topic Re: /var/spool/sw in Operating System - HP-UX

/var/spool/sw

Donny Jekels — Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:01:54 GMT

short of changing the sw to a soft link pointing else where. say /mydepots.

does anyone know how can I modify this default software depot container? and also remove this entry in SD-UX.

Re: /var/spool/sw

Bill Douglass — Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:10:56 GMT

/var/adm/sw/defaults describes the deault values used in the SD commands.

/var/adm/sw/sys.default has a list of the various options available.

To change the default depot, go to/ var/adm/sw/defaults and enter

distribution_source_directory = /path/to/depot

Re: /var/spool/sw

Donny Jekels — Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:12:42 GMT

I have done that, but why does the /var/spool/sw keep listing itself 1st when I do a swinstall?

Re: /var/spool/sw

Donny Jekels — Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:14:29 GMT

WARNING: When reading the options file, "/var/adm/sw/defaults", 1
option(s) were found that are not recognized by this program.

Re: /var/spool/sw

Umapathy S — Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:14:58 GMT

Donny,
By any chance did you forget to restart swagentd.

HTH,
Umapathy

Re: /var/spool/sw

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:15:35 GMT

Hi,

Copy defaults file from /usr/lib/sw into /var/adm/sw and modify it to reflect your /mydepots.

#cp /usr/lib/sw/sys.default /var/adm/sw/defaults
#vi /var/adm/sw/defaults

Search for spool. There are directories defined for different kinds of distributions like swcopy, swinstall etc., Modify the ones that you want to redirect to. Restart swagentd by killing it and starting it with 'swagentd -r'.

-Sri

Re: /var/spool/sw

Bill Douglass — Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:17:43 GMT

Did you do a

swagentd -r

to restart the agent daemon?

Re: /var/spool/sw

Donny Jekels — Mon, 16 Jun 2003 17:21:58 GMT

# swreg -l depot -u /var/spool/sw

======= 06/16/03 14:20:11 EDT BEGIN swreg SESSION (non-interactive)

* Session started for user "root@myhp".

* Beginning Selection
* Targets: myhp
* Objects: /var/spool/sw
* Selection succeeded.

======= 06/16/03 14:20:11 EDT END swreg SESSION (non-interactive)

thanks, it works now.

config and restart saved the day. and the removal.