KernelTrap: Robert Love Explains Variable HZ

2002-10-17 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: "http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-10-17-002-26-NW-KN-DV"; "Robert Love recently backported the jiffies_to_clock_t() code from the 2.5 development kernel to the 2.4 stable kernel. This patch allows one to adjust the frequency of the timer interrupt, defined in the standard 2.4

ipl failure

2002-10-17 Thread Chris Little
attempting to ipl a 2.4.7 kernel with the aug 2001 stream patches. it fails miserably like so : NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 5e:0d) ... Using r5 hash to sort names ReiserFS version 3.6.25 VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) re

Re: Intel PC + Hercules + VM + Linux

2002-10-17 Thread Jay Maynard
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:00:43PM -0400, Post, Mark K wrote: > If that doesn't work out, I believe you can run multiple instances of > Hercules on a single box, allowing you to run multiple Linux/390 instances, > without having to violate IBM's licensing by getting an illegal copy of VM. > I'm sur

Re: Outage

2002-10-17 Thread paultz
This is the first outage I can remember since I started hanging out here. What was your 'uptime' looking like before this? Paul

Re: Intel PC + Hercules + VM + Linux

2002-10-17 Thread Adam Thornton
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:39:54PM -0500, Rengasamy, Samy wrote: > We have been running Linux on a native LPAR for quiet some time. > We would like to experiment running few instances of Linux under VM. > But we do not have any budget allocation for this experiment. > > I would like to do it with I

Re: Intel PC + Hercules + VM + Linux

2002-10-17 Thread Post, Mark K
Samy, It is possible, but not legal. To my knowledge, IBM has never sold a license for any of their software to run on Hercules (and probably never will, either). You would be better off talking to your IBM rep about setting up an evaluation. I have heard of IBM giving temporary licenses for ju

Intel PC + Hercules + VM + Linux

2002-10-17 Thread Rengasamy, Samy
We have been running Linux on a native LPAR for quiet some time. We would like to experiment running few instances of Linux under VM. But we do not have any budget allocation for this experiment. I would like to do it with Intel PC + Hercules + VM + Linux. Is it possible? If so where do I start?

Outage

2002-10-17 Thread A. Harry Williams
Tomorrow is our Columbus Day, (Yes, we're 4 days behind the rest of the US) and we are taking the opportunity to do some work on various systems, including VM.Marist.edu. It will be down most of the day tommorrow, including LISTSERV. We apologize for the inconveinance, but hope that the free time

Re: Reconnect TCPIP

2002-10-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gordon, I would think you would need to restart ALL the services that IP uses on EACH LINUX Image !! that could be a real pain to keep track of, or maybe you could restart ALL of the services !!! I do that on my desktop, but it runs Hercules & Sles7/390 A auto script that could be fired off from a

Reconnect TCPIP

2002-10-17 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
We have a number of Linux (SuSE 2.4.7) images running under z/VM 4.2. These are all connected to the VM TCPIP stack via virtual CTCA's. If the VM TCPIP stack comes down and back up, is there a way to reconnect the linux servers without shutting them down and rebooting? "If Paradise Lost had been

Re: YaST2 problem

2002-10-17 Thread Scott Chapman
SuSE SLES7 trial (or whatever the $500 deal is). Eventually the SuSE guy got back to us and and he also could not figure out why we couldn't install the patches that I had uploaded from the CD. However we did manage to get the online update to work--once we dealt with the obligatory firewall issue

Re: YaST2 problem

2002-10-17 Thread Ferguson, Neale
What type of SuSE system are you using? -Original Message- Correct--yast does. YaST2 appears to not. Can you apply the patch CD with Yast? The included instructions specifically use YaST2.

Re: YaST2 problem

2002-10-17 Thread Scott Chapman
Correct--yast does. YaST2 appears to not. Can you apply the patch CD with Yast? The included instructions specifically use YaST2. Scott "Ferguson, Neale" cc: Sent by: Linux on 390 Subject: Re: Ya

Re: YaST2 problem

2002-10-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scott. I have seen this on my system here at home, running RH 7.3 as the Host, with Hercules & SLES7 for s390. It happened on 3 occasions #1 the FTP server (RH-i386 PC version) was NOT setup to allow for FTP services, hence the CLIENT SLES7 could not locate the installation directorynot a r

Re: YaST2 problem

2002-10-17 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Yast supports non-anonymous FTP. I use it all the time. -Original Message- I'll go try it via FTP too. YaST2 seems to only support anonymous FTP which is why I wasn't using FTP in the first place. Scott Chapman

Re: YaST2 problem

2002-10-17 Thread Scott Chapman
Not trying to apply patches from FTP server, trying to install it from a local directory. Guess I could try using itself as an anonymous FTP server though. But to answer your question, in YaST2: Software / Patch CD Update Select "Expert" for Choice of installation source Select HardDisk Enter dir

Re: YaST2 problem

2002-10-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok, now where is this FTP server ?? on the same machine ?? or another real/virtual system ? did you adjust the FTP configuration file for this file path ?? we just need a little more info to assist you... Ken Dreger At 09:57 AM 10/17/2002, you wrote: We're just getting started with a pilot

Re: YaST2 problem

2002-10-17 Thread Post, Mark K
What selections did you make in YaST to get to the point where you entered the FTP server and path information? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Scott Chapman [mailto:sachapman@;aep.com] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: YaST2 problem We're just

YaST2 problem

2002-10-17 Thread Scott Chapman
We're just getting started with a pilot project, got the SuSE trial deal and CDs and have managed to get one guest Linux image IPLed under VM. We're trying to apply the patches from the patches CD SuSE sent, so I uploaded the files to a directory on the Linux machine. However when we try to point

Re: striped LVM non-extensible

2002-10-17 Thread Post, Mark K
Phil, >From the LVM Howto section 12.3: "We will not use striping because it is not currently possible to add a disk to a stripe set after the logical volume is created." http://www.sistina.com/lvm_howtos/lvm_howto.pdf Mark Post -Original Message- From: Phil Tully [mailto:xaphil@;vm.wor

Re: NSS-Support for Linux Kernel under VM

2002-10-17 Thread Nix, Robert P.
Another point not mentioned yet is that when booting from a device, the entire opsys must be read into virtual memory before its execution begins. When IPL'ing from a Named Saved System, the spool space it resides in acts as page space, and the pages are paged in as required. So your execution b

striped LVM non-extensible

2002-10-17 Thread Phil Tully
We have moved a large filesystem to a striped LVM (5 physical volumes, 5 stripes) and now find that one of the advantages of LVM is lost, non-disruptive expansion. I wanted to make sure I am correct that a striped LVM can not be expaned without being rebuild? Phil

Re: Marist Linux and OSA-Express

2002-10-17 Thread Carlos Ordonez
Anne, Vic - I might have missed previous responses but what Anne shows in the messages, 3088/60, I think is consider an OSA in LCS mode. This could be that you need to put an ipldelay on the boot parameter. I haven't used the Marist distro in a long time and I never experienced problems when coming

Re: Shell script error

2002-10-17 Thread Bellussi Giorgio
The problem might be caused also by a wrong shell interpreter specification (the command following #! at the top of script). Peeking "bash" from your $PATH (as Mark wrote) will solve this kind of problem. Post, Mark K wrote: >James, > >It's a little difficult to tell with the line wrap, but it