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What is i4ls on AIX V5.3 used for ?
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MIS
This is a license manager needed for C, Cobol compilers and so .Mostly run on development machines , hardly ever on production machines, as they don't run C or other compilers ( security risk )
kind regards,
R.
kind regards,
R.
Prod machines don't run compilers? That's funny. My company has a compiler on EVERY machine. prod, dev, lab. I told them to remove the compilers and the reply is "we have to compile our software on the machine."
They use a lot of open source software. I have tried to tell them to change their methods. Build and gnu tar to a specific place on the dev machines then just move the tar to the prod machine and extract it. No luck.
So the result is a compiler on every machine that has internet access. The firewall will protect us! (another answer)
They use a lot of open source software. I have tried to tell them to change their methods. Build and gnu tar to a specific place on the dev machines then just move the tar to the prod machine and extract it. No luck.
So the result is a compiler on every machine that has internet access. The firewall will protect us! (another answer)
Tell them that 80% of malicious attacks are initiated from within a company. So their precious firewall will only stop 20% of all attacks on average. Not very good odds.
Jim Hirschauer
RMGBELGIUM
MIS
omg , compilers on all machines, nice security risks 
With us, all prod environments exist on devel and test.So binaries are to be compiled on devel, tested on test, and then copied to production.Before I started in the sysadmin branch in our company, those things happened all the time too,passwords of application owners were available to developers in production as well, so mistakes could easily be covered up.When our new IBM's arrived, I refused to install compilers, as they had a fully workable environment in devel.Developers were furious, but after a while , they cooled down , and now it's the most normal thing "not compiling on production".Just give it a try, sabotage the compiler ( not too much , so it's still easy to fix ) and say it will take you a while to fix it, and they have to compile on development.And if they do that successfully, than you have a strong case to disallow compiling on prod in the future.
rgds,
R.
With us, all prod environments exist on devel and test.So binaries are to be compiled on devel, tested on test, and then copied to production.Before I started in the sysadmin branch in our company, those things happened all the time too,passwords of application owners were available to developers in production as well, so mistakes could easily be covered up.When our new IBM's arrived, I refused to install compilers, as they had a fully workable environment in devel.Developers were furious, but after a while , they cooled down , and now it's the most normal thing "not compiling on production".Just give it a try, sabotage the compiler ( not too much , so it's still easy to fix ) and say it will take you a while to fix it, and they have to compile on development.And if they do that successfully, than you have a strong case to disallow compiling on prod in the future.
rgds,
R.
Yeah, I have tried but they don't seem to care. Some of the production machines are internet-facing web servers!
I have also tried to get them to use the Sun Studio 11 compiler since they are Solaris machines, but noooo... it's open source, so we have to use gcc, the open source compiler (so their argument goes!)
It's basically pointless to try and tell them anything.
I have also tried to get them to use the Sun Studio 11 compiler since they are Solaris machines, but noooo... it's open source, so we have to use gcc, the open source compiler (so their argument goes!)
It's basically pointless to try and tell them anything.
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