Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Command Options
Options Listed Alphabetically
Appendix A 429
If set to true, all files are saved as backup copies until the current
fileset finishes loading. If an error occurs during installation, the
fileset’s original files are restored, and swinstall continues to the
next fileset in the product or the product postinstall script.
When set to true, this option also affects scripts. For example, if a
preinstall script fails, this option causes the corresponding
unpreinstall script to execute.
Applies only to swinstall.
• autorecover_product=false
By default, swinstall overwrites old files. If a load error occurs, the
product is marked “corrupt” and you must retry the install.
When this option is true, swinstall saves all product files as backups
until the product finishes loading successfully, then removes the
backups. This lets swinstall automatically recover files if the load
fails. The trade-off is a temporary increase in disk space use and
slower performance
Note: The autorecover operation does not work properly if any
software has pre-install scripts that move or remove files. This
includes HP-UX operating system files.
Applies only to swinstall.
• autoremove_job=false
SD-UX stores small amounts of information (such as job status or
controller or agent logfiles) about each job. You can display this
information from the Job Browser or with swjob. Running very large
numbers of jobs may take up significant disk space.
Setting this option to true prevents SD-UX from storing the job
information. The trade-off is that you can no longer display the job
information.
This option is automatically set to true when run_as_superuser is
set to true.
Applies to swconfig, swcopy, swinstall, swremove and swverify.