Re: rhsetup ftp restart (RH7.2)

2002-02-22 Thread Karsten Hopp
> > If you look at what rhsetup does, most of the work is to run rpm to install > the packages in the list for the configuration you picked. You might be able > to modify that list before you start rhsetup and fool it that way. > But I'm not sure why you're all working with rhsetup - isn't that th

Re: MD Software Raid Question

2002-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
> > Using the LVM (Logical Volume Manager) might make more sense the using the > > MD linear option. > > I think some Red Hatters here should explain why RHL doesn't support > LVM. I'm sure others will find it interesting reading. It failed our code review. Red Hat identified cases in the code th

Re: MD Software Raid Question

2002-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
> Well that depends...is MD going to be stable...and > will I get decent response times ?? People have large md arrays. Its common to do raid on x86 Linux with the md subsystem and its been stable for a long time. We have to live with real genuine IDE disks not fault tolerant arrays 8)

Timeout during TX init handshake

2002-02-22 Thread James Tison
I've got a VM guested s390x machine. I tried downing and upping the ctc0 interface, and my dmesg log is full of these messages after booting: ctc0: Timeout during TX handshake ctc0: TX channel restart Anybody ever seen these before? Cure? Obviously, I can't even ping the PPP host, and am a

Re: Third Party Apps

2002-02-22 Thread John Summerfield
> >In view of the relative cost, is running client software on S/390 such > >a good idea? > > > True, the apps I'm interested in are LINUX server apps such as distance > learning apps (like Blackboard) or Web application servers (such as > Cold Fusion). There is a commercial HOWTO - it should be

Re: Third Party Apps

2002-02-22 Thread Ron Greve
>In view of the relative cost, is running client software on S/390 such >a good idea? > True, the apps I'm interested in are LINUX server apps such as distance learning apps (like Blackboard) or Web application servers (such as Cold Fusion). Ron >I accept configuration tools, of course. >-- >Che

Re: Third Party Apps

2002-02-22 Thread Ron Greve
I've used the TSM client for Linux backups. What I'm curious about (since the VM TSM server product has been stabilized),is whether there will be a LINUX/390 TSM server to use as a base TSM server for those that want to consolidate NT and UNIX servers on a VM-LINUX 390 z800 class machine. Ron G

Linux/390 Assembler

2002-02-22 Thread Rengasamy, Samy
Is there a link to read and use Linux/390 Assembly Language? Thanks, Samy Rengasamy. -Original Message- From: Michael Grundy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DProbes S/390 port available Hi Everyone - Just wanted to let

Linux image hangs

2002-02-22 Thread Alain Harnois
Hi, After intensive test on our Linux390 image, the image hangs and we can just re-IPL the image. In /var/log/messages we have that error: Feb 22 22:11:54 ibmlnx3 kernel: lcs_sleepon network card taking time responding irq=001a devno=fc25, Feb 22 22:11:54 ibmlnx3 kernel: please be patient, ctr

Re: Third Party Apps

2002-02-22 Thread John Summerfield
> Are there any lists of third party apps that are being ported > to LINUX/390 (either already done or statements of direction). I've > heard rumors about Macromedia's ColdFusion and BlackBoard Inc's > e-Education Suite being possible candidates but I can't find anything > concrete. In view of

Re: MD Software Raid Question

2002-02-22 Thread John Summerfield
> Using the LVM (Logical Volume Manager) might make more sense the using the > MD linear option. I think some Red Hatters here should explain why RHL doesn't support LVM. I'm sure others will find it interesting reading. Unless I know some good reason not to use software RAID, that's what I'd

Re: MD Software Raid Question

2002-02-22 Thread Florian La Roche
> In fact: Florian, you're reading this, right? This was on a Jurix box > that is *still* in production in Maryland. I have finally converted my home machine to Red Hat Linux. Old stuff is still under chroot available, so if I start feeling old, I can go back playing with these things again... :

Re: Third Party Apps

2002-02-22 Thread Jim Elliott
> Are there any lists of third party apps that are being ported to > LINUX/390 (either already done or statements of direction). I've heard > rumors about Macromedia's ColdFusion and BlackBoard Inc's e-Education > Suite being possible candidates but I can't find anything concrete. http://ibm.com/

Re: z/Series IFL Price?

