Re: umask curiosity

2012-09-25 Thread Scott Rohling
er out of range'. Scott Rohling On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Ivan Warren wrote: > On 9/25/2012 8:07 PM, Scott Rohling wrote: > >> True - the value for the special bits only has meaning for chmod to >> actually set those bits for a directory or file -- not umask. So it

Re: umask curiosity

2012-09-25 Thread Scott Rohling
bits for a directory or file -- not umask. So it will always be 0 in the context of umask. Scott Rohling > -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the m

Re: umask curiosity

2012-09-25 Thread Scott Rohling
The first of the 4 digits is for special permissions, like SUID, GUID and the sticky bit.. If not specified - it's 0. Scott Rohling On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) < ann.sm...@thehartford.com> wrote: > I notice on SLES10 that the umask command

Re: console-kit-daemon errors on SLES 11

2012-08-31 Thread Scott Rohling
on z?) I don't have a test system on z available to do some checking.. Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: I

Re: LGR guest quiesce

2012-08-31 Thread Scott Rohling
I wonder if doing a 'sync' on Linux just prior to the STOP would help cut down on anything in the buffers? Scott Rohling On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Aria Bamdad wrote: > Thanks for the link to that document Marcy. I think the CP STOP/BEGIN > method would be the best solut

Re: console-kit-daemon errors on SLES 11

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Rohling
Maybe this daemon is unnecessary on z - or at least, under z/VM - where the console access is logged in the operator consoles? Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 8/30/2012 at 05:57 PM, Marcy Cortes > wrote: > > I've noticed

Re: LGR guest quiesce

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Rohling
gical backups for latest 'clean' data. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Aria Bamdad wrote: > True, no solution is as safe as shutdown/snapshot/restart in terms of > ensuring consistency but I think it would be nice if there was some > mechanism within Linux that would

Re: Too true to be funny - 51% of the surveyed Americans think that stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the cloud.

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Rohling
sound of .. and I know you know how it is with those bright and shiny objects, sir Chuckie - ;-) Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Thursday, 08/30/2012 at 11:28 EDT, Scott Rohling > wrote: > > This doesn't surprise me - I'm not su

Re: LGR guest quiesce

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Rohling
the guest left off - it might work.. But you need something to dump and restore memory/pages/etc as well. Sort of like 'hibernate' on a laptop. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Aria Bamdad wrote: > Just curious, could this functionality be used somehow to allow for

Re: Too true to be funny - 51% of the surveyed Americans think that stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the cloud.

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Rohling
This doesn't surprise me - I'm not sure when we started calling data stored on servers a 'cloud' - but I cringe every time I hear it. Is this really any different then not knowing what a catalytic converter is, but driving anyway? Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6

Re: zipl

2012-08-15 Thread Scott Rohling
I think you were supposed to remove the dasd= - not the root= Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Dean, David (I/S) wrote: > Mark, here you go. > > Original zipl.conf > > [ipl] > image = /boot/image > target = /boot/zipl > ramdisk

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-09 Thread Scott Rohling
Hmm .. so doesn't sound like she could use 'wget' to just get the iso onto the server. Have to install X-windows and firefox and use VNC or something just to start up a browser on the server and navigate to the right url. Argh... Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:5

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-08 Thread Scott Rohling
I wouldn't use a z/VM minidisk.. you 'could' access it using cmsfs from Linux - but it would be easier/better to just get the iso file into a Linux filesystem. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) < ann.sm...@thehartford.com> wrote:

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-08 Thread Scott Rohling
If the server is an existing zlinux server and you have connectivity to Novell - sure - or even easier - use wget and point to the ftp or http url. If it requires authentication - there are wget options for that as well. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-08 Thread Scott Rohling
misunderstanding what you need though.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) < ann.sm...@thehartford.com> wrote: > Yes I am late. > Yes I should have paid more attention when others asked in the past. > I finally want to upgrade SLES10 SP4 servers

