Automatic swinstall

[Craig A. Sharp]

How can I get swinstall to run in an automatic mode? I have a depot with only two things in it and both need to be installed. Is there a way that I can do this for my Jr. SA's? I dont want them to have interaction with swinstall.

Thanks,

Craig

[Anshumali]

swinstall -s \*
You may use various options of -x like mount_all_filesystems, auto_reboot

Man swinstall

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Craig:

# swinstall -s /patches/swdepot -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true

# swinstall -s /tmp/depot \*

Regards!

...JRF...

[Craig A. Sharp]

I have tried the swinstall -s from the command line and it still brings up the interface. Is there something that I need to change to get swinstall to run unattended?

[Srimalik]

you need to give the name of package also to start in non-interactive mode.

Say your software location is /tmp/depots
and there is a package called bash in it.

swinstall -s /tmp/depots bash

if you want to install everything use:

swinstall -s /tmp/depot \*

[Bob E Campbell]

The interface will always start if there are any unanswered questions. So:

1. When you build your depot make sure that all dependencies are included

2. If a reboot *might* be required add "-x autoreboot=true"

3. You must specify what is to be installed. "\*" says everything in depot, you can also use a number of other methods to identify bundles or collections.

4. Any other option that you might think is needed (including write_remote_files) starts to get into the big hammer world and should be thought through.