On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:36:15 -0500, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote:

>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.
>


I re-read what you wrote and in addition to what I already wrote, you 
often have to do this sort of think to your maintenance root mounted
at a service mount point.  IBM software often comes with this "MKDIR"
sample that you would point to that service mount point.   For example:

//SYSTSIN DD *        
PROF MSGID            
HPEMKDIR /servz18     
/*                    


--
Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS       
mailto:[email protected]                                        
Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html 
Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Reply via email to