How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. How to send mails with attachments using the solaris mailx command. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. The versions of ssh and sendmail that ship with solaris 10 will automatically use tcp wrappers to filter access if a hosts. Solaris flash archives creation and installation html. Solaris 10 patches come in zip format, such as 10494502. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision.
If you lokk at your op youll see that the logs are from sendmail. May 19, 2009 solaris 10 patch return codes may 19, 2009 by gleb reys 4 comments now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. How to send mails with attachments using the solaris mailx. Bugs there are some flags that are not documented here. These can be pointers to websites, log files or man pages. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Mar 20, 2016 mailx is the utility to send emails from solaris to the outside world. Note the oracle solaris 10 106 software contains scriptspecial patches which do not deliver bug fixes or new features, but deliver changes that are required as a result of issues with the creation of the update image. Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. Recommended patches for solaris 10 oracle community. Recommended patches for solaris 10 marco milooracle jun 7, 20 6. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support lildude howtodownloadsolarispatchclustersfrommyoraclesupport 20101214t07.
Although you might prefer to use the windowbased mail, you might find that the mailx program. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. Reverse dependencies 0 reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on sendmail. Solaris 10 was originally launched in january 2005, and over its lifespan has introduced a ton of ground breaking features, like the zfs volume managerfilesystem, dtrace, zones, service management facility, trusted extensions and more. And by adding tk, you can also wrap interactive applications in x11 guis. So a decision was made to allow new driver support to ship in solaris update releases but for solaris to compete successfully against other operating systems, a gap of ca. These patches were applied when the solaris 10 os was created. To be recognized as html i need to put in email header this information. Reverse dependencies 0 reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on mailx. Jun 06, 2018 solaris 10 was originally launched in january 2005, and over its lifespan has introduced a ton of ground breaking features, like the zfs volume managerfilesystem, dtrace, zones, service management facility, trusted extensions and more. Community packages for suse linux enterprise server. The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and selected issues identified by oracle proactive services and the oracle technical support center, for the solaris 10 operating system for sparc. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. The showrev p command provides a list of all patches that were applied to the installed system, regardless of how they were applied.
Solaris and many other unix flavors have utilities such as mail and mailx which you can easily do you job with. The problem is that i cant find how to give mime type information with mailx. However, patches cannot be backed out of the solaris 10 release. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. Reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on sendmail. The solaris 10 software includes a known and tested level of patches. So is there any way to send the mail as highpriority. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. Removing patches from zone nt4 removing patches from zone sfw removing patches from global zone removing patch idr14836326. Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. This page covers the configuration of sendmail on solaris 7 and solaris 8 to send outgoing mail to an isp using smtp. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by sendmail. Pca, patch check advanced, generates a list of installed and. Solaris opensolaris this forum is for the discussion of solaris, opensolaris, openindiana, and illumos.
Therefore, these patches are not located in the varsadmpatch directory. If your isp delivers incoming mail by means of smtp, please also read configuring sendmail to accept incoming email. What id like to do is something similar but without having the interactive part. Seding attachment through mailx on sun solaris codeproject. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. General sun, sunos and sparc related questions also go here. It is a command language interpreter usable both as an interactive login shell and a shell script command processor. Sendmail configuration on linux is typically stored in the etcmail direc tory.
For a customer on an early version of solaris 10, such as solaris 10 0305, solaris 10 106 update 1, or solaris 10 606 update 2, there is a very significant amount of code change delivered, for example, in the current kernel patch compared with the original kernels delivered in these releases. Most other versions of mailx dont support that option since theyre mainly concerned with textbased mail. Solaris 10 operating system solaris 10 106 solaris 10. Solaris 10 operating system product library documentation. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. The post discusses the use of uuencode to send mails with attachments using mailx command. I spending too much time looking for it without success does any one can send me the link were to get it thankyou. I have read how to send a mailx message and how to send an attached file in solaris 10.
Usually, mail is just a link to mail and mailx, which can be confusing. Linux and solaris and touches on the issue of patching a machine. Go to support log in with your username and password. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. I can do one or the other, but i seem to be unable to do both at the same time.
Find answers to mailx not working in solaris 10, no mail log file from the expert community at experts exchange. Our requirement is we need to send amil with highpriority. Sunos provides a program called mailx for sending and receiving electronic mail email. Technical support handbook driver search support forums beta program. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone.
If this is merely text you want to email, simply redirect it to the mail command. With a baud rate less than 1200, number defaults to 5, if baud rate is exactly 1200, it defaults to 10. If jass was not used for hardening and sendmail has been stopped, usrlibsendmail q can be added to. A similar page describes the compilation, installation and configuration of fetchmail to collect incoming mail from an isps pop3 server. Sendmails long life has made it complicated to configure and maintain, but it makes up for its drawbacks with its ability to do just about anything. And presently we are sending mail using the tool mailx s. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support tales. I noticed that mailx stopped working, as far a i can tell that is the only thing that changed. Expect can make easy all sorts of tasks that are prohibitively. Example using one attachment the syntax of uuencode command is. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Most of the solaris administrators will search for solaris 11 os patch bundle like how we use to get for solaris 10 but you wont get it. As a result, the following scriptspecial patches are not made available for customers because they are not required outside of creating the update release.
Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to. Help2man is a script to create simple man pages from the help and version output of programs. Dec 27, 20 i have read how to send a mailx message and how to send an attached file in solaris 10. The a is a file attachment in the gnu version of mailx.
Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. Solaris 10 10 08 operating system patch list solaris 10. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Hi, im working on solaris 9 sparc and i like to send an html body message to our users when something happen. But today i had to send emails with attachments and mailx has no built in support for them. No man pages are installed with the user bundle, so install them while the solaris cd is still mounted. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Expect is also useful for testing these same applications.
I want to send four text files and one csv file as attachment using mail or mailx and uuencode utility on solaris server. User commands oracle solaris 10 1 information library. I cant find the latest solaris 10 recommended patches. Other times, a patch may come in as a jar file indicated by a. Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets.
Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. This usually results in having to manually restore the, and possibly the sendmail binary to avoid mail failures. It is the default mta for most unix distributions, including hps hpux, ibms aix, and sun microsystems solaris os. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. But eventually all good things must continue reading how to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support.
Solaris mailx send message and attach a file solutions. I had read a post in this site regarding configuring mailx on solaris 10, i had made all the changes as defined in the post but still i am not able to receive the email to my outlook client. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. How to send an email on command line under solaris 10. This man page is derived from the mail reference manual originally written by kurt shoens. Sendmail is one of the oldest and mostly widely used mtas in the world. I know that i can copy messages to a file by first entering mailx. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. For solaris 10 patches, use the unzip command to extract the patch files, as follows.
I usually use mailx to do send emails from scripts and im very happy with it. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. If not any alternative way instaead of using mailx. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers.