Re: Hostid Value.

2002-03-29 Thread Reinald Verheij
You can write a tiny app to grab the IBM cpu id hack it up a bit and dump it in hostid if you want how do I grab the IBM cpu id from a C program (which has no root privilege)? Reinald

Re: Resources for Linux/VM

2002-03-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 03/28/2002 at 04:35 EST, Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot something in my first reply. According to Oliver Benke's SHARE presentation: If you need a sizing for Linux for zSeries S/390, ask your IBM business partner or sales representative for it. They should have

Re: Hostid Value - CPUID

2002-03-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Try reading the /proc/cpuinfo file.

IUCV with Linux

2002-03-29 Thread Lionel Dyck
I've found so far using z/VM and SAF which sets up the linux--vm connection using IUCV that the IUCV connection takes from 10-20 minutes and sometimes upto 45 minutes to connect. When it finally connects I see a message indicating that z/VM fount the IUCV connection waiting and did a restart.

Re: Hostid Value - CPUID

2002-03-29 Thread Oliver Paukstadt
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Ferguson, Neale wrote: Try reading the /proc/cpuinfo file. /proc/sysinfo is much better but only available in up-to-date kernels. Greetings Oliver Paukstadt +++LINUX++ +++Manchmal stehe ich sogar nachts auf

Re: Hostid Value - CPUID

2002-03-29 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Hey, that's neat! Even has the nuber of processors assigned and the type of hardware. Too bad it doesn't also have the hardware model. That might be useful for analysis programs. Thanks! Dennis Ferguson, Neale Neale.Ferguson@SoftwareA To:

Need a list of companies running LINUX/390

2002-03-29 Thread Ann Smith
I need a list of some of the companies running LINUX/390. I thought there used to be one off of linuxvm.org (a survey ?) also IBM used to have a list. In particular, I need to know the names of other insurance companies using LINUX/390.

Re: Hostid Value - CPUID

2002-03-29 Thread Oliver Paukstadt
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Hey, that's neat! Even has the nuber of processors assigned and the type of hardware. Too bad it doesn't also have the hardware model. That might be useful for analysis programs. /proc/sysinfo has the complete information available through STSI

Re: Separate Group for each User

2002-03-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:51:07PM -0500, Post, Mark K wrote: Hence my comment about increasing the administrative effort needed. I don't have _strong_ objections to Red Hat's methods, since obviously it works. I'm just not convinced it's superior to thinking things out in advance and

Re: Separate Group for each User

2002-03-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:48:22AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Red Hat's been doing it since 3.0.3 that I know about. As you can imagine, it was in days when there weren't a lot of people sharing data on PCs (servers aside). In organisations such as those whare mainframes (and midrange)

Re: IUCV with Linux

2002-03-29 Thread Lionel Dyck
Is there a VM command to do this? Doing it on the Linux side results in the same delay.. btw. this is with the 2.4.7 level kernel. My 2.2.19 level does not seem to have this problem. Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead

Size390 Support Program info

2002-03-29 Thread Lionel Dyck
Here is some info that I just received that others might find helpful: SIZE390 Support Program SIZE390 provides pre-sale processor sizing estimates to IBM sales reps and business partners for zSeries and S/390 processors running z/OS or OS/390 for the following e-business applications and

Re: Size390 Support Program info

2002-03-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 03/29/2002 at 07:55 PST, Lionel Dyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is some info that I just received that others might find helpful: SIZE390 Support Program SIZE390 provides pre-sale processor sizing estimates to IBM sales reps and business partners for zSeries and S/390

Re: Hostid Value.

2002-03-29 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I guess you mean it is a privileged instruction in linux/390 because it isn't in VM. This leads to the strange situation where you need to be a privileged linux user to issue general user CP commands. Thanks for that info. Dennis Alan Altmark

Segmentation Faults - need advice

2002-03-29 Thread John Burnley
Can anyone on the list offer any suggestions on resolving segmentation faults (in this case 11) on Linux systems? Is this a symptom of physical resource constraints (IE. real memory allocated to an LPAR) or logical constraints (IE. buffer sizes etc.)? Any suggestions/advice are much

Re: Hostid Value - CPUID

2002-03-29 Thread Post, Mark K
What kernel level made this available? My 2.4.9 system does not have it, so it must be later than that. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Oliver Paukstadt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 10:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hostid Value - CPUID -snip-

