Re: CTC - linux newbie - should be an easy one

2002-01-31 Thread Bishop, Peter G
Hi Daniel, here's my working ifcfg-ctc0. Maybe change your bootproto value to "static" would be my guess. I don't have a USERCTL. cheers Peter Bishop > S/390 & zSeries Architecture Services, CSS > Core Infrastructure > EDS Asia Pacific > telephone: +61 2 9378 0113 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: editor discussions

2002-01-31 Thread Kris Van Hees
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:42:44PM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote: > Oh, lay off the cough syrup, David. > > Of *course* Teco exists for Linux: > ftp://ftp.mindlink.net/pub/teco/ptf_teco.tar.gz > > I just changed the -ltermcap to -lncurses in the Makefile and it was > fine. But did you also end up wi

Re: OT: editor discussions

2002-01-31 Thread Adam Thornton
> All this discussion about line editors made me think a bit of the one editor > that Linux doesn't have that should be there: TECO. For those of you who > never encountered this wonder of the world, TECO wasn't "what you see is > what you get", it was "you asked for it, you got it". No safeties

OT: editor discussions

2002-01-31 Thread David Boyes
All this discussion about line editors made me think a bit of the one editor that Linux doesn't have that should be there: TECO. For those of you who never encountered this wonder of the world, TECO wasn't "what you see is what you get", it was "you asked for it, you got it". No safeties, no bac

Re: RedHat 7.2 Install

2002-01-31 Thread John Summerfield
> Tom Butts wrote: > > >User process fault: interruption code 0x7 > >CPU 0 > >Process insmod (pid:24 stackpage=008AB000) > >User PSW: 070de000 80442a60Not tainted > >Followed by register sets [...] > > Well, don't leave out the interesting part ;-) > > This is seriously weird, I'd really like

Re: RedHat 7.2 Install

2002-01-31 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Tom Butts wrote: >User process fault: interruption code 0x7 >CPU 0 >Process insmod (pid:24 stackpage=008AB000) >User PSW: 070de000 80442a60Not tainted >Followed by register sets [...] Well, don't leave out the interesting part ;-) This is seriously weird, I'd really like to see the register

Re: RedHat 7.2 Install

2002-01-31 Thread Alan Cox
> lcs0,0x3002,0x3003which are the r/w address of my osa card. > and then i get a User process fault: interruption code 0x7 > CPU 0 > Process insmod (pid:24 stackpage=008AB000) > User PSW: 070de000 80442a60Not tainted > Followed by register sets and later a message that eth0 does not exist

Re: RedHat 7.2 Install

2002-01-31 Thread Rob van der Heij
Are you sure you have the appropriate hardware out there? What card is it? Has it been configured properly, used before? Is this in a virtual machine or in LPAR ? The 0x7 smells to me like a 'data exception' which could mean the driver is getting some status back from the device that is seriously

Re: Upgrade

2002-01-31 Thread Rob van der Heij
Dave Jones wrote: > What beta to download? I thought the 2.4.x version of SuSE was not > available via the Net; am I mistaken? Oh dear. I apologize for being stupid again. I think Mr Joachim Schroeder from SuSE posted on the list that a beta version would be made available for download http://

IBM Introduces Linux-Only Mainframe

2002-01-31 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Another article with incorrect info in it, TODAY'S TOP NEWS: IBM Introduces Linux-Only Mainframe IBM Corp. has offered Linux as an option on its z/Series mainframe for nearly two years, but there was a catch: Linux ran in a partition managed by z/OS. Now IBM offers a mainfram

Re: System Security; was Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > So, given that _all_ employees of an enterprise are going to have > access to the source of your operating system, and a lot of the other > software that runs on it, the people responsible for those systems > cannot hope for security through obscurity. They will have to

