Barbara,

I use ADCD all time we had 1.10 up through 1.13 on z/Pdt.  Ours wasn't 
customized per se,we did it ourselves, actually I had to do it. Did you system 
come pre-configured ? It sounds like it did.
Sorry your having such problems.

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll 
understand. - Chinese Proverb


On Dec 31, 2012, at 3:49 AM, ibmmain <nitz-...@gmx.net> wrote:

>> We're talking about an end of task/AS resource manager module. I would have 
>> expected this module to be placed in LPA not LinkLib. After all, it is 
>> loaded for each terminating task.
> The ADCD developers in their infinite wisdom decided to put an obsolete 
> usermod into ADCD.*.linklib.
> 
>> Without the possibility to check anything on the old system, it is very 
>> difficult to prove the real cause. Anyway, I dare to say that if only a 
>> superuser can traverse any path in the file system, then the only meaningful 
>> explanation is that the root directory has the permission wrong, e.g. 700.
> Again, I blame the ADCD developers if they give out a system like that. But I 
> think the root is defined right:
> EUID=5001   /                                                               
>  Type  Perm  Permission  Changed-CST6CDT   Owner      ------Size  Filename 
> _ Dir    755   rwxr-xr-x  2012-12-17 04:23  OMVSUS2          8192  .        
> _ Dir    755   rwxr-xr-x  2012-12-17 04:23  OMVSUS2          8192  ..       
> _ Dir    755   rwxr-xr-x  2011-11-03 08:56  OMVSUS2          8192  ...      
> OMVSUS2 is uid(0).
> 
>>> That is a design change between 1.10 and 1.13.
>> No, not at all. This has always been so.
> It was certainly different on the 1.10 system. I explicitly tested this on 
> the 1.10 system because it took me a while to understand. And yes, I did read 
> the book. And the root display at 1.10 looked identical to this one. In the 
> 1.10 system permissions for the mount point did not change after I had 
> mounted an HFS.
> 
>> You should really make sure you're z/OS UNIX is setup correctly.
> Sorry Peter, you're barking up the wrong tree. I agree, it should be set up 
> correctly. But this is a productive system and I have no way of testing in a 
> safe environment, so now that 'everything works' I will not change things and 
> possibly break something. The 'correct setup' should have come with the ADCD 
> system. But judging from the things alone that I found, the delivered ADCD 
> setup breaks just about every best practise IBM spend money to propagate.
> 
>> Again, the above mentioned books is worth reading.
> I did read. Admittedly, mostly the relevant parts in a bid to understand why 
> things didn't work anymore. That's how I determined that I need to delete the 
> BPX.DAEMON profile to make ftp work again. Asking about it here (and 
> eventually finding where DFSMRCL0 is located) helped me when I had to get RDz 
> running. Which insisted on a program-controlled environment despite 
> BPX.DAEMON not being defined. According to the books and your explanation, 
> the need for a program-controlled environment should not have been there. 
> This was true for ftp, but not for RDz.
> 
>> I understand that an MVS guy or girl may hate UNIX but, there is no way 
>> around getting a thorough understanding of it. It has long become an 
>> integral part of z/OS. Both, the above mentioned manual, and the 
>> corresponding User's Guide can help.
> I already know more about UNIX than I ever wanted to know. And believe me, I 
> do read the books IBM provides. I still hate it because it feels fairly 
> inconsistent.
> 
> In any case, have a happy new year!
> Barbara
> 
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