In service mode the /etc and /var directories are supposed to be true directories so maintenance can be applied. When you clone them to become the running versions there is a script to run to switch to a symlink. Look in the doc for the Installation of the serverpac and at the server pac jobs.
Jerry Whitteridge Lead Systems Programmer Safeway Inc. 925 951 4184 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Chase Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 7:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: installing serverpac for 1.13 using 1.11 system On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:41:37 -0500, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:29:26 -0500, John Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>We just rolled out z/OS 1.13 (from 1.11) on our TEST/DEV lpar, and I noticed >>something "strange": In the 1.13 root filesystem, the /etc and /var >>directories show as directories, whereas on 1.11 (and earlier) they showed as >>symlinks to /SYSTEM/etc and /SYSTEM/var respectively. I looked at our >>installation/"sandbox" lpar and it's the same there. Yet the /SYSTEM >>directory contains /etc and /var subdirectories, along with /dev and /tmp, as >>in the past. >> >>Did we "do something wrong" at installation? Or are /etc and /var now (1.13) >>supposed to be directories in / rather than symlinks to the /SYSTEM >>subdirectories? >> > >They are still symlinks for z/OS 1.13. What do the directories look like on >your >service mount point? Or does you install into the live root in your >"installation/sandbox" >LPAR (eek!). The "installation copy" of the 1.13 root f/s that came with the Serverpac shows /etc and /var as directories, not symlinks, so perhaps we got a "devective" Serverpac? At install time we created a separate /Service113 directory on which to mount the 1.13 root f/s while the sandbox was running 1.11. I did not perform the actual installation; a colleague did. I'll make them symlinks when we "clone" the root f/s for a maintenance copy. At the moment we don't share filesystems outside the respective LPARs, and everything works the way it is now. But at some point in the future we may go "platinum plex" and will need the symlinks. :-) -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN "Email Firewall" made the following annotations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
