While you are grumbling - can you have them put WAS in rpm format too :)?!
Marcy Cortes "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: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee Stewart Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 4:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Starting WAS, MQ, DB2, etc... OK, this is what I thought -- and agree with... Now I have to really grumble at IBM... Am I missing something or isn't that missing what should be a key part of the product? Is it really reasonable that every single shop has to write their own init.d script???? Every shop expected to reinvent that wheel? Surely they might anticipate that at least some shops might want to start Websphere at system startup time... Add to that the fact that many of the Linux installations on the mainframe don't have someone who speaks bash (at least not when they're getting started). (We don't recall any option during the install to have it autostart - at least this level from this CD.) So to the MVS sysprog I have three choices to offer them: a. Follow IBM's advice and do it manually b. Quick, in your "spare" time go learn bash scripts and write your own init.d script for /etc/init.d c. Stuff it in /etc/inittab As much as b. is the "right" choice, I suspect c. will win almost everytime.... IBM WAS and DB2 and MQ people -- are you listening? </rant> Lee Adam Thornton wrote: > On May 3, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Lee Stewart wrote: > >> Hi... >> What are people doing to automatically start things like WAS, DB2, MQ >> etc.? Stuffing it at the end of /etc/inittab? Writing your own >> start/stop script for /etc/init.d? What's the "best" place to stick >> it? >> >> One of our clients was told "have someone logon and issue..." -- by >> someone at IBM (aka: It's Better Manually). Sigh... > > > I gave a talk on this (it's really David's talk) at WAVV, and you can > get it from the sinenomine.net web site. > > The short answer is: yes, write your own init.d script. That > directory will contain plenty of models for how to do it. DON'T put > it in /etc/inittab. And DON'T start it manually--you have automation > of production systems for a reason. > > Adam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Lee Stewart, Senior SE Sirius Enterprise Systems Group Phone: (303) 798-2954 Fax: (720) 228-2321 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.siriuscom.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
