You can also consider cmsfs, which will let you mount a CMS file system (minidisk) thats maintained under VM. Then linux can read a CMS config file during startup to control your apps, network information, etc. Just alter the script in the config file before startup to affect the characteristics of your server.
Ray Mrohs Energy Information Administration U.S. Department of Energy -----Original Message----- From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 5:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Passing parameters to an autologged guest One more question I am speaking from only minimal understanding since I'm not* the VM person at our shop, however our VM person set up a little prompt at the IPL of z/VM to ask whether or not to IPL the linux guests. If you say yes, it goes and uses XAUTOLOG to IPL those guests. Is it possible to pass a parameter to linux in some fashion that either tells the guest to come up in a different runlevel, or otherwise pass something that can be interrogated during linux startup that tells a script in /etc/init.d to do X or Y depending on the value. Where I'm going with this is to IPL a linux guest in a disaster recovery OR system maintenance situation where I don't want the automatic programmed start of WebSphere to happen because underlying items on z/OS are unavailable (RACFLDAP, DB2, Shadow Direct etc) at the time of z/Linux recovery. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
