SUMMARY: Install problems: Symon2.0 + Sol 7

From: Thomas Lester (tlester@spain.iakom.com)
Date: Mon Jan 11 1999 - 09:43:35 CST


Thanks to John Painter for giving the responce below. Basically, GNUtar untars
the archive wrong. If you use Sun's tar, it works fine.

Thanks John!

-t

>My experience installing Symon 2.0 on Sol 2.7 on an Ultra-2 was very
>similar.
>What I found was that when I un-tarred the packages using GNU tar a number
>of the very long pathnames (mostly server component config files) were not
>found during the install. However, if I used the Sun supplied tar program to
>un-tar the package files it worked fine.
>
>-John
>

>-----Original Message-----
>>I have downloaded the latest Symon 2.0 to test out and can't get it
>installed.
>>It appears that the pkg's that came with it have incorrect path names
>and/or
>>files included. I can install all the agents and console pkgs, I just
>can't
>>install the server component. I have tried moving some files "manually"
>into
>>the proper locations, but then I get checksum errors.
>>
>>I'm trying to install this onto an Ultra 1 running Solaris 7.
>>
>>Has anyone installed this successfully? Did you have simular problems? If
>so,
>>how did you get around it?
>>
>>I'll summarize.
>>
>>-t

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