2002-02-22 Thread Rich Smrcina
$150,000. On Friday 22 February 2002 11:46 am, you wrote: > Anyone know the current price for an IFL processor on a model 2064 Z > series?? > > Thanks - Dan -- Rich Smrcina Sytek Services, Inc. Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catch the WAVV! Stay for Requirements and the Free

Re: MD Software Raid Question

2002-02-22 Thread Dave Myers
In a message dated 2/22/2002 1:59:50 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > . Dave is less interested in rolling > his own than using what's available that works. > Well that depends...is MD going to be stable...and will I get decent response times ?? Dave

Re: Third Party Apps

2002-02-22 Thread Rich Smrcina
IBM keeps a list of products available for Linux for S/390. Development efforts under way are usually hush-hush, so I doubt that you will find a list anywhere. As far as the Tivoli question, there is a client available for Linux for S/390. There are other alternatives as well, commercial and o

Re: MD Software Raid Question

2002-02-22 Thread Post, Mark K
Except that Red Hat has disabled LVM on 7.2, due to problems they perceived as being serious enough to warrant that. Dave is less interested in rolling his own than using what's available that works. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Dorsey James - jdorse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sen

Third Party Apps

2002-02-22 Thread Ron Greve
Are there any lists of third party apps that are being ported to LINUX/390 (either already done or statements of direction). I've heard rumors about Macromedia's ColdFusion and BlackBoard Inc's e-Education Suite being possible candidates but I can't find anything concrete. Also, What is the rec

Re: MD Software Raid Question

2002-02-22 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:13:30PM -0600, Dorsey James - jdorse wrote: > Using the LVM (Logical Volume Manager) might make more sense the using the > MD linear option. Sure, but > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:56:36PM -0500, Dave Myers wrote: > > Since LVM did not come with the RedHat 7.2. S/39

Re: MD Software Raid Question

2002-02-22 Thread Dorsey James - jdorse
Using the LVM (Logical Volume Manager) might make more sense the using the MD linear option. -Original Message- From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD Software Raid Question On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02

Re: MD Software Raid Question

2002-02-22 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:56:36PM -0500, Dave Myers wrote: > Since LVM did not come with the RedHat 7.2. S/3909 distro, > I am playing around with MD (software raid) to make multivolume > filesystems. > > I've read the Software Raid threads in the list archive, but I'm > still uncertain which le

MD Software Raid Question

2002-02-22 Thread Dave Myers
Since LVM did not come with the RedHat 7.2. S/3909 distro, I am playing around with MD (software raid) to make multivolume filesystems. I've read the Software Raid threads in the list archive, but I'm still uncertain which level of RAID to use with the software raid? Seems like my RAMAC X82 har

Re: Samba on Linux S390

2002-02-22 Thread Ann Smith
Thank you, Adam. We found info on the Suse website (since we installed Suse Linux). We are trying out the basics this afternoon. After I posted the note, my coworker scolded me: Don't you remember we had LVM on AIX? Adam Thornton wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:45:25AM -0500, Ann Smith wr

z/Series IFL Price?

2002-02-22 Thread Hines Daniel (sys1dmh)
Anyone know the current price for an IFL processor on a model 2064 Z series?? Thanks - Dan

Re: Samba on Linux S390

2002-02-22 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:45:25AM -0500, Ann Smith wrote: > For we ignorant ones, can you please tell us what LVMS is and where to find > information on it? > LVM==Logical Volume Manager. Ships as part of SuSE, and you can bolt it on to Red Hat or do software RAID to similar effect. Adam

Re: md / RAID0 on S/390 ??

2002-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
> Thought I'd play around with "md/raid0" today and make some > multivolume filesystems > I don't see the md rpm on the redhat ftp site > Is it available for RH 7.2 ??? Name: raidtoolsRelocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.90

md / RAID0 on S/390 ??

2002-02-22 Thread Dave Myers
Thought I'd play around with "md/raid0" today and make some multivolume filesystems I don't see the md rpm on the redhat ftp site Is it available for RH 7.2 ??? Also...anyone who has done this already...any words of wisdom ??? Thanks Dave Myers

Re: Samba on Linux S390

2002-02-22 Thread Ann Smith
For we ignorant ones, can you please tell us what LVMS is and where to find information on it? Adam Thornton wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:49:18AM -0500, Ritter, Tom wrote: > > We are doing a pilot of Samba on Linux S390 and are considering replacing > > our Windows file serving with it.

Re: Job Scheduling on Linux

2002-02-22 Thread Post, Mark K
Ross, All the entries I see for those products are listed as "agents." Does that mean the central management software must run on a platform other than Linux/390? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Patterson, Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:22 AM To:

Re: Moving /usr to another disk

2002-02-22 Thread Post, Mark K
Marcy, This has gotten to be a FAQ, so I just (right now) put up a new page on linuxvm.org to address it. Take a look at http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/movefs.html for details, and let me know if you run into any problems with the instructions. I'm always interested in making them better. Mark

Re: Job Scheduling on Linux

2002-02-22 Thread Patterson, Ross
David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CA is supposed to have AutoSys available, and Control-M is available. You can see the current list of Computer Associates products for Linux/390 at http://ca.com/solutions/linux/s390_zos.htm. Several of our job-management and job-scheduling packages are g

Re: Linux 390 and 2003

2002-02-22 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > well. Stay away from anything that smells like Java, because from > first hand experience I can tell you that you WILL be disappointed. Perl probably won't fly well either, except in those case where you can use Integer; -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's mos

Re: Samba on Linux S390

2002-02-22 Thread Post, Mark K
Tom, As Adam suggested, LVM would be one approach to aggregating DASD into acceptably large amounts of space. Adam Cox has pointed out in the past that RAID0 can do the same thing, but without the dynamic capabilities that LVM offers. For your virus scanning needs, I know that Trend Micro has a

Re: kernel panic!

