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  • 1.  How to check if a patch is applied?

    Posted 11/14/05 01:37 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    I have a quick question regarding AIX. We are tying to find out if we have the fix for AIX4.3 for the following issue:
    http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1IY07842

    How can we check if this patch is applied to our load?
    If we do not have it, where can we get it or find information on a possible workaround?

    We are running AIX 4.3.2 (I know, I know, we are not supposed to use this version of AIX, but we are, so I have to live with it (you can pity me if you want :-))
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  • 2.  Re: How to check if a patch is applied?

    Posted 11/14/05 01:41 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    'instfix -ik IY07842' should do it. You hope to see

    All filesets for IY07842 were found.

    If not, you need to get the fix.

    anker
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  • 3.  Re: How to check if a patch is applied?

    Posted 11/14/05 01:57 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    I have tried the instfix tool and it seem that we do not have this tool on our AIX machine. Do you have any suggestions where to find the tool or any other way to check the patch?
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  • 4.  Re: How to check if a patch is applied?

    Posted 11/14/05 02:16 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    At AIX 5.2, it's part of the bos.rte.install fileset. I thought that was a required part of AIX, so you should have it installed. I don't think that instfix has changed much since AIX 4, but I could be wrong.

    If you can't get instfix to work, try calling IBM and asking what filesets (with level information) are included in the APAR. We ran AIX 4 after its sunset date and found that IBM Support was quite helpful when we had questions and problems; they just won't open new APARs.

    anker
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  • 5.  Re: How to check if a patch is applied?

    Posted 11/18/05 03:51 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    heada@ridus022:/home/heada oslevel
    4.3.3.0
    heada@ridus022:/home/heada which instfix
    /usr/sbin/instfix
    heada@ridus022:/home/heada lslpp -w /usr/sbin/instfix
    File Fileset Type
    /usr/sbin/instfix bos.rte.install File
    heada@ridus022:/home/heada lslpp -l bos.rte.install
    Fileset Level State Description
    Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
    bos.rte.install 4.3.3.81 COMMITTED LPP Install Commands

    If you know your current AIX level, you should be able to download all the required updates for the APAR if you go to the AIX patch URL and put in the APAR number and the level you are currently running.

    Good Luck.
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