I am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular quarter. Well see where solaris 10 goes, but i seriously doubt theres going to be any mass exodus over to the sun platform. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from showrev p. The system is still booting but in maintenance mode. Oct 26, 2011 for servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. Umount the image of the driver and mount the solaris 10 iso again. This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. Solaris troubleshooting system panics, hangs and crashes.
Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. So if you have valid oracle csi, you can manually download and install required solaris patches using this howto. Dec 04, 2017 well, lets start with extended support. Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be. During the solaris 10 extended support period, the updates to the recommended patchsets will contain patches that require a solaris 10 extended support contract, so the solaris 10 recommended patchsets will also require a solaris 10 extended support contract during this period. Build a very inexpensive solaris 10 workstation page 2. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. Oracle solaris 10 containers provides the framework to create zones within the overall oracle solaris 11 environment where such applications can run. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. Oracle solaris 10 extended support will continue to supply you with fixes, security patches, security alerts for oracle solaris 10 similar to oracle solaris 10 premier support for 3 years. Several operating system patches are required for the proper operation of the compilers and tools in the oracle developer studio 12.
Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch. Solaris 10 1009 provides new features, fixes and hardware support in. Find answers to how to remove the solaris 10 sparc patch. Dec 11, 2010 i hope oracle is not going to abandon solaris 10 in sake of their new solaris 11 express release. Sun releases new update to solaris 10 operating system. These release notes also include endofsoftware support statements, documentation issues, and a list of integrated patches. I gave a rebooted and tried installing it again, but it seems some lock or something is prevenven the. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was. The solaris 10 release notes documents important installation and runtime issues and bugs. Patches released after the oracle solaris 10 9 10 release can be found on the my oracle support.
This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g. Since most of our servers are sparc based, did not want to take the pain to configure jumpstart for a single server, but if jumpstart is used for installation, addition of 3rd party packages patches is easier. The cool thing about this tool is that it actually resolves the dependencies between patches. Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. Sun microsystems announced the solaris 10 1009 operating system. Mar 21, 2009 umount the image of the driver and mount the solaris 10 iso again. For information about the available fixlet sites for solaris, see supported platforms and updates patch. Please list command and specific directory that patches should the unix.
Hi, the last kernel patch for solaris 10 x86 sorry i can t remember the patch id, but the revision is 30, available from sun update manager screwed up my system. So can i download free patches from the sun page, i mean with out paying a license. The solaris 10 1008 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 1008 release. For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. Md5 the md5 software is not needed for systems running the solaris 10 os, because the digest1m command now includes md5 functionality. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. Md5 the md5 software is not needed for systems running the solaris 10 os, because the. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Note the oracle solaris 10 811 software contains scriptspecial patches which do not deliver bug fixes or new features, but deliver changes that are required as a result of issues with the creation of the update image.
Openssh installing openssh is not needed on solaris 9 or 10. The oracle solaris 10 9 10 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the oracle solaris 10 9 10 release. Solaris 10 10 09 provides new features, fixes and hardware support in an easyto. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. I have tested solaris 10 on a 2000era sony laptop which wasnt on the solaris hcl but it seemed to work fine for server type operations no sound or usb support. Oracle solaris 10 9 10 operating system patch list. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the oracle. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. Installing perl modules perl dbi dbdoracle on solaris if you have ever tried to install perl modules on solaris, then youll have shared my pain. However, you will end up with a nonglobal zone, even if your original system only had a single zone and if you use solaris but dont know what. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris, rather helpfully, comes with its own installation of perl, straight off the dvd.
We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Patch check advanced, pca, is a free tool that can be used to patch solaris systems. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle support id csi. Command to find out when the patches are installed in solaris machine. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments. I have to install some latest patches on my sparc machine running solaris 10. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. These patches are required for the proper operation of the compilers and tools in this release. Command to find out when the patches are installed in solaris. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs.
Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support. I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Operating system patches for oracle solaris 10 are provided for the oracle solaris studio 12. I am new to solaris and i have a very dumb question. As a result, the following scriptspecial patches are not made available for customers because they are not required outside of creating the update release.
Well, first of all, as i said, i personally know of three large shops that are migrating to. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. This content represents actions that must be addressed to have patch management for solaris. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches.
