Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2008-11-25 Thread zlinuxman
I have some new information. I happened to be logged on to the virtual Linux server's virtual console in VM while attempting to vary the device offline in a separate remote ssh session. When I did so, I saw messages on the virtual console like I see during boot-up when the device first comes onli

Bug#504878: Support for 3215 console in zipl

2008-11-11 Thread zlinuxman
I just did a little more research and discovered that a 3215 doesn't support the sense id command; so scanning the subchannels looking for it won't work. But here's what you can do: 1. Determine if you are running under VM. Do this by executing a STIDP instruction. If the first byte of the CPU

Bug#504878: Support for 3215 console in zipl

2008-11-07 Thread zlinuxman
Package: s390-tools Version: 1.6.2-1 Severity: wishlist Currently, zipl has no support for a 3215 console. It always uses the integrated system console (SCLP) for both input and output. This works OK when running directly in a logical partition (LPAR), but not so well when running in a virtual m

Re: Re: z/VM 5.3 SSL Server using Debian GNU/Linux

2008-10-31 Thread zlinuxman
> To be fair, it wouldn't be that hard to build an SSL server that was > Etch-based. I didn't try etch, but I did try lenny, which at the time was using a 2.6.24 kernel, and vmsock wouldn't compile cleanly. The officially supported distributions use a 2.6.5 kernel for Suse and a 2.6.9 kernel for

Re: z/VM 5.3 SSL Server using Debian GNU/Linux

2008-10-31 Thread zlinuxman
Well, I guess this is a moot point anyway, since my method requires installing sarge, and sarge is no longer installable. I have confirmed that z/VM 5.4.0 no longer requires a virtual Linux server to run the SSL server (SSLSERV virtual machine). The SSL server under z/VM 5.4.0 runs under CMS, with

z/VM 5.3 SSL Server using Debian GNU/Linux

2008-10-10 Thread zlinuxman
I am a z/VM systems programmer by profession. My job is to install and maintain z/VM at my installation. We currently run z/VM 5.3. One of my tasks is to provide a TLS/SSL-secured FTP server and TELNET 3270 server for our VM system. To do so requires first configuring an SSL server (virtual mac

Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2008-09-24 Thread zlinuxman
Hey, I just thought of something. The same day I installed linux-source-2.6.26, etc., I also changed the device numbers of the minidisks. The old device number range was 200-203, and the new device number range is 210-213. And I didn't re-test the offline / online procedure until AFTER I changed

Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2008-09-23 Thread zlinuxman
> You always showed direct usage of /sys. Yes. But since "echo" with redirection was no longer working, I thought maybe the procedure had changed. To make sure, I invoked chccwdev -d 0.0.0201 I figured that if the procedure had changed, chccwdev would know the new way to get the device offline

Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2008-09-23 Thread zlinuxman
Hi, Bastien. > I fail to see what s390-tools or the chccwdev tools have to do with this > problem. It's possible that I may have reported this bug against the wrong package. chccwdev is part of the s390-tools package. And chccwdev fails. But the actual cause of the problem may be elsewhere. As

Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2008-09-23 Thread zlinuxman
Well now, here's something strange. I just installed packages linux-source-2.6.26, kernel-package, and libncurses5-dev, along with all the packages that aptitude brings in with them as prerequisites and corequisites, and now I can get the device offline dynamically! I haven't installed a custom

Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2008-09-22 Thread zlinuxman
I just upgraded to Debian stock kernel linux-image-2.6.26-1-s390, version 2.6.26-5, but the problem remains. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#499833: chccwdev cannot set device offline in Lenny

2008-09-22 Thread zlinuxman
Package: s390-tools Version: 1.6.2-1 This works just fine in Etch, but fails in Lenny. A device cannot be taken offline dynamically. In my case, I have a separate dasd device for use as a boot partition. The device number is 0201, which Linux references as 0.0.0201. The device node name for th