an older version that works. I hadn’t thought of that.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I would hope that it isn’t normal to exclude kernel patches, but this isn’t the first time we have had problems with one breaking our systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>TateRB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3
.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Glen Gunselman<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 20, 2011 3:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> EXTERNAL: Re: [pca] Can not exclude 144500-19!?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Robert,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Do you have access to pca version 20110329-01 or older? The change log (<a href="http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/changes.html">http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/changes.html</a>) shows 144500 was added to whitelist following that release.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class
=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>With all the alerts on 144500 (this week added - </span><strong><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Solaris 10 Kernel Patches 144500-19 and 144501-19 may Cause a Panic in Systems Using Storage Multi-Pathing [ID 1359919.1] </span></strong><span style='color:#1F497D'>– I would think we should recommend against installing 144500-19. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I see MOS Patches & Updates does not have any older versions of 144500-19 but from the README there were many. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Is it normal for a kernel patch to NOT be recommended?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span>
</p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>GlenG<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces@lists.univie.ac.at] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert B Tate<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 20, 2011 1:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> Glen Gunselman; pca@lists.univie.ac.at<br><b>Subject:</b> [pca] Can not exclude 144500-19!?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Installing this patch puts many of our systems into endless reboots. I have used the following command line t
o try and exclude this patch (and some others), but it still shows up in the lists. I found a white list in the program which seems to override my commands. Is this correct? How can I get around this? I cannot allow this to be installed until this is fixed and can’t get pca to not install it. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To get a listing, this is what I use:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>/usr/tools/adm/SunOS/bin/pca -y -X/usr/tools/adm/SunOS/pca \<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--pattern="!VRTS|VERITAS|NetBackup|VxVM|SYMC" \<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--ignore=144500-19 --ignore=121430-66 --ignore=127655-07 -l<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(/usr/tools is a commen NFS mounted tools area we use).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>----
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