Creating a depot

[Ski Ride]

Hi
I have a NisLdap Gateway product in nis.tar.gz in the location /disk1/ldap-ux

I want to install it.
I have ofcourse unzipped it and have it as a .tar file.

Please specify what needs to be done?

[Torsten.]

Now un-tar it:

# tar -xvf /disk1/ldap-ux/nis.tar

Look if there is any install or setup script or at least a README for how to proceed.

[Ski Ride]

No, I have only the following files
# pwd
/disk1/ldap-ux/nis
# ll
total 10
dr-x------ 2 root Jul 23 15:44 J4269AA
dr-x------ 8 root Jul 23 15:44 LdapUxClient
dr-x------ 4 root Jul 23 15:44 NisLdapServer
dr-x------ 6 root Jul 23 15:44 catalog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root Jul 23 15:44 swagent.log


what to do ????

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

Now it looks like a depot, try

# swlist -s /disk1/ldap-ux/nis
and
# swinstall -s /disk1/ldap-ux/nis
for interactive installation.

[Torsten.]

Next time please read this also:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

Have fun!

[Dennis Handly]

>Torsten: Now un-tar it:

Since this was a tape depot, you shouldn't have untarred it. In fact you should immediately rename it to: nis.depot
And install everything by:
# swinstall -s $PWD/nis.depot \*

[Torsten.]

Dennis, how to know this before?
(OK, tar -t ... would clear this, but I don't expected a depot).

[Dennis Handly]

>Torsten: how to know this before?

You could try swlist first. :-) Or tar -t.
Or after tar gives the wrong stuff, you mention "undoing" that step, not trying to "cheat" by using the result of the untar.

[Ski Ride]

Hi Dennis and Torsten

Well I have installed a pam product in a similar way as Torsten suggested.

The problem I belive is some of the necessary files needed by PAM is not installed properly or just not there. And as of now I am also not able to download the depots from the hp site.

The users could not login in the usual way. So I have edited the pam.conf file to bypass some security.

Will reinstalling the PAM solve this problem?

[Ski Ride]

I think I should not do as described above. Downloaded a fresh depot from hp software.