swinstall problem in remote machine

[George Benetos]

I try to install a depot where resides in a machine a
in a machine b.
I start the swinstall process in the machine b give as SOURCE HOST NAME the machine a , but when I give the directory where depots resides , I got an error message telling me that I can not access the depots ...
any ideas ?
thanx ....

[Stefan Farrelly]

a. Are you running the install as root ?
b. check the files on machine a in the dir;
/var/adm/sw/security

Check the following files contain;
> cat _ACL
# default_realm=
any_other:r----
> cat _OWNER
# default_realm=
num_entries=2
user:root:0
group:sys:0
> cat secrets
default -sdu-

If not change them and run; /sbin/init.d/swagentd stop then /sbin/init.d/swagentd start

but you should also investigate why someone changed the default security permissions.

[Mateja Bezjak]

Hi,

What error do you get? Is it permissions? Can you post the error message. If it is the permissions, you need to use swacl command to set them. Example:
swacl -l depot -M user:root@systemb:crwit

Regards,
Mateja

[George Benetos]

a. Are you running the install as root ?

yes ..

b. check the files on machine > cat _ACL
# default_realm=
any_other:01

> cat _OWNER
# default_realm=
num_entries=2
user:root:0
group:sys:0
> cat secrets
default -sdu-

[Domenico_5]

hi

on a machine a have you run:

swreg -l depot ??

for example.

bye

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Have you changed any of your network config since you last started either system? SD-UX is v. sensitive to network changes - Before trying anything else I'd restart swagentd on *both* hosts by issuing:

/usr/sbin/swagentd -r

And then try the install again.

HTH

Duncan

[Sachin Patel]

Hi George,

You need somekind of license to run swinstall on depot over network. But you can still use this here is the trick. I have done it many time.

on system X run swcopy to create a bundle or depot from depot.
X#swcopy /tmp/test.depot @ /home/sachin/testing

Then on system Y
Y#swinstall -s X:/home/sachin/testing \*

Sachin

[Stefan Farrelly]

The last reply is incorrect.

you do NOT need a license to run swinstall on machine b from a depot on machine a.

You DO need a license to 'push' software from machine a (where the depot lives) to machine b. Doing the first method is called a 'pull' and is the normal method used as it doesnt need a license.

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Stefan,
How can I make first mathod worked.

Y#swinstall -s X:/tmp/test.depot
is giving me error that I do not have a permission. How can I open up permission?

Sachin