How do you edit output to swlist

[Safdar Mustafa]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to manually edit the output to swlist to display an entry which is not installed?

Meaning, I want to list some filesets as Configured which in fact are not on the node itself. The filesets do not need to be installed on this particular machine because it remotely mounts a filesystem from a SG cluster. But I do want it to be listed in swlist for consistency.

I hope that clear as mud :-)

Thanks, Safdar

[Geoff Wild]

You can't manipulate swlist directly.

However - you could create a "blank" depot which has a title of what you want to see.

Have a look at:

http://www.hpworks.org.uk/newsletter/articles/depots/

and

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90740/index.html


Basically, make a psf file and then register it as a depot then swinstall it...

Rgds...Geoff

[Rodney Hills]

What if you pipe the output from swlist to another command to add the entry you want-

swlist -s ... | perl -pe 'print "new line\n" if /^searchtext/' >/tmp/swlist.outputfile

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[Prashant Zanwar_4]

interesting ! I vote for Geoff's way ! as then once your manipulate, you r done !

Prashant

[Antonio Cardoso_1]

Hi Mustapha,

I think you can create a psf file and register it using swreg command.
have a look at chapter "Registering and Unregistering Depots (swreg)" in http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90979/index.html for more detail

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

This is truly Looney Tunes. If I were doing a security audit on your box and found this, you would get dinged big time -- because the installed software database has been intentionally altered. Before I could sign off on this box, I would insist that the entire machine be loaded from scratch because I absolutely cannot trust the installed software inventory. I see nothing good from doing this.

It makes much more sense to simply explain that the package is executed via NFS. You should also consider the impact of someone having to takeover in your absence; he would be clueless and assume as would I that swlist is telling the truth.

[Armin Kunaschik]

The only advice I can give is not to do so! :-)

In case you're not willing:

try edit /var/adm/sw/products/INDEX!

This file is, from my knowledge, a summary of all INDEX files in all subdirectories of /var/adm/sw/products.

Add/delete/modify entries as you want but don't complain if you need to reinstall your server later!

Again, don't do this on production servers!

Armin

[Safdar Mustafa]

Thanks big time guys.

The first solution works well, although I agree that doing this for blank or empty depots is a bit looney :-)

Anyway, I will propose the different solutions but meanwhile I have learnt something new...

Thanks

Safdar