Re: Red Hat Indeed

2012-07-04 Thread Scott Rohling
I wonder how the red hat ladies do with fedoras? Their conference sounds like a natural for promoting RHEL.. go dutch :) Scott Rohling On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:43 PM, David Kreuter wrote: > Happy 4th to all my U.S. brethren. > Here in Canada it is a work day. I'm traveling to Otta

Re: RHEL54 zLinux running TSA

2012-06-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Only thing I can think of -- are disks linked MWV on each side? I'm not sure what the recommendation is.. but I know that if you share a RACF DB disk you specify MWV so virtual reserve/release is respected.. would think this is similar to prevent disk clobbering? Scott Rohling On Fri, J

Re: Start networkadapter without reboot

2012-06-15 Thread Scott Rohling
onder how this shows us on z/VM with a Q VSWITCH DETAILS -- does it show connected for this 2nd NIC? What does a 'vmcp q nic' show? Are addresses attached to the vswitch? (sort of the same as above).. Scott Rohling On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:54 AM, van Sleeuwen, Berry < berry.vansleeu.

Re: Start networkadapter without reboot

2012-06-15 Thread Scott Rohling
If you are using VSWITCH's to attach the guest nics -- is this guest authorized for both? Scott Rohling On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:27 AM, van Sleeuwen, Berry < berry.vansleeu...@atos.net> wrote: > Hi All, > > In a SLES11 SP1 guest I try to activate the second network adapter

Re: LGR & IPL CMS

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Yep - it was one of the more memorable moments in my working with VM almost 30 years... feels a little magical when you get it to work :)Only way I could tell on the Linux guest was 'vmcp q user' .. Glad you got a chance to see it yourself! Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Re: Run NTP on zLinux or not?

2012-06-06 Thread Scott Rohling
gs over to competent hands are fading... Scott Rohling On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Dean, David (I/S) wrote: > Last post on my poll, I will not waste further cycles on a non-technical > issue here. I appreciate the people that emailed me offline. Rick, thanks > for the info. > > FIN

Re: Run NTP on zLinux or not?

2012-06-05 Thread Scott Rohling
and others understand the science behind it for the case of z/VM and it's pengins... Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Patrick Spinler wrote: > I'd suspect that just running ntpd would be a preferably option here. > Otherwise, you will get a cron awakened activity /

Run NTP on zLinux or not?

2012-06-04 Thread Scott Rohling
clock so even if z/VM fully supported STP, it doesn't mean the guests would necessarily benefit. I haven't done a lot of research into time synchronization, so I thought I'd ask what others here do and why. Any input would be appreci

Re: LXFMT bug fix

2012-05-15 Thread Scott Rohling
2 1/02/1908 6:36:02 Ready; T=0.01/0.01 07:34:17 What VMARC version do you have, Neale? Scott Rohling On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:08 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L < dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.com> wrote: > Interesting. I downloaded the latest VMARC MODULE from IBM, wh

Re: swap and RedHat kickstart

2012-04-12 Thread Scott Rohling
Is your kickstart file defining the DASD to be used and which should be used as swap? It needs to.. show us the pertinent statements in the ks file if so.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Rothman, Peter < peter.roth...@travelport.com> wrote: > Our few linux servers

Re: Mount an AIX filesystem on zLinux?

2012-03-19 Thread Scott Rohling
Googling around looks like SLES doesn't support it - the utilities are no longer included ... but I believe all you'd need is the jfsutils rpm. Anyway - yes - quite possible. I searched on 'jfs s390x' to find info.. Scott Rohling On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Jerr

Re: Cannot add drive to existing LVM SLES 11 SP 1

2012-03-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Time to put the pipe down, brother :) Scott Rohling On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Shane G wrote: > This is just your friendly vendor messing with you. > Not to mention LVM itself. > > An lv is not a volume, it's really a "partition" - no, wait, that's w

Re: Cannot add drive to existing LVM SLES 11 SP 1

2012-03-14 Thread Scott Rohling
e group is - so you may want to do a vgdisplay -v to see if the device did get added to the vg.. Scott rohling On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Scott Rohling wrote: > It's not too difficult to do this on the command line: > > lsdasd and figure out what the /dev/dasd device i

