Patch not installing on solaris 10 oracle community. I now want to check whether a directory s contents have changed but sum only runs on files. Note that tar can determine that the ustar format is being used by the presence of the nullterminated string ustar in the magic field. I wonder if we are assuming gnu tar which i think has slightly different properties than standard unix tar. Patch not installing on solaris 10 807567 may 14, 2007 7. File system advanced features on solaris, patch detail. If that remedy does not help, the tape data could be corrupted. I rebuilt the tar multiple times thinking the tar was damanged. The size field is 0 if the header describes a link. The solaris 10 1008 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 1008 release. For an example,if your systems are running with solaris 10 807 update4,then select that and select the right platform. It turned out it was due to an incompatibility in the version of tar i had used to create the tar and the version i was using to untar the file. The chksum field is a checksum of all the bytes in the header, assuming that the chksum field itself is all blanks.
Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Also, your path is relative so you need to be in the correct. Solaris opensolaris this forum is for the discussion of solaris, opensolaris, openindiana, and illumos. You are currently viewing note that registered members see fewer ads, and ever seen this. When youre installing a patch, the patchadd command copies files from the patch directory to the local systems disk. It could be two different versions of tar, native andor gnu.
Need unzip fix available in patch utilities patch to unzip. The solaris 10 recommended patchset really does contain. On my solaris machine, i sometimes use the sum command to verify that a file has not changed. I havent had any problems with tar xzf geronimotomcat6javaee52. For compatibility with older tar commands, the ptc mks toolkit version of tar leaves prefix null unless the file name exceeds 100 characters. Note that the solaris tar does not understand the directory option. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways.
There are a number of differing scenarios under which the solaris operating system may panic, hang, or exhibit other symptoms that lead the administrator to have to restart or reboot the system as there are many different failure scenarios and many different classes of hardware, the information and procedures for collection of system information vary from. So, in order to be able to verify the contents of the tar archive, you either need to keep the original data on the hard drive and compare the archive contents against that data using the d tar switch or keep the md5 sums of the files in a separate document and. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Tar continue reading solaris tar command to backup data on. The md5 checksums for each file in the archive are listed in the file info link for each package or source file. Looks like solariss tar doesnt know how to compress. Dec 01, 2007 in my opinion, the biggest problem of the tar format ustar is that it does not store the checksums of the files it contains. Also, if you copy using scp, either your scp client or server could become the limiting factor. There is some compatibility issue between linux and solaris tar on solaris you need to first gunzip the file, than extract its content by tar xf. I then ftpd it over to my solaris 8 intel system in binary mode and as root in ksh.
Veritar verify checksums of files within a tar archive g. For the solaris 10 release, refer to the online manual pages forinstructions on using patchadd and patchrm scripts provided withsolaris. Click on that highlighted link to get the below screen where you can start os patch bundle download. How to find the oracle solaris critical patch update cpu patchsets, recommended os patchsets for oracle solaris and oracle solaris update patch bundles doc id 1272947. Due to the tar ustar format limitations the md5 sums are retrieved from a separate file and are checked against the md5 sums of the files within the tar archive. Go to the oracle java archive page the jdk is a development environment for building applications using the java programming language. Jun 18, 2011 there are a number of differing scenarios under which the solaris operating system may panic, hang, or exhibit other symptoms that lead the administrator to have to restart or reboot the system. It updates the patch packages pkginfo file with information about patches made obsolete by the patch being installed, other patches. General sun, sunos and sparc related questions also go here. My sun machine is highly reliable, never crashes for hardware reasons or any reason for that matter. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. It is both a file format and the name of the program used to handle such file. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena.
If your version of tar supports it, you can use the z flag to specify it is compressed with gzip. Tar continue reading solaris tar command to backup. For the new ustar format, headers take on the format shown in table 2. Hi all, i am doing tar for a set of files using the command. As there are many different failure scenarios and many different classes of hardware, the. Using a path starting with can cause problems if you want to unpack it on another system. It is virtually impossible to modify a file and yet keep the same.
You can specify other hashes as well, by passing a tool that calculates it it must work like md5sum. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. I want to create tar file on solaris solaris 10 as kit. If you are using sun solaris, you most certainly are using unix. Solaris troubleshooting system panics, hangs and crashes. Is there a way to run sum or a similar command on an entire directory. I recently wanted to recover some data from these two tapes, but when i issued the command irix tar xpf devtape tmp i get the following error. Looks like solaris s tar doesnt know how to compress. Check which one you are running, and try using gnu tar to extract, or vice versa. In solaris 8 sparc, its shipped as optsfwbingtar, assuming youve installed the sfwgtar package. Just for the sake of completeness if you have gnu tar which is available for solaris too you can use this simpler command which unzips and unpacks in one go. I now want to check whether a directorys contents have changed but sum only runs on files. Veritar verify checksums of files within a tar archive.
I cannot say whether there is an updated tar binary for solaris 10, but since there is a source modification from march 2010 see my answer, there is a big chance for such an update. Archives are permitted to have more than one member with the same member name. File headers contain file names and statistics, checksum information which tar uses to detect file corruption, and information about file types. Extract from tar file to different directory in bash. I need to archive to tar files a lot up to 60 tb of big files usually 30 to 40 gb each. Verify that the new patch is installed by executing the command below and confirm the output displayed matches the text which follows. The jdk includes tools useful for developing and testing programs written in the java programming language and running on the java tm platform warning. Mar 05, 2009 i suspect you may have typod the patchset date, as clearly the 2012. Installing the required oracle solaris 10 patches oracle. I recently wanted to recover some data from these two tapes, but when i. Let me assure you, the solaris 10 recommended patchset really does contain all available security fixes for the solaris os.
I would like to make checksums md5, sha1, whatever of these files before archiving. Looks like you need to apply some solaris patches to get pbx working before you worry about the netbackup installation. A directory is indicated by a trailing slash in its name. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. The process takes place without actually exctracting the files. It determines the solaris version number of the managing host and the target host. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. Several operating system patches are required for the proper operation of the compilers and tools in the oracle developer studio 12. If an archive is compressed, the compression program adds its own suffix as usual, resulting in filename endings like. To verify the integrity of the files inside the archive we use the diff command. Solaris tar command to backup data on tape device nixcraft. Password solaris opensolaris this forum is visit the following links. Any other special or nongeneric installation instructionsshould be described below as special instructions.
Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10. Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be found on the my oracle support. Change to the directory where the patch is located and install the patch using the commands shown below. If your version of tar supports it, you can use the z flag to specify it is compressed with gzip tar xzvf 4. There is some compatibility issue between linux and solaris tar on solaris you need to first gunzip the file, than extract its content by tar xf hope that helps. Veritar verifytar is a commandline utility that verifies the md5 sums of files within a tar archive. Now, here is how to use tar to get files from a tape on the remote system back to the local system. The tapes are dds1 tapes and an old irix indigo with a tape drive has been used in the past to readwrite from and to these tapes. If in doubt, leave out the block size and let tar1 determine it automatically. Verify that the new patch is installed by executing the command below and. How to repair tar directory checksum error sco unix solved. You need to dd the tape drive through tar to extract your files. The only types of actions that we can do concerning this bug report is to add a warning on the download pages of the web site, saying that the tar files contain.