Re: Messages Manual -- Security with open source

2002-01-31 Thread George Haeh
MVS and VM source was always > 90% available. A secure system can't be cracked even when you do have the source -- see above. Mind you, a dumb sysmod could leave the system wide open. I cracked one IBM datacenter's MVT pre-RACF "security" in about 20 minutes with a SYSABEND dump -- without sour

Re: System Security; was Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread John Summerfield
> Greetings; > > For all practical purposes securing source so that only authorized > people can modify it is for all practical purposes the same as > denying all source to everyone. At least for all the open source > software that you use. > > For the vast majority of things that execute on your

Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread John Summerfield
> > I understand the reasons for auditors (having been involved in audit > > compliance myself for a while). I wasn't talking about any "shortcomings" > > in the software. > As I understand it you are saying that if the message isn't documented and is > n't > understandable then you get to read t

Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread Nick Gimbrone
> Oh, come on Nick. How are you going to prevent any operations staff > with the inclination either downloading the source code to Linux in > their one time on their own equipment? I never spoke about prohibit, the question is one of what an auditor does. They are advisors. It is reasonable for t

Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread John Summerfield
> Well, more readable but still sometimes nearly useless! > > There are still too many messages that say > > contact your system programmer > > Yeah, that's me, and I don't know what to do either! Ah, the joys of being a beginner OS/2 user, at home, alone, especially when Warp Connect came

Re: Upgrade

2002-01-31 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Rob. Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks for the kind words, but that was really meant as an >intermediate solution for those who want to play with 2.4 >while there was no distribution yet. It causes various >other problems if you do it like that. There may however >still be

How to "add" existing Linux disk to Suse 7.0 system under VM?

2002-01-31 Thread Dave Myers
I have two VM guests running SuSE 7.0. What are the steps to take an existing disk from SYSTEMB and be able to mount it to SYSTEMA ? I'm assuming there are VM cmds involved :) Thanks, Dave

Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread John Summerfield
> > That's going to be pretty tough to do for Linux/390 shops, unless they're > > allowed to maim their operators by blinding them. :) Not something I woul > d > > recommend, in any case. I think auditors are going to have to change their > > mindset a little in this area. > Auditors exist for

Re: CTC - linux newbie - should be an easy one

2002-01-31 Thread daniel . jarboe
I corrected USERCTL=no to USERCTL=false, still no luck. Just thought I'd let you know ~ Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried renaming the file, and that wasn't enough for things to work > correctly. On reboot MTU is 32767 and netmask 255.255.255.255 for ctc0 > > ifup-ctc is executing to

Re: System Security; was Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread Post, Mark K
You're arguing at completely cross purposes to what I posted. We had been discussing error messages, and how self-explanatory they are or not. Phil Payne then made a side-comment that "In enterprise environments code and operations are separated for audit and control reasons." That goes well be

Re: CTC - linux newbie - should be an easy one

2002-01-31 Thread daniel . jarboe
I tried renaming the file, and that wasn't enough for things to work correctly. On reboot MTU is 32767 and netmask 255.255.255.255 for ctc0 ifup-ctc is executing to the end (route add default gw ${GATEWAY} is being performed), so that seems okay. Two noteworthies: earlier in the script, the ifc

ZDNet: IBM: Linux Can Take on the World

2002-01-31 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: "http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-31-018-26-NW-BZ-SV"; "IBM, having embraced Linux, now is on a mission to convince others that the operating system is worthy of real-world use. "To further its cause, IBM put on display at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here four big-n

RedHat 7.2 Install

2002-01-31 Thread Tom Butts
Anyone know what my problem might be After dowloading the oco modules from IBM and building a new initrd image I get the following problem when i IPL after the messages "Starting the S390 initrd to configure networking. Version 045." "Please enter any parameters you need to pass to the channel de

Re: Upgrade

2002-01-31 Thread Rob van der Heij
Dave Jones wrote: > >Now that we've done 2.2.16 how do we upgrade to 2.4 Suse under S390? Do we > >re-install or upgrade with patches? > > > I've had very good luck following Rob van der Heij's instructions for Thanks for the kind words, but that was really meant as an intermediate solution for

