PASE install problems

[Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I called this problem into IBM this morning after checking our system
since we just recently installed PASE on V5R1.

Apparently, the developer said that these nested directory structures
and their associated symbolic links are there to appease other
operating systems (Windows, Un*x systems, etc.) when developing
applications for the PASE environment.

When I asked why the OS/400 command WRKLNK showed the same
thing, they said that its logic is similar to the commands of these
*other* systems.  Interesting.  I thought he would be smarter <g>

Here are 2 important points:

1)      According to the developer, NO additional disk space is
taken up by these links.  It just appears that way when you use OpsNav,
WRKLNK, etc. to view the sub-directories/links.

2)      This only occurs at V5R1.  PASE at V4R5 will not show
this *quirk*.

One of the IBM folks said they've asked the developer to document
this behavior and place it into the Knowledge base.

Hope this helps,
Terry





>Group,
>
>Yesterday we installed PASE on a system and we
>are now seeing a very strange thing. The directory
>QOpenSys duplicated itself many levels (hundreds?)
>deep. Each level includes what appears to be a
>complete set of bin, etc, qjava114tp, usr, var...
>directories. We probably wouldn't have noticed
>except that the /tmp directory was copied to each
>level of the var directory and included a large jar file.
>It looks like we have somewhere near 6G in 4000
>directories containing 52,000 files under QOpenSys.
>
>It looks like there may be a symbolic link pointing back
>to itself. I can't duplicate or prove this, but that is the only
>explanation I can come up with. Anyone have any
>ideas on what may have gone wrong and how we
>clean this mess up?
>
>David Morris