Re: Cannot add drive to existing LVM SLES 11 SP 1

2012-03-14 Thread Scott Rohling
e appropriate resize commands for whatever filesystem.. Hope that helps - not sure about SLES or Yast system tools for this - I always use command line. Scott Rohling On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > I have an existing LVM that is near out of space. > I created it w

Re: ZVM IPL Error

2012-03-07 Thread Scott Rohling
VM to change the time. Or - reboot shortly after the specified date/time defined in the CONFIG file if you're hankering for a reboot :) Scott Rohling On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Dazzo, Matt wrote: > I had to add the timezone for 2012 in my SYSTEM CONFIG file. I thought > (that&#

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Scott Rohling
Likely lots of answers, but here's one flavor: /var /usr /opt /tmp /home Any directory that is prone to 'growth' is a likely candidate to be a separate filesystem.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Mark Workman wrote: > What are recommended LVM mount points

Re: RACF database during z/VM upgrade

2012-02-21 Thread Scott Rohling
think backing off is going to happen - remove the definitions for the old system ids (e.g. 5VMDIR40).. I think rebuilding the RACF database just for a z/VM OS upgrade is madness :)You don't want to start over - you want to 'manage' it. Scott Rohling On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:30

Re: Error when trying to install CentOS 4.x on s390

2011-12-31 Thread Scott Rohling
Did 'you' format the DASD on this guest or was it perhaps already formatted when it was on a bigger minidisk (and so wasn't re-formatted during install)? Scott Rohling On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Cameron Seay wrote: > This is an error I get when going through the ins

Re: Running top on second level RHEL5

2011-12-15 Thread Scott Rohling
ll CPU usage for the guest - it's not. Scott Rohling On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Shumate, Scott wrote: > Quick question. When you run top on RHEL5 linux on systemz, is it > accurate or is it a best guess? > > > Thanks > Scott > > ---

Re: VDISK Swap

2011-10-31 Thread Scott Rohling
No - you must IPL CMS and issue it .. usually in the PROFILE EXEC .. and then IPL the right Linux disk. Scott Rohling On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Dean, David (I/S) wrote: > Oh, so stupid question, can I just take off the cp part? > As: > > > 'SWAPGEN 203 409600 ( REU

Re: Install tape driver error on zlinux

2011-10-19 Thread Scott Rohling
You're making too much sense here, David :) Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:40 AM, David Boyes wrote: > > You also have to rebuild the thing after each kernel update. Kind of a > pain. > > Especially if you forget and it's not functional anymore :) >

Re: VDISK Swap

2011-10-06 Thread Scott Rohling
It's that new silicon smell :) Scott Rohling On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:55 AM, David Stuart wrote: > Now, how do you tell "Fresh zeros" from "stale zeros" that may be past > their shelf life? > > > Dave > > > > Dave Stuart > Prin. Info. Sy

Re: Remote HMC access

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Rohling
Try port 443 - the https port... Scott Rhling On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Mike Myers wrote: > Doug: > > I now have the needed access to the University's network. Once in, I can > PING the IP address that is supposed to be that of the HMC. However, I > don't get the login screen. I am using

Re: FW: VDISK Swap

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Rohling
Actually - the bit checking for a userid() EXEC will see RC0 and try and execute every time -- the rc ^= 28 is checking the rc of the SET CMSTYPE RT - not the STATE. Use PIPE (e.g. PIPE CMS STATE . | HOLE) and forget about CMSTYPE ;-) Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:18 PM, David

Re: VDISK Swap

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Rohling
You can just do SWAPGEN - you don't need mkswap since SWAPGEN writes the swap signature. I think SWAPGEN will create the vdisks if they don't already exist or will use the one in place if it already exists.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Dean, David (I/S) wrote: &g

Re: VDISK Swap

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Rohling
You would IPL CMS first - have the PROFILE EXEC issue SWAPGEN to create one or more swapdisks -- and then IPL the Linux disk from the PROFILE EXEC. Note that SWAPGEN is from SineNomine and offered as a free download.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Dean, David (I/S) wrote: >

