Manual patching Process on Solaris 8 and 9 versions
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Verify your disk are okay

# metastat | grep State:

# vxdisk list

* DO NOT PATCH IF YOU HAVE OS DISK ISSUES

   - RESOLVE ANY ISSUES BEFORE PATCHING

Check sendmail and make a note if it is running or not

# /usr/bin/ps -ef | grep send

Check and make sure root can run at

# /usr/bin/grep root /etc/cron.d/at.allow

Make some system saves (we do not always need to refer back to these)

# /usr/bin/mkdir /staging/SAVES

# /usr/bin/ps -ef | grep send > /staging/SAVES/sendmail_ps.out

# /usr/bin/uname -a > /staging/SAVES/uname_a.out

# /usr/bin/netstat -rn > /staging/SAVES/netstat_rn.out

# /usr/sbin/vxdisk list > /staging/SAVES/vxdisk_list.out

# /usr/sbin/metastat > /staging/SAVES/metastat.out

# /usr/bin/iostat -En > /staging/SAVES/iostat_En.out

# /usr/bin/iostat -en > /staging/SAVES/iostat_en.out

# /usr/bin/cp -p /etc/mail/sendmail.cf /staging/SAVES/sendmail.cf

# /usr/bin/cp -p /etc/mail/submit.cf /staging/SAVES/submit.cf

# /usr/sbin/mount > /staging/SAVES/mount.out

# cd /etc; tar cf - init.d rc2.d rc3.d | gzip -c > /staging/SAVES/rc_scripts.tar.gz

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Solaris 8/9

The steps for installing are as follows:

1)  Drop the server into single user mode

a) If there are no firmware updates: (init 0, boot –s) – note that running ‘init s’ does not guarantee a quiet system

b) If there is firmware updates staged: Go to the ‘tx flash only.rtf’ doc

2)  Mount all the file systems

    note, do *NOT* run MOUNTALL, I have seen cases where this brings

     the entire system back up to multi user mode.

  RUN THE FOLLOWING COMMANDS TO GENERATE YOUR MOUNT COMMANDS:

            # /usr/bin/cat /etc/vfstab    | \

           /usr/bin/tr -s ' ' '\11'   | \

           /usr/bin/cut -f3,6         | \

           /usr/bin/tr '\11' ':'      | \

           /usr/bin/grep ':yes'       | \

           /usr/bin/cut -f1 -d:       | \

           /usr/bin/grep -v '/global' | \

           /usr/bin/sed -e "s/^/mount /"

...This will generate the mount commands, but it will not mount anything, that is our job

3) Initiate the patch scripts:

            # /usr/bin/chmod 0755 /staging/manual_patching

            # /staging/manual_patching &

            # /staging/manual_monitor

2)  Once the server reboots, verify the patching is running by logging

     in through the console as root and execute:

          Check the time stamp - should be current

            # /ust/bin/ls -al  /staging/output.other_patches

          Check the progress of the patching

            # /ust/bin/tail    /staging/output.other_patches

     * to monitor patching progress run '/staging/monitor'

3)  Once the server is back online check the disk and messages file.

4) Restore sendmail:

            # /usr/bin/cp /staging/SAVES/sendmail.cf  /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

            # /usr/bin/cp /staging/SAVES/submit.cf    /etc/mail/submit.cf

5) If sendmail was *online* previously, we want to restart it

     (check '/staging/SAVES/sendmail_ps.out' ):

            # /etc/init.d/sendmail stop

            # /etc/init.d/sendmail start

6) If sendmail was NOT running previously we need to stop and disable sendmail

     (check '/staging/SAVES/sendmail_ps.out' ):

            # /etc/init.d/sendmail stop

            # /usr/bin/mv -f /etc/rc2.d/S88sendmail /etc/rc2.d/DISABLED_S88sendmail

7) Verify the new kernel revision level

            # uname -v