2002-02-22 Thread Post, Mark K
What's going on is a bug in the kernel. If you can reboot your machine, logon from the console, and examine the system log, you might be able to find a "kernel oops" that can be decoded and submitted to the kernel developers for their review. Oh, and while you're logged on, you might want to cle

Re: Samba on Linux S390

2002-02-22 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:49:18AM -0500, Ritter, Tom wrote: > We are doing a pilot of Samba on Linux S390 and are considering replacing > our Windows file serving with it. If we move to a solution like this, we > think that over time we could end up supporting perhaps a terabyte of file > servin

Re: Linux broadcast router

2002-02-22 Thread Alan Cox
> You don't. Broadcasts don't leave a segment by design. If you want > "broadcast-like" function for multiple segments, you need to use multicast, > which is routable. In theory you can also use the IP options for source routing , providing you have machines set to allow them. For internal custo

Samba on Linux S390

2002-02-22 Thread Ritter, Tom
We are doing a pilot of Samba on Linux S390 and are considering replacing our Windows file serving with it. If we move to a solution like this, we think that over time we could end up supporting perhaps a terabyte of file serving space. So, how do we manage that? 1) Usage quota's - Has any

Re: Job Scheduling on Linux

2002-02-22 Thread John Summerfield
> Other than cron and at, are there any "job" scheduling packages available on > Linux (not just Linux/390)? Something perhaps significantly more > sophisticated than cron and at? > > Mark Post > I have an unpublished work comprising a couple of Perl scripts. They're a bit like an MVS initiator

Re: Job Scheduling on Linux

2002-02-22 Thread John Summerfield
> Other than cron and at, are there any "job" scheduling packages available on > Linux (not just Linux/390)? Something perhaps significantly more > sophisticated than cron and at? I should also mention that GNU has something - I think it's called queue. See www.gnu.org. -- Cheers John Summerf

Re: PL/I for Linux?

2002-02-22 Thread John Summerfield
> I'd be interested to see that. It was my first programming language. I > don't think it would be free as it is an IBM program product and then there > is the fact that it is written in 370/390 assembly language. Of course if > someone has rewritten it in C in the meantime from scratch that would

SE-Linux w/ Linux for S/390

2002-02-22 Thread Froberg, David C
Curious if anyone has tried to apply the NSA's SE-Linux patches to their Linux for S/390 or zSeries distribution. If you have, how did it go? What distribution and kernel level did you use? Did it impact you administration of the Linux system? Thanks Dave No warrantee is implied or explicitly

Only TWO sessions left for chairing!!

2002-02-22 Thread Jim Vincent USNATQ77 at IBMMAIL
I have two sessions left that need chairs for the SHARE conference. Anyone interested in lending a hand? Let me know quick! THANKS! Sess Day Speaker Title 5514 We 9:30aEgen Setting Up X-Windows on Linux Desktop 5566

kernel panic!

2002-02-22 Thread Sierakowski MichaƂ
Hello, I have activated module iptables as a dynamic firewall (blocking incoming connections, but allowing communication started by user). When I tried telnet to this client on a blocked port I got the following message on VM console: Welcome to SuSE SLES-7 (s390) - Kernel 2.4.7-SuSE-SMP (conso

Re: VM for Intel?

2002-02-22 Thread David Boyes
Guess they learned from your talk, hmm? They do refer to VM in passing in the first couple of public papers, and give it a short nod as an early incarnation. See also their early Usenix presentations. -- db - Original Message - From: "Ron Higgin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: VM for Intel?

2002-02-22 Thread Ron Higgin
I spoke to some of the VMware folks very early in the development of their product -- in fact before they ever released the product for public consumption. At that time (2-3 years ago now) I mentioned to these guys that the VM concept was not new and in fact had been available on mainframe sys

Re: Moving /usr to another disk

2002-02-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
>Well, I've figured out how to add minidisks, including how >to dasdfmt, fdasd, and mke2fs. Now, I'd like to move >/usr to it's own disk. What linux commands would >I need to do that? I've copied another disk with tar and >that worked, but I want to make sure I don't lose anything >in the proc

Initial testing of Globus grid computing tools completed.

2002-02-22 Thread David Boyes
Folks, I'd like to announce that we have completed initial testing of a Linux for S/390 and Linux for z/Series port of the Globus grid computing tools. I'll be putting together a binary package shortly for the Globus team to distribute via their WWW site, and they will remain the distribution