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- From: rick@ransom.msc.cornell.edu (Rick Cochran)
- Subject: installp error
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.170534.22004@msc.cornell.edu>
- Keywords: AIX updates
- Sender: news@msc.cornell.edu
- Organization: Cornell Materials Science Center
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:05:34 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- Since my job description now reads:
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- Activity Fraction of time
- Install Updates to AIX 3.2 100%
-
- I would like to be able to install updates without using SMIT. For one
- thing, this makes it easier to install the fixes to installp which must
- be installed before anything else. For another it allows me to peruse
- the log file _while_ the updates are being installed (lately several hours)
- to see if anything has failed.
-
- To do this, I have been using the following script:
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- #!/bin/ksh
- installp -qaB -d'/fsys/groo/a/local/src/updates.3.2/updates' '-g' '-c' '-N' '-v' '-X' bos.obj 03.02.0000.0000.U406852 >install.outa 2>&1
- installp -qaB -d'/fsys/groo/a/local/src/updates.3.2/updates' '-g' '-c' '-N' '-v' '-X' all >install.outb 2>&1
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-
- All currently known methods of executing these commands outside
- of SMIT cause "who am i" errors when a new boot image is created
- (which happens in several of the updates).
-
- The errors are of the form:
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- who: 0551-012 The process is not attached to a terminal.
- Do not run who am i as a background process.
-
- followed by a 'usage' printout from 'who'.
-
- I get these errors whether or not I background the installp commands.
- However, the output claims that the updates have installed successfully.
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- 1) Please tell me whether the updates REALLY installed successfully.
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- 2) Please fix this very annoying problem.
-
- I have submitted this problem as PMR 6x570 but have had no response as yet.
-
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- |Rick Cochran 607-255-7223 rick@msc.cornell.edu|
- |Cornell Materials Science Center rick@crnlmsc2.bitnet|
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