topic swcopy command in Operating System - HP-UX

swcopy command

Roberto Volsa — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:02:31 GMT

Hi,
i have to install some software and before i have to use swcopy command in order to do only once the swinstall command. But i get the error: Cannot establish a lock file on this target because of an external error.
I launche swcopy and selected a target directory, but during choice of source directory i got this message. Any info?
thanx
Roberto

Re: swcopy command

Frederic Sevestre — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:18:54 GMT

Hi,
Did you check if there is no other sw sessions using the depot ?
Fr??d??ric

Re: swcopy command

Roberto Volsa — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:20:55 GMT

yes, no other session.
The number of patches to copy on a single depot is 90!!!!
Any help?
Thanx

Re: swcopy command

Marcin Wicinski — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 11:38:00 GMT

Hi,

Sometimes wrong sw session closing causes a security problem. Try to close all sw sessions and:

# cd /var/adm/sw/scurity
# mv ./_ACL ./_ACL.old

and run new sw session (swinstall or whatever you want).

Later,

Re: swcopy command

harry d brown jr — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:26:02 GMT

Do you have swagentd running, which should be?

live free or die
harry

Re: swcopy command

Roberto Volsa — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:26:30 GMT

Hi all,
problem solved in another way: i had to "unlock" the swcopy creating the file swlock in the /depot/catalog source directory.
All the restt went ok
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...
..... 10 points to me!!

Roberto