Also, beware that cpint is not 64 bit ready. A large (> 2GB) SLES 10 system inside IBM got a kernel oops using cpint awhile back, so we made sure everything was using vmcp instead.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mark Post<mp...@novell.com> wrote: >>>> On 7/9/2009 at 12:21 PM, Joell Chockley <joell.chock...@bcbsks.com> wrote: >> I've got a vendor wanting to do CP commands from our z/Linux guests >> (SLES10). I had thought it was just having the program cpint installed, >> but another person told him to use modprob? Does that work also to execute >> CP commands from Linux? > > The cpint package consists of a kernel module (cpint), and the program to > issue the CP commands (hcp). You would use the modprobe command to load the > kernel module: > modprobe cpint > > Then you use the hcp program to issue the CP commands: > hcp q u > hcp ind > hcp q v all > > As Pat noted, there is also a vmcp kernel module and vmcp program that will > do essentially the same thing. That is part of the s390-tools package, which > is maintained by IBM. Beginning with SLES11, the cpint package is no longer > included, so vmcp will be the only supported method of issuing CP commands. > (Sorry, Neale.) > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- Bruce Hayden Linux on System z Advanced Technical Support IBM, Endicott, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
