Swinstall and Swacl help

[Steven Chen_1]

Hi,

I would appreciate it if someone offer help with this issue:

I tried to swinstall ignite_10.20.tar, but message told me that I don't have permission and should check swacl. It is root that I am using. Do I have to check/do something on swacl command? and how?

Very grateful.

Steven

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Steven:

This message can be very misleading. First, make sure that you have your hostname declared properly in /etc/hosts. Make sure, too, that /etc/hosts contains the localhost/loopback entry:

127.0.0.1 localhost loopback

Lastly, restart the 'swagentd' daemon, as:

# swagentd -r

Does this help?

Regards!

...JRF...

[Scott Van Kalken]

If the IP address of the machine has changed - this may be the cause of the problem as well.

Some files to check are in /var/adm/sw/security - these are the default permissions used by the SD to see if you're allowed to install software.

The permissions in the text files are fairly similar to file permissions. However, if you are going to make changes to any of these files read the swacl man pages about 4 times first.

It's not actually recomended that yo change these, but if all else fails it will get you out the trouble of not being able to install software - definitely give swagentd a kick first though.

Scott.