swlist is not working

[prasathc]

Hi all
I have encounter a problem while putting swlist in a hp-ux based machine ( J5600 series ).

swlist is working when i am entering as root, but when i enter as user, is giving as following messages like

swlist
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "sunlight"....


There is no error messages ,just it initializing and contacting the host then it's giving prompt. So anyone can helpme. please

thanks in advance

[Srinivasan Sankar]

I think you have to check the /etc/hosts and make surethe entry for sunlist is OK.

ta

[Stefan Farrelly]

swlist should work for a non root user. Have you tried swlist -v, does it give more output before crashing to the prompt ?

[prasathc]

Hi All
I have tried
1) /etc/hosts
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 496 Feb 23 20:27 /etc/hosts
2) swlist -v,
swlist -v
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "sunlight"...

but still it is in the same position
no improvement

please guide me

thanks

[Stefan Farrelly]

Might be some sort of permission problem. This isnt going to be easy to diagnose.

Have your tried some options;

swlist -l bundle
or
swlist -l fileset

Can you give us the output of swlist when run as root please.

[prasathc]

Hi stefan
I had tryed out with swlist -l bundle and product , but i got same out. Here i am attaching the swlist for sunlight as root

thanks

[Stefan Farrelly]

your problem could possibly be becuase you arent running an uptodate quarterly patch bundle. Recent one is March2001. Why arent you using them ? you have a few selected patches instead.

I cant see you have installed to important patches for software distributor;

PHCO_21492 1.0 Software Distributor (SD-UX) Cumulative Patch
PHCO_22044 1.0 HP-UX Software Distributor commands

Try installing them or preferrably a quarterly patch bundle and see if that resolves it. (One of these patches may superceed the other - check first)

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

My guess would be that you do not have the correct permissions set for the 'swlist' codefile.

Do an 'ls -l' and make sure of the ownership and particularly the setuid bit status of the codefile. It should look something like this:

-r-sr-xr-x 11 root bin 1609728 Dec 15 1998 /usr/sbin/swlist

If this is not the case, as necessary, do:

# chown root:bin /usr/sbin/swlist
# chmod 4555 /usr/sbin/swlist

...JRF...

[prasathc]

Hi
I don't think so it is due to PATCH which u mentioned. Why because yesterday it was fine. But problem is today only. More over the /usr/sbin/swlist file permission is same which James mentioned. If the Patch problem means swlist sould not work for root also.

And James this the status of file permission and ownership as follows
# ll /usr/sbin/swlist
-r-sr-xr-x 10 root bin 1478656 May 30 1996 /usr/sbin/swlist
the problem is not fix so far

thanks

[Stefan Farrelly]

Time for you to start allocating points for those whove spent time trying to help so far.

And yes, a patch could very easily affect only non-root users.

If it was working yesterday and not now, whats happened inbetween ? sometone installed something ? have you tried rebooting your server as it could be simply environment.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

OK. You might try to restart the swagentd daemon:

# /sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
# /sbin/init.d/swagentd start

...JRF...