Re: Generating and fstab from list of mounted file...

2005-10-27 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:04:42 -0500 (EST/CDT)
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I think it is /etc/init.d/boot.ldconfig that sources' the
contents of /etc/sysconfig/clock and uses the utility
zic to set the timezone. You can do a man zic for
more info.

Salvador


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I may not be understanding the problem... But the way I get the timezone to
be what I want it to be is to update /etc/sysconfig/clock with the -u and
the US/Pacific.   Then /etc/init.d/boot.clock takes care of it at IPL
time.




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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, James Melin wrote:
 ...
 Makes sense as they're trying to be created as cross device hard links.
 What I don't understand is this:

Dunno how SLES is creating your /etc/localtime.
You can fudge-around the separate physical filesystems problem:

ln /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /usr/share/zoneinfo/MYTIME
mv /usr/share/zoneinfo/MYTIME /etc/localtime

That way,  if /etc and /usr are on the same volume,
the files are hard links to the same physical file.
But if they are on separate volumes,  the intermediate hard link
(MYTIME)  gets moved to /etc and localtime becomes a copy.
Maybe SuSE does something like this;  maybe they do something else.

Personally,  I always make it a sym-link:

ln -sf ../usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /etc/localtime

This way,  when you list /etc/localtime,  you see where it points
and you get additional info,  like what timezone is really intended.
Prior to /usr being mounted  (if it is separate)  your  'time'  output
reports as UTC.   This is not usually a problem because files in Unix
(and Linux, all POSIX)  are stamped in UTC under the covers.

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Re: SLES9 and VM Shared Kernel

2005-07-25 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:17:06 -0500 (EST/CDT)
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The Linux Journal had an article a while back:

  http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7714

For example, if you hava a readonly directory called /ro/etc, that has
two files, inittab and fstab:

/ro/etc/
 inittab
 fstab

And you have a read/write directory called /rw/etc, that has one file
called hosts:

/rw/etc/
hosts

Then, when you union mount them to mount point /etc:

mount mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/rw/etc/,/ro/etc=ro none /etc

A ls /etc displays the union of the two directories, three files:

/etc/inittab
/etc/fstab
/etc/hosts

If you change /etc/inittab, the modifed copy is writen to /rw/etc:

/rw/etc/
hosts
inittab


Sal

James Melin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What, pray tell, is union mount?




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On Monday, 07/25/2005 at 07:00 ZE2, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 And you're right, the potential savings with sharing binaries in DCSS
 are larger (and probably harder to manage from a software management
 point of view). The kernel in NSS and binaries in DCSS are independent
 issues that must be implemented separately.

When union mount arrives, managing shared binaries should, hopefully, get
easier.  Then you don't have to know in advance which files are r/o and
which are r/w.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
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reiserfs file system corruption

2005-06-14 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:36:55 -0700 (MST/PDT)
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Did you reply with a yes instead of y, the latter does not work.

Sal

Ranga Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some of our partitions using reiserfs are showing a large amount of file
corruptions ... like below. I could not fix it using --fix-fixable or even
--rebuild-tree. I even copied the data using cp-ax and copied back. Same
result. I had to re-format the partition and copy back the data. Is this
the only way to fix reiserfs partitions? I am not sure why the
--fix-fixable and --rebuild-tree dont work.

bad_stat_data: The objectid (1946160282) is marked free, but used by an
object [1946160279 1946160282 0x0 SD (0)]
bad_stat_data: The objectid (1946160283) is marked free, but used by an
object [1946160279 1946160283 0x0 SD (0)]
bad_stat_data: The objectid (1946160284) is marked free, but used by an
object [1946160279 1946160284 0x0 SD (0)] finished
Comparing bitmaps..finished
Checking Semantic tree:
finished
4312 found corruptions can be fixed when running with --fix-fixable
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reiserfsck finished at Mon Jun 13 16:54:48 2005
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Re: LVM fragility?

2005-06-10 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:32:46 -0400 (EDT)
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The nice thing about LVM is that you can change the DASD
addresses (disk letters) and still works as each physical LVM
volume gets it own unique id (uuid).  For example if you have
an LVM group with 2 disks,  dasdt1 (400) and dasdu1 (401),
you can change them to dasdv1(402) and dasdx1(404) with
no problems.

Sal


Neale Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Change the order of dasd= in zipl.conf so that the new minidisk is last
in the list so that the existing disks don't get their ids changed.

-Original Message-
At a customer site yesterday I found something that's either an amazing
level of fragility in LVM or else I'm just not understanding it.  (This
is LVM V1; I understand V2 is a complete rewrite and probably avoids
this, but that doesn't help with production on older 2.4 kernels.)

They had a logical volume created from (say) dasdt1, dasdu1, dasdv1.
Then we added a minidisk at a lower virtual address.

This pushed the existing minidisks down, so the virtual devices in
the LVM were now dasdu1, dasdv1, dasdw1!

So I have several questions:
1) Have others observed this, or did we do something weird?
2) Is there an easy way to recover?
3) Is there another way to address the devices -- one of our guys
suggested /dev/dasd/4001, /dev/dasd/4002, etc. instead of /dev/dasdt1,
/dev/dasdu1, etc. (I plan to try this today, but thought I'd ask).
4) If the previous suggestion works, is there a reasonable way to change
an existing LVM from the 'old' addressing scheme to the 'new' one?

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Re: Java compiler for Linux on Z/800

2005-05-06 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Fri, 06 May 2005 08:06:43 -0500 (EST/CDT)
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A while back somone posted that it could happen if you did not have
the compat libs installed.

Sal

James Melin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What situations can cause the IBM java SDK to not detect/not configure the
just in time compiler? (jitc) I have one linux instance not reporting the
jitc and I'm kinda stumped.



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Do you want/need a Java _compiler_, or a Java SDK, or just the Java
runtime (JRE)?

If you want a compiler, the GNU Compiler Collection contains one, named
gcj.  If you want the SDK or JRE, IBM provides those here:
http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/lxdk/lxdk-p

Downloading them will require no-cost registration.


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Does anyone have a link that they could share, were I can get a copy of
a Java compiler that will run on a Z/800 LPAR running Linux suse sles 8?
My understanding is that it must be specific to the platform it will be
installed on or it will not work.









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Real Storage Recommendations for Domino/WebSphere...

2005-05-02 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:26:29 -0500 (EST/CDT)
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Do not forget I/O. FICON makes a big difference in zLinux.

Sal

Dennis Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,

We're planning to acquire a z890 processor w/ 1 CP for a z/VM CMS workload
and 2 IFL engines for an eventual z/VM zLinux workload consisting largely
of Domino and WebSphere.

