Software Distributor Administrator Guide (September 2010)

Table D-3 Controller File System Structure (continued)
X11 resource definitions for the GUIs
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults
Message catalogs for the daemon, agent, and
shared messages
/usr/lib/nls/msg/$LANG/sw*.cat
Data files that are conditionally copied into
/var/adm/sw.
/usr/newconfig/var/adm/sw
Directory that contains all the data for jobs
/var/adm/sw/queue
Controller logfile
/var/adm/sw/sw<task>.log
System-level defaults.hosts file for the
GUIs
/var/adm/sw/defaults.hosts
Key file that enables the remote operations
GUI
/var/adm/sw/.sdkey
Location of the cache file for each target host
/var/adm/sw/target_hosts
Directory that stores the GUI user view
preferences
/var/adm/sw/ui/preferences
D.3 Installed Products Database
Software Distributor commands keep track of installations, products, and filesets on
the system with the Installed Product Database (IPD). Located in the directory
/var/adm/sw/products, the IPD is a series of files and subdirectories that contain
information about all the products that are installed under the root directory (/). This
information includes all the attributes describing the products, filesets, and files. The
swinstall, swconfig, and swremove tasks automatically add to, change, and delete
this IPD information as the commands are executed.
You cannot manually edit the IPD files, but swmodify lets you change local IPD and
local depot catalog information.
The equivalent IPD files for a depot are called catalog files. When a depot is created or
modified using swcopy, catalog files are built (by default in /var/spool/sw/catalog)
that describe the depot and its contents.
The IPD also contains a swlock file that manages simultaneous read and/or write
access to software objects, and ACLs.
For More Information
• “Modifying the IPD (swmodify)” (page 98)
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