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Session File
Each invocation of swlist defines a task session. The command automatically saves options, source
information, software selections, and target selections before the task actually commences. This lets you
re-execute the command even if the session ends before the task is complete. You can also save session
information from interactive or command-line sessions.
Session information is saved to the file
$HOME/.sw/sessions/swlist.last.
This file is overwrit-
ten by each invocation of the command. The file uses the same syntax as the defaults files.
From an interactive session, you can save session information into a file at any time by selecting the Save
Session or Save Session As option from the File menu.
From a command-line session, you can save session information by executing the command with the
-Csession__file option. You can specify an absolute path for a session file. If you do not specify a directory,
the default location is $HOME/.sw/sessions/
.
To re-execute a saved session from an interactive session, use the Recall Session option from the File menu.
To re-execute a session from a command-line, specify the session file as the argument for the
-S option.
When you re-execute a session file, the values in the session file take precedence over values in the system
defaults file. Likewise, any command-line options and parameters take precedence over the values in the
session file.
Environment Variables
The environment variables that affect the
swlist command are:
LANG Determines the language in which messages are displayed. If LANG is not specified or is
set to the empty string, a default value of C is used. See lang(5) for more information.
NOTE: The language in which the SD agent and daemon log messages are displayed is set
by the system configuration variable script,
/etc/rc.config.d/LANG
. For example,
/etc/rc.config.d/LANG
, must be set to LANG=ja_JP.SJIS or
LANG=ja_JP.eucJP
to make the agent and daemon log messages display in Japanese.
LC_ALL Determines the locale to be used to override any values for locale categories specified by the
settings of LANG or any environment variables beginning with LC_.
LC_CTYPE
Determines the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (e.g., single-
versus multibyte characters in values for vendor-defined attributes).
LC_MESSAGES
Determines the language in which messages should be written.
LC_TIME
Determines the format of dates (create_date and mod_date) when displayed by swlist.
Used by all utilities when displaying dates and times in
stdout, stderr, and logging.
TZ Determines the time zone for use when displaying dates and times.
Signals
The swlist command catches the signals SIGQUIT and SIGINT. If these signals are received, swlist
prints a message, sends a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to the agents to wrap up, and then exits.
Each agent will complete the list task (if the execution phase has already started) before it wraps up.
OPERATION
The output from swlist follows this rule with all options: only the lowest level listed (product, subpro-
duct, fileset or file) will be uncommented. Among other things, this allows the output from swlist to be
used as input to other commands. The one exception is the list that contains files; file-level output is not
accepted by other commands.
The types of listings that can be selected are given below. Some of these listings are not exclusive choices,
but rather ways to view the objects while controlling the amount of output.
• Default Listing
• Software Listing
• Root Listing
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