We're expecting to run 10 Domino email DPARs and possibly up to 10-20
WebSphere servers, although we don't know just yet what those applications
will be.

We're trying to determine how much real storage to include on this z890
processor.  z890 storage comes in 8Gb increments.  IBM tells us the HSA
will be 1Gb and we plan to reserve 2Gb for the CMS workload.  That
potentially leave 5Gb for the zLinux workload and I'm trying to determine
if thats enough, especially since I'll want to reserve a third or so of it
for expanded storage.

We haven't even tested Domino yet and have just one light WebSphere server
running currently, so we don't have much effective feedback on storage
requirements.  We're currently running z/VM v4.4 but will be migrating to
v5.1 soon.

For any of you who are running Domino and/or WebSphere, what do you think?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide.

Dennis Schaffer
Mutual of Omaha

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Adding More DASD to RH 4.0

2005-04-28 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:50:50 -0400 (EDT)
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William,

You need to add them to the options dasd_mod dasd= parm in
/etc/modprobe.conf

Sal

Scully, William P [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I should know this but for the life of me I can't find the right
procedure.  I've added a few more spindles of DASD to an existing RH 4.0
system but when I reboot I don't see the DASD in /proc/dasd/devices, nor
can I do a dasdfmt command.  I added the dasd=3Dnnn-nnn operand to the
parameters=3D statement in zipl.conf, but that didn't help.  (That DOES
seem to work for SLES9, which I thought was odd.)  I also tried:=20

  echo 1  /sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.0nnn/online=20

Where nnn is the DASD address, to no avail.  So someone, please,
advice?=20

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Really silly SSH question.

2005-04-14 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:11:13 -0500 (EST/CDT)
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You would  add your passphrase to PuTTY's pagent?


Sal

McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just for grins and giggles, I created an SSH private key/public key
pair. I can now use PuTTY to logon to Linux without using my Linux
password. Instead, I must use a Passphrase. What have I gained? I did
replace my password with a passphrase, but how is that more secure? I
don't see a way to say: This passphrase must be used when doing an SSH
from that incoming IP address. Am I missing something? (very likely). I
could use a different private/public key for each server that I use SSH
with, I guess. But I've only got one server, so far.

Oh well, it was a learning experience, I guess.


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Re: CVS

2005-03-31 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
I do not know how much it going to help, but you would change your
sshd config not to use compression and  blowfish?


Sal

 Anyone using this on z Linux?  Seems to be using about 1/2 an
 z 900 IFL,
 mostly in the SSHD process.

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How to determine if you are running on 31 or 64 bit system

2005-03-24 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
Is there a simple way to determine if you are running on a 64-bit system?
Is the result of getconf LONG_BIT a good indication?


Thanks,
 Sal

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Re: How to determine if you are running on 31 or 64...

2005-03-24 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:20:54 -0800 (PST)
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May be I need to use both of them, uname -m to tell me if the virtual
machine is running 64-bit or not and gconf to tell me if the applicaion
is running on 31 or 64 bit mode.

Thanks,
Sal

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If you are running 31 Bit the output from uname -m would be s390 (without
the x)

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 Is there a simple way to determine if you are running on a 64-bit
system?
# uname -m
s390x

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cpint on 2.6 (rhel4/64-bit): Invalid module format

2005-03-18 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
Hi,
 I am trying to build cpint-2.2.0 on a RHEL4/64-bit system, everything
 builds ok, but when I try to load the module  I get:

 /sbin/insmod cpint.ko
  insmod: error inserting 'cpint.ko': -1 Invalid module format


 Thanks in advance,
 Sal

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Re: cpint on 2.6 (rhel4/64-bit): Invalid module format

2005-03-18 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:08:03 -0500 (EST/CDT)
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Thanks Neale, I will give it try!!

Sal

Ferguson, Neale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm in the process of building cpint-2.3.0 and making it GA (it fixes a =
problem with 32-bit programs on a 64-bit system). The build process =
requires that you use the kernel build method. The Makefile should now =
look like:

cpint_mod-objs :=3D cpint.o cmdmain.o idmain.o monmain.o actmain.o

obj-m :=3D cpint_mod.o

prefix =3D
bindir =3D /usr/sbin

COMMAND =3D hcp mongen monstat actgen diag0

tools: $(COMMAND)

hcp : hcp.o
$(CC) -o $@ $^

mongen : mongen.o
$(CC) -o $@ $^

actgen : actgen.o
$(CC) -o $@ $^

monstat : monstat.o sysinfo.o
$(CC) -o $@ $^

diag0   : diag0.o
$(CC) -o $@ $^

hcp.o : hcp.c
$(CC) -o $@ $(INCLUDEDIR) -I. -O2 -c hcp.c

mongen.o : mongen.c
$(CC) -o $@ $(INCLUDEDIR) -I. -O2 -c mongen.c

monstat.o : monstat.c
$(CC) -o $@ $(INCLUDEDIR) -I. -O2 -c monstat.c

sysinfo.o : sysinfo.c
$(CC) -o $@ $(INCLUDEDIR) -I. -O2 -c sysinfo.c

actgen.o : actgen.c
$(CC) -o $@ $(INCLUDEDIR) -I. -O2 -c actgen.c

diag0.o  : diag0.c
$(CC) -o $@ $(INCLUDEDIR) -I. -O2 -c diag0.c

install: $(TARGET)
install -c -m 750 cpint_load ${prefix}${bindir}
install -c -m 750 cpint_unload ${prefix}${bindir}
install -c -m 750 mongen ${prefix}${bindir}
install -c -m 750 monstat ${prefix}${bindir}
install -c -m 750 hcp ${prefix}${bindir}

clean:
rm -rf *.o *~ core mongen monstat actgen hcp diag0 *.ko *.cmd =
.tmp_versions

The build process is:

1. For the device driver -=20

   make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=3D`pwd` SUBDIRS=3D`pwd` =
modules

   You need to have the kernel source installed and at last a make =
*config performed.
   This will generate cpint_mod.ko which can be installed via:

   make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=3D`pwd` SUBDIRS=3D`pwd` =
modules_install

   Issue -=20
   depmod -a

   Then modprobe cpint_mod to load it. In SLES9 SUSE have decided that =
major no 107 is=20
   used for cpint so you could put an entry into /etc/modules.conf to =
get the driver=20
   loaded automatically (i.e. sans cpint_load).=20

2. For the utilities (hcp etc.)

   make tools

The 2.3 package should be available shortly. In addition to the ioctl =
fix it contains a=20
fix for the diag0 driver on 64-bit systems.

