After using the Sun update connection software and having lock-ups on several occasions, I have found it much easier and more reliable to use smpatch. Depending on your comfort with patching a system there are several options to make this process very manual or extremely automated. smpatch updates are split up by four main commands (add, update, download and anlayze) which allow you to either perform an update in one step or break down an update into multiple steps. smpatch add Only applies the patch, all other functions require analyze and download. Does not consult patch policy before applying a …