Flash Board Server 7.1 patch 005 install failure and solution

Posted by William on May 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Apparently the BMC Remedy Flash Board 7.1 patch 005 doesn’t like being installed as non-root on Solaris 5.10.  We kept getting this error when it asked for the directory to install the product:

Directory to install BMC Remedy Flashboards? [/usr/ar/flashboards]
 /xxx/yyy/a00/ar/flashboards FBServer

 fb_install: syntax error at line 1: `)’ unexpected

It turns out awk was returning the wrong value – a “)” was being appended.

If you run into this just edit the shell script so the installer skips the section that checks for disk space.  If you need help with that you can always contact me.


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