swinstall

[Paul_6]

When I try to install a software from my local CDROM, the SWINSTALL can run, but after appearing "Select Target Path(hostname)" menu, I choosed the default root path as " /" then "OK", then the following error message appears:

"hostname:/" Failed to initialize this agent. Make sure the agent program exists on the host and can be executed.

Could someone help?

[Andreas Voss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

do:
/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
then look with: ps -ef | grep swagent
if there are any processes listed an if so kill them (kill -9 ...)
Then restart with:
/sbin/init.d/swagentd start

Hope that helps

Regards

[Vinit Adya]

Make sure the demon swagentd is running on the system

ps -ef | grep swagent
root 8313 1 0 Oct 4 ? 21:09 /usr/sbin/swagentd

You can start this from /sbin/init.d by
swagentd start

cheers
Vinit

[Alex Glennie]

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