Neale

-Original Message-
Hi,
 I am trying to build cpint-2.2.0 on a RHEL4/64-bit system, everything
 builds ok, but when I try to load the module  I get:

 /sbin/insmod cpint.ko
  insmod: error inserting 'cpint.ko': -1 Invalid module format

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Samba 3.x install (SLES8 RPMS)

2005-02-01 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:31:24 -0500 (EST)
*** by LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

You can download the Samba 3.0.x RPMs for SLES8 from:

http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/

I found the link after reading the README file at the SAMBA site:

 ftp://us1.samba.org/pub/samba/Binary_Packages/SuSE/README.Samba3-ul1sles8

SuSE Samba 3 packages for UnitedLinux 1.0 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
 
 Samba 3 packages for UnitedLinux 1.0 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES
 8) releases supported by SerNet can be retrieved from:
   ftp://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba
   http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba



Sal

Martha McConaghy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been playing with the version of Samba 2.2 that comes with Suse SLES 8.
Now, I want to see if I can move to Samba 3.x as I need PAM authentication.
Does anyone have any feed back on which level I should try?  I noticed that
3.09 came out in November, but 3.10 came out in Decembersigh  Has
anyone tried configuring it with PAM yet?  Any gotchas, hints???

Also, I could not find any binaries on samba.org for Linux on zSeries.  Does
anyone have ones they can share?

Martha

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Re: vncserver/vncclient

2004-12-10 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:06:43 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

On my RHAS3 the specs  files get loaded on
  /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/


Roger Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We tried the newest rpm source from both tightvnc and realvnc. They had the
same problem after we got the spec file from the source RPM.

rpm -bb tightvnc.spec
tightvnc.spec: No such file or directory

Any reason?

Thanks.

Roger
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From: David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: vncserver/vncclient


 On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:12:08AM -0500, Roger Lam wrote:
  We tried to use Sine Nomine RPM and also got into problem. The message
  indicated that it couldn't find any data from the RPM but cat the rpm,
it
  does have data on it.

 That RPM is very, VERY old. The current VNC source from
 www.realvnc.com builds and runs correctly (and the tightVNC RPM
 included with most of the distributions is also OK).

 We will probably yank that old RPM later today, as it's not really
 useful any more.

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Re: VDISK swap on SLES9 and the FBA vs. DIAG driver

2004-11-19 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:38:43 -0500 (EST/CDT)
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And it works only on 31-bit systems.

Sal

Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Try excluding the FBA driver from the initrd.  The order in which they get
loaded will determine which driver picks up the DIAG disks.


Mark Post

-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Michael MacIsaac
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 1:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: VDISK swap on SLES9 and the FBA vs. DIAG driver


Has anyone gotten VDISK swap spaces to use the DIAG driver on SLES-9?  I
can't seem to.

I do this:
1) Create a VDISK in my PROFILE EXEC with 'SWAPGEN 101 524288 (DIAG'
2) Install SLES9 and specify Set DIAG ON in the DASD Disk Management YaST
panel
3) Add dasd_diag_mod to /etc/sysctrl/kernel, run mkinitrd and zipl.

After rebooting I get 101 as a swap space and see dasd_diag_mod loaded, but
apparently it is still using the FBA driver: # lsmod | grep dasd
dasd_fba_mod   17408  2
dasd_eckd_mod  66560  4
dasd_diag_mod  17152  0
dasd_mod   79932  9 dasd_fba_mod,dasd_eckd_mod,dasd_diag_mod
# cat /proc/dasd/devices
0.0.0100(ECKD) at ( 94: 0) is dasda   : active at blocksize: 4096,
546840 blocks, 2136 MB
0.0.0101(FBA ) at ( 94: 4) is dasdb   : active at blocksize: 512,
524288 blocks, 256 MB
0.0.0102(ECKD) at ( 94: 8) is dasdc   : active at blocksize: 4096,
54000 blocks, 210 MB

Thanks.

Mike MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED]   (845) 433-7061

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unionfs sharing ro/rw directories

2004-11-12 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
 The latest Linux Journal has an interesting article on unionfs:
http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html unionfs:
 It seems to run ok my SLES8 system, but I have not done much testing.

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Who should own WebSphere?

2004-11-10 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:00:36 -0500 (EST/CDT)
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We did not have any problems.
sal

Kevin A. Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We are currently running the WebSphere Application Server (version 5.1) on
a Linux for zSeries image.

Since the installation requirements were to run the install process using
the root id,  WebSphere is currently owned by root and is started and
running under a root id.

We are aware of the documentation that shows how to go about changing the
ownership of the WebSphere directories and files.  However, we have been
reluctant to change the ownership in case there are sideline issues that
would cause problems if ownership was transferred.

I would like to find out:
1) If anyone switched over to a user without root authority and if they
have had any problems.

2) For those people that did not switch over, what drove the decision to
keep WebSphere running under root.

Kevin Schmidt
Supervisor, Systems Programming
PHI Services Company
room 3609
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Re: new 2.4.21-251-default SuSE kernel and cpint errors

2004-10-08 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:18:29 -0400 (EDT)
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I have the problem. It looks like a SuSE problem.

Sal

Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would say you should report the problem to SUSE, and have them issue =
a new
kernel and set of kernel modules.  This looks like a mis-match between =
the
module and the kernel itself.


Mark Post

-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of =
Ram=F3n
Gutierrez Camus
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: new 2.4.21-251-default SuSE kernel and cpint errors


He all,

I' m using successfully the cpint interface in a SLES 8
(2.4.21-241-default). (The great hcp command).

Yesterday, I updated the kernel in a clone. Now the new cpint.o module
can't load:

# cpint_load
Using /lib/modules/2.4.21-251-default/misc/cpint.o
Symbol version prefix 'smp_'
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.21-251-default/misc/cpint.o will
taint the kernel: forced load
  See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about
tainted modules
/lib/modules/2.4.21-251-default/misc/cpint.o: init_module: Invalid =
argument
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
  You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
-

/var/log/messages has the following text:

 cpint: can't get major -1865420752

I recreated the /dev/cpcmd using the major and minor old numbers:
crw-rw1 root root 107,   8 Sep 29  2003 /dev/cpcmd

and now. /var/log/messages says:

Oct  7 20:40:50 MYHOSTNAME modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-107

Any clue?  must I put something new in /etc/modules.conf?

