<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://3468/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jamen,<div><br><div><div>Am 16.01.2013 um 19:38 schrieb "McGranahan, Jamen" <<a href="mailto:jamen.mcgranahan@Vanderbilt.Edu">jamen.mcgranahan@Vanderbilt.Edu</a>>:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Is there a way I can force patchadd to look in a different directory than the default /var/sadm/pkg directory? We created a softlink from /var/sadm/pkg to /apps/sadm/pkg (due to space issues), but now patchadd always fails:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Directory is expected, found link - /var/sadm/pkg.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Failed (exit code 1)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Showrev –p does fine; and downloading the patches with pca –d does fine as well. It’s just the actual installation of the patches where it fails. I’m pretty sure I had this fixed before, but honestly, I don’t remember what I did (plan to DOCUMENT what I do this time!). Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div></div><div>Try making a loopback-mount for now with something like</div><div> rm /var/sadm/pkg</div><div> mkdir /var/sadm/pkg</div><div> mount -F lofs /apps/sadm/pkg /var/sadm/pkg</div><div>You can also make this permanent via vfstab.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div> -- Dago</div></body></html>