To Monitor the Progress of a Silent Installation

While the installer is running, you can monitor progress by examining changes to the installation log.

1. In a terminal window, change to the log file directory:

   Solaris OS:cd /var/sadm/install/logs

   Linux: cd /var/opt/sun/install/logs

2. Locate the log files for the current installation.

   The shared components are installed first and the product components follow.

   The timestamp variable represents the time the log was created. The variable has the format MMddhhmm.

   MM	Specifies the month
   dd	Specifies the date
   hh	Specifies the hour
   mm	Specifies the minute

3. Use the tail command to watch messages as they are written to the logs:

   tail -f logfile-name

   To exit the tail program, press Ctrl+C.