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From: John D Groenveld on 4 Sep 2009 08:54
In article <1X0om.7351$nP6.6365(a)newsfe25.iad>, ohaya <ohaya(a)cox.net> wrote:
>Unfortunately, that would not "get us where we want to go" in this case.
>
>The reason that we're needing to do this JRE upgrade is because JRE
>1.4.2_08 appeared on report from a security scan, so the whole point is
>that we have to upgrade the default JRE.

Well, you should probably pkgrm(1M) the insecure version of 1.4.2
to satisfy the security wonks.

I see 1.4.2_19 in case you need 1.4.2.
<URL:http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/jdk/142/>
I have no clue which, if any, of Sun's Solaris 9 applications
require 1.4.2.

John
groenveld(a)acm.org
From: ohaya on 4 Sep 2009 10:44


Drazen Kacar wrote:
> John D Groenveld wrote:
>
>> In article <pM_nm.129542$O23.52232(a)newsfe11.iad>, ohaya <ohaya(a)cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>>By "right", I mean that it would be the "normal" way that a Solaris
>>>admin would do this?
>>
>> For what its worth, I don't break Sun's links and tell my users to
>> specify their favorite JDK via PATH and JAVA_HOME environment
>> variables.
>
>
> Changing /usr/java symlink is documented somewhere as being the normal way
> to set up the default Java version, IIRC. But I don't remember where.
> Possibly in the installation instructions supplied with the Java packages.
>
>
>> You never know which Sun application requires /usr/bin/java
>> to be something specific, nor which Sun patch might revert
>> your filesystem changes.
>
>
> The patches won't revert it[1]. Java 1.6 packages are supposed to change that
> symlink as a part of the installation procedure, but only on Solaris 10.
> Older Java versions probably don't do that.
>
> [1] On my Solaris 10 /usr/java doesn't belong to any package, for a start.
>

Drazen,

Thanks for the info...

Jim

From: ohaya on 4 Sep 2009 10:45


John D Groenveld wrote:

> In article <1X0om.7351$nP6.6365(a)newsfe25.iad>, ohaya <ohaya(a)cox.net> wrote:
>
>>Unfortunately, that would not "get us where we want to go" in this case.
>>
>>The reason that we're needing to do this JRE upgrade is because JRE
>>1.4.2_08 appeared on report from a security scan, so the whole point is
>>that we have to upgrade the default JRE.
>
>
> Well, you should probably pkgrm(1M) the insecure version of 1.4.2
> to satisfy the security wonks.
>
> I see 1.4.2_19 in case you need 1.4.2.
> <URL:http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/jdk/142/>
> I have no clue which, if any, of Sun's Solaris 9 applications
> require 1.4.2.
>
> John
> groenveld(a)acm.org


John,

I thought that I should do that (pkgrm), but I did a pkginfo (several
times) and I couldn't find any installed packages for the old JRE, e.g.,
there was no SUNWj4rt, etc.). Any idea which packages should be removed?

Thanks again,
Jim

From: John D Groenveld on 4 Sep 2009 11:39
In article <BK9om.137346$cf6.83128(a)newsfe16.iad>, ohaya <ohaya(a)cox.net> wrote:
>I thought that I should do that (pkgrm), but I did a pkginfo (several
>times) and I couldn't find any installed packages for the old JRE, e.g.,
>there was no SUNWj4rt, etc.). Any idea which packages should be removed?

SUNWj3cfg SUNWj3dev SUNWj3dmo SUNWj3jmp SUNWj3man SUNWj3rt

I have no clue what, if anything, you will break on Solaris 9
by removing SUNWj3rt.

Good luck,
John
groenveld(a)acm.org
From: ohaya on 4 Sep 2009 11:46


John D Groenveld wrote:
> In article <BK9om.137346$cf6.83128(a)newsfe16.iad>, ohaya <ohaya(a)cox.net> wrote:
>
>>I thought that I should do that (pkgrm), but I did a pkginfo (several
>>times) and I couldn't find any installed packages for the old JRE, e.g.,
>>there was no SUNWj4rt, etc.). Any idea which packages should be removed?
>
>
> SUNWj3cfg SUNWj3dev SUNWj3dmo SUNWj3jmp SUNWj3man SUNWj3rt
>
> I have no clue what, if anything, you will break on Solaris 9
> by removing SUNWj3rt.
>
> Good luck,
> John
> groenveld(a)acm.org


Hi John,

Hah! Just before checking this NG, I just happened to try "pkginfo |
grep SUNWj", and got:

bash-2.05# pkginfo | grep SUNWj
system SUNWj2dem JDK 1.2 demo programs
system SUNWj2man JDK 1.2 man pages
application SUNWj2pi Java Plug-in
system SUNWj2rt JDK 1.2 run time environment
system SUNWj3cfg SUNWj3rt post configuration
system SUNWj3dev J2SDK 1.4 development tools
system SUNWj3dmo J2SDK 1.4 demo programs
system SUNWj3dvx J2SDK 1.4 development tools
(64-bit)
system SUNWj3irt JDK 1.4 I18N run time
environment
system SUNWj3man J2SDK 1.4 man pages
system SUNWj3rt J2SDK 1.4 runtime environment
system SUNWj3rtx J2SDK 1.4 runtime
environment (64-bit)
system SUNWjaf Java Activation Framework
system SUNWjaxp Java API for XML Parsing 1.2
system SUNWjcom Java Communications API
system SUNWjcomx Java Communications API
(64-bit)
application SUNWjfbcf Sun XVR-1200 Graphics
Configuration Software (64-bit)
system SUNWjfbmn Sun XVR-1200 and XVR-600
Graphics On-line Manual Pages
system SUNWjfbr Sun XVR-1200 Graphics
System Software (Root) (64-bit)
application SUNWjfbw Sun XVR-1200 Graphics
Window System Support (64-bit)
system SUNWjfbx Sun XVR-1200 Graphics
System Software/Device Driver (64-bit)
application SUNWjhdem JavaHelp Demos
application SUNWjhdev JavaHelp Development Utilities
application SUNWjhdoc JavaHelp Documentation
application SUNWjhrt JavaHelp Runtime
system SUNWjib iButton OCF CT Driver
system SUNWjiu8 Japanese iconv modules for
UTF-8
system SUNWjiu8x Japanese iconv modules for
UTF-8 (64-bit)
system SUNWjmail Java Mail Runtime
system SUNWjmfp Java Media Framework Player
system SUNWjpg jpeg - The Independent JPEG
Groups JPEG software
GNOME2 SUNWjpgx jpeg - The Independent JPEG
Groups JPEG software (64-bit)
system SUNWjsnmp Java SNMP API
system SUNWjss Network Security Services
for Java (JSS)
system SUNWjssx Network Security Services
for Java (JSS) (64-bit)
system SUNWjxmft Japanese Required Bitmap Font

I restored a clean Solaris 9 again, so I want to try the pkgrm, but was
wondering: In the pkginfo output 1st column on the left, what is that?
Some say "system" and some say "application"?

Thanks,
Jim

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