permission denied on ./install/install.rex z/os 1.9 only

[cscs010]

i am trying to install Co:Z 1.0.4 on a new z/os 1.9 system which has not yet been fully customized. I keep getting the following error i do not get under z/os 1.7. all of the permissions appear to be set.

any ideas?

thanks in advance

Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no]
yes
Enter home install directory [/usr/lpp/coz] :
/u/eileen/j1x/cox
/u/eileen/j1x/cox is an existing non-empty directory, reuse it? [y/n] :
y
./install/install.rexx: ./coz-1.0.4.bin 107: FSUM9209 cannot execute: reason cod
e = 5b4c0002: EDC5111I Permission denied.
$
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SIMMERING

[dovetail]

It could be that you are trying to install into a directory (/u/eileen/j1x/cox) that you don't have permissions to use. (Notice that the installer finds this to be an existing directory).

Try installing into a new directory and see if that helps.

[cscs010]

it is only the install directory it stops on, and actually does put something into it. the other stuff gets created.
and this error only happens on the z/os 1.9 system, not z/os 1.7.


there is also a RACF error with this - does this mean that my id is not allowed to execute? i can execute other things.
some of the RACF profiles may be different in the z/os 1.9 system.

ICH408I USER(EILEEN ) GROUP(CSCCICS ) NAME(EILEEN BARKOW 3585 ) 659
./install/install.rexx
CL(FSOBJ ) FID(01E9C8C6E2F0F1000F070000352B0000)
INSUFFICIENT AUTHORITY TO OPEN
ACCESS INTENT(--X) ACCESS ALLOWED(OWNER RW-)
EFFECTIVE UID(0420050912) EFFECTIVE GID(0420000000)


ICH408I USER(EILEEN ) GROUP(CSCCICS ) NAME(EILEEN BARKOW 3585 ) 659
./install/install.rexx
CL(FSOBJ ) FID(01E9C8C6E2F0F1000F070000352B0000)
INSUFFICIENT AUTHORITY TO OPEN
ACCESS INTENT(--X) ACCESS ALLOWED(OWNER RW-)
EFFECTIVE UID(0420050912) EFFECTIVE GID(0420000000)
$ ls -l coz
total 6960
-rw-r--r-- 1 EILEEN CIXGR1 570 Jan 24 17:06 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 EILEEN CIXGR1 135 Jan 24 17:06 README
drwxr-xr-x 2 EILEEN CIXGR1 8192 Jan 24 17:06 bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 EILEEN CIXGR1 3504729 Jan 29 09:48 coz-1.0.4.bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 EILEEN CIXGR1 8192 Jan 24 17:06 doc
drwxr-xr-x 2 EILEEN CIXGR1 8192 Jan 24 17:06 install
drwxr-xr-x 2 EILEEN CIXGR1 8192 Jan 24 17:06 loadmodules
drwxr-xr-x 2 EILEEN CIXGR1 8192 Jan 24 17:06 sampjcl
drwxr-xr-x 2 EILEEN CIXGR1 8192 Jan 24 17:06 testjcl
$
$ ls -l coz/install
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 EILEEN CIXGR1 4943 Jan 24 17:06 install.rexx
$
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Digital Vaporizer

[dovetail]

Eileen -

The permissions on the ./install/install.rexx file should be 755 - yours is 644.
It looks like the permissions are being changed by your system when the file is unloaded.

You can see the permissions on all of the files as we ship them using this:

tail +113 coz-1.0.4.bin | pax -v | more

You should see that ./install/install.rexx is 755. I'm not sure why your system is changing it when it is unloaded.... maybe there is some RACF rule that I don't understand affecting it.

As a workaround, you can try this to complete the installation:

chmod 755 ./install/install.rexx
./install/install.rexx <COZ_HOME>

(Changing <COZ_HOME> to your COZ install directory)

[dovetail]

Eileen -

I think I know what the problem is: your umask setting must be affecting the permissions. We need to add "-p p" to our pax command when unloading the file so that this doesn't happen.

You should be able to install correctly if you set your umask first:

umask 000
./coz-1.0.4.bin

[cscs010]

i was able to finish the install by manually setting the permissions on the install library and running ./install/install.rexx /u/eileen/j1x/coz as you suggested.

thanks for the info about the umask command - i will keep it in mind for the future.

But we just started bringing up z/os 1.9 so does this mean that the umask setting is different from what we have for z/os 1.7 - the problem did not happen with z/os 1.7
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Disability insurance advice

[dovetail]

Can you please verify that by setting umask that the problem goes away? If so, then we can be sure that that was the problem. Thanks..

[cscs010]

it looks like umask did not fix the error - and i do not see any more RACF errors about this either.

$ cd cox
$
$ ls
coz-1.0.4.bin
$ umask 000 ./coz-1.0.4.bin
$ ./coz-1.0.4.bin

Enter home install directory [/usr/lpp/coz] :
/u/eileen/j1x/cox
/u/eileen/j1x/cox is an existing non-empty directory, reuse it? [y/n] :
y
./install/install.rexx: ./coz-1.0.4.bin 107: FSUM9209 cannot execute: reason cod
e = 5b4c0002: EDC5111I Permission denied.
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ACURA ARX-01 SPECIFICATIONS

[dovetail]

I think that you need to just use:

umask 000
./coz-1.0.4.bin

( You had the file name as an argument to umask )

Also, it might be best to install to a new directory, rather than over the top of an existing install.

[cscs010]

i get the same error.
the cox directory was empty when i started and the coz..bin file was moved elsewhere.

$ umask 000
$ ./coz-1.0.4.bin

Do you agree to the above license terms? [yes or no]
yes
Enter home install directory [/usr/lpp/coz] :
/u/eileen/j1x/cox
./install/install.rexx: ./coz-1.0.4.bin 107: FSUM9209 cannot execute: reason cod
e = 5b4c0002: EDC5111I Permission denied.
$
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Trichomes

[dovetail]

Thanks - I guess that umask isn't the problem.
As it stands, you have a workaround by manually chmod and executing install.rexx... but we don't really understand why the permissions aren't getting restored.

I think that we will probably add a chmod in our install script, until we can figure it out.

Thanks for reporting this.

[cscs010]

once again, this is a new z/os 1.9 system and it has a long way to go.
since the problem did not occur with z/os 1.7, it is likely that something in the system or RACF is causing the permissions to get changed.

i will take this up with the RACF group and thank you for your help.
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Spice weed

[dovetail]

We have updated the installer for coz-1.0.4.bin so that it does a chmod on install.rexx before executing it. Hopefully this will avoid this problem (even thought I'm not really sure what it causing it).

Thanks again,
Kirk