Re: Is there any way to know if userland is patched?

From: Bruce M Simpson (bms_at_spc.org)
Date: 11/11/04

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    Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 04:52:00 -0800
To: "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.net>

    On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:15:06PM -0500, Peter C. Lai wrote:
    > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:52:59PM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
    > > In the end, what we want is for a user to type `uname -r' and to see
    > > what patch level is running. Anything more complicated (checking RCS
    > > Ids and such) just gets in the way, I think.
    >
    > That is how many other major unix suppliers do it (sun/solaris, and sgi/irix).

    Actually no; Solaris can have many different system patches installed.
    See the showrev manpage, in particular the -p option. Or docs:
            http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-1985/6mhm8o5va?a=view

    In particular, the ability to manage base system patches under Solaris
    much like packages is very useful.

    BMS
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