swinstall running slow

[lawrenzo_1]

hello,

I am running swinstall across a network and it is taking forever.

I started at 2230 and it is now 03:42 - the swagent.log shows it's on 308 of 356.

can someone advise how to check the speed of this or help kae run faster - I have 3hrs to complete this change!

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

make sure /etc/nsswitch.conf is set correctly and exists. swinstall will not run correctly without that file.

make sure that the swagentd daemon is running(it probably is).

ps -ef | grep swagent

consider stopping the install and restarting swagentd

/sbin/init.d/swagentd -r

On recently installed systems nsswitch.conf is not configured.

Also on slow systems like my play system swinstall ran like a log until I went to the patch database and installed every sd/ux patch that existed.

SEP

[lawrenzo_1]

do you have an example of how nsswitch.conf should be configured?

[lawrenzo_1]

Thankyou SEP,

The patching has resolved the issue's as I added over 360 patchs