Open System Services Installation Guide (H06.16+, J06.05+)

After OSSSETUP Completes
1. Finish configuring the OSS environment as described in “Completing a Preconfigured Basic
OSS Environment” in “Manually Setting Up an OSS Environment” in the Open System Services
Management and Operations Guide. These tasks include:
• Starting an OSS shell
• Customizing the general profile (/etc/profile) file
• Configuring and starting network services such as TCP/IP and inetd
• Configuring and starting the cron process
• Securing the fileset mount points (/bin, /etc, /var, /tmp, and /home) to ensure that
they have security permissions consistent with your site’s security policies.
• Updating the whatis database (merge_whatis) from additional directories, if any,
for the OSS shell apropos, man, and whatis commands. The OSSSETUP utility
automatically creates the whatis database from the /usr/share/man directory;
however, you can update the whatis database from other directories.
• Setting up printers
• Configuring OSS users
2. Install OSS files for products that use OSS but do not use the ZOSSUTL subvolume to install
their OSS product files. For example, both HP NonStop Distributed Computing Environment
(DCE) and NonStop SQL/MX use the pax utility to copy a file from a Guardian subvolume
into the OSS file system and then use the copied file to install more files for the product. (For
instructions, see the manuals for those products.)
3. (Optional) Customize your configuration; for example, enable Safeguard auditing of OSS
files. (For instructions, see the Open System Services Management and Operations Guide.)
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