SAS 9.3 Guide to Software Updates

26 Chapter 4 / Updating Operating Environments and Third-Party Software
Modifying the Date-and-Time Stamps for
Non-Versioned Files in UNIX
Environments
Note: The tar command is the recommended method for copying and moving a SAS
deployment in UNIX because this command preserves the date-and-time stamps on the
files. This information is relevant only if you used the cp command without the -p option
(which is required to preserve the date-and-time stamps on your files) to copy your SAS
deployment from one location to another.
The installation for a maintenance release uses the date-and-time stamps for some
non-versioned files to determine whether the files need to be updated. If you copied a
deployment of SAS 9.3 (using the cp command without the -p option), then the
maintenance release might not install properly. The date-and-time stamps on the copied
files might be different from the deployment that was installed using the SAS
Deployment Wizard. In order for the maintenance release to install correctly, the dateand-time
stamps on the copied files must be July 12, 2011.
To change the date-and-time stamps on your files to July 12, 2011, enter the following
command from the SAS installation directory:
find . | xargs touch -t 201107120000.00
You must run this UNIX command under the user ID that was used to install SAS 9.3.
You can modify the attributes of these SAS files under that user ID only.
Additional Support for Third-Party
Software
When you initially configured your third-party software, these products should have met
the minimum requirements that are documented on the “Third-Party Software
Requirements for Use with SAS Software and Applications” website at http://
support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/.