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Re: OT: HP-UX equivalent of patchman script?
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Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:14:57 -0800
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You want to read up on the ITRC about "Custom Patch Manager".  But IIRC, CPM
requires you to be on support.

Or just rewrite patchman (which is a POSIX shell script) to feed off of swlist
output instead of HPSWINFO.  ;-)

- Mark B.

Chris Bartram wrote:
> Having been spoiled by Mark Bixby's patchman script on my 3000s
> for years now, I'm looking for the equivalent for an HP-UX box.
>
> Something I can run that'll go out to the HP FTP site and let me
> know what patches are available and let me selectively install
> the ones I want?
>
> Box is a G50 on 10.20 if that matters, not on support...
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