My machine is an ultra-sparc I, solaris 7. I am having trouble in installing patches. Before I installed a patch, I ran: % showrev -p to make sure that the patch is not installed. I then ran % patchadd /mnt/home/jyan/netscape/n6patch/106950-13 I got the following error message: Checking installed patches... Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)... Installing patch packages... Patch 106950-13 failed to install due to a failure produced by pkgadd. See /var/sadm/patch/106950-13/log for details ------------ Here is the content of the log file: This appears to be an attempt to install the same architecture and version of a package which is already installed. This installation will attempt to overwrite this package. /mnt/home/jyan/netscape/n6patch/106950-13/SUNWarc/install/checkinstall: /mnt/home/jyan/netscape/n6patch/106950-13/SUNWarc/install/checkinstall: cannot open pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully Dryrun complete. No changes were made to the system. ----------------------- Could someone show me how to solve this problem? Thank you!

The % leads me to beleive you are not SU. DanH http://www.behandy.net