/var/spool/sw

[Donny Jekels]

short of changing the sw to a soft link pointing else where. say /mydepots.

does anyone know how can I modify this default software depot container? and also remove this entry in SD-UX.

[Bill Douglass · Accepted solution]

/var/adm/sw/defaults describes the deault values used in the SD commands.

/var/adm/sw/sys.default has a list of the various options available.

To change the default depot, go to/ var/adm/sw/defaults and enter

distribution_source_directory = /path/to/depot

[Donny Jekels]

I have done that, but why does the /var/spool/sw keep listing itself 1st when I do a swinstall?

[Donny Jekels]

WARNING: When reading the options file, "/var/adm/sw/defaults", 1
option(s) were found that are not recognized by this program.

[Umapathy S]

Donny,
By any chance did you forget to restart swagentd.

HTH,
Umapathy

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Copy defaults file from /usr/lib/sw into /var/adm/sw and modify it to reflect your /mydepots.

#cp /usr/lib/sw/sys.default /var/adm/sw/defaults
#vi /var/adm/sw/defaults

Search for spool. There are directories defined for different kinds of distributions like swcopy, swinstall etc., Modify the ones that you want to redirect to. Restart swagentd by killing it and starting it with 'swagentd -r'.

-Sri

[Bill Douglass]

Did you do a

swagentd -r

to restart the agent daemon?

[Donny Jekels]

# swreg -l depot -u /var/spool/sw

======= 06/16/03 14:20:11 EDT BEGIN swreg SESSION (non-interactive)

* Session started for user "root@myhp".

* Beginning Selection
* Targets: myhp
* Objects: /var/spool/sw
* Selection succeeded.



======= 06/16/03 14:20:11 EDT END swreg SESSION (non-interactive)

thanks, it works now.

config and restart saved the day. and the removal.