# cat /etc/SuSE-release
SuSE SLES-8 (S/390)
VERSION =3D 8.1
# uname -a
Linux MYHOSTNAME 2.4.21-251-default #1 SMP Sun Sep 26 14:07:15 UTC
2004 s390 unknown
#  rpm -qf /sbin/cpint-tool
cpint-1.1.2-3
# cd /lib/modules/2.4.21-251-default/misc/ ; md5sum cpint.o
1cca7d9f6de1d1fc42e1f3fb97d57cdb  cpint.o

Thanks in advance,

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Re: Shared /usr

2004-09-10 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:16:33 -0700 (MST/PDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Using shared disks also helps if you are/want to use linux DCSS support.
Then, you have the same problems as a VM's Y-DISK, just much bigger
disks and segments ...

sal

Wolfe, Gordon W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is one possible architecture.  Whether it's recommended or not =
depends on why you want to do it.

The advantages are=20
1) saving disk space.  Depending on how expensive dasd is in your =
organization, this can be considerable.
2) Allowing minidisk cacheing to take place, reducing the number of =
physical I/O's and speeding up response. =20
3) keeping your users from installing programs or making modifications =
on their own and then calling you at three in the morning when their =
server goes down.  then you find out after two hours of work that the =
problem is some modification they made.
4) Creating a standard version of Linux that is easily deployable.

The disadvantages are:
1)  Service is much more difficult.  You have to install updates on a =
test server, then compare before and after with tripwire to see what =
files were updated on /usr and which were not.  You have to route the =
non-/usr files around then swap /usr disks and reboot.  You end up =
having almost as many /usr disks with different versions on them than =
you would have if everybody just had their own disk.  I've got 38 =
servers and 6 different shared /usr disks, not to mention 4 or 5 servers =
with non-shared /usr.
2) you have altercations with users who want to write to the /usr disk.  =
Usually you can get around it by loop-mounting a subdirectory in /home =
over a /usr subdirectory.  Installing WebSphere with a read-only /usr is =
virtually impossible, as are other program products.

I'd say if all of your linux servers are essentially identical, shared =
/usr makes a lot of sense.  If they are all configured differently, =
question it.

We've been using shared /usr for about three years.  We are considering =
going to individual read-write /usr areas with SLES9, just for the ease =
in maintenance.  Disk is cheap here.  We bill our customers only $6.14 =
per gigabyte per month for 3390 dasd storage. A full-pack 3390-3 for =
/usr is about 80% full and is about 2.2GB.

Check out my presentation at SHARE on this topic at=20
http://linuxvm.org/present/SHARE101/S9343GWa.pdf

So one elephant says to another, You'll never believe what happened =
last night. I was trying on Groucho Marx's pajamas--and he shot me!=20
Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940
VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company

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 Reply To: Linux on 390 Port
 Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 11:24 AM
 To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject:  Shared /usr
=20
 I have a question about sharing /usr with multiple vm guests.  Is this =
a
 recommended acrchitecture?  Are there any benefits to doing this other
 than saving space.  It seems to me this could be problematic when
 applying fixes from yast.  I welcome any input on this subject.
=20
=20
=20
 Thanks,
 Doug
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Re: Java2 for PHP 4.2.2 Source Rebuild

2004-07-28 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Wed, 28 Jul 2004 13:14:36 -0400 (EDT)
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May be, just create a new  file on /etc/java and test
by running: /usr/bin/setJava IBMJava2


 cat  /etc/java/IBMJava2-s390-14.conf
#  configutation file for IBM JDK 1.4.1
Priority : 10
Vendor   : IBM
Version  : 1.4.1
Devel: True
JAVA_BINDIR = /opt/IBMJava2-s390-141/bin
JAVA_ROOT   = /opt/IBMJava2-s390-141/
JAVA_HOME   = /opt/IBMJava2-s390-141/
JRE_HOME= /opt/IBMJava2-s390-141/jre/
JDK_HOME= /opt/IBMJava2-s390-141/
SDK_HOME= /opt/IBMJava2-s390-141/
JAVA_LINK   =  /opt/IBMJava2-s390-141/



Ferguson, Neale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe so.

-Original Message-
which did you download was it the 5th one down from the top?

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VSWITCH and OSPF (MPROUTE2)

2004-07-28 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:18:45 -0400 (EDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is there a way to setup VSWITCH and OSPF (VM/MPROUTE)?  We have 3
Guest LANs that want to convert, but need to use OSPF for routing.
Can it be done with static routes? How? (Do not care about failover).


thanks,
sal

Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dennis Wunder, Carlos Ordonez, and Michael MacIsaac have contributed a paper
on z/VM VSWITCH with failover.  According to the abstract, An overview of
z/VM's virtual switch is described, then a secenario [sic], or HOWTO, is
presented in section 1.2, Setting up VSWITCH with failover on page 4.

It's available at http://linuxvm.org/Present/ under the Misc category.


Looks like a good topic for a SHARE session to me.  :)


Mark Post

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PARM and such [was: Linux under VM and Cloning]

2004-07-08 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:01:24 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The latest issue of The Journal of Research and Dev. has an article on
SCSI IPL (real and VM):
   http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/483/banzhaf.pdf

It would be nice if you could use SET LOADDEV on regular IPL disks.

Richard Troth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We're running into an unnecessary ugliness in zSeries
with respect to booting and configuration.   We need the PARM parm.

There's a concept of a boot command-line.   This is good.
Often,  the boot command-line can be overridden at boot time.
This is VERY good.   But support for override is slipping away from
zSeries Linux.

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 10:37, Arty Ecock wrote:
  Something in
  initrd wants that disk R/W.  Adam suggested changing the parmline to
  something like DASD=150(ro), ... but once that is done, you lose the
  ability to update the basevol root disk (or a copy of it).

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Adam Thornton wrote:
 Use multiple parmlines.  There's the older Lucius Leland PARM LINE
 stuff, which I really like, which lets you do it very flexibly from CMS,
 and there's also actual official multiboot support in newer s390-tools.

We really need proper support for parm handling.
For those who do not know,  VM has long time supported a PARM parm
on the IPL command which effects a 64-byte parm string whether booting
from device or from named saved system (NSS).   SAN support breaks it.
So when you're booting Linux on z/VM,  you can append parameters,
as long as you're on traditional disk or booting from NSS.

ipl mylinux parm root=/dev/other init=/sbin/blahblah
-or-
ipl 2345 clear parm root=/dev/another mem=1024m
-or-
ipl 1AE clear parm dasd=1AC-1AF root=/dev/dasdc1

You get the idea.
64 bytes is small,  but quite sufficient for most overrides.

