Drush by default only runs updates on the "default" drupal install. However you can get databases in sync quickly with:
drush @sites updatedb
Which will run the database update on all sites defined in your codebase.
The @sites alias can be used for any drush command of course.
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 7:49 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Manual DB Updates on Multisite
On 15/04/13 07:04, Richard Damon wrote:
Well, every installation needs to have ITS database updates run, multi-site doesn't change that. I don't know if drush is supposed to be able to detect that it is in a multi-site and do the update on all the installations at once.
I don't know either, but if there is a sites.php in the proper place I don't see why it shouldn't.
Perhaps someone could check their database logs and see whether it happens, and if not file a "feature request?"
In the mean time, under Linux/MAC OS etc, the find command coupled with a little shell scripting would work well.