I have the SWAPGEN EXEC on a MAINT disk (in my case 301 V) and all my LINUX quests that use V-DISK have a link in the directory. That way, if there are updates to the SWAPGEN EXEC I can make them there (once) for all quests.
Cheers, Loren Charnley, Jr. IT Systems Engineer Family Dollar Stores, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (704) 847-6961 x 2000 -----Original Message----- From: Alan Altmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: For the security weenies On Monday, 08/02/2004 at 08:55 EST, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chuckie: is it merely modifying the PROFILE EXEC of service machines > that's evil, or should I also refrain from putting other stuff on their > 191-disks? That is, hypothetically, if I were implementing a service > that used a Linux virtual machine to do the dirty work, and that machine > wanted swap, and I wanted to suggest that you could either use normal > DASD for it, or you could use SWAPGEN to use preformatted V-DISK for > your swap, should I recommend that you put SWAPGEN EXEC on the service's > 191, or somewhere else? Chuckie's busy at the moment, so I'll answer instead. There is nothing inherently evil about modifying the PROFILE EXEC of service machines. It *is* evil (and, to some, a hostile act) to modify the PROFILE EXEC of the set of servers that comprise VM TCP/IP. Aside from that, I have No Opinion. (Yeah, right. That'll be the day....) If that hypothetical server was to be treated as part of the VM TCP/IP suite then the prohibitions apply. SWAPGEN on the 191 is suboptimal. What if you had to update it? Go to each server's A-disk? Blech. Of course, you could use SFS and aliases for the A-disk before IPLing Linux. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
