Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash complete. May 19, 2009 solaris 10 patch return codes may 19, 2009 by gleb reys 4 comments now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. Starting with the solaris 10 106 release, you cannot delete a boot environment that contains the active grub, a feature of oracle solaris, menu. Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be found on the my oracle support. Jun 06, 2018 solaris 10 was originally launched in january 2005, and over its lifespan has introduced a ton of ground breaking features, like the zfs volume managerfilesystem, dtrace, zones, service management facility, trusted extensions and more. The offset into the file can be really huge for a uid that is a small negative number such as nobody. To determine how long a solaris 10 system has been without patching, i remotely check the following from a linux system, because gnu date is handy. Click on that highlighted link to get the below screen where you can start os patch bundle download. Use last or lastb command to display listing of last logged in users. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Unix admin view topic how to clean up lastlog, wtmp, etc.
Go to support log in with your username and password. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. If you remove the default group, you sometimes receive an error.
Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. This last weekend saw the switch off of sunsolve and the migration of the old sun support system across to oracles my oracle support.
For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. The solaris table that is directly equivalent is varadm lastlog, which is not mentioned in oracle doco. For the solaris 8, 9, 10 release, refer to the online manual pages for instructions on using patchadd and patchrm scripts provided with solaris. I will need to keep a few months worth of data, so i cant just wipe them out and start again. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install the patch on the global zone only g. The varloglastlog file stores user last login information. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. To determine which boot environment contains the active grub menu, see chapter. Examine the contents of the lastlog file as it appears in the graphical user interface gui. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support tales. Oracle kept sending me to a page recommending i use sunsolve. Vulnerability in the solaris component of oracle sun systems products suite subcomponent. In the patch system test lab, we currently have solaris 10 systems with 7gb used in var and this will continue to grow over the lifetime of solaris 10.
Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. I am a fedora linux user sysadmin and i would like to clear all the login information. These files are usually located in varadm on solaris systems. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. From what i can see in the links they provided me, it seems like these should still be there, but i am not seeing anything. When you back out a patch, the patchrm command restores all files modified by that patch, unless. Q1 is there any risks if i delete files in those directories. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to locate and download patch clusters. The best option would be to cylce the file from time to time.
Linux remove or clear the last login information nixcraft. Limitedtime offer applies to the first charge of a new subscription only. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. Could anybody tell me the format of varadmlastlog for solaris 2. Im trying to find a way to report on the most recent login for all users on my solaris 10 server. Every time a users loginlogout from your system, the file is updated.
Release history for the splunk addon for unix and linux splunk. Dear friends, from last or lastlog command, i can get the last login informations of the users. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris 10 was originally launched in january 2005, and over its lifespan has introduced a ton of ground breaking features, like the zfs volume managerfilesystem, dtrace, zones, service management facility, trusted extensions and more. As per part of take over i need to apply latest security patch in solaris 10 zone1,zone2 and zone3, but global is solaris 11. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date.
How to apply os kernel patch on solaris 10 server which. Once again, i immediately reported this to suns patch team. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was. The solaris 10 10 08 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 10 08 release. How to remove a solaris patch by using the patchrm command. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. An additional investment protection element is the long service life of oracle solaris 10. Solution i run cat devnull varadm lastlog and recovered space under fs but var still showing pretty high, this is happening in solaris 10 global zone article installing the solaris 9 os from a flash archive dynamically. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support. Any other special or nongeneric installation instructions should be described below as special instructions. However, there was until the software died at oracle a third party lastlog program written by richard hamilton available. In linux it is very easy by giving command history c i could not find any such type command to clear the history.
