On Thursday, 01/10/2008 at 04:40 EST, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Definitely not something you want to do before other avenues have
failed.  Ouch.

Eh?  Why not?  I don't mean to use one of the "regular" Linux guests, but
one specifically built for this purpose.  The elegance of the solution is
probably proportional to the amount of effort expended.

ssh into Linux Repair Station
  LRS: Hello, my name is Larry.  Please type the name of the userid you
want to fix.
  LRS: I'm sorry.  I didn't understand you.  Try again.
  LRS: Thank you.  You typed WAS005.  Is that correct?
  LRS: Thank you.  Please enter the password for WAS005
  LRS  Thank you.  Your password was accepted.
  LRS: Please wait while I read the configuration from the Repair Station
Configuration Archive.
  LRS: Thank you.  I have the configuration information.
  LRS: The disks are mounted at /mount/WAS005.
  LRS: Please type "LRS FINISHED" when done
  :
  LRS: Thank you for using the Linux Repair Station.  Please visit again
soon!  Bye!

Of course, whether something like that would work depends entirely on
what/how you need to repair it.  Permission to the /mount/WAS005
directories was dynamically set to the user who logged into the LRS.  I
dunno nothin' 'bout no LVM groups, so I don't know what it takes to repair
them.  A mere implementation detail!  :-)

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

----------------------------------------------------------------------
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

Reply via email to