Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. Click on that highlighted link to get the below screen where you. Those kind of devices are not real print servers, just big print buffers. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. One or more solaris patch fixlets available in the patches for solaris site. Solaris live upgrade consists of a set of tools that enable users to create an alternate boot environment that is a mirror copy of the current boot partition and then patch the newly created boot partition prior to making it live. Lpadmin is a set of php4scripts to administrate a lan party. It can also be used to set the server default printer or class.
Despite this, i can use the man command to view most man pages as usual. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. For an example,if your systems are running with solaris 10 807 update4,then select that and select the right platform. 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. A networkattached printer has a networkinterface or is connected to a print server device netusbserialparallel e. Sets the number of characters per inch to use when printing a text file. Users should upgrade to the latest version of the solaris live upgrade software prior to patching the system, regardless of the version of the solaris os running on the system.
Installation using the lp utilities for solaris on a solaris 2. In this case i would like to know while applying any patches on solaris 1. When specified before the d, p, or x options, the e option forces encryption when connecting to the server the first form of the command d sets the default printer or class to destination. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. To correct this, perform the following on the client workstation. Subsequent print jobs submitted via the lp1 or lpr1 commands will use. Starting with version 10 of the solaris operating system. For information about other options, see the lpadmin8 man page.
There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. For information about other options, see the lpadmin 8 man page. Solaris man uses a manual page index file called windex in place of the old whatis file. Removing patches from zone nt4 removing patches from zone sfw removing patches from global zone removing patch idr14836326. Three types of scaleddecimalnumbers can be used with the lp print service. New solaris 10 os patches are now available from mos by the tuesday closest to 17th of each month. When creating a new printer, one of three options v, u, or s must be supplied. In my case i have solaris 10 production server, with 3 non global zones. There are man pages for top and other commands in optsfwman. 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. Oracle kept sending me to a page recommending i use sunsolve. Solaris 10 operating system opensolaris date of workaround release 10dec2008 part ii multiple printing regressions in solaris 10 kernel patches 12712711 and 12712811 1.
I have few queries in case of patch implementation in solaris 10 os with zone environment. Once again, i immediately reported this to suns patch team. The recommended method of proactively applying patches is to use solaris live upgrade. The term scaleddecimalnumber refers to a nonnegative number used to indicate a unit of size. Solaris lpadmin question generic ppds and landscape. The bsdaddr is supplied for backward compatability with solaris 2. Many of the new patches for solaris 10 are unavailable on suns patch server, so pca will fail to download them. Only the most commonly used options of the cups lpadmin command are shown here. I have configured a print queue using lpadmin command to print to print file server. Users may instead refer to the man page for usage details to work around this issue. Part ii multiple printing regressions in solaris 10. The first form of patchadd installs one or more patches to a system, client, service, or to the miniroot of a net install image. How to update solaris 10 to be safe from shellshock bug.
Ive actually come across a very easy way to make this change but i cant seem to get it. The updated solaris 10 os recommended patchset will be available by the next day, wednesday, assuming there are new patches released which meet its inclusion criteria that is, patches which address security or other critical issues. When specified before the d, p, or x options, the e option forces encryption when connecting to the server. Unfortunately the old problem ive mentioned multiple times before is showing up again, too. Adding or changing a printer the first form of the lpadmin command lpadmin p printer options configures a new printer or changes the confi guration of an existing printer. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. 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. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Source server is a solaris zone running solaris 10. For more information, see using your assigned administrative rights in securing users and processes in oracle solaris 11. The basic template for adding and enabling a new printer is.
It exists several products in internet that are able to managed solaris server but we support only the patching methods listed at. Add a printer named laserjet which is at the network location 10. Subsequent print jobs submitted via the lp1 or lpr1 commands will use this destination unless the user specifies otherwise with the lpoptions1 command. The default value for the timeout option is 10 seconds.
Solaris volume manager has been configured on a solaris 10 system and it has two state database replicas on each of three disks in the system. For details of indepth linuxunix system programming training. Solaris 10 patches now on monthly release cadence oracle. Combined with some additional browsing and trial and error, here is the procedure to add a new default network printer, in this case an hp laserjet 4240 at 123. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command line cli march 11, 2008 by kevin all the mainstream sun documentation on the sun connection or update manager expects the server to have a gui, which i completely dont understand. This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone. Patch management for solaris 10 server pascal kreyeroracle may 12, 2014 11. Before i forget and have to resort to the man page for each option, below were steps used to setup a network printer on solaris 10. Impact solaris 10 kernel patches 12712711 sparc platform or 12712811 x86 platform introduce multiple printing regressions as listed below. I set export manpathoptsfwman and i can now see the man page with man top. Check the man page should more information on a particular option be needed. Linux lpadmin command help and examples computer hope. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the. Basic administration you can also use these components or products.
The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and nonglobal whole root zones patching. I then did patchadd tmp12654605, then patchadd tmpidr15157701. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. Solaris exam questions the home page of john michael. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Please look at man page on your solaris server for details.
Solaris lpadmin question generic ppds and landscape printing. How many state database replicas are needed to be available for the system to continue to run. How to set up a printer by using the lpadmin command. The second form of patchadd displays installed patches on the client, service, or to the miniroot of a net install image. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. See all activity categories dynamic content, frontends.
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