How to upgrade SAPCAR version?

[Former Member]

Hi gurus,

I am trying to apply support packages using SPAM. But whenever i am

trying to upload the Support Packages through frontend i am getting

following error:

"CAR error message: SAPCAR: can not change date

for /usr/sap/trans/EPS/in/CSR0120031469_0034275.ATT"

I down;loaded again the support package but still getting the same

error.

I tried to uncar the same in the application server but i still got the

error while doing SAPCAR -xvf.

I have got a solution to upgrade the version of SAPCAR. but i dont know how to do it?

how to upgrade the version OF SAPCAR.

Thanks & Regards,

Priya

[Former Member]

Hi,

You need to download Latest SAPCAR for SMP and replace it with the existing SAPCAR from Kernel Directory...

You can download lates SAPCAR version from below location:

--Service Market Place

-- Download

-- SAP Support Packages

-- My Company Application Components

-- SAPCAR

-- Select version

-- Select OS Release

-- Scroll Down and Download the SAPCAR_X-XXXXXX file

You need to rename downloaded SAPCAR_X-XXXXXX file to "SAPCAR" only..

Regards.

Rajesh Narkhede

[Former Member]

thanks for the steps Rajesh.

[Former Member]

Hi Priya,

You can change the ownership of the files online. To do this activity you donot require a downtime.

You can do this by the following examples.

chown -R irqadm:sapsys /sapmnt/IRQ/exe/

chmod -R 775 /sapmnt/IRQ/exe

Thanks,

Nick S

[Former Member]

Hi,

Your problem seems to be with file permissions rather than issues with your SAPCAR version.

Please check the owner andfile permissions for the usr/sap/trans/EPS/in/CSR0120031469_0034275.ATT file.

the owner should be sidadm.

If at all you need the latest SAPCAR versions, you can download the same based on your OS platform from the SAP Marketplace.

Anup..

[Former Member]

I agree with you Anup. actually when i was going through exe file i saw something very fishy.

We have 3 instances on the same server:

IRD,IRQ and IBD

when i went in sapmnt/IRQ/exe folder

i saw all the files had owner ship of irdadm and oraird in place of irqadm and orairq.

but i m not sure as changing all these ownership will require downtime or have any effect on the application server.

because currently my server is working fine.

Regards,

Priya

[Former Member]

Hi Priya..

You don't need downtime to change permissions...

You can run "/sapmnt/IRQ/exe/saproot.sh" script as ROOT user to set the permissions on Kernel Directory.

OR

Do as follow:

# chown -R irqadm:sapsys /sapmnt/IRQ/exe
# chmod -R 755 irqadm:sapsys /sapmnt/IRQ/exe

# chmod 4755 /sapmnt/IRQ/exe/saposcol
# chown root:sapsys /sapmnt/IRQ/exe/saposcol

After that don't forget to set the permissions of BRTools (brbackup, brrestore, brarchive, brspace etc.) according to below note.

[113747 - Permissions for DBA tools BRTools and SAPDBA.pdf|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/113747]

Regards.

Rajesh Narkhede

Edited by: Rajesh Narkhede on May 14, 2010 3:51 PM