Re: Sendmail Perfomance

2002-04-24 Thread Robert Werner
Moloko, Your other mail to the list show in the output of top a system cpu usage of only approx. 3% so I don't think the disks are the bottleneck. Our machine had a system load of nearly 85%. - Original Message - From: Moloko Monyepao [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

nozzle.suse.de down again?

2002-04-24 Thread Ken Vance
Hi, I am trying to get to the nozzle.suse.de site, and it appears to be offline. The last note that I can find regarding the subject was from Dieter Heussner on April 11th saying the server was back online. Has anyone heard when it will be back? Thanks, Ken Vance Amadeus

Re: LinuxWorld Article series

2002-04-24 Thread Ian McKay
the reliable source was moi.. I told him it was pool1 on one of the machines in Auburn Hills I also asked if it was z/VM 420 (ie did they have the ieee hackware on) - yes Also talked to him about ieee and where we stand with the latest 2.4 kernel having just two instructions missing and

Re: nozzle.suse.de down again?

2002-04-24 Thread Dieter Heussner
On Wednesday, 24. April 2002 10:36 you wrote: I am trying to get to the nozzle.suse.de site, and it appears to be offline. The last note that I can find regarding the subject was from Dieter Heussner on April 11th saying the server was back online. Has anyone heard when it will be back?

Why not nagios? was Re: netsaint per redbook ?

2002-04-24 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
I'm not sure if this should be brought up, but why waste your time on Netsaint? It's a dead product. Ethan is no longer developing it. If you want systems monitoring, look at his new product - nagios. There are a bunch others out there, and I'm sure they would all run under Linux for

Re: netsaint per redbook ?

2002-04-24 Thread daniel . jarboe
When connecting to localhost, you are connecting from your linux system? Or when you said localhost, was that a euphamism for the actual hostname? If your alias is Alias /netsaint/ /usr/local/netsaint/share/ Then http://localhost/netsaint will yeild different results than

Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00

2002-04-24 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 04/24/2002 at 07:24 ZE2, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Make sure to ftp in binary by hand and not let Netscape do it for you. We've found that depending on the configuration of your PC the browse can negotiate with the web server to corrupt your file while

Re: Why not nagios? was Re: netsaint per redbook ?

2002-04-24 Thread Rich Smrcina
I've deployed Big Brother at Grede and it is a very good watchdog for network machines, virtual machines and services. I've also written a big brother client for VM (which needs updating... :( ). On Wednesday 24 April 2002 06:08 am, you wrote: I'm not sure if this should be brought up, but

Re: try to load Gigabit OSA Ethernet driver qeth

2002-04-24 Thread Steve Gear Schneider Technical Services
hello, there is a redbook 'ibm server - z800' that describes the whole process. in the linux chapter. are you trying to 'boot from cd' and the script doesn't work. use this. or suse has a fix for this problem. regards, steve gear Liang, Ih-Cheng

Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00

2002-04-24 Thread Jill Grine
I used WSFTP to download the files. Tried with a new set downloaded yesterday from the website Mark gave me, and made no difference. Question: What bug with VM? I am running this on a P390 under VM. -Original Message- From: Rob van der Heij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00

2002-04-24 Thread Jill Grine
To review, I used WS_FPT to FTP the 3 files initrd, vmrdr.ikr, and parmfile from the URL Mark Post recommended. Then FTP'd those same three to VM, with SITE specification of FIX 80, in Binary, except for the Parm file for which I used ASCII. Editted the PARM file to include iplparm=30s and

Re: try to load Gigabit OSA Ethernet driver qeth

2002-04-24 Thread Carlos Ordonez
The redbook is based on Linux 2.4 kernel which works a little different... Carlos :-) Carlos A. Ordonez IBM Corporation Server Consolidation |-+--- | | Steve Gear | | | Schneider | | | Technical

Re: Why not nagios?

2002-04-24 Thread Carlos Ordonez
I have used MON and it doesn't only monitors but it allows you to take some action when the monitor program reports failure and then again when it comes back up. Carlos :-) |-+--- | | Vic Cross | | | vic.cross@veejo|

Re: Why not nagios?