Re: Hostid Value - CPUID

2002-03-29 Thread Oliver Paukstadt
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Post, Mark K wrote: What kernel level made this available? My 2.4.9 system does not have it, so it must be later than that. November last year for 2.4.7: http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/current2_4.shtml#nov232001-linux Report this as a

Re: VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

2002-03-29 Thread Oliver Paukstadt
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Chris Senko wrote: One of my users got the following message while migrating files to his home directory: VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached We're running SLES7. Can someone tell me what it is, where this limit is set, and how can I change it? Any good reasons NOT

VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

2002-03-29 Thread Chris Senko
Thankyou, Neale. Thankyou, Oliver. I'll give it a try. Chris

VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

2002-03-29 Thread Chris Senko
One of my users got the following message while migrating files to his home directory: VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached We're running SLES7. Can someone tell me what it is, where this limit is set, and how can I change it? Any good reasons NOT to change it? Thanks, Chris Senko

Re: VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

2002-03-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
sysctl -w fs.fs-max=new value Place fs.fs-max=newvalue in file /etc/sysctl.conf and have one of your boot scripts issue the sysctl -p command. -Original Message- One of my users got the following message while migrating files to his home directory: VFS: file-max limit 8192

Re: Hostid Value.

2002-03-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 03/29/2002 at 10:27 CST, Dennis G. Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; I guess you mean it is a privileged instruction in linux/390 because it isn't in VM. This leads to the strange situation where you need to be a privileged linux user to issue general user CP commands.

Re: Need a list of companies running LINUX/390

2002-03-29 Thread Mark Post
Ann, Good luck. You might have been thinking of my Primer presentation that talks about companies (or individuals at companies) who are _interested_ in Linux/390. That list was culled from the mailing list subscribers. No real guarantees that any of them are using it in production. The one

Re: VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

2002-03-29 Thread Alan Cox
One of my users got the following message while migrating files to his home directory: VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached We're running SLES7. Can someone tell me what it is, where this limit is set, and how can I change it? Any good reasons NOT to change it? On older kernels its a

Re: VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

2002-03-29 Thread Post, Mark K
Neale, According to both my 2.2.16 and 2.4.9 systems, that should be: sysctl -w fs.file-max=new value Mark Post -Original Message- From: Ferguson, Neale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

Re: Segmentation Faults - need advice

2002-03-29 Thread Oliver Paukstadt
On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, John Burnley wrote: Can anyone on the list offer any suggestions on resolving segmentation faults (in this case 11) on Linux systems? Is this a symptom of physical resource constraints (IE. real memory allocated to an LPAR) or logical constraints (IE. buffer sizes

Suse sles7 kernel install problem

2002-03-29 Thread Davis, Jeff
I am installing a Suse sles7 system under z/VM 3.1 and when it tries to install the kernel, I get the following error. If I repeat the task, it just has the same result. The FTP server is another Linux system under VM (older version). Any ideas what is wrong? Thanks, Jeff Davis x The command

Has LCS driver been built into the the RedHat beta ramdisk?

2002-03-29 Thread Dave Myers
It doesn't appear that the IBM LCS driver has been built into the RH 7.2 beta system yet. I just built a new ramdisk using fresh downloads from the RH beta rawhide site and I did not get an active eth0 device at the end of the boot/script. Just trying to get verification on that. So, if I go

Re: Hostid Value - CPUID

2002-03-29 Thread Post, Mark K
Well, I can't really do that, since the source tree for the kernel has the sysinfo.c reference in the Makefile. So, all I can assume is that the install/boot kernel was built without the fix, and later on the fix was incorporated. I just rebuilt my kernel from the shipped source, and rebooted,

Re: Need a list of companies running LINUX/390

2002-03-29 Thread Subroto
To that list you can add: Codan (Denmark) North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company Prudential Deutsche Bank Insurance Group Royal Insurance (UK) Zurich Life (CH) Gothaer Insurance (Germany) Generali (Austria) American Century Amica Mutual (Never heard of them) There are others but

Apache, Tomcat, Warp Connection Happy Dance

2002-03-29 Thread John Burnley
We finally got the warp connection to work. The fix was simple and others have suggested this in various posts...recompiling module web_app. We were experiencing problems where the compile would not work (following some of the directions from various web page sources); but once the