Corey Gaffney

Corey Gaffney
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Corey Gaffney has been a Solaris systems administrator for four years.He currently works for Allstate Insurance, where he is responsible for Sun E-10,000's.He enjoys writing Perl programs and hacking Linux kernels.Corey can be reached at: cgaffney@allstate.com.

Corey Gaffney
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Corey Gaffney has been a Solaris systems administrator for four years.He currently works for Allstate Insurance, where he is responsible for Sun E-10,000's.He enjoys writing Perl programs and hacking Linux kernels.Corey can be reached at: maillto:cgaffney@allstate.com.

Corey Gaffney

A world free of patches would be glorious, but neither complexity of UNIX operating systems nor the presence of patches is diminishing.In fact, these complexities raise issues that make patches more necessary than ever.This article examines patch installation and reporting methods on Sun Microsystems' Solaris 2.5.x, and 2.6.

Patches are typically released on a regular basis, and they fix a wide range of problems.Some patches have short lives, while others may continue through 50 revisions.
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Corey Gaffney has been a Solaris systems administrator for four years.He currently works for Allstate Insurance, where he is responsible for Sun E-10,000's.He enjoys writing Perl programs and hacking Linux kernels.Corey can be reached at: maillto:cgaffney@allstate.com.

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