Re: VDISK Swap

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Rohling
Are they defined as VDISK? If so - you have to mkswap them each boot.. or use SWAPGEN to create them... if they are on DASD you shouldn't have to do this after initial formatting - so not sure what's up. Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Dean, David (I/S) wrote: > W

Re: parmfile with vlan definition

2011-10-02 Thread Scott Rohling
Do you mean the z/VM SYSTEM CONFIG file (answer is yes) - or Linux network config files? (again answer is yes) or something else? Scott Rohling 2011/10/1 Rogério Soares > Hello list, > > it is possible set vlan parameters on parm file ? > > > Tia, &

Re: Window question

2011-09-26 Thread Scott Rohling
As I recall:DIR Z: Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Eddie Chen wrote: > Does any know the command in WINDOW where I can list every > files/directories > Under my Z drive. > > > Similar to the Linux command of > "ls -lR" where I can lis

Re: RH NFS Server

2011-09-20 Thread Scott Rohling
Nothing special about z in this respect -- here's a good page to view: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s03.html#config_server_setup Scott Rohling On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Dazzo, Matt wrote: > I would like to nfs mount a filesystem that resides on a vm/Linux server &g

Re: Ubuntu on z?

2011-09-08 Thread Scott Rohling
ersions as well. Scott Rohling On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Sergey Korzhevsky wrote: > Hi, > A little bit offtopic, but i can't resist to ask, why you use Ubuntu > and not Debian on server? > > Thanks. > > > > >WBR, Sergey > > > > > S

Re: Ubuntu on z?

2011-09-08 Thread Scott Rohling
x here... tres cool. Scott Rohling On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Neale Ferguson wrote: > http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2011090700941OSHWUB > > -- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: Question - listserv mail management

2011-08-30 Thread Scott Rohling
Wouldn't you just look for sender "LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu"? Scott Rohling On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Lionel Dyck wrote: > I changed my subscription to digest as I could find no way using Lotus > Notes to filter incoming messages to put them into a unique folder. &

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Scott Rohling
if so - then we know the problem is somewhere in the network config files. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:24 AM, saurabh khandelwal < sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com> wrote: > This command works but , when I am restarting network service usnig below > command > > servi

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Scott Rohling
You should not have to restart the network, no ..what does 'ifconfig' and 'route' show after manually configuring? Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:20 AM, saurabh khandelwal < sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com> wrote: > no.. after manually configure ifconfi

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Scott Rohling
Looks to me like no attempt is made to bring up eth0 at all.. If you manually configure with ifconfig - are you able to use the network? If so - I would ssh in and then use 'yast' to setup the network.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:41 AM, saurabh khandelwal < sour

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Scott Rohling
Yes meant for that to be broadcast - thanks Edmund - had a brain hiccup :) Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Edmund R. MacKenty < ed.macke...@rocketsoftware.com> wrote: > On Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:48:51 am you wrote: > > in the suggested ifconfig command, what

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Scott Rohling
or layer3? Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:54 AM, saurabh khandelwal < sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I deleted NETWORK parameter from this file . and I restarted netork from > > service network restart command but still i am not getting my ip address > in &

Re: Mount error

2011-08-24 Thread Scott Rohling
Sorry - try 'vgdisplay -v system' -- this should show the logical volumes and also the disks that make up the volumes. And there is also 'lvscan' to see logical volumes. Let's say that you see there is a 'root' logical volume -- then to mount: mount /dev/syst

Re: Mount error

2011-08-24 Thread Scott Rohling
You had indicated 300-304 were the sles10 disks.. are they all linked and active? If so - the pvscan and vgscan should pick them up.. if not -- not sure what to say -- you need to get all the disks that are part of the LVM for sles10. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:43 PM, saurabh

Re: Mount error

2011-08-24 Thread Scott Rohling
Then you can vgdisplay system and figure out what logical volume you can mount. If you already use LVM on the system you are linking the disks from and use the same names -- then you won't be able to mount since they are duplicates. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:18 PM, saurabh

Re: patching frequency

2011-08-18 Thread Scott Rohling
f it is not already, and then talk about frequency of patches in that context. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Clovis Pereira wrote: > Scott, only to feed this discussion: > Apply 5 patchs by month looks better than 15 by quarter or 30 by > half-year. Less corre

Re: patching frequency

2011-08-18 Thread Scott Rohling
h servers? Those seem like better indicators then 'frequency'. Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message:

Re: BASH scripts are a trade secret?

