DST patch install aborts

[Timothy P. Jackson]

Hello everyone,

I know it is past the date to install the DST patch but I have one system that I still need to patch. When I try, swinstall comes back and tells me it cannot open /usr/newconfig/usr/lib/tztab. I looked in the /usr/newconfig/usr/lib directory and there is a tztab but it is empty.

OS - HP-UX 11i
Patch# PHCO_34668

Has any one run into this before. I have put this patch on many systems and this is the first time I have had any problems.

Thanks,
Tim

[Todd Goldsmith]

Verify permissions on the /usr/newconfig tree:

555 on all directories, owned by bin:bin, and the tztab file will be 444, also owned by bin:bin. Now you can fix the tztab file by simply extracting the file from the patch and manually putting writing over your existing tztab file (make a copy of the old file just in case). Then work on the swinstall problem -- it is probably indicative of some other error condition that will affect all future patch and product installs.

[Timothy P. Jackson]

Thanks for the quick response Todd!

I checked the permissions and they all look good. I must have something else screwed up!

In the mean time I will just copy the tztab in from one of my other machines. Do I need it in both the /usr/lib and the /usr/newconfig/usr/lib directories?

Tim