Date: 2009-09-20 OS: Solaris Sparc OS Version: 8, 9, 10 Etrack Incidents: 1481426 Errors/Problems Fixed: 1481426 Fixed an issue in which the owner of the following directories was changed when installing Language packages for the Storage Foundation for Oracle or DB2 by 5.0 or 5.0 MP3 releases: ■–  /etc ■–  /etc/default ■–  /etc/init.d ■–  /etc/rc2.d ■–  /opt ========================================================================= This document provides information for: * BRIEF PROBLEM DESCRIPTION * POINT PATCH LIST AND PACKAGES AFFECTED BY PATCH * BEFORE GETTING STARTED * INSTALLING THE PATCHES (141274-02 as example) BRIEF PROBLEM DESCRIPTION ------------------------- The owners of OS_DIRECTORIES were changed on installing 5.0 or 5.0 MP3 pkgs and patches. POINT PATCH LIST AND PACKAGES AFFECTED BY PATCH ----------------------------------------------- 141273-02 VRTSjadcm 141274-02 VRTSjadbe 141275-02 VRTSjaorg 141276-02 VRTSjampr 141277-02 VRTSjad2g 141278-02 VRTSjadb2 BEFORE GETTING STARTED ---------------------- These patches are for correcting the owners of OS_DIRECTORIES on systems where 5.0 or 5.0 MP3 language packages for the Storage Foundation for Oracle or DB2 installed. You must have installed corresponding 5.0 or 5.0 MP3 language packages before applying these patches. INSTALLING THE PATCHES (141274-02 as example) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The six -02 revision patches are to supersede of -01 revision patches, if you'd installed any of them. 141273-01 -> 141273-02 141274-01 -> 141274-02 141275-01 -> 141275-02 141276-01 -> 141275-02 141277-01 -> 141275-02 141278-01 -> 141275-02 Please upgrade patches to -02 revision from now on. 2. If you never installed any of above -01 revision patch, then please start to check the owner group of OS_DIRECTORIES before install the patch 141274-02. On the system, type: # ls -ld /opt The information displayed, group is "other". drwxr-xr-x 54 root other 1024 Sep 20 14:32 /opt 3. Check installed Japanese language packages On each system, type: # pkginfo | grep VRTSja 4. If any of above lanuage packages has been installed, copy the point patch to a directory on your system: # cp -r 141274-02 5. Verify that the installed version of language packages, version 5.0 is needed. On each system, type: # pkginfo -l VRTSjadbe Output should resemble the following: PKGINST: VRTSjadbe NAME: Japanese Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle from Symantec - Message Catalogs CATEGORY: DataStorage, utilities ARCH: sparc VERSION: 5.0, REV=GA01 BASEDIR: / VENDOR: Symantec Software Corporation DESC: Japanese Storage Management Software for Databases - Message Catalog PSTAMP: VRTSjadbe-5.0:2006-07-06 INSTDATE: Sep 20 2009 14:38 HOTLINE: http://support.veritas.com/phonesup/phonesup_ddProduct_.htm EMAIL: support@veritas.com STATUS: completely installed FILES: 169 installed pathnames 24 shared pathnames 27 directories 1562 blocks used (approx) 6. Change directory to the patch location. # cd 7. Install the patch that corresponds to the language package installed on the system: # patchadd 141274-02 The patch should be sucessfully installed on the system. Patch 141274-02 can be installed in Solaris 8, 9 & 10 on sparc architecture. 8. After installation is complete, verify that the patch has been installed. On each system, type: # showrev -p | grep 141274-02 The information displayed after successful installation resembles the following (Solaris 10 example): Patch: 141274-02 Obsoletes: Requires: 123225-02 Incompatibles: Packages: VRTSjadbe 9. Verify the result of installing the patch. On the system, type: # ls -ld /opt The information displayed: drwxr-xr-x 54 root sys 1024 Sep 20 14:32 /opt Patch 141274-02 works well to alter the owner of OS_DIRECTORIES.