2011-08-17 Thread Scott Rohling
Yeah - very strange... 'copyright' - ok. Trade secret in a glass jar? no.. by definition, not a secret. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:48 AM, McKown, John wrote: > Most weird. At least to me. Well, I guess it is possible to use a BASH > script where most would u

Re: Annoyances with lsdasd and/or /proc/dasd/devices

2011-08-10 Thread Scott Rohling
l use it in a pinch because the /sys route is more complicated.. Hopefully - lsdasd is stabilizing it's output now and you can more reliably count on the output.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Patrick Spinler wrote: > Okay, please accept an 'I'm stupid' retr

Re: NFS Mount

2011-08-04 Thread Scott Rohling
I think you want to drop the -o after ver=2 ? mount is thinking the nfs address is an option -- and so thinks you want to mount just /mnt... and doesn't know what should be mounted to it. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Dazzo, Matt wrote: > On z1.11 I have the NFS cl

Re: disabled IPV6, now down.

2011-08-03 Thread Scott Rohling
Does a 'modprobe ipv6' have any effect? Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > I've been getting the "MARTIAN SOURCE 192.168.195.255 FROM 192.168.193.176, > ON DEV ETH0" on one of my test machines for two months. > > So I dec

Re: Xterm, Cygwin, etc

2011-08-01 Thread Scott Rohling
vnc is what I use..startup vncserver on zLinux .. use a vnc client ( tightvnc.org has a free one) to connect. You can also use a web browser and the 58xx port. Need the firewall to allow 59xx and/or 58xx ports. Scott Rohling On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Gentry, Steve < steve.

Re: Showing a process running in BG

2011-08-01 Thread Scott Rohling
The 'jobs' command lists all active or stopped jobs (in the current shell).. also - ps -aux shows a '+' under the Status field if it's running in the foreground. With ps -ef the PID and PPID fields may help in determining who called what. Hope this helps. Scott Roh

Re: tar with tape drives

2011-07-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Strange - almost sounds like tar is getting a '&' appended and running in the background.. which doesn't seem possible if it's just being executed as part of a script. I need a beer too. Scott Rohling On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > And anot

Re: Poor man's top

2011-07-22 Thread Scott Rohling
of it. Doesn't do everything top does - but does show the 'top cpu users'. Now that I've written that - did you mean - how does it work? That's a different answer :) Scott Rohling On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Dazzo, Matt wrote: > For us new to linux can anyone ex

Re: Poor man's top

2011-07-21 Thread Scott Rohling
Ah .. I think I remember -- we were running this at the z/VM console on a Linux guest... so wanted to limit the output so it didn't wrap and mess up the displayed tasks.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Scott Rohling wrote: > Just ensure 80 amount of characters are d

Re: Poor man's top

2011-07-21 Thread Scott Rohling
Just ensure 80 amount of characters are displayed on each line .. you can certainly leave it out -- it's been too long for me to remember why that was stuck in :(I'm not sure now what the rationale was.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT)

Poor man's top

2011-07-21 Thread Scott Rohling
I found this buried in some notes.. thought others might enjoy it. Much less overhead then top.. : watch -n 10 -d 'ps aux --sort -%cpu | cut -c1-0 | head -20' Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: Linux backups and restores to/from tape

2011-07-08 Thread Scott Rohling
Didn't mean to imply TSM required tape - only that it's supported... Scott Rohling On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Harder, Pieter < pieter.har...@brabantwater.nl> wrote: > Just a remark. TSM does *not* have a tape requirement. You can have a disk > only installation ju