LOADPARM is another thing,  and is seen in the hardware,  so you
z/OS folks are more familiar with that one.   I don't like LOADPARM.
At only 8 bytes,  it doesn't foster entry of arbitrary boot parm text.
The above examples do not fit into LOARPARM space.   Any alternate
boot parameters must be pre-set and stamped into a collection.

SAN is good.   But the z/VM support for SAN makes PARM an
illegal option if the IPL device is SAN.   Why is this?   But while
SAN support breaks ye olde PARM parm,  it supplies a new thing.
IBM calls it SCPDATA,  but it looks like an arbitrar buffer
which gets passed to the boot loader.   I can't find mention of this
outside of IBM (and SHARE) documentation,  so I don't know if it is
architected outside of zSeries.   But it's there.

IPL from SAN should pack a PARM string into SCPDATA space,
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.   There's a lot of value in managed systems
having boot-time overrides containing arbitrary details.

SUMMARY

When booting Linux,  there is the concept of a boot parameter line.
We all know and love this as the parmfile used by ZIPL, LILO, GRUB.
In many situations,  some stage of the bootstrap will allow overrides
to what is stamped on disk.   THIS IS A GOOD THING.   One such
override is Leland's vmparm patch for 2.4.19.

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lvm and boot problems

2004-06-01 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:27:06 -0400 (EDT)
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I have been able to recover them by IPLing a recovery system
(a single minidisk system) and then running:
   vgexport, vgimport and then vgscan
(you may need vgchange to inact/act, and vgmknodes if they are not
on /dev).
At other times I had to run /sbin/fsck.reiserfs or /sbin/fsck.ext2
to fix the filesystems before the mount.

sal


Ferguson, Neale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, this another fine mess I've got me in!

I was updating the kernel and my system crashed. I was left with neither =
a valid /boot/image file nor initrd. No problem you say? Just boot the =
install disk? Good idea but my installed system uses lvm (not the root =
or boot devices but /usr etc.). Thus, while I can mount /dev/dasdxx =
/mnt/ etc and chroot. I cannot get the lvm devices up and running. =
lvscan etc. show that the devices are recognized but I can't get them =
mounted (at which point I can rerun mkinitrd etc. and recover). Ideas?

Neale

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Re: Attempting to get hipersockets configured in...

2004-05-27 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 27 May 2004 13:31:06 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Do you have an entry for the hipersocket device in
/etc/sysconfig/network/routes? For example:

  192.168.252.0   0.0.0.0255.255.255.0 hsi1
  default 137.70.100.3   0.0.0.0   eth0



James Melin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've done some testing. and I don't see a speed improvement for FTP of
a large file via FTP to a hipersocket address vs a GBE ethernet connection.

I did an ftp to the IP address of a Linux guest, and then repeated the send
of that file to the same guest via the hipersocket defined for it. The
results were the same, or slightly FASTER for the GBE. I didn't do enough
iterations to get a clean statistical sample of each method, but it sure
looks to me like it is the routing.

If you have say, a hipersocket device defined for Linux guest 1 at
192.168.252.11 and another at 192.168.252.13, that also have a IP address
for a GBE OSA, at 137.70.100.183 and 137.70.100.185 respectively how do you
test so you're connecting from hsi1 on Linux guest 1 with address of 252.11
to the hipersocket defined as hsi1 on Linux guest 2 at 252.13?

I suspect that everything is getting sent out the GBE regardless.  I simply
don't know how to tell. I looked at /etc/sysconfig/network/routes which
contains: default 137.70.100.3 0.0.0.0 eth0

I cannot seem to find any documentation on exactly how to tell
Linux/WebSphere to send requests for DB2 data and RACF LDAP authentication
to the hipersocket interface while sending everything else out the default
route.

To put it mildly, I am not the most knowledgeable IP person on earth, but
the IP people we have are all windows/z-series types and Linux confuses the
hell out of them. So it's up to me.

Anyone got pointer to the missing bit? Am I being extra special dense?

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Re: OT - open source Windows FTP client?

2004-05-12 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Wed, 12 May 2004 15:19:19 -0400 (EDT)
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You can try filezilla:
 http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

sal

PAUL WILLIAMSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I prefer WinSCP - uses insecure FTP only as a means of last resort...

Paul

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/12/04 03:06PM 
Anyone using  an open source Windows GUI FTP client that works for
mainframe (OS/390 or VM/VSE)?
Currently we are using command line FTP client on Windows.
I checked out fiezilla. Unfortunately it likes to insert / when I use
something like userid.tso.cntl as the directory. Perhaps I can patch the
source.

Thanks

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Websphere clone

2004-05-07 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 06 May 2004 16:18:58 -0700 (MST/PDT)
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I have a perl script that does it. You need to change a bunch of XML
files and dirs. I wil send it to you, but you will need to change it.
Sal

Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm new to Websphere and was hoping one of you experts have figured this
out.

If I clone a WAS (5.1) server, how do I change it's node name?

Thanks in advance,
Marcy Cortes

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Re: SSL Basics for Linux/390 ?

2004-05-07 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Fri, 07 May 2004 09:30:06 -0700 (MST/PDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I think that the latest update from SuSE (submarine) has an
RPM for openCryptoki.

 Title: Optional update for base system and kernel (submarine)
   http://sdb.suse.de/en/psdb/html/819881d586e38ff3dd11ae555ccf
   cabd.html
 ___
   Applies to
   Product(s): SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM zSeries
   Package:

aaa_base,k_deflt,kernel-source,openCryptoki-z990,openCryptoki-z990-64bit,osasnm
d,s390-tools
   Release: 20040503

sal

Wolfe, Gordon W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David,

Do you have a URL for the OpenCryptki mods for OpenSSL on the Alphaworks =
site?

I went to www.alphaworks.ibm.com and did a search on opencryptki and =
got zero results. Only one for openssl and it was not relevant.

I went to google and searched on opencryptki and got zero results.

