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-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor) <sdg>< Mainframe Systems Programmer - RavenTek Solution Partners -----Original Message----- From: MVS OpenEdition [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Philippe Richard1 Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 8:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [MVS-OE] Change in ls -la behavior from 2.2 to 2.3 Lionel, it's not a z/OS 2.3 behavior change. it came with z/OS 1.9, along with the sysplex hfs sharing support. at that time, and in order to accomodate for that new function a number of directorieswere changed to become symbolic links, namely: /etc /var /tmp /dev >From that point on, if you want to list the content of those directories, you >have to use ls -l /etc/ and not ls -l /etc (as indicated in the migration >guide of z/OS 1.9) Cordialement, Philippe ==================== Philippe richard1/France/IBM@IBMFR (n'oubliez pas le 1...) IBM Client Center, Montpellier mailto:[email protected] Mail: Cie IBM France Sce 146301 Phone: +33 4 6799580705 (38 0705) Rue de la Vieille Poste -CS 81021 Fax: +33 4 67346477 34060 Montpellier Cedex 2 From: "Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek)" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 18/06/2018 15:34 Subject: Change in ls -la behavior from 2.2 to 2.3 Sent by: MVS OpenEdition <[email protected]> With z/OS 2.2 the command: ls -la /etc returns: total 1644 drwxr-xr-x 16 MVSTCP OMVSGRP 8192 Aug 10 2016 . drwxr-xr-x 17 MVSTCP OMVSGRP 8192 Oct 19 2017 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 MVSTCP OMVSGRP 24486 Mar 19 2009 CSDIBMEF drwxr-xr-x 2 MVSTCP OMVSGRP 256 Sep 25 2008 Printsrv -rwx------ 1 MVSTCP OMVSGRP 85 Jul 28 2016 auto.master drwxr-xr-x 2 MVSTCP OMVSGRP 256 Sep 25 2008 bpa But on z/OS 2.3 it returns this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 OMVSKERN IPGROUP 12 Oct 29 2014 /etc -> $SYSNAME/etc Why this change and did I just miss this in the upgrade documentation? Thanks -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor) <sdg>< Mainframe Systems Programmer - RavenTek Solution Partners Service Operations - Infrastructure Operations Office of Information and Technology, IT Operations and Services Office: 512-326-6173 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For MVS-OE subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO MVS-OE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For MVS-OE subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO MVS-OE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
