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within the context of an exported catalog, where instance_id is an integer that distinguishes ver-
sions of products and bundles with the same tag.
Target Sel ections
The SD commands support this syntax for each target_selection.
[host ][:][/directory ]
The colon (:) is required if both a host and directory are specified.
Target Selections with IPv6 Address
SD commands also support specifying the host as an IPv6 address on HP-UX Release 11i v3, as shown
below:
[host_IPv6_address
][:][/directory ]
If both the hostname and the path are specified, then the first occurrence of a slash (
/) is treated as the
separator.
The IPv6 address can optionally be enclosed in a pair of square brackets (
[) and (]).
EXTERNAL INPUTS AND INFLUENCES
Default Options
In addition to the standard options, several SD behaviors and policy options can be changed by editing
the default values found in:
/var/adm/sw/defaults
the system-wide default values.
$HOME/.swdefaults
the user-specific default values.
Values must be specified in the defaults file using this syntax:
[command_name.]option=value
The optional command_name prefix denotes one of the SD commands. Using the prefix limits the change
in the default value to that command. If you leave the prefix off, the change applies to all commands.
You can also override default values from the command line with the
-x or -X
options:
command
-x option =value
command
-X option_file
The following section lists all of the keywords supported by the SD commands. The keywords that are
supported for individual commands are also listed in each command’s manual page. If a default value
exists, it is listed after the
=. The commands that this option applies to are also specified.
admin_directory=/var/adm/sw
(for normal mode)
admin_directory=/var/home/LOGNAME/sw
(for nonprivileged mode)
The location for SD logfiles and the default parent directory for the installed software
catalog. The default value is
/var/adm/sw for normal SD operations. When SD
operates in nonprivileged mode (that is, when the run_as_superuser
default option
is set to
true):
• The default value is forced to
/var/home/LOGNAME/sw.
• The path element
LOGNAME is replaced with the name of the invoking user, which SD
reads from the system password file.
• If you set the value of this option to
HOME/path , SD replaces HOME with the invoking
user’s home directory (from the system password file) and resolves path relative to
that directory. For example, HOME/my_admin resolves to the my_admin directory
in your home directory.
• If you set the value of the
installed_software_catalog default option to a
relative path, that path is resolved relative to the value of this option.
SD’s nonprivileged mode is intended only for managing applications that are specially
designed and packaged. This mode cannot be used to manage the HP-UX operating sys-
tem or patches to it. For a full explanation of nonprivileged SD, see the Software Distri-
butor Administration Guide , available at the
http://www.hp.com/go/sd-docs
web site.
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