We just got a new z800 with 2 IFLs and PCICA cards and want to start =
using the crypto co-processors with Linux.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, 'Let Newton Be!' and all was light. - Alexander Pope

It did not last; the Devil howling 'Ho!
Let Einstein Be!' restored the status quo.- John Collings Squire

God Rolled his dice, to Einstein's great dismay:
'Let Feynman Be!' and all was clear as day.   - Jagdish Mehra

Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph. D.
VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company

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  It looks to me like I need
  Tomcat 4.1.27 or later so that the connectors are included. Has =
anyone
  had experience running SSL with linux/390 using Tomcat?  The
  server runs
  SuSE SLES8 SP3.
  Where can I find compatible Tomcat files? I also looking for good =
SSL
  doc for linux.
=20
 The Oreilly SSL book is excellent.
=20
 Dunno if you have a crypto engine available, but if you do, I strongly
 encourage you to get the OpenSSL OpenCryptki mods from the IBM
 Alphaworks site to enable OpenSSL to use the PCICA and later. It
 *dramatically* improves SSL performance (not unexpected, but it's
 *really* a big difference...)
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OK
 if you force RPM to build them from src.
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Re: New xip2fs patches on the web site

2004-02-25 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:48:41 +0100
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Will Red Hat support xip2fs?

Thanks Sal

Carsten Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rob van der Heij wrote:
Be aware this is very early development and we still need to learn about
what it can do.
I do disagree here. The code is derived from second extended filesystem
(known to be stable) and well tested. It is rock-solid and will be
supported/serviced by SuSE and IBM. Although I am not an expert for CP,
the CP portion of it seems to be very solid, too. (*works for me, have'nt
seen a single problem with it*)
The second half I do 100% agree with you, one closely needs to figure out
how to use it and for what data it is wise to use it per usage-case. In
general it seems best to share executeable files and libraries that are
frequently used by a large amount of Linux images, and it is
counterproductive to share things that are not frequently used.

with kind regards
Carsten Otte
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And i think to myself, what a wonderful world


Unofficial SuSE FAQ

2004-02-04 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
Additional SuSE help,
Sal


http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/

The Unofficial SuSE FAQ is compiled from the SuSE English Linux mailing
 list and tries to provide answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
 Please bear in mind that this is an unofficial document and it is
 maintained voluntarily.


Linux userid?

2004-02-02 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:42:49 -0800 (PST)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

You can get the LPAR name and VM userid from /proc/sysinfo
 cat /proc/sysinfo

 VMUSERID=$(cat /proc/sysinfo |grep 'VM00 Name:'|awk '{print $3}')

sal

Wolfe, Gordon W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a way for a Linux server running under z/VM to determine its =
own VM userid?  Something using hcp perhaps?  I can't use the IDENTIFY =
command since that's a CMS command.

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods.  Cats have never =
forgotten this. _ Anonymous
Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940
VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company


Re: Anyone using OpenLDAP with SLES8? Question with...

2003-12-19 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:18:41 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I did a couple of tests and it seems to work for me (by default we use
SecurID for the authentication part). You may need a newer pam_ldap version
(I am using pam_ldap-164).

The ACL depends on if you are using anonymous bind or a proxy user
(rootbinddn). You can start with:

access to dn=..dc=com attr=userPassword
by self write
by anonymous auth
by * none
access to *
by * read
and change as needed.

SLES8 includes the CPU tool to add/change/delete users and groups


Sal

Eric Sammons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have done that and it sort of worked.  It seemed to take on the
characteristics there after of a ACL problem.  By changing the acls I get
different behavior; however, I can't seem to find the right acls that
cause the implementation to work.

Do you have this working?  Can I ask what your LDAP ACLs look like?

Thanks!
Eric Sammons
(804)697-3925
FRIT - Unix Systems





Sal Torres/SBC Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent by: Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED]
12/18/2003 10:03 AM
Please respond to Linux on 390 Port

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Anyone using OpenLDAP with SLES8? Question with
Passwords

Try to set the shadow last change to zero. pam_ldap is supposed to
expire the account:
...
  if (session-info-shadow.lstchg == 0)
 {
   /*
* Adhere to convention of a shadow last change
* value of 0 implying that the password has
* expired. Apparently this is documented in the
* shadow suite (libmisc/isexpired.c).
*/
   session-info-password_expired = 1;
...

sal


Re: Anyone using OpenLDAP with SLES8? Question with Passwords

2003-12-18 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
You could try using the pam_unix2.so module instead of pam_ldap.so.
pam_unux2.so will call pam_ldap.so under the covers if you modify
/etc/security/pam_unix2.conf.


Hope it helps. sal


Re: Anyone using OpenLDAP with SLES8? Question with...

2003-12-18 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:31:16 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I think that YaST does it for you if you select LDAP. I found out
about it by looking at the source code for pam_unux2.
(pam-modules rpm).


sal

Eric Sammons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What mods should I make to the pam_unix2.conf file.  This is the first I
have heard regarding a modification to this file.

Thanks!
Eric Sammons
(804)697-3925
FRIT - Unix Systems





Sal Torres/SBC Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent by: Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED]
12/18/2003 09:30 AM
Please respond to Linux on 390 Port

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject:Re: Anyone using OpenLDAP with SLES8? Question
with Passwords

You could try using the pam_unix2.so module instead of pam_ldap.so.
pam_unux2.so will call pam_ldap.so under the covers if you modify
/etc/security/pam_unix2.conf.


Hope it helps. sal


Anyone using OpenLDAP with SLES8? Question with Passwords

2003-12-18 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
Try to set the shadow last change to zero. pam_ldap is supposed to
expire the account:
...
  if (session-info-shadow.lstchg == 0)
 {
   /*
* Adhere to convention of a shadow last change
* value of 0 implying that the password has
* expired. Apparently this is documented in the
* shadow suite (libmisc/isexpired.c).
*/
   session-info-password_expired = 1;
...

sal


LAuS

2003-11-12 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
from the Release Notes for SLES 8 S/390  zSeries Service Pack 3 (SP3):

1.1.7.1 LAuS was added to the Kernel
the Linux Audit System (LAuS) was added to the kernel. This is necessary
for the CC-EAL3-Certification.

SP3 seems to have lots of changes.


Sal


Re: sles8 sp3 iso's?

2003-11-12 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:06:25 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I did it using yast2 online update.

sal

Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've already sent them a note asking about this.  IBM couldn't find ISO's
either.

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 Little, Chris
 Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:04 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [LINUX-390] sles8 sp3 iso's?


 does anyone know if suse will provide sp3 as an iso? or will i have to
 download each rpm?

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ask.slashdot: Managing Linux and Virtual Machines?

2003-09-04 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
 http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/03/227257

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday September 03, @07:10PM
from the seeking-wisdom-from-the-pioneers dept.
deijmaster asks: For a couple of months we have been hearing (as a major
consulting firm) IBM people pushing the possibility of installing a Z/Linux VM
setup at one of our biggest clients (financial). To a Linux user such as myself
this sounds great, at first. Now, I am a bit reluctant when it comes to
managing this kind of infrastructure, with little or no local expertise
at IBM. Has anyone gone through a Z/Linux VM corporate
installation and lived through the management of such a solution?