Re: Linux backups and restores to/from tape

2011-07-08 Thread Scott Rohling
ts of open source options.. everything from rdiff (as I recall - an rsync based backup with delta archiving) and things like bacula. You could perhaps combine this solution with physical backups to tape of the archive data on disk? Scott Rohling On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Frederick, Michael < mich

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2011-07-08 Thread Scott Rohling
Monty Python: spam spam spam spam spam Scott Rohling On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Rob JACKSON wrote: > I invite you to visit my first site! It’s important for me!.. > http://www.soleholiday.com/sites.friend.php?zyqCID

Re: RHEL 5.6 adding LUNs and mkinitrd

2011-07-02 Thread Scott Rohling
s to be able to mount root. Scott Rohling On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Donald Russell wrote: > I have RHEL 5.6 running on zVM 6.1. The RHEL userid has several FCP devices > dedicated in the cp directory. > > When I add LUNs to the system to create a new file system, or expand an &g

Re: Another Layer 2 question.

2011-06-28 Thread Scott Rohling
Give us a hint :-) Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Chuck Tribolet wrote: > I've got a similar problem to Dave Jones, converting from real OSA ports > to a Layer 2 VSWITCH. I've successfully done SLES 10 and RHEL 5, but I'm > having trouble with a SL

Re: Layer 2 question

2011-06-27 Thread Scott Rohling
Drop the TYPE= and VSWITCH= as well as HWADDR= .. Scott Rohling On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > Hi, Mark. > > I've tried it without the HWADDR value and now the error is "eth0 does > not seem to be present". > > Thanks. > > DJ >

Re: Layer 2 question

2011-06-27 Thread Scott Rohling
You need to either remove the specification of the MAC in ifcfg-eth0 -- or specify it in the z/VM directory entry for the guest so that it matches. It's likely best to just remove it and let it default unless you have a real need to specify it. Scott Rohling On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:

Re: How to get into single user mode - RHEL 5.6

2011-06-25 Thread Scott Rohling
sorry - bad wording.. you needed to mount it as an LVM -- not a dasd device.. Scott Rohling On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Scott Rohling wrote: > I meant unmount it from the system you were trying to recover it from -- > cuz you needed to mount is as an LVM -- not as a filesystem.

Re: How to get into single user mode - RHEL 5.6

2011-06-25 Thread Scott Rohling
l system on a single minidisk. avoid volume group name conflicts completely. Only bring it up when needed. Scott Rohling On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Donald Russell wrote: > Thanks Scott There are other files systems that also use LVM, but I > know > the root file system is al

Re: How to get into single user mode - RHEL 5.6

2011-06-25 Thread Scott Rohling
e new one. (if the lvm consists of more than the 100 disk - you need to link and activate those too..) Sounds like you did a zipl -X at some point, which eliminates the startup menu.. Good luck! Scott Rohling On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Donald Russell wrote: > RHEL 5.6 on zVM 6.1 >

Re: CMS commands from Linux

2011-06-22 Thread Scott Rohling
That can work -- BUT -- not much good for capturing/seeing the response... sort of like pushing a button and not knowing if it worked or not. Scott Rohling On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Eddie Chen wrote: > Have you try setup secondary userid and issue the "vmcp send cmsuser >

Re: CMS commands from Linux

2011-06-22 Thread Scott Rohling
Yes - good point.. and Linux does have an rexec client. You may want to use a private lan, depending on the network setup, but it's doable. Keeping it internal may fend off any restrictions.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > If you are on

Re: CMS commands from Linux

2011-06-21 Thread Scott Rohling
t normally qualify as a secure interface. If what the EXEC does is benign - then maybe it's no big deal... it can be a great way to easily make z/VM application output available to Linux. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Agblad Tore wrote: > setup a webserver in z/

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-17 Thread Scott Rohling
int, there is likely sufficient memory and paging isn't needed.. so why not wait until it is? I'm sure there's a good explanation - just wondering... Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive ac

Re: Set Share Relative

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
No worries, Sir Rob - I seem to be especially cranky today. Excellent paper and explanation of relative share - and a much better answer then the simplistic HELP explanation. I'll refer to this in the future... Thank you! Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Rob van der Heij &

