HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1M System Administration Commands N-Z (vol 4)

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swinstall(1M) swinstall(1M)
(HP-UX Software Distributor)
• The Software Distributor Administration Guide manual
• Start the GUI or TUI, select the Help menu, then select the Keyboard... option to access the Key-
board Reference Guide.
RETURN VALUES
An interactive
swinstall or swcopy session always returns 0. A non-interactive
swinstall or
swcopy session returns:
0 The software_selections were successfully installed/copied.
1 The install/copy operation failed on all target_selections.
2 The install/copy operation failed on some target_selections.
DIAGNOSTICS
The
swinstall and swcopy commands write to stdout, stderr, and to specific logfiles.
Standard Output
An interactive swinstall or swcopy session does not write to stdout. A non-interactive
swinstall
or swcopy session writes messages for significant events. These include:
• a begin and end session message,
• selection, analysis, and execution task messages for each target_selection.
Standard Error
An interactive
swinstall or swcopy session does not write to stderr. A non-interactive
swinstall
or swcopy session writes messages for all WARNING and ERROR conditions to stderr.
Logging
Both interactive and non-interactive
swinstall and swcopy sessions log summary events at the host
where the command was invoked. They log detailed events to the
swagent logfile associated with each
target_selection.
Command Log
The
swinstall and swcopy commands log all stdout and stderr messages to the the logfile
/var/adm/sw/swinstall.log
(/var/adm/sw/swcopy.log). Similar messages are logged
by an interactive
swinstall and swcopy session. The user can specify a different logfile by
modifying the logfile option.
Target Log
A swagent process performs the actual install or copy operation at each target_selection.Forinstall
tasks, the
swagent logs messages to the file var/adm/sw/swagent.log
beneath the root
directory (e.g.
/ or an alternate root directory). For copy tasks, the swagent logs messages to the
file
swagent.log beneath the depot directory (e.g. /var/spool/sw
).
You can view the command and target log files with the
swjob or sd
command.
Source Depot Audit Log
If both source and target machine are updated to SD revision B.11.00 or later, the system administra-
tor at the source depot machine can track which user pulls which software from a depot on the source
machine and when the software is pulled. (Note that a user running
swinstall/swcopy from a
target machine cannot set this option; only the administrator of the source depot machine can set it.
See the source_depot_audit option in the swagent(1M) man page.)
EXAMPLES
swinstall
To invoke an interactive session of swinstall:
swinstall
Select the C and Pascal products from the network source software server (sw_server) and start an interac-
tive session:
swinstall -i -s sw_server cc pascal
Install the C and Pascal products to a set of remote hosts:
swinstall -s sw_server cc pascal @ hostA hostB hostC
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