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swinstall problem in remote machine

George Benetos — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:22:31 GMT

I try to install a depot where resides in a machine a
in a machine b.
I start the swinstall process in the machine b give as SOURCE HOST NAME the machine a , but when I give the directory where depots resides , I got an error message telling me that I can not access the depots ...
any ideas ?
thanx ....

Re: swinstall problem in remote machine

Stefan Farrelly — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:39:44 GMT

a. Are you running the install as root ?
b. check the files on machine a in the dir;
/var/adm/sw/security

Check the following files contain;
> cat _ACL
# default_realm=
any_other:r----
> cat _OWNER
# default_realm=
num_entries=2
user:root:0
group:sys:0
> cat secrets
default -sdu-

If not change them and run; /sbin/init.d/swagentd stop then /sbin/init.d/swagentd start

but you should also investigate why someone changed the default security permissions.

Re: swinstall problem in remote machine

Mateja Bezjak — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:39:53 GMT

Hi,

What error do you get? Is it permissions? Can you post the error message. If it is the permissions, you need to use swacl command to set them. Example:
swacl -l depot -M user:root@systemb:crwit

Regards,
Mateja

Re: swinstall problem in remote machine

George Benetos — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 09:44:26 GMT

a. Are you running the install as root ?

yes ..

b. check the files on machine > cat _ACL
# default_realm=
any_other:01

> cat _OWNER
# default_realm=
num_entries=2
user:root:0
group:sys:0
> cat secrets
default -sdu-

Re: swinstall problem in remote machine

Domenico_5 — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:06:49 GMT

hi

on a machine a have you run:

swreg -l depot ??

for example.

bye

Re: swinstall problem in remote machine

Duncan Edmonstone — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:23:46 GMT

Have you changed any of your network config since you last started either system? SD-UX is v. sensitive to network changes - Before trying anything else I'd restart swagentd on *both* hosts by issuing:

/usr/sbin/swagentd -r

And then try the install again.

HTH

Duncan

Re: swinstall problem in remote machine

Sachin Patel — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:27:00 GMT

Hi George,

You need somekind of license to run swinstall on depot over network. But you can still use this here is the trick. I have done it many time.

on system X run swcopy to create a bundle or depot from depot.
X#swcopy /tmp/test.depot @ /home/sachin/testing

Then on system Y
Y#swinstall -s X:/home/sachin/testing \*

Sachin

Re: swinstall problem in remote machine

Stefan Farrelly — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:29:09 GMT

The last reply is incorrect.

you do NOT need a license to run swinstall on machine b from a depot on machine a.

You DO need a license to 'push' software from machine a (where the depot lives) to machine b. Doing the first method is called a 'pull' and is the normal method used as it doesnt need a license.

Re: swinstall problem in remote machine

Sachin Patel — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:39:36 GMT

Hi Stefan,
How can I make first mathod worked.

Y#swinstall -s X:/tmp/test.depot
is giving me error that I do not have a permission. How can I open up permission?

Sachin