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patchadd error, help!

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xeryus

Technical User
May 25, 2001
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Hello,
I tried to install patch 113225-07 using patchadd on a Solaris 9 server, I got the following error

../113225-07/SUNWcsu/install/checkinstall: cannot open pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
 
Check the permissions on the directory where the patches are installed. For example if you have the patch in /var/tmp/patches then make sure the permissions are 755. You may be able to use 750, but I set them to 755.
 
Are you doing this as root?

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
 
Also check your umask setting. I always set it to 0022 before I install patches.
 

The permission is 755.
I am doing the patchadd as root.
My umask is 022.
 
The pkgadd command is in /usr/sbin
The permission on the file is 555 root sys
 
If you have 113225-07 in /var/tmp/patches/113225-07 then the permissions of /var/tmp/patches has to be open, probably 755 or maybe 775 to be able to do the patchadd. This is a security thing. Or you can give the user nobody a UID of 0 (zero) and this will let you run patchadd.
 
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