topic Re: swinstall problem in Operating System - HP-UX

swinstall problem

Nick Tarmey_3 — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:28:15 GMT

Hi all,
I have a script that uses the swinstall command to install a patch bundle over an existing patch bundle. The install goes ahead as expected and installs the patches and reboots. The problem is when I do an swlist the bundle still shows as the previous version. If I open up an interactive swinstall and re-install the new patch bundle it selects 0 patches to install but goes through the motions anyway I assume doing an swconfig or something. This finishes without rebooting and updates the bundle infomation in the swlist. Now for the questions ...
Why doesn't swinstall do this from the command line?
Should I be using any additional switches or is there another command I can run non-interactivly that will sort this out?

This is the command I'm using:
remsh servername /usr/sbin/swinstall -s depotserver:/gls_depot/hp/hpux11.00/LMNBL3V1100/ -x autoreboot=true -x mount_all_filesystems=false -x patch_match_target=true

Re: swinstall problem

Stefan Farrelly — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:38:48 GMT

The match_target=true option does some checking on existing patches and what youre trying to install and obviously works out you have nothing to install.

You need to look into what bundle you have installed already (swlist -l bundle) and whats in the depot youre trying to install (swlist -s ). If you post the results we can look into it further.

Re: swinstall problem

Rajeev Shukla — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:41:29 GMT

Try using -l option with remsh and full command in double quotes. I guess its not taking the options of swinstall. Use
remsh servername -l "......."

cheers
Rajeev

Re: swinstall problem

RAC_1 — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:54:52 GMT

seems that patch_match_target=true does some checking. Could be problem with that. Ckeck how options are set when you do interactively.

Compare x options. (when doing interactive and through command line)

Re: swinstall problem

Nick Tarmey_3 — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 18:08:40 GMT

Guys, thanks for all your replies on this I've actually found what was causing the problem I had left out /* from the swinstall line. I've just tried it and it worked a treat.
The command now looks like so:
remsh servername /usr/sbin/swinstall -s depotserver:/gls_depot/hp/hpux11.00/LMNBL3V1100/ -x autoreboot=true -x mount_all_filesystems=false -x patch_match_target=true /*

Have a nice weekend!