topic Re: swinstall command line in Operating System - HP-UX

swinstall command line

Jon Hansen_1 — Fri, 02 Aug 2002 19:47:55 GMT

I am trying to do a command line install for graphics drivers (Pex libraries). Unfortunately the install requires a reboot. If I put it in a script I would like to have the rest of the functions finish after it gets completed. Is there any way to do a wait for the reboot?

Current run:
swinstall -x autoreboot=true -s ${DevSoftware} \*

Re: swinstall command line

Hai Nguyen_1 — Fri, 02 Aug 2002 19:49:52 GMT

You can set up an "at" job or a one-time cronjob to install it.

Hai

Re: swinstall command line

Sajid_1 — Fri, 02 Aug 2002 19:56:25 GMT

hello,

If you set the 'autoreboot=true' then after the installation the system will be rebooted automatically. In your case this can be a try:
a) set autoreboot=false
b) do the functions you want
c) add shutdown -r -y 0 at the end of the script.

I would make sure that it will be a proper downtime for the system!

Re: swinstall command line

Jon Hansen_1 — Fri, 02 Aug 2002 20:53:48 GMT

Sorry, wrong patch. Actually these are kernel patches (PHSS_26262). I found a way I can force the reboot with the other functions at the correct time. I just needed to call functions before installing the patch. Still it would have been nice to find a way to add a boot wait time into non-interactive command line swinstall sessions.

Re: swinstall command line

Steve Faidley — Mon, 05 Aug 2002 11:33:00 GMT

just a by the way. You can not run command line swinstall with autoreboot=false. If the software/patch requires a reboot it will reboot on it's own. using autoreboot=false on the command line will cause swinstall to abort and not run.