Package Management

BASE_CONFIG: JS_install_patchclust: Unable to locate patch

You may find the following error in your JET build install logs: WARNING: BASE_CONFIG: JS_install_patchclust: Unable to locate patch 119545-03 Recently, when building servers using Sun JET (SUNWjet), I found that the patches from the Sun recommended Patch cluster is not installed as a part of the JET build. Digging deeper, I found the above …

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Sun Solaris Patch Management return codes

When you install Patches on Solaris, you will find quite often see error codes or Exit/Return codes when the patch installation fails. These are the return codes that indicate the cause of the failure to install the specified patch and are very helpful as point to start with in troubleshooting.

How to Install OpenSSH in Sun Solaris 10 (X86)

OpenSSH is a free opensource version of the SSH connectivity tools. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks unlike Telnet,rlogin or ftp where the data is not encrypted and transmitted in plain text. Additionally, OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH …

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How to Install OpenSSH in Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC)

OpenSSH is a free opensource version of the SSH connectivity tools. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks unlike Telnet,rlogin or ftp where the data is not encrypted and transmitted in plain text. Additionally, OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and several authentication methods, and supports all SSH …

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How to install GNU tar in Sun Solaris

There are scenarios where you cannot untar a certain package with the builtin tar utility. A best example would be when you use it to untar the MySQL Packages downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html Follow the procedures listed below to sucessfully install GNU Tar installed in Sun Solaris.