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
