'sw' tools issue

[Jason VanDerMark]

Ran the nslookups by both ip and by hostname for several systems with no problems, and the uname -a looks perfectly normal.

[Andy Monks · Accepted solution]

Check your permissions on the sw* executables :-

-r-sr-xr-x 10 root bin 1478656 May 30 1996 /usr/sbin/swinstall

All the other commands are hard links.

Andy

[Rita C Workman]

Good...I did some looking around for similar threads and I found this. Take a look down and start looking at what Stefan Farrely wrote at 11:20 and through the end. It looks pretty promising.....and since I have to head out I'm hoping this will help you. Do the swlist resolution..the IPD reload may still be a problem, then look near the end at the suggestion to check if files under /var/adm/sw/product have been removed and restore them....
Here's the the thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x68970559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Gotta run...meeting !!
/rcw

[Jason VanDerMark]

I found what was causing the problem, somehow bin was assigned as the owner of swinstall. Once it was changed back to root, things were perfect again. I knew it was something simple. Thank you all for you help.

Regards,
Jason V.