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Operating Systems Solaris Diectory ownership ...changing Post 42138 by finster on Wednesday 22nd of October 2003 03:47:56 PM
Old 10-22-2003
Diectory ownership ...changing
Help......

I am running a 420R w/sol 8 and I am trying to install sun's monitoring software srs netconnect. I have installed it on 6 other boxes with no problem.

Installation failed with the message:
## Installing part 1 of 1.
/etc/opt/SUNWsrspx/CustomerCert.pem
/etc/opt/SUNWsrspx/SRSCACert.pem
/etc/opt/SUNWsrspx/binaries
/etc/opt/SUNWsrspx/srsproxyconfig.cfg
/opt/SUNWsrspx/bin/srsexec
/opt/SUNWsrspx/bin/srsinstall
/opt/SUNWsrspx/bin/srsinstallmode
/opt/SUNWsrspx/bin/srsproxy
/opt/SUNWsrspx/bin/srspxrun
/opt/SUNWsrspx/bin/srspxstat
/opt/SUNWsrspx/bin/srspxtrace
/opt/SUNWsrspx/bin/srsuser
/opt/SUNWsrspx/bin/srsxfer
/usr/lib/libsrsimapi.so.1
[ verifying class <none> ]
## Executing postinstall script.
copying initial install customer cert into place
copying initial install srs cert into place
copying initial install proxy config file into place
copying uninstall script into place
Proxy call to get_srs_gid() failed
proxy queue initialization failed
pkgadd: ERROR: postinstall script did not complete successfully

Installation of <SUNWsrspx> failed.

Error: pkgadd failed for: SUNWsrspx
Exiting installation


Then a tail /var/adm/messages shows:

Oct 21 12:21:09 <hostname> srsuserutil[25151]: [ID 430690 daemon.error] srsproxyconfig.cfg path element not owned by root: /etc
Oct 21 12:21:09 <hostname> root: [ID 702911 daemon.error] proxy queue initialization failed

I did a ls -l on / and output showed that a user(group=staff) other than root owned certain directories that are normally owned by root with sys as group (based on the tail message):

drwxr-xr-x 43 username staff 3584 Oct 21 12:10 etc
drwxr-xr-x 35 username staff 1024 Sep 26 2002 usr

Upon contacting the vendor for the application installed on the server, they said that I should change directories back to root/owner and sys/group.

This was done sucessfully and I performed another install of srs netconnect which failed with the same messages.

When I did a ls -l of / again, I noticed that the owner/group had switched back to the above again(not root/sys).

Why???? What could cause the directory ownership and group ownership to change??

Please help....Thanks.
Last edited by finster; 10-23-2003 at 01:27 AM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

suninstall

suninstall(1M)                                            System Administration Commands                                            suninstall(1M)

NAME

       suninstall - install the Solaris operating system

SYNOPSIS

       suninstall

DESCRIPTION

       install-solaris(1M) is now the preferred command for starting and restarting the Solaris Installation program. It should be used instead of
       suninstall. suninstall is symbolically linked to install-solaris.

       suninstall is a forms-based and graphical subsystem for installing the operating system.

       suninstall exists only on the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should only be invoked from there. Refer to the Solaris 10 Instal-
       lation Guide: Basic Installations for more details.

       suninstall allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. suninstall loads the software available on the installa-
       tion media. Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for disk space requirements.

USAGE

       Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for more information on the various menus and selections.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcdrom (Solaris  instal-  |
       |                             |lation media)                |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       pkginfo(1), install(1M), install-solaris(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)

       Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations

NOTES

       It is advisable to exit suninstall by means of the exit options in the suninstall menus.

SunOS 5.10                                                          9 Sep 2004                                                      suninstall(1M)
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