System Security; was Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; For all practical purposes securing source so that only authorized people can modify it is for all practical purposes the same as denying all source to everyone. At least for all the open source software that you use. For the vast majority of things that execute on your system the sam

Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread Nick Gimbrone
> I understand the reasons for auditors (having been involved in audit > compliance myself for a while). I wasn't talking about any "shortcomings" > in the software. As I understand it you are saying that if the message isn't documented and isn't understandable then you get to read the source to

Re: Upgrade

2002-01-31 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Steve. Steve Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Now that we've done 2.2.16 how do we upgrade to 2.4 Suse under S390? Do we >re-install or upgrade with patches? > I've had very good luck following Rob van der Heij's instructions for upgrading a SuSe 2.2.16 kernel to the 2.4.7 level that he

Upgrade

2002-01-31 Thread Steve Guthrie
Now that we've done 2.2.16 how do we upgrade to 2.4 Suse under S390? Do we re-install or upgrade with patches? Thanks, Stephen J. Guthrie Regional Sales Manager Mantissa Corporation 2200 Valleydale Road Birmingham, AL 35244 (800) 438-7367

Tape driver CU problem

2002-01-31 Thread Malcolm Beattie
The tape390 driver in Linux 2.4.7-SuSE-SMP is refusing to recognise a 3490 that's attached under z/VM 4.1.0. It's apparently seeing the CU type as 3990 whereas the driver source (for 2.4.17 anyway) is apparently expecting to see 3480 or 3490. The relevant line from the dmesg output when the device

OSA

2002-01-31 Thread Don Clarke/Ontario/IBM
William, I recently had been doing some research for a z900 upgrade at one of my customers and when I saw your postings knew I had seen a Washington Systems Center flash on this topic. Please see WSC Flash 10119 "OSA-Express Maintenance in a LINUX Environment". Although you have been assured of n

Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread Ward, Garry
Securing source so that only authorized people can modify it is not the same as denying all source to everyone. Any system, open source or not, should have the security functions available to ensure that only properly authorized people can modify the programs and scripts running in it. The issue

Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Well, more readable but still sometimes nearly useless! There are still too many messages that say contact your system programmer Yeah, that's me, and I don't know what to do either! I have noticed in some of the newer products and features that they have expanded this to: User Respo

Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread Hernandez, Heriberto (Ed)
Please remove me from your mailing list. Thank You. -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 9:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Messages Manual Nick, I understand the reasons for auditors (having been involved in audit co

please ignore post "default password for initrd from ..."

2002-01-31 Thread John P Taylor
sigh. I'm not quite sure how I managed to resend a post form ages ago. please ignore it John P Taylor

Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread Post, Mark K
Nick, I understand the reasons for auditors (having been involved in audit compliance myself for a while). I wasn't talking about any "shortcomings" in the software. The fact is that source for nearly everything running on any Linux system is available. Operations folks are going to be able to

Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread Nick Gimbrone
> > R 00,"CLPA,APF=02,LNK=45" > I can see why you need a manual 8) While even VM has some messages that are as cryptic as that "MVS" style message, there has been a trend in recent (past 8+ years) versions of VM to make new messages actually be readable... now, it doesn't always work, but on the w

Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-31 Thread Nick Gimbrone
> That's going to be pretty tough to do for Linux/390 shops, unless they're > allowed to maim their operators by blinding them. :) Not something I would > recommend, in any case. I think auditors are going to have to change their > mindset a little in this area. Auditors exist for business reas

Re: NT server consolidation with samba

2002-01-31 Thread David Boyes
> We had a set of NT servers lately that we wanted to migrate > to Linux/390 > SAMBA for cost purposes. The cost savings would have been > enormous. The NT > weenies did everything they could to shut us up and "prove" > that we couldn't > do the job, desparately looking for anything and everythi

Re: CTC - linux newbie - should be an easy one

2002-01-31 Thread Post, Mark K
Daniel, I believe that if you rename ifcfg-ctc to ifcfg-ctc0 that things will start happening for you. Those files are created for each interface, not a class of interfaces. Mark Post -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002

Re: who is working on that ?

