Thursday, February 4, 2010

Solaris PCA patch utility

I needed to patch one of our solaris nodes before taking a flar of it so I pulled out the trusty PCA tool.
When I ran it, with my Sunsolve account username/password, I received a 401 unauthorized error for each patch.
I have an active Sunsolve account linked to our contracts, and I can sign into the web page with no problems, so I didn't understand why it wasn't working.
I then logged into the Sunsolve account, searched for the list of patches that pca -l gave me, and built up their download script.
When I ran it I received the same error, unauthorized.
I took the exact link that the download script was using for one patch and put it in my browser. A page to accept the license agreement came up and after I accepted the license everything started working again.
I sure hope this isn't a foreshadow into what things will be like with "Oracle".

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