How to remove all emergency fixes from IBM AIX server in one go ?
Today in this article, we will see how to remove all emergency fixes from an IBM AIX server using a single command.
Lets see this step by step.
1. Check out all available emergency fixes on an IBM AIX server.
ngeaix001--> emgr -l ID STATE LABEL INSTALL TIME UPDATED BY ABSTRACT === ===== ========== ================= ========== ====================================== 1 S IJ10132s3a 08/03/20 18:49:06 CVE-2017-3623 2 S IJ09621s3a 08/03/20 19:20:17 IJ09621 7.1.5.3 3 S IJ11544s0a 08/03/20 19:30:46 Xorg Security Vulnerability fix 4 S IJ12980m3a 08/03/20 19:40:58 Fix vulnerabilites in tcpdump 5 S IJ17062m4a 08/03/20 19:51:09 IJ17062 for AIX 7.1 TL05 6 S IJ09174s3a 08/03/20 20:01:23 for APAR IJ09174 7 S IJ10295m3a 08/03/20 20:11:43 Multi ifix for APAR IJ10295 8 S IJ25924s3b 11/25/20 10:06:40 Ifix for APAR IJ25924 STATE codes: S = STABLE M = MOUNTED U = UNMOUNTED Q = REBOOT REQUIRED B = BROKEN I = INSTALLING R = REMOVING T = TESTED P = PATCHED N = NOT PATCHED SP = STABLE + PATCHED SN = STABLE + NOT PATCHED QP = BOOT IMAGE MODIFIED + PATCHED QN = BOOT IMAGE MODIFIED + NOT PATCHED RQ = REMOVING + REBOOT REQUIRED ngeaix001 -->
2. Removing an emergency fix.
# emgr -r -L IJ10132s3a
3. Removing all emergency fixes in one go.
# emgr -l |grep IJ|awk '{print $3}'|xargs -I {} emgr -r -L {}