2002-01-31 Thread Rob van der Heij
> Another very interesting feature was discussed page 226, about pushing the > linux kernel into an NSS. > The interest obviously being to be able to declare page ranges Shared Read. > > Are some people currently working on that The more recent kernels can be configured to separate R/O and R/W pa

Re: default password for initrd from ftp://www.laplace.boeblingen .de.ibm.com

2002-01-31 Thread Post, Mark K
John, Try "pass4root". Mark Post -Original Message- From: John P Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 6:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: default password for initrd from ftp://www.laplace.boeblingen.de.ibm.com Anyone know what the default password has

CTC - linux newbie - should be an easy one

2002-01-31 Thread daniel . jarboe
I really hate to ask, because I had it working before, but after a fresh reinstall I couldn't get it working again. RH 7.2 on an LPAR. Everytime I reboot I have to ifconfig ctc0 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.128 and route add default gw blah.blah.blah.blah (and vary tcpip on the gateway lpar) I

Re: software sharing and management

2002-01-31 Thread Adam Thornton
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:42:17AM -0600, Kinnear, Mike wrote: > We are in the process of creating a production LINUX world within a z/VM > environment on an IFL. We are planning to create 20-30 instances for various > test and production application reasons. Is there any way for these various > g

software sharing and management

2002-01-31 Thread Kinnear, Mike
We are in the process of creating a production LINUX world within a z/VM environment on an IFL. We are planning to create 20-30 instances for various test and production application reasons. Is there any way for these various guests to share the kernel or any other software? I have read a Marist d

default password for initrd from ftp://www.laplace.boeblingen.de.ibm.com

2002-01-31 Thread John P Taylor
Anyone know what the default password has been set to in ESA24_11.1 in the initrd filesystem? John P Taylor, Linux & VM Support, Hursley

Re: OSA

2002-01-31 Thread Carlos Ordonez
I have seen a couple of problems with defining an OSA card in QDIO and I just wanted to suggest a couple of commands that maybe will help to setup the card manually: echo 'noauto ' >/proc/chandev echo 'qeth0,0x0e30,0x0e31,0x0e32,0,0 '>/proc/chandev echo 'add_parms,0x10,0x0e30,0x0e32,portname:RPTR

Re: got GB-ethernet working! was "getting GB ethernet working wit h SLES7"

2002-01-31 Thread John P Taylor
As has been pointed out I got '>' and '>>' the wrong way round when I described what I did to get qeth working. Also, I was indeed working without any networking on a fresh install on the SE (as the HMC wasn't functioning very well yesterday), I just find "echo" easier to remember and use in thi

who is working on that ?

2002-01-31 Thread olivier fleurigeon
Hello, In the IBM redbook ISP/ASP solutions, in the "roadmap" section (from page 405 ...) was exposed a feature that could be very interesting for Linux under VM : DCSS mapped block devices. Another very interesting feature was discussed page 226, about pushing the linux kernel into an NSS. The

Re: got GB-ethernet working! was "getting GB ethernet working wit h SLES7"

2002-01-31 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I use ed in that case. It saves me the aggravation of having to type the entire line completely correct! And in the cases where I need to issue several commands I put them in a file and source it. Much quicker in the long run since my error rate on strange keyboards is about 1 in 10! S

Re: QETH/HiperSockets/Guest Lan.Save me from jumping off a bridge

2002-01-31 Thread Jeremy Warren
Thanks Dennis... >> Your PING results indicate that this is NOT happening, so I have to believe >> one of the following: >> (1) linux0 ping to 10.105.1.254 does not go to the hsi0 interface. >> The hsi0 interface address is 10.105.1.250 / 255.255.255.0. >> Is /etc/sysconfig/network script