swinstall to install IBM MQSERIES maintenance patch

[Bing Wong]

I tried to use swinstall interactive menu to apply maintenance MQSERIES 6.0.1.1 to 6.0.0.0. In my dev HP-UX server, I specified the target directory "/" and it worked fine because it actually knew where to install. It installed on /opt/mqm and /var/mqm.
But in my production HP-UX, if I did the same, the MQSERIES analysis came back and told me that I need additional disk space on root directory "/". Some how the swinstall does not know the target directories which are /opt/mqm and /var/mqm. I think my DEV and PROD servers have descrepancy in regards to this. Is there a pre-defined setting somewhere I can verify? Please help. Thanks.

[IT_2007]

May be you don't have space on / ? check awgentd.log file for more information.

[Arunvijai_4 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

"swinstall" will analysis the space requirement in required directories automatically. If you want to see where the files whill be installed,

# swlist -l file -s to get a complete list of files.

-Arun

[Bing Wong]

Thanks Arun.

I will check.

[Bill Hassell]

Many applications install pieces of the product in many different directories. One of the / directories is /etc where config files are located. swinstall always follows the depot directions as to installation directory -- you have to set special options to override this behavior.

To see all the pathnames, just use tar as in:

tar tvf /var/tmp/mqpatch.depot

[Bing Wong]

Hi Bill,
How do I set special option to overwrite something?

Thanks.

[Bill Hassell]

> How do I set special option to overwrite something?

I don't know what you mean. Do you mean how to overwrite the old version with the new version? If so, this is automatic in the patch. You don't have to do anything.

[Bing Wong]

Thanks Bill.