On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:24:16 -0500, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:

>I'm working on installing HTTP server  IMWEBSRV on a system with a read only 
>root zfs.  The setup.sh wants to create directories under 
>/usr/lpp/internet/server_root   which obviously doesn't work when /usr is in a 
>RO root.   Has anyone dealt with this somehow?
>

The same way you deal with any product that does something like that.  You
create its own file system that you mount R/W at that mount point.  
You may have done this even for /etc and /var at some point in the past. 

If code installed into that directory on the root, copy it out into the
R/W file system at a maintenance mount point, then unmount and
re-mount over the original mount point / directory.  

Sometimes you may want / need a symlink also at the  "expected" location
to point to where you are mounting it (for example, what you do for CRON).    

See the z/OS Unix System Services planning manual for which talks about these
sort of things for a R/O root and/or a shared file system environment.

Regards,

Mark
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