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What version of SUSE or OpenSUSE are you using and for what programs(s)are you needing (installed) patch information on?
Regards...
Sorry for the delay. The version of SuSE we am using 11.3 and we update our servers using the Yast GUI. Our operation is predominately Windows (about 4 to 6 Linux servers and approx 250 windows server) so we don't have a Linux guru in the office, unfortunately.
I did not know that SuSE varied that much from version to version, so I assumed that it was core commands we the same. Since we used the GUI to apply the updates and we have an alert after the updates were installed, we were looking for a command line that we could use "|grep <name of update>" to view if it was already installed.
Since we used the GUI to apply the updates and we have an alert after the updates were installed, we were looking for a command line that we could use "|grep <name of update>" to view if it was already installed.
Do you recall what the alert said? Was it an error, or just a notification, for example saying that a reboot is required? Alternately do you know which patches these were?
Generally if an update failed, it should still be on the list of available updates, so running the update again should answer your question.
You might also find more info in the logs - look at /var/log/zypp/history and /var/log/zypper.log.
Do you recall what the alert said? Was it an error, or just a notification, for example saying that a reboot is required? Alternately do you know which patches these were?
Generally if an update failed, it should still be on the list of available updates, so running the update again should answer your question.
You might also find more info in the logs - look at /var/log/zypp/history and /var/log/zypper.log.
Regards,
Clifford
this did help to list what was needed, but I think I found the command. It ended up being
Code:
rpm -an|grep <patch name>
. However the history will help to allow me to see a failure if it happens.
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