OK. First year as a sysprog, first time running 2nd level. Had it defined with all the classes. Logged in instead of dialed did a SHUTDOWN. Didn't see the messages come up and did #CP SHUTDOWN. Waited, and my phone rang, "Did you shutdown VM?" Made a few changes as soon as the system came up.
Bob Bates Enterprise Hosting Services - z/VM and z/Linux w. (972) 753-5967 c. (214) 907-5071 "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 11:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Changing privclass of SHUTDOWN I shutdown one on purpose once. During our initial testing of VM/370 Release 2, one of my colleagues thought it was funny to force my id from the system whenever I logged on. I managed to log on as OPERATOR and issue a shutdown while he was in the middle of something. We were the only ones on the system at the time, so it was not a disruption for others. Over the years, I have been able to accidentally cause the system to crash enough times that I have never needed to be able to issue SHUTDOWN from my own id :-) I have never given a 2nd-level system CLASS A, specifically because of the dangers inherent in doing so, and generally do not allow any id other than OPERATOR to have that privilege, not even MAINT. Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fran Hensler Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Changing privclass of SHUTDOWN I have to admit that I accidently shutdown VM during one of our heaviest usage periods: academic registration. I was just learning about TCPIP and the SMTP server was not working properly so I logged onto SMTP and issued the SHUTDOWN command. BOOM! The sample directories for all of the TCPIP machines had priviledge class A. This was back at the 2.2 level. Needless to say that got fixed quickly and I learned how to change the priviledge class of CP SHUTDOWN. /Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA for 44 years [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.724.738.2153 "Yes, Virginia, there is a Slippery Rock"
