topic Re: 'sw' tools issue in Operating System - HP-UX

'sw' tools issue

Jason VanDerMark — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:06:11 GMT

Greetings,

I am having a problem when trying to access any sw utility (swlist, swinstall, swcopy, swacl). The error reads as follows:

ERROR: Could not initialize security. Process does not have super-user privilege.

I am sure that this is an easy one, but it is eluding me. Thanks in advance for your help.

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Rita C Workman — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:50:07 GMT

Your problem sounds like a permissions issue. You need to run swacl. This thread spells it well:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xc5ed6c96588ad4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

/rcw

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Jason VanDerMark — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 19:56:05 GMT

I have already tried all the steps detailed in the forums and nothing has worked. I cannot even get any information from swacl it gives the same error as the rest. :-(

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Rita C Workman — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:00:26 GMT

Are you logged in as root???

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Jason VanDerMark — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:06:14 GMT

I am logged in as root. The system has no NIS, DNS, or hardly anything else running. The server is not running in trusted mode. I was attempting to install mutt(email client) and it was giving me some problems( not a valid depot. Forgot to register it...oops) went back to the command line and it would no longer allow me to do anything with sw. Attempted to fix it by applying all the changes I could, even renamed the sw directory and tar-ed one over from an identicle box to no avail. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Rita C Workman — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:08:50 GMT

Did you try stopping and restarting the swagent yet?

/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
/sbin/init.d/swagentd start

Then retry...

/rcw

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Jason VanDerMark — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:14:52 GMT

Yep, tried that too. Nothing seems to have helped. I know its probably a configuration file lying somewhere that I can just tweak and go, but I don't know where it could be.

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Rita C Workman — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:23:31 GMT

You said you can't run any sw utility...

Can you run swlist?

/rcw

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Jason VanDerMark — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:25:17 GMT

Nope, can't run swlist, swinstall, swacl, swreg, probably other sw tools I missed.

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Rita C Workman — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:32:13 GMT

Now a couple other basic questions....may sound off topic, but it's not.

Run nslookup (by ip and hostname) does it run right?
Run uname -a does it look right?

/rcw

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Jason VanDerMark — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 20:39:19 GMT

Ran the nslookups by both ip and by hostname for several systems with no problems, and the uname -a looks perfectly normal.

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Andy Monks — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:16:48 GMT

Check your permissions on the sw* executables :-

-r-sr-xr-x 10 root bin 1478656 May 30 1996 /usr/sbin/swinstall

All the other commands are hard links.

Andy

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Rita C Workman — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:26:18 GMT

Good...I did some looking around for similar threads and I found this. Take a look down and start looking at what Stefan Farrely wrote at 11:20 and through the end. It looks pretty promising.....and since I have to head out I'm hoping this will help you. Do the swlist resolution..the IPD reload may still be a problem, then look near the end at the suggestion to check if files under /var/adm/sw/product have been removed and restore them....
Here's the the thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x68970559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Gotta run...meeting !!
/rcw

Re: 'sw' tools issue

Jason VanDerMark — Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:30:22 GMT

I found what was causing the problem, somehow bin was assigned as the owner of swinstall. Once it was changed back to root, things were perfect again. I knew it was something simple. Thank you all for you help.

Regards,
Jason V.