This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Thats why the edit funtions no matter if you use sed, vi, tail, head or whatever. Nov 28, 2012 this entry was posted on 20121128 at 17. As a result, the following scriptspecial patches are not made available for customers because they are not required outside of creating the update release. Removing patches from zone nt4 removing patches from zone sfw removing patches from global zone removing patch idr14836326. In the oracle solaris 10 guest domain it is possible to run any combination of oracle solaris 8, oracle solaris 9, and oracle solaris 10 containers zones. Use the lumake or luupgrade commands to reuse the boot environment. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. Script, centos, rhel, ubuntu, solaris, aix, freebsd, mac os x. This book is for anyone who is responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris operating system os. My unix team was asking me why we do not see the rolled up critical patch updates for solaris 11 and oracle linux like there is in the patches for solaris site. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena.
This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g. Mar 11, 2008 registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command line cli march 11, 2008 by kevin all the mainstream sun documentation on the sun connection or update manager expects the server to have a gui, which i completely dont understand. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. Removing a solaris patch system administration guide. Jan 22, 2017 latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. Only administrators have access to lastlog functions, so youll need to log on as the administrator. This allows running applications on the newest hardware platforms.
This entry was posted in uncategorized and tagged patches, release, solaris. These patches are located in the varsadmpatch directory on an installed system. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10. If there is insufficient space in var of an existing system, the recommended solution is to extend the size of the var partition. On a system with zones5 installed, a return code of 0 indicates success. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision. Use this procedure if you need to remove a solaris patch. The book covers a broad range of solaris system administration topics such as managing user accounts, diskless clients, booting a system, using the service management facility smf, and managing software and patches. Continuing on the thread of who logged in last, richard hamilton has provided a nice little c program to dump the contents of varadm lastlog.
Note the oracle solaris 10 106 software contains scriptspecial patches which do not deliver bug fixes or new features, but deliver changes that are required as a result of issues with the creation of the update image. Clear the metadatabase replicas from the root mirror disk. This is binary file and act as database times of previous user logins. Critical patch update once necessary zip file is downloaded copy it to pri. For an example,if your systems are running with solaris 10 807 update4,then select that and select the right platform. But eventually all good things must continue reading how to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear. As to format, i never really took the time to worry about it so i cant help you, there. How do i clear or remove last login information on linux operating systems. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris.
Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command line cli march 11, 2008 by kevin all the mainstream sun documentation on the sun connection or update manager expects the server to have a gui, which i completely dont understand. Fields are not getting extracted for auditd, lastlog and netstat source type. Many of the new patches for solaris 10 are unavailable on suns patch server, so pca will fail to download them. The file is a series of struct lastlog objects, indexed by user id. Applying critical patch update of april 2017 on solaris 11. For downloading the critical patch update use below mentioned link. The login program prints the time of last login and updates it. Some of my varadm lastlog files are getting too large, and i want to truncate them. I have done this with svm and vxvm mirrored root fss by splitting them to keep one safe partition as a backout plan for the future purpose just incase the patching gives any issues.
Critical patch updates for solaris 11 and oracle linux. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. I have fallen behind on patches and the update manager i.
Now overwrite file using any one of the following command. I am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. I dont know of an editor that can cope with raw data files, but surely there must be a program that can do this. I dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos.
By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. You can follow any responses to this entry through the rss 2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via icmp to compromise solaris. How does one clean up some log and adm files such as lastlog, wtmpx. Problem from content of varadmlastlog solutions experts. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the. As an exsolaris admin i like to keep my knowledge up to date, so i run a virtualbox solaris 10 x86 vm. C count delete the oldest versions until there are not more than count files left. I use the usrlibacctfwtmp to look the content of file varadmlastlog but all lines from my file have the date value equal 0 0 0000 0000 0 wed dec. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently.
Maintains the patchrm return codes from the solaris release prior to solaris 10. Start solaris by booting the computer and waiting for the operating system to load. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. Please list command and specific directory that patches should the unix and linux forums. To clear last login information simply overwrite varlog lastlog file. The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and selected issues identified by oracle proactive services and the oracle technical support center, for the solaris 10 operating system for sparc. Continuing on the thread of who logged in last, richard hamilton has provided a nice little c program to dump the contents of varadmlastlog. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. As a result, the following scriptspecial patches are not made available for customers because they are not required outside.