IBM GC34-5557-00 Creating Another File System for the Client, Creating the mqm User ID and Group

Installing on AIX

Creating Another File System for the Client

If you do not want to have the client installed in the /usr/mqm file system, you can do either of the following things:

1.Create a new file system and mount it as /usr/mqm.

or

2.Create a new directory anywhere on your machine that is large enough to contain the client files, and create a symbolic link from /usr/mqm to this new directory. For example:

mkdir /bigdisk/mqm

ln -s /bigdisk/mqm /usr/mqm

Whichever of these options you choose, you must do it before installing the client.

The file system into which the client is installed can be a remote network device, for example NFS, provided that the mount options are defined on that device to allow setuid programs (including root access) to be run.

Creating the mqm User ID and Group

If you want to create the required IDs yourself, follow this procedure before you install the client. You must create both user ID and group as mqm.

Create the new IDs using the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT), for which you require root authority. The procedure for this, if you use the SMIT windows, is:

1.Create the mqm group. You can display the required window using this sequence:

Security & Users Groups

Add a Group

You can take the default values for the attributes of the new group or change them as required.

2.Create the new user, mqm. You can display the window for doing this using this sequence:

Security & Users Users

Add a User

Set the primary group for this user to be mqm. You can take the default values for the attributes of the new group or change them if you wish.

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