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Information Needed.

Nobody's Hero — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:02:34 GMT

Good afternoon,
I have a question and was wondering if someone can shed some light on this for me. When I issue 'swlist -l fileset -a state | grep -i installed', I find some installed filesets. the reason I ask this is I am having a problem with some openmail processes that hang for no reason. We recently put on a few openmail patches. I have two questions please.

1) Is it normal to have filesets in the 'installed' state?

2)How can I tell the date that these were installed and how can you tell if you need them to be in the configured state?

As always, your help is greatly appreciated.

Bob Menefee

Re: Information Needed.

Krishna Prasad — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:12:24 GMT

You want the state to be configured

You can do swinstall \* configure to configure any installed but not configured filesets

Re: Information Needed.

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:12:33 GMT

Which filesets are showing up as installed and not configured?

I just did the same command on a couple of my machines and NOTHING comes back as installed. You should probably try running swconfig and see if they get configured.

Re: Information Needed.

Patrick Wallek — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:14:11 GMT

The command should be:

swconfig \*

Re: Information Needed.

Krishna Prasad — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:18:04 GMT

It is swconfig not swinstall my bad.

Re: Information Needed.

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:19:52 GMT

Try..swconfig \* instead..

USA..

Re: Information Needed.

Darrell Allen — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:19:56 GMT

Hi Bob,

Yes, patches need to be configured, not installed.

You should be able to see when you installed with:
ll /var/adm/sw/products

Darrell

Re: Information Needed.

Nobody's Hero — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:48:35 GMT

I am aware of how to configure these filesets.
What I need to know is, is it safe to do so.
The patches are:
OpenMail . OM-ADM
OpenMail . OM-UNIX
OpenMail . OM-POP3
OpenMail . OM-CORE

When I run swconfig \* it does not process these filesets. They still show up as installed. I want to try to run swconfig 'fileset' but not sure if it is safe to do so.

Bob

Re: Information Needed.

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 18:28:26 GMT

Hi Robert:

The "installed" state applies to filesets that have been installed but not configured. There are a few patches for which no configuration is applicable. It is recommended that all patches be marked as 'configured'. To move 'installed' patches to the 'configured' state (and complete any required configuration), do:

# swconfig

...or:

# swconfig \*

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Information Needed.

fg_1 — Tue, 08 Jan 2002 18:39:07 GMT

Robert

It's ok to configure the filesets that you have listed

1) swconfig \*
2) swlist -l fileset -a state |grep installed

Double check that #2 returns nothing which should always be the case.

This should help solve your problem.

Good Luck

FG.

Re: Information Needed.

Nobody's Hero — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 12:39:23 GMT

Thanks for the help everyone.