As a ninja, there are times when my murderous blows seem to fall wide of my mark. Not to say that the kill doesn't happen, maybe just not as effectively as I'd like. As an example, I recently patched several of my AIX machines with current maintenance. After executing said patches, I found that running an oslevel command returned a lower level than had been installed. After torturing several servers in a stealthy and honorable manner, I determined that the problem was with the blanket update performed on the system. In order to determine which patches needed to be hunted down and applied, I simply had to run a
oslevel -rl 'level'
in order to find what I had missed. So, if my master needed my AIX 5.3 install to be at Technology or Maintenance level (depending on your years of service as a ninja) five but after applying it it was only at TL4, I'd run
oslevel -rl 53-005
to return a list of patches that fail to meet the requested level.
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