HP-UX Software Assistant Reference (November, 2010)

-x swcache=/var/opt/swa/cache

Usage: Basic

Applicable caches: swcache, all

This is the directory where SWA stores downloaded patches before putting them into a depot.

The default location is only writable by root, so this directory needs to be changed for a non-root

user to be able to download software. Opening up permissions on the default location is not

recommended.

-x user_dir=~/.swa

Usage: Basic

Applicable caches: usercache, all

This is the directory where SWA stores catalog, inventory, analysis, ignore, and report files.

The default location is a subdirectory (.swa) of the user's home directory. This can be changed,

for example, to allow archival of previous interim artifacts in a date-specific directory or off-host.

Several other options default to a directory relative to this directory, so changing this option

allows all of those locations to stay in sync relative to a common root.

-x verbosity=3

Usage: Basic

Applicable caches: swcache, usercache, all

Specifies the level of standard error verboseness:

0 Only ERROR messages and the starting/ending BANNER messages.

1 Adds WARNING messages.

2 Adds NOTE messages.

3 Adds INFO messages (informational messages preceded by the asterisk '*' character); this

is the default.

4 Adds verbose INFO messages.

5 Adds very verbose INFO messages.

Note: The -v option is equivalent to increasing verbosity by 1 (for example, from 3 to 4),

and the -q option is equivalent to decreasing verbosity by 1. The -v and -q options can be

used more than once.

RETURN VALUE

swa clean returns one of the following values:

0 Successful completion

1 Error

2 Warning

EXAMPLES

To display swa clean usage information:

swa clean -?

To display usage and list all swa clean extended options:

swa clean -x -?

To run swa clean using the options specified in the file ./myconfig:

swa clean -X ./myconfig

To remove all cached inventory, catalog, and analysis information in the default location:

swa clean usercache

To remove all cached downloaded software in the default location: