troubles with diag 250 under VM

2002-02-26 Thread olivier fleurigeon
I had a trouble last week on three of my linux images that used the diag option of the dasd driver, that curiously appeared after a VM re-IPL. my configuration : kernel 2.4.7 + devfs under z/VM 310 on an HDS pilot 48E. the linux ipl stops systematically for all of these 3 servers ( they were

Re: Cobol and IMS for Linux

2002-02-26 Thread Dougie G Lawson
Are there any IMS database clones available for Linux? No, the only clone that ever existed was MicroFocus COBOL IMS which is/was Windows only. Access to IMS DB is possible using DB2 stored procs and ODBA. See http://www.redbooks.ibm.com - SG24-5485. Access to IMS DC (aka TM) is possible using

Re: VS: Network interfaces problems

2002-02-26 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
So, Martin, how long does a jump take before you're on the ground with both feet again ;-) About 3-4 minutes. blue skies, Martin Linux/390 Design Development, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH Schönaicherstr. 220, D-71032 Böblingen, Telefon: 49 - (0)7031 - 16-2247 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-17 error (RH 7.2)

2002-02-26 Thread Moloko Monyepao
After rhsetu I get the following error /sbin/zipl building bootmap: /boot/bootmap adding Kernel Image : /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-17-tape located at 0x0001 Error: Could not retrieve info for target /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-17-tape.Error: Could not add file to bootmap: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-17-tape.

Question configuring OSA-E on RedHat 7.2 S/390

2002-02-26 Thread Ken Maxtutis
I am experiencing a problem installing RedHat Linux for S/390 ver. 7.2 in LPAR mode. We are trying to use an ATM OSA Express card that runs in TR LAN emulation. The network device is at E100 and relative port 0. When the following configuration question comes up I ve tried unsuccessfully to

Re: Question configuring OSA-E on RedHat 7.2 S/390

2002-02-26 Thread Post, Mark K
Red Hat has philosophical objections to OCO code, and so refuses to ship them with their software. You'll need to go to http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/special_oco _rh_2.4.shtml and read the instructions there, as well as download the OCO module(s) you need.

CTG 3.5 and kernel 2.4.7 (SuSE SLES 7) error?

2002-02-26 Thread Jiwon Youm
We have tried to use CTG 3.5 on a SUSE SLES 7 distro (kernel 2.4.7), unfortunately we are getting some abnormal connection errors. Utilizing CTG 3.5 on a kernel 2.2x distro works fine. Has anyone succeeded installing CTG onto a kernel 2.4.7 like us? If you did, could you tell us how you

Re: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-17 error (RH 7.2)

2002-02-26 Thread Dave Myers
In a message dated 2/26/2002 6:15:08 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After rhsetu I get the following error /sbin/zipl building bootmap: /boot/bootmap adding Kernel Image : /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-17-tape located at 0x0001 Error: Could not retrieve info for target

Re: Need help setting up CTC on RH7.2

2002-02-26 Thread Dave Myers
To help answer my own questions I did some searching on the list archives and it appears I need the defs below in RH7.2. I also read some conflicting replies on MSU? What should the MSU be for CTC to OS/390? Also read about having to fake out SAMBA and tell it the netmask is 255.255.255.0

Re: Need help setting up CTC on RH7.2

2002-02-26 Thread Post, Mark K
Dave, Do you mean MTU instead of MSU? You can have the MTU be anything you want to make it, up to about 32K (there's some overhead so it can't be quite that high) so long as both sides agree on what that it. Yes, tell Samba in /etc/samba/smb.conf that the netmask is not all ones. Someone on

Re: Need help setting up CTC on RH7.2

2002-02-26 Thread Davis, Jeff
CTC0 is for the good old parallel channel type channel to channel. Use ESCON0 if you have a newer escon channel to channel connection. I had all my systems using virtual ctc under VM. When I tried moving one of these machines to an LPAR, I found that ctc didn't work because I had physical

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread James Tison
For the RH releases, you'll find them in the /etc/rc.x (where x = runlevel) directories. For example, my runlevel 3 sshd start script is /etc/rc.3/S55sshd. --Jim-- James S. Tison Senior Software Engineer TPF Laboratory / Architecture IBM Corporation +1 203 486-2835 (voice/fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread Paul C. Williamson
All depends on what run level you want SSHD running at. Mine is running at rc2.d and rc3.d. Just symlink from there into the init directory like this: cd /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/ ln -s ../init.d/sshd Sxxsshd cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ ln -s ../init.d/sshd Sxxsshd where xx is what position you want it to

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread Yuval Turgeman
Quoting Paul C. Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: cd /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/ ln -s ../init.d/sshd Sxxsshd cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ ln -s ../init.d/sshd Sxxsshd Or you can use 'chkconfig' for redhat and 'rctab' for suse. It will do the work for you. :-) Yuval.

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
I am trying to start sshd at boot time. Currently I can only start it manually by: ./etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start Where is it normally initialized at boot? chkconfig --level 345 sshd on Or via the gui tools, I guess the command line is the preferred S/390 beast though ?

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread John Summerfield
I am trying to start sshd at boot time. Currently I can only start it manually by: ./etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start Where is it normally initialized at boot? Red Hat? chkconfig --list chkconfig sshd on man chkconfig -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS:

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread John Summerfield
I am trying to start sshd at boot time. Currently I can only start it manually by: ./etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd start Where is it normally initialized at boot? chkconfig --level 345 sshd on Or via the gui tools, I guess the command line is the preferred S/390 beast though ? If you

2.2.16 and virtual CPUs

2002-02-26 Thread Dave Jones
Can anybody advise me on defining virtual CPUs for use by a 2.2.16 level Linux kernel? Does it buy me anything to give a Linux image more than one (virtual) CPU, or should I just give each image one and let CP do the multiprocessing? TIA. Dave Jones Dave Jones

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread Jon R. Doyle
On SuSE this is placed into /etc/init.d/rc.config as START_SSHD=YES /etc/rc.d/init.d ? Oh, right that is the runlevels on RH. Solaris, SuSE blah blah use /etc/init.d think that is system 5 or LSB some such standard, not sure why RH adds the other layer. Regards, Jon Jon R. Doyle Sendmail Inc.

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread Paul C. Williamson
I'm loving chkconfig...so much easier...although it is still nice to know how chkconfig works... I learn something new everyday from you folks. Thanks! and yeah, in most cases I'd agree that you want to check with what the vendor recommends. I have certain reasons I want sshd running in

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread John Summerfield
On SuSE this is placed into /etc/init.d/rc.config as START_SSHD=YES /etc/rc.d/init.d ? Oh, right that is the runlevels on RH. Solaris, SuSE blah blah use /etc/init.d think that is system 5 or LSB some such standard, not sure why RH adds the other layer. So far as you're concerned, RH uses

Re: Moving /usr to another disk

2002-02-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
Mark Post wrote: 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

Re: Linux for S/390 recommended and experimental bux fixes for s3 90-tools and kernel 2.2.20

2002-02-26 Thread Patterson, Ross
Wolfe, Gordon W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and so on. I'm not really that familiar with the patch and diff process. Why do some work and not others? Can anyone point me in the right direction? I haven't looked at the kernel source that SuSE ships for 2.4, but the answer is most likely that

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread Jon R. Doyle
Humm, right, I think the LSB thing might be where this came in, seems I remember that RH on or around 7.2 started supporting LSB too, I thnk I saw them talk about this or it was the LSB folks in NY last month at LWE. Regards, Jon On 2/26/02 1:45 PM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.2.16 and virtual CPUs

2002-02-26 Thread Rick Troth
Can anybody advise me on defining virtual CPUs for use by a 2.2.16 level Linux kernel? Does it buy me anything to give a Linux image more than one (virtual) CPU, or should I just give each image one and let CP do the multiprocessing? TIA. I don't think it buys you anything other than to

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread Rick Troth
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Jon R. Doyle wrote: /etc/rc.d/init.d ? Oh, right that is the runlevels on RH. Solaris, SuSE blah blah use /etc/init.d think that is system 5 or LSB some such standard, not sure why RH adds the other layer. /etc/rc.d/init.d should be (as in if it is not, then make it

Is one distribution better than another

2002-02-26 Thread James Johnson
Assuming installation and configuration is just a matter of learning something new, is there any reason to favor one of the Linux/390 distributions over the others? -- James JohnsonEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programmer Voice: 660-543-8065

Re: Is one distribution better than another

2002-02-26 Thread Jon R. Doyle
Depends upon how YOU personally feel about technology vs peception/marketing. Often the best technology does not win, look around at Exchange vs GroupWise or Intel and Alpha chips. Windows vs OSX or Redhat vs SuSE. Do not remember who told me this, but my favorite line on we American's buying

Re: SuSE 7.2 Samba Hang

2002-02-26 Thread Post, Mark K
Carlos, You're being a little too vague for me to be sure I know what you're saying. Do you mean linux-2.4.7-s390-3.tar.gz and s390-4.tar.gz from http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/current2_4. shtml? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Carlos Ordonez

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread Jon R. Doyle
No sure about that, you should read the LSB docs for builds, certainly has changed. Right, SuSE did place a symlink there for the RH RPM's But calling this Standard is a little far, Solaris and system V are /etc/init.d But, anybody can make a standard I guess, just have to get people to follow it

Re: Is one distribution better than another

2002-02-26 Thread Post, Mark K
Sure, a number of them. Support contract costs. Support contract benefits. Support contract requirements (who needs to do what for you to be eligible for support on any given system). Customer Service attitude. Distribution philosophy. Support for OCO modules from IBM. Responsiveness of

developerworks patches (was: Re: Linux for S/390 recommended and experimental bux fixes for s3 90-tools and kernel 2.2.20)

2002-02-26 Thread Christoph Arenz
Well, the basic reason is that the patches on developerworks are meant to be applied on an unchanged vanilla kernel as from http://www.kernel.org Every distributor patches the kernel in a way so that the patches on developerworks may or may not apply cleanly. Apart from applying, it is also the

Re: CTG 3.5 and kernel 2.4.7 (SuSE SLES 7) error?

2002-02-26 Thread Rich Smrcina
CTG 3.5 for Linux/390 was the original beta release. I'm going to guess that the only one that will work anymore is 4.0 and, sadly, it is no longer available for the taking. :( On Tuesday 26 February 2002 08:28 am, you wrote: We have tried to use CTG 3.5 on a SUSE SLES 7 distro (kernel

Re: Moving /usr to another disk

2002-02-26 Thread Marcy Cortes
Mark Post wrote: Actually, all I wanted to indicate was that people with 2.2 kernels will need to reboot to add DASD. I didn't want to get into the details of how all that is done in this particular HOWTO. So, I reworded the 2.2 part to take out those details. Actually, that was the hardest

Re: 2.2.16 and virtual CPUs

2002-02-26 Thread David Boyes
Unless the Linux application is multithreaded (like Apache or such), you'll see a small kick from going from 1 to 2, and diminishing returns for n=3. Keep in mind that the timeslice for the virtual machine is divided between all the virtual CPUs defined, so you *can* make it worse (see some of

Re: Cobol and IMS for Linux

2002-02-26 Thread Rengasamy, Samy
What are the ISAM options on Linux/390 and Linux/86? Thanks, Samy Rengasamy. -Original Message- From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cobol and IMS for Linux I'm not sure about the IMS part, but there

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread Rengasamy, Samy
Create a shell script 'sshd' with the following line /sbin/sshd or /actual-path-of-ssh-installed/sshd in directory /etc/rc.d Then create a link S10sshd to /etc/rc.d/sshd at directory /etc/rc.d/rc2.d Then on reboots, sshd will start running. This is specific to SuSe. Red Hat may have a

Re: SSHD at boot

2002-02-26 Thread Jon R. Doyle
Not necessary, just add the variable YES in rc.config for START_SSHD=. This file is located in /etc All lot of options are placed here and the script SuSEconfig builds everything for you. You can also do this through YAST with System Admin and then change configuration file You need to have the