Re: pronunciation of SuSE

2003-08-06 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Tue, 05 Aug 2003 12:23:22 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lucius, Leland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So what does SuSE mean?  Anyting?  How do the SuSErians pronounce it?

Leland

SuSE was established as Gesellschaft fõr Software-und
 Systementwicklung mbH, and later changed to
 Software und System Entwicklung (Software and
 System Development), providing the manageable
 German acronym by which users now know and love
 the distribution.


Yahoo News Article: Linux OK'd for Use on... and z/VM

2003-08-05 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Tue, 05 Aug 2003 10:56:16 -0400 (EDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 z/VM too, next year!

 http://www.suse.com/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/security_c
 rtification.html

In addition to IBM's ongoing commitment to accelerate the development and
certification of Linux as a secure, industrial strength operating system,
IBM intends to continue to invest in ongoing certifications for new and
existing IBM products. IBM plans to seek Common Criteria certification for
IBM's premier virtualization technology, z/VM, in the upcoming year. z/VM
helps enable mainframe customers to run tens to even hundreds of instances
of the Linux operating system on a single IBM zSeries server. IBM's suite of
middleware products are also in line for Common Criteria certification on
Linux. IBM Directory has just completed evaluation under the Common
Criteria. WebSphere Application Server and Tivoli Access Manager are in
evaluation today, and several other IBM Software products are being prepared
to enter the evaluation process.


Re: SLES 8 question - starting things

2003-05-29 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Wed, 28 May 2003 12:54:17 -0700 (MST/PDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lots of the stuff moved to the /etc/sysconfig directory

Sal

Wolfe, Gordon W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm working on the same think Marcy is.  there are LOTS of things that =
don't exist in SLES8 that used to in SLES7.  Where did they go?  =
/etc/rc.config is a good place to start.  I see that some of the stuff =
has moved to /etc/sysconfig, but not all.  Where did it go?  Where's the =
documentation?

Great Minds discuss ideas.  Average minds discuss events.  Small minds =
discuss people.  - Admiral Hyman Rickover
Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D.  (425)856-5940
VM Enterprise Servers, The Boeing Company

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 From: Marcy Cortes
 Reply To: Linux on 390 Port
 Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:47 PM
 To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject:  SLES 8 question - starting things
=20
 I'm still trying to figure out where to place things that
 used to be in the /etc/rc.config in SLES 7.
=20
 For instance, I want to start Mysql and SNMPD.  In Sles 7
 rc.config contained:
 START_MYSQL =3D yes
 START_SNMPD =3D yes
=20
 Where do I do this under SLES 8?   (and where is this stuff =
documented???)
 Marcy Cortes
 Wells Fargo Services Co
=20
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RE : Java on zLinux for batch processing

2003-03-13 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:05:20 +0100
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Linux Journal had an article on gcj (Jan 2003):

  http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4860

sal

Herve Bonvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had a meeting with the developers and they are not very please with =
the idea to use something else as java.
We place great hopes in the new java.nio package which should improve =
the io operations. It is jdk 1.4. I don't about gcj and jdk 1.4 but we =
will have a look.=20

I will let this list know about the result of our tests. We will test =
java versus cobol/delta (delta is a cobol generator used by our =
developers on z/OS). Perl, cobol on CMS are not an option because of =
lack of knowhow, IDE's ...=20

Thanks for all the informations I received from this list,
Herve=20



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From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Java on zLinux for batch processing



  Portability is also an important factor for us. Once the batch is=20
  running on z/OS, the migration to other plateforms is very=20
  difficult. If the batch is running on linux, the choice for future=20
  migration is much better.

 That's a slightly different problem, however -- batch on Linux vs=20
 converting to Java. Converting to Java doesn't make applications that=20
 much more portable -- you're just dealing with a different set of=20
 porting problems. (try running a application built with the Sun JVM on =

 a Windows system sometime -- Java isn't *that* portable).  Running=20
 batch on Linux is the same problem as running batch on any other Unix=20
 system.

 As I said, our results with batch Java apps is pretty mixed. Your=20
 experience might be better, but there are a lot of issues that tend to =

 make it not worth the effort.


For java in batch applications, it's worth considering gcj, part of the =
Gnu Compiler Collection. If that's not up to snuff, consider hiring =
someone to help get it fixed. Bearing in mind the expense of any =
rewriting, I think that that wouldn't be a great additional burden.


By using gcj, you will get the performance benefits of compiled code =
with the coding benefits.

I'm not a great fan of C, especially for anything Cobol and PL/1 can do =
well.
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EVMS scrapped?

2003-01-06 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
It seems LVM 2.0 will be included in the 2.6 kernel and development
of EVMS has been stopped.

  http://news.com.com/2100-1001-979142.html?tag=fd_top


Sistina's announcement that LVM 2.0 would be incorporated into the 2.6 Linux
kernel came shortly after IBM programmers working on their own competing
Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) announced they would scrap much of
their project.
As recently as August, Dan Frye, head of IBM's Linux Technology Center, had
hopes for EVMS. It's really a quantum step forward in ease of use, reliability
and performance, Frye said in an interview at the time.
But when top Linux programmers declined to include EVMS in the 2.5 kernel--the
test version that will become 2.6--IBM decided to cut its losses.



System reset message in /var/log/messages

2002-11-25 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Fri, 22 Nov 2002 02:42:13 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

You could try to increase the number of server threads for the nfs server
in /etc/rc.config:

   #
   # the kernel nfs-server supports multiple server threads
   #
   USE_KERNEL_NFSD_NUMBER=16

You can also use the nfsstat command (nfsstat -s for server and
nfsstat -c for the client) to gather more information.

sal

Michael MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi list,

We're seeing network problems (especiallly NFS) under heavy loads.  The
configuration is G6 with OSA Express Gigabit Ethernet.  Linux images are
SLES-7 with patched (.8) qdio/qeth drivers sharing the OSA. In the NFS
server's /var/log/messages we see constant:

Nov 20 15:16:30 linuxnfs kernel: ch-0c71: System reset (remote)
Nov 20 15:16:35 linuxnfs kernel: ch-0c21: System reset (remote)
Nov 20 15:16:35 linuxnfs kernel: ch-0c41: System reset (remote)
Nov 20 15:16:35 linuxnfs kernel: ch-0c31: System reset (remote)
Nov 20 15:16:35 linuxnfs kernel: ch-0c51: System reset (remote)
Nov 20 15:16:35 linuxnfs kernel: ch-0c61: System reset (remote)
Nov 20 15:16:35 linuxnfs kernel: ch-0c81: System reset (remote)
Nov 20 15:16:35 linuxnfs kernel: ch-0c11: System reset (remote)
Nov 20 15:16:35 linuxnfs kernel: ch-0c71: System reset (remote)
Nov 20 15:16:40 linuxnfs kernel: ch-0c21: System reset (remote)

Any ideas? TIA

  -Mike MacIsaac,  IBM   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   (845) 433-7061



regina/rexx question

2002-11-14 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:11:24 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mark,

using popen:

 rc=popen('df', list.);
 do i=1 to list.i
   say list.i
   end

or using the stack:

  q=queued()
 'df  FIFO'
  do i=1 to queued()-q;
parse pull line
say line
end

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am working on rexx/regina.  I want to issue a command, such as 'df'  and
then pull the results and massage them.

