You can
use control scripts to customize the behavior of your software package.
SD-UX supports execution of both product and fileset control scripts.
These shell scripts allow you to perform customized checks and operations
as part of your regular software management tasks. The swinstall, swconfig, swverify, swask, and swremove commands can execute one or more of these scripts. Control
scripts are usually supplied by software vendors, but you can write
your own. All control scripts are optional.
Product level control scripts are run if any fileset within
that product is selected for installation, configuration, verification,
or removal. The activities in product control scripts must pertain
to all filesets in that product, but not to
any one fileset in particular.
Actions you want to apply to every fileset in a product should
be in the appropriate product level control script. Fileset scripts
must pertain only to the installation, configuration, or removal
of that fileset, and not to any other fileset or to a parent product.
Control scripts can perform a wide variety of customizing
and configuration tasks, such as (but not limited to):
Verifying
if someone is actively using the product and, if so, preventing
reinstallation, update or removal
Ensuring the local host system
is compatible with the software (scripts can check beyond the compatibility
enforced by the product's uname attributes)
Removing obsolete files or
previously installed versions of the product
Creating links to, or additional
copies of, files after they have been installed
Copying configurable files
into place on first-time installation
Conditionally copying configurable
files into place on later updates
Modifying existing configuration
files for new features
Rebuilding custom versions
of configuration files
Creating device files or
custom programs
Killing and/or starting daemons
For more detailed information, refer to Chapter 11 "Using
Control Scripts" in the Software Distributor Administration
Guide located at the following Web site:
http://www.software.hp.com/products/SD_AT_HP/
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