Logging the Installation Session

You may wish to log your installation session. UNIX provides several different ways to capture a session.

• If you are using a Telnet or SSH client to connect to the installation host, you can use the logging capabilities of that client to capture the session.
• You can use a terminal that supports logging, such as dtterm. The command /usr/dt/bin/dtterm -l -lf /tmp/dtterm.log enables output logging to the file /tmp/dtterm.log. You must exit the dtterm terminal before it flushes all the output to the file.
• You can use UNIX tee command to redirect the standard out and standard error to a specified file. For example:

pkgadd -d /cdrom/cdrom0/solaris 2>&1 | tee -a sessionlog

• You can use the UNIX script command. The following command sequence captures a pkgadd session to the file capture.txt; pressing <Ctrl-D> exits the script:

script capture.txt

pkgadd -d /cdrom/cdrom0/solaris

<Ctrl-D>

See the UNIX man pages for dtterm, tee, and script for more information.

When you use the SDX GUI Installer, all of the installation session output is captured and appended to the SDX GUI Installer log file in /opt/UMC/var/InstallerData/solpkg.log. This file is created if it does not already exist.