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Sue Hildreth

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Mar 17, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/17/98
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I'm told by Sun that, if you have 2.6, all past, current, and future
patches are free, regardless of whether you're on a support contract or
not. For those of you with 2.6, do you find this to be true?

Sue Hildreth
SunExpert Magazine
s...@cpg.com


Guenther Grau

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Mar 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/18/98
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Sue Hildreth wrote:
>
> I'm told by Sun that, if you have 2.6, all past, current, and future
> patches are free, regardless of whether you're on a support contract or
> not. For those of you with 2.6, do you find this to be true?

Hmm, we have 2.5.1 an sun has a web site with all the patches for
2.6 and 2.5(.1). They are free for download for everybody, if
I am not mistaken.

Guenther

Richard Skelton

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Mar 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/18/98
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Hi,
If this true how do we get the patches?
Not all Solaris 2.6 are free at Sunsolve.sun.com :-(
http://sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/us/freeinfo.html

Sue Hildreth wrote:

> I'm told by Sun that, if you have 2.6, all past, current, and future
> patches are free, regardless of whether you're on a support contract or
> not. For those of you with 2.6, do you find this to be true?
>

> Sue Hildreth
> SunExpert Magazine
> s...@cpg.com

Richard Skelton
ri...@brake.demon.co.uk


Andrew Gabriel

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Mar 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/18/98
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In article <351038A5...@brake.demon.co.uk>,

Richard Skelton <ri...@brake.demon.co.uk> writes:
>Hi,
>If this true how do we get the patches?
>Not all Solaris 2.6 are free at Sunsolve.sun.com :-(
>http://sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/us/freeinfo.html

When first starting up Solaris 2.6, it takes you through
a registration process and creates a username and password
for you on one of their web machines (I didn't notice
which).

On the two Solaris 2.6 systems I've installed, this fails
at the point of registering the username/password (hangs
forever whilst the java applet is talking to Sun's web
server), so I presume I can't access the patches? :-(
I tried repeating the procedure a few times, but it hangs
at the same point every time.

--
Andrew Gabriel
Consultant Software Engineer


Holger Burde

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Mar 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/19/98
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Andrew Gabriel wrote:

> In article <351038A5...@brake.demon.co.uk>,
> Richard Skelton <ri...@brake.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >Hi,
> >If this true how do we get the patches?
> >Not all Solaris 2.6 are free at Sunsolve.sun.com :-(
> >http://sunsolve.sun.com/sunsolve/us/freeinfo.html
>

> ....

> --
> Andrew Gabriel
> Consultant Software Engineer

What about http:/access1.sun.com/ ?! I downloaded the 'recomended'
patches for x86 2.6 from there.

PS I did the registration with a saved URL with Netscape . This worked.
Since i can't find this area anymore
(since Dec or soo) it seems they made the patches available to all
...

hb

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