James, As Alan said, someone is intercepting in Linux your CP command. The "vmcp q term" does not generate so much output that it does not fit in the standard vmcp buffer, so you should be fairly safe issueing that command. An other option is to issue from an other authorized VM user (for instance MAINT) the command "FOR <linux_guest_id> CMD QUERY TERMINAL"
For what it is worth, in my days as an operator (a long long time ago), we intercepted the "D T" command, sometimes issued by MVS operators to "Display Time". Only on VM it was a "Dump Terminal", so we were less amused when that got issued under OPERATOR ...... Ronald van der Laan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
