Aug. 18th, 2004

pvaneynd: (Default)
I lost too much time reading The Museum of Unnatural Mystery.

At work we are trying to get a large number of Solaris boxes up-to-date. I tried to use patchpro from Sun, but after working on it for two days it still generates errors like:
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So something is wrong. Googling seems to reveal it could be a certificate problem and talks about importing 3 certificates, but the SUNWcert package only contains 2(!). So I used PCA to update the machine to recommended. It is a simple perl script. I needed to hack it a little to work with the strange proxies, but after that it was plain sailing and it just worked. Unlike patch"pro".

So now I need to find out if
  • which of the 3 java VM's installed creates this error.
  • where the third certificate should be
  • how to do this for the XX machines of the customer


And then they claim windows is a too difficult to keep up-to-date...

Aargh!

Aug. 18th, 2004 09:46 am
pvaneynd: (Default)
The livejournal effect. The missing certificates are in the patchpro package itself!

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Makes the world go round!

Google: adding this certificate fixes the "Failed to create the signature valiation utility." error of patchpro.

Later I noticed it could analyze the system, but not download the patches :-(

Thinking along the windows line, removing the ppro package and then reinstalling it makes it all work!

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