HP-UX Software Assistant Reference (November, 2010)

-x user_dir=~/.swa

Usage: Basic

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

Specifies the level of standard error verboseness:

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

1 Adds WARNING messages.

2 Adds NOTE messages.

3 Adds INFO messages (informational messages preceded by the '*' 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.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

For compatibility with other applications, several environment variables can be used to configure

how SWA connects to the Internet to retrieve catalogs, certificate revocation lists, and software.

These environment variables include ftp_proxy, http_proxy, and https_proxy.

These environment variables have the same effect as the corresponding extended options of the

same names. The Extended Options section describes the usage and meaning of each option and

the behavior if the same option is specified in multiple places.

The proxy extended option cannot be specified as an environment variable, but may be a useful

alternative if all protocols use the same proxy server at your site.

The TMPDIR environment variable is also honored for local operations, if set. If this value is not

set, the default of /var/opt/swa/tmp is used. This directory does not allow write operations for

non-privileged users, so TMPDIR must be set by non-root users if a temporary directory is required

for that operation. An example operation that uses this directory is unsharing of patch files. For

older-style patches which do not honor TMPDIR, SWA rewrites the shar file so that TMPDIR will

be honored before unpacking the patch.

RETURN VALUE

swa report returns the following values:

0 Success

1 Error

2 Warning

EXAMPLES

These example commands assume your default configuration file contains your ITRC login

information. The syntax will be:

hp_id = <ITRC User ID>

hp_pw = <ITRC password>