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Digest Name: monthly HP-UX technical tips digest
    Created: Wed Feb 21 3:10:03 PST 2001

Table of Contents:

Document ID Title
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3100521365 SYS ADM: swacl(1M) indicates a different realm and host than t
1100399055 SYS ADM: receiving srvrflash error message at boot time

The documents are listed below.
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Document ID: 3100521365
Date Loaded: 20010215
      Title: SYS ADM: swacl(1M) indicates a different realm and host than the true hostname

PROBLEM

Attempts to install patches on an HPUX 10.20 computer failed. Upon
reboot, the following error occurred during "swconfig \*":

     "you do not have the right permissions to install on this target"

This computer is a member of an MC/ServiceGuard cluster, but it did
not rejoin the cluster.

The swacl(1M) command indicates that the realm and root user hostname
is not the name of this host. Here is an example:

     # swacl -l root
     #
     # swacl Installed Software Access Control List
     #
     # For host: luke:/
     #
     # Date: Wed Jan 17 14:31:39 2001
     #
     # Object Ownership: User= root
     # Group=sys
     # Realm=luke.test.hp.com
     #
     # default_realm=luke.test.hp.com
     object_owner:crwit
     group:swadm:crwit
     any_other:-r--t

The "swacl -l host" command returns the same information as follows:

     # swacl -l host
     #
     # swacl Host Access Control List
     #
     # For host: luke
     #
     # Date: Wed Jan 17 14:32:18 2001
     #
     # Object Ownership: User= root
     # Group=sys
     # Realm=luke.test.hp.com
     #
     # default_realm=luke.test.hp.com
     group:swadm:crwit
     any_other:-r--t

However, the true hostname is "han".

     # uname -n
     han

     NOTE: The name services files confirm the result from uname(1)
            and nslookup(1).

How can this situation be corrected?

CONFIGURATION

Operating System - HP-UX
Version - 10.20
Hardware System - 9000
Series - K370
Subsystem - Software Distributor (SD-UX)

RESOLUTION

The acl files have the wrong host listed in them:

     # grep luke /var/adm/sw/security/*
     /var/adm/sw/security/_ACL:# default_realm=luke
     /var/adm/sw/security/_OWNER:# default_realm=luke
     /var/adm/sw/security/_PROD_DFLT_ACL:# default_realm=luke
     /var/adm/sw/security/_SOC_DFLT_ACL:# default_realm=luke

To correct this situation, do the following steps:

     1. Edit the contents of each _<file> to match the desired hostname.

     2. Restart swagentd after fixing the _ACL file for hosts.

              # swagentd -r

     3. Use the swacl(1M) command to modify the host entries.
         For example:

              # swacl -l host -M user:rootluke.test.hp.com:crwit
              entry_type:[ key ]:permissions

         NOTE: To remove an entry, use the -D option as follows:

              # swacl -l host -D user:roothan.test.hp.com

         NOTE: Log out and log back in, or reboot the system, prior
                to running the "swacl -l root" command.

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Document ID: 1100399055
Date Loaded: 20010215
      Title: SYS ADM: receiving srvrflash error message at boot time

PROBLEM

The following error message occurs at boot time:

      ISL booting hpux srvrflash

      Boot
      : disk(0/4/0/0.2.25.0.7.0.0;0)srvrflash
      disk(0/4/0/0.2.25.0.7.0.0;0)srvrflash: cannot open, or not executable
      Exec failed: No such file or directory

However, the system does boot up.

How can this message be removed?

CONFIGURATION

Operating System - HP-UX
Version - 11.0
Hardware System - N4000-55

RESOLUTION

This problem is known to occur after installing the PDC reflash patch,
PHSS_21679. Typically, it occurs on mirrored disk systems.

The firmware patches assume that the first disk entry of the
/stand/bootconf file is the primary boot disk. The patches modify the
autoboot file in the lif area on this disk such that the firmware flash
utility is executed upon the next reboot.

In some instances, the first disk entry in the /stand/bootconf file is
not the primary boot disk but is the secondary mirror boot disk instead.
So, the patch installation modifies the autoboot file on the mirror disk,
not the primary disk. As a result, the system firmware was never updated.

To verify this, please inspect a copy of the /stand/bootconf file from
the system in question. The output of setboot(1M) and 'ioscan -fun' is
also helpful. With these pieces of information, the device file for the
primary boot disk can be determined.

Also, it may be helpful to obtain the current version of the firmware via
cstm (Command-Line Support Tool Manager). If it is not 40.26, it further
verifies that the srvrflash utility was never executed. If it is 40.26,
that does not mean that the srvrflash did execute, because this firmware
could already have been present.

To recover from this situation, the following steps can be used:

     1. Modify the /stand/bootconf file so that the first
         disk entry points to the primary boot disk. Here is
         one way to accomplish this task:

         A. Obtain the current autoboot file from the boot disk.
             For example, given c6t0d0, enter the following command:

                  # lifcp /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0:AUTO /tmp/auto

         B. Examine the file /tmp/auto; it should contain two lines
             similar to:

                  srvrflash ...
                  hpux

         C. Restore the original autoboot file based on the second line
             shown in the file /tmp/auto above. Example:

                  # mkboot -a "hpux" /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0

             If the second line in the file /tmp/auto is different from
             "hpux", then copy the second line to the string included in the
             mkboot(1M) command. For example:

                  # mkboot -a "blabla" /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0

     2. Reinstall [PHSS_21696/PACHRDME/English] with the
         'reinstall=true' option, for example:

         # swinstall -s /tmp/PHSS_21696.depot -x autoreboot=true \
                     -x reinstall=true -x patch_match_target=true

         Note: It is not necessary to remove PHSS_21696
                prior to reinstalling it.

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