'df'
do queued()
   pull line
   /* edit the line */
   say line
end

df results are not put in the stack to be pulled off in this manner.   How
can I accomplish this?


Mark D Pace
Senior Systems Engineer
Mainline Information Systems
1700 Summit Lake Drive
Tallahassee, FL. 32317
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: 850.219.5184
Fax: 850.219.5050
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Re: regina/rexx question

2002-11-14 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:52:54 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

You can find the Regina documentation at SourceForce.net:
  http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html

popen is documented under the REXX Standard Built-in Functions.

On newer versions of Regina you can use the Address statement:
  Address SYSTEM mypgm WITH INPUT STEM in. OUTPUT STEM out. ,
 ERROR STEM err.

sal

Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sal,

One small correction:
 rc=popen('df', list.);
-do i=1 to list.i
+do i=1 to list.0
   say list.i


And one question.  The distribution of Regina I have doesn't document
popen at all.  Do you know where I can find a source that does?

Mark Post

-Original Message-
From: Sal Torres/SBC Inc. [mailto:cmcgst;a05jes.ameritech.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 11:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: regina/rexx question


*** Reply to note of Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:11:24 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mark,

using popen:

 rc=popen('df', list.);
 do i=1 to list.i
   say list.i
   end

or using the stack:

  q=queued()
 'df  FIFO'
  do i=1 to queued()-q;
parse pull line
say line
end

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am working on rexx/regina.  I want to issue a command, such as 'df'  and
then pull the results and massage them.

'df'
do queued()
   pull line
   /* edit the line */
   say line
end

df results are not put in the stack to be pulled off in this manner.   How
can I accomplish this?


Mark D Pace
Senior Systems Engineer
Mainline Information Systems
1700 Summit Lake Drive
Tallahassee, FL. 32317
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: 850.219.5184
Fax: 850.219.5050
http://www.mainline.com



Re: regina/rexx question

2002-11-14 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.
*** Reply to note of Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:43:32 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mark,
No problem. With popen you can gain access to many of the shell's
helper programs, such as basename, dirname, test, getopt. For example one
could use getopt (man getopt) to handle unix command line options:

#!/usr/bin/regina
/*-*
 |testgetopt --user id --host node --fname fn --ftype ft --punchÙ fid |
 |  -u id -h node -n fn -t ft -p Ù fid|
 *-*/
 parse arg parms
 /*short options*/
 sgopt='-o u:h:n:t:p'
 /*long options*/
 lgopt='-a -l user:,host:,fname:,ftype:,punch'
 /*name of the program*/
 ngopt='-q -n testgetopt'
 /*call getopt - type man getopt for help*/
 rc=popen('getopt' ngopt sgopt lgopt '--' parms,'gopt.')
 if rc µ=0 then do
   say 'invalid parms'
   signal usage
   end
 else do
   say 'getopt results:' gopt.1
   end
 exit rc
usage:
   say 'testgetopt --user id --host node --fname fn --ftype ft --punchÙ
   say ' -u id -h node -n fn -t ft -pÙ fid'
   exit 1

Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sal,

Thanks.  That's about 4 years more current than my documentation.

Mark Post

-Original Message-
From: Sal Torres/SBC Inc. [mailto:cmcgst;a05jes.ameritech.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: regina/rexx question


*** Reply to note of Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:52:54 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

You can find the Regina documentation at SourceForce.net:
  http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html

popen is documented under the REXX Standard Built-in Functions.

On newer versions of Regina you can use the Address statement:
  Address SYSTEM mypgm WITH INPUT STEM in. OUTPUT STEM out. ,
 ERROR STEM err.

sal

Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sal,

One small correction:
 rc=popen('df', list.);
-do i=1 to list.i
+do i=1 to list.0
   say list.i


And one question.  The distribution of Regina I have doesn't document
popen at all.  Do you know where I can find a source that does?

Mark Post

-Original Message-
From: Sal Torres/SBC Inc. [mailto:cmcgst;a05jes.ameritech.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 11:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: regina/rexx question


*** Reply to note of Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:11:24 -0500 (EST/CDT)
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mark,

using popen:

 rc=popen('df', list.);
 do i=1 to list.i
   say list.i
   end

or using the stack:

  q=queued()
 'df  FIFO'
  do i=1 to queued()-q;
parse pull line
say line
end

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am working on rexx/regina.  I want to issue a command, such as 'df'  and
then pull the results and massage them.

'df'
do queued()
   pull line
   /* edit the line */
   say line
end

df results are not put in the stack to be pulled off in this manner.   How
can I accomplish this?


Mark D Pace
Senior Systems Engineer
Mainline Information Systems
1700 Summit Lake Drive
Tallahassee, FL. 32317
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: 850.219.5184
Fax: 850.219.5050
http://www.mainline.com



Re: create an ISO from a CD

2002-02-27 Thread Sal Torres/SBC Inc.

*** Reply to note of Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:30:42 +0100
*** by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

You can use the mkisofs command to create an ISO image from any
directory:
   mkisofs -r -o my.iso /cd_directory

(to burn ISO images you can use the cdrecord command on systems that
 support cd writers).

sal
Holger Baxmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In-Reply-To:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Am Mit, 2002-02-27 um 15.39 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 How can I make an ISO image from a CD?  I would like to be able to then
 mount that ISO image as loopback device.  That way I don't have to have the
 CD mounted all the time.

it is a simple:

dd if=your cd device name goes here/ of=MyLovelyMVSImage.iso

hth
bax



 Mark D Pace
 Senior Systems Engineer
 Mainline Information Systems
 1700 Summit Lake Drive
 Tallahassee, FL. 32311
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Phone: 850-219-5184
 Fax: 850-219-5050
 http://www.mainline.com