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Uninstalling Kernal patch
- Thread starter kporeddy
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You have to back the patches out. Will the system boot, if not where is stopping at. If the system will boot then boot it up and go to the patch directory /var/sadm/patch. Find the patch and do patchrm patch number. If it is a patch cluster then you may want to use a for loop something like this.
for files in `ls -l /var/sadm/patch |grep "date(this what date you installed like Mar 20|nawk '{print $9}' the nawk will print the last field which is the patch number. Let me just give you an example using March 20th.
for files in `ls -l /var/sadm/patch|grep "Mar 20"|nawk '{print $9}'
do
patchrm $files
done
That script will take all patches installed on March 20 and remove them. You just need to make sure that there was nothing installed on March 20 in another year, probably not with Solaris 8 but check anyway because it will get those too. So you would have to reinstall those.
for files in `ls -l /var/sadm/patch |grep "date(this what date you installed like Mar 20|nawk '{print $9}' the nawk will print the last field which is the patch number. Let me just give you an example using March 20th.
for files in `ls -l /var/sadm/patch|grep "Mar 20"|nawk '{print $9}'
do
patchrm $files
done
That script will take all patches installed on March 20 and remove them. You just need to make sure that there was nothing installed on March 20 in another year, probably not with Solaris 8 but check anyway because it will get those too. So you would have to reinstall those.
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