The oracle solaris 10 patch utility patches are 119254% sparc and 119255% x86 x64. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and. Install or upgrade to the latest oracle solaris 10 update release during your next major maintenance window. Quick download links to solaris 10 recommended patchsets leave a comment posted by jflaster on november 1, 2011 here are the quick links on metalink for downloading the latest. Build a very inexpensive solaris 10 workstation page 2 of. Many customers pick and choose amongst the thousands of patches available for solaris 10, for example. Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured.
Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. In older versions of solaris 10, the etchosts file was the definitive data store for hostnameip address translation data. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade. Use the fixlets on the various solaris sites to apply oracle patches and updates to your deployment. Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended.
Oracle solaris 10 support explained oracle solaris blog. Users should upgrade to the latest version of the solaris live upgrade software prior to patching the system, regardless of the version of the solaris os. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. This appendix lists oracle solaris 10 patches that are included with this release. The solaris 10 1 kernel patch, 14714726 sparc 14714826 x86 post solaris 10 1 kernel patches have the patchids 148888xx sparc 148889xx x86 please note that there are no more planned updates to solaris 10, so these latest kernel patchids 148888xx sparc 148889xx x86 will continue to be used for the foreseeable future. Jan 19, 2016 for the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. While sun has been testing and certifying that solaris 10 will run on various x86 and x64 servers from ibm, hewlettpackard, dell, and others, are finding that having sun or the opensolaris community. Oracle recommends that some patches, including cluster and kernel patches, be applied with the computer in single user mode. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. On a solaris 10 x86 server, based purely on the showrev poutput.
Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. If your x86 computer meets the solaris 10 minimum requirements and is or its components are listed on the solaris 10 hcl, it should work fine. Those of you still on solaris 10 may want to download the latest recommended patchset for solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of january 2016. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Command to find out when the patches are installed in. Solaris 10 305 dvd segment 2 of 5, multilanguage sol10gax86dvdisob. Sun releases new update to solaris 10 operating system help. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Installing the required oracle solaris 10 patches oracle. Oct 09, 2009 sun microsystems announced the solaris 10 10 09 operating system. These release notes also include endofsoftware support statements, documentation issues, and a list of. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies.
By default, the bigfix solaris patch solution applies solaris patches in the current run level of the computer. Installing perl modules perl dbi dbdoracle on solaris. Note the oracle solaris 10 106 software contains scriptspecial patches which do not deliver bug fixes or new features, but deliver changes that are required as a result of issues with the creation of the update image. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Which packages, in addition to the kernel patch level, would you consider important to check. Patching a live solaris 10 system with lu, zfs, and pca.
Sun have done some work in recent times with liveupgrade the last time i looked at it, a few years back now, it was. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was patched. Oracle does provide a procedure called transitioning an oracle solaris 10 instance to an oracle solaris 11 system, enabling you to port your solaris 10 global or nonglobal zone to solaris 11. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Find answers to solaris 10 x86 openssl patchpackage to address vulnerabilities from the expert community at experts exchange. Alternatively, for oracle solaris cluster systems, a rolling upgrade of the cluster nodes may be performed.
Patch identification numbers and descriptions for oracle. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. Since most of our servers are sparc based, did not want to take the pain to. Tarmas writes for a limited time only, just like ubuntus. Extremetech reader christian cruz builds a compact, very low cost workstation using suns new open source solaris 10 as the operating system.
Typically, solaris computers use run level 3 or multiuser mode. While sun has been testing and certifying that solaris 10 will run on various x86 and x64 servers from ibm, hewlettpackard, dell, and others, are finding that having sun or the opensolaris community attest to the usability of solaris on a particular box is not the same thing as having the maker of that box actually sell the operating system on. I was installing solaris10 recommended patch cluster and it came out without installling all patches. Solaris fingerprint database companion and solaris fingerprint database sidekick.
I am learning solaris, with solaris 10 x86, and one of the chapters in the manual is about patching. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. Segment 1 of 5, multilanguage sol 10 ga x86 dvdisoa. Install solaris 10u6 x86 on hp bl460c pkochummens weblog. The output from usrbinshowrev p gives a list of the patches installed on the system. This last weekend saw the switch off of sunsolve and the migration of the old sun support system across to oracles my.
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