Re: Set Share Relative

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
'political' .. and annoyed at the statement that the defaults are just flat out wrong. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Scott Rohling > wrote: > > > Depends on how granular you want to be

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
nance window to reclaim drained volumes. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Nelson, Gene C. wrote: > We ran into the same issue. Our page space got up to 70% - 80% and we > saw performance "go down the toilet". Our page volumes were on MOD-9's > but only a th

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
the new volumes are formatted/allocated correctly. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Sam Bass wrote: > Alan, > > Do you think IBM will think about adding a 'page delete' feature so you can > migrate page volumes to another disk subsystem so you don't have t

Re: Set Share Relative

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
the access, etc. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Dean, David (I/S) wrote: > Is there a rule of thumb on setting relative shares for zVM users? Default > has them at 100, we have increased important ones to 200. I noticed the > system users have very high shares, e.g.

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
This is for SPOOL -- not PAGE! Completely different allocation types, etc.. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Clovis Pereira wrote: > Friends, > Please, take a look at SPOOLCHN > http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/ > > Follow the announce: > (c) Copyr

Re: Performance toolkit - HCPMOG6556E

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
HELP HCPMOG6556E will show you several different ways to approach. Increasing the size of the MONDCSS segment is likely the quickest. An example: CP DEFSEG MONDCSS 2000-2BFF SC RSTD CP SAVESEG MONDCSS You need to ensure no other segments are defined in the address range you specify.. Scott

Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
I'm not sure this will make a difference -- I misread the table .. and the LF characters are the same in ebcdic or ibm.. You may need to use 'tr' or some other translate function after the dd. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Scott Rohling wrote: > Did you us

Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Did you use 'ebcdic' or 'ibm' for conversion type on the dd command? Whichever you used, you might want to try and use the other and see if results change. Scott Rohling On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Sundaram, Parthasarthy < parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com> wrote:

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Performance Toolkit can show you the paging load for users (menu option 22 - FCX113).. how much in XSTORE, how much on DASD ... but it doesn't identify the paging volume(s) the pages are stored on, if that's what you want to do. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Nels

Re: CMS commands from Linux

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Rohling
ne or not. There are many ways to do it -- it's just capturing results and knowing when it's done that's the problem. REXEC is one way, but is usually frowned up security wise. Scott Rohling 2011/6/10 Fábio Paim > Thanks for all response, > > I have one bash script o

Re: mvsdasd working for SLES11 someone ?

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Rohling
est of the files are completely benign. Note that none of us has really contributed to answering Tore's question. Scott Rohling On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Thursday, 06/09/2011 at 04:15 EDT, Scott Rohling > wrote: > > Implementing the driver isn'

Re: mvsdasd working for SLES11 someone ?

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Rohling
itable (or should be) - the ability to read a z/OS volume or CMS disk is not. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Thursday, 06/09/2011 at 01:10 EDT, Mark Post wrote: > > >>> On 6/9/2011 at 11:23 AM, Agblad Tore wrote: > > > Anyone having

Re: Why does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry?

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Rohling
n you have coded. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Dean, David (I/S) wrote: > I would bet it just has to time out. I know NFS and SMBFS can hold on for > quite a while before giving up the ghost. > > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LI

Re: Why does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry?

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Rohling
- use 'mount -a' to check each time you update fstab. And -- error recovery is there.. you are put into a shell so you can try and correct it :-) Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] < baue...@mail.nih.gov> wrote: > I recently had a typo

Re: bad entry in fstab

2011-06-02 Thread Scott Rohling
disks linked and activated: pvscan vgscan vgchange -ay volume_group(make volume_group active) mount /dev/volume_group/logical_volume /mnt Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] < baue...@mail.nih.gov> wrote: > Thanks Scott, could I ask for the

Re: bad entry in fstab

2011-06-02 Thread Scott Rohling
chccwdev -e 2201 (activate it) lsdasd (find out what dasd 2201 is) mount /dev/dasdx1 /mnt This assumes 2201 contains a single filesystem.. if it's part of an LVM, there's more to all this.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] < baue...

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