2002-04-24 Thread Vic Cross
Just goes to show that change is a constant in Open Source... If Nagios had been around when we wrote the book, I'm certain we would have looked at it instead. :-) As the website states, Nagios is the descendant of Netsaint (Netsaint is dead, long live Netsaint), even to the point of supporting

Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00

2002-04-24 Thread Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission
Which is why I like to download important stuff directly to VM using either FTP or Charlotte. Saves a whole lot of aggravation. -Original Message- From: Alan Altmark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Subject:

Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00

2002-04-24 Thread Jill Grine
Whoa! I am finally getting somewhere. I tried the tape IPL again, but left one (two) thing(s) different. The PARM card had at the end, and before I had deleted it. Maybe I needed to keep it? Also using new files from IUCV URL Mark Post recommended. I got far enough to get the prompt for

Re: Why not nagios?

2002-04-24 Thread Lionel Dyck
Do you have a url for it? Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information Technology 25 N. Via Monte Ave Walnut Creek, Ca 94598 Phone: (925) 926-5332 (tie line 8/473-5332) E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup software

2002-04-24 Thread David Boyes
what does anyone use for backup software for linux/390... do you use TSM under VM See the recent discussion from about two weeks ago in the archives. TSM is one option, CA has an option, there are open-source options such as Amanda, and there are multiple options for full-volume dumps

Re: netsaint per redbook ?

2002-04-24 Thread Lionel Dyck
Tried accessing http://localhost/netsaint/ and got the login prompt. Tried using the userid/pw that I created using htpasswd command it won't take. Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information Technology

Re: backup software

2002-04-24 Thread Noll, Ralph
where do i go for that.. i just joined the list this week -Original Message- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: backup software what does anyone use for backup software for linux/390... do

Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00

2002-04-24 Thread Dave Jones
Hi, Jill. Yes, you definitely need the at the end of the parm file line. You shouldn't, in most cases, need to modify that file at all. The funny character at the end of the line, if you look at it via Xedit, is the Linux NL character (I think) which delimits the end of a string in the U*ix

Re: netsaint per redbook ?

2002-04-24 Thread Lionel Dyck
in the error log I'm seeing: syslbd: not a valid FDN: /netsaint/ yet I've defined syslbd to htpasswd and given it a password that I am using ? Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information

Performance measurement of Linux in a constrained system

2002-04-24 Thread Barton Robinson
Yes, I do. virtual machines method of measuring time does anybody know of a Linux utility for performance measurement that understands that it is working under VM. thanks TOP, SAR, VMSTAT, etc, that produce CPU numbers from Linux on s/390 on either VM or on LPAR with undedicated processors will

Re: backup software

2002-04-24 Thread Dave Jones
http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?linux-390 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Noll, Ralph Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: backup software where do i go for that.. i just joined the list

Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00

2002-04-24 Thread Jill Grine
Hi Dave, I kind of got the hint from Alan Altmark's discussion of the CRLF change. Based on everything discussed, it had to be something I assumed a that cursed word! Anyway, I'm still going to have to figure out the console thing, but at least I am finally moving forward. Too many

Re: try to load Gigabit OSA Ethernet driver qeth

2002-04-24 Thread Liang, Ih-Cheng
Yes, I loaded qdio first with insmod qdio. IC Liang. -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: try to load Gigabit OSA Ethernet driver qeth Did you load the qdio module first? Mark Post

Re: Performance measurement of Linux in a constrained system

2002-04-24 Thread Alex deVries
Barton, Where can I find more details on the Toronto presentation? - Alex Barton Robinson wrote: Yes, I do. virtual machines method of measuring time does anybody know of a Linux utility for performance measurement that understands that it is working under VM. thanks TOP, SAR, VMSTAT,

Re: Performance measurement of Linux in a constrained system

2002-04-24 Thread Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission
We are pleased to provide details on the upcoming joint meeting of the Canada VM and VSE User Groups. The meeting will take place on Friday May 10 at 330 University Avenue in Toronto from 8:30 a.m. until approximately 4 p.m. 330 University is just north of Queen. You can't miss it since it is the

Re: try to load Gigabit OSA Ethernet driver qeth

2002-04-24 Thread Post, Mark K
Was the device reported as being detected during the boot process? E.g., Detected device 010F on subchannel 0016 - PIM = F0, PAM = F0, POM = FF Detected device 0D0C on subchannel 0017 - PIM = F0, PAM = F0, POM = FF Mark Post -Original Message- From: Liang, Ih-Cheng [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Subject: Unable to Ping the Network

2002-04-24 Thread Rivers, James E.
I have IPL'd LINUX from tape on S390: I can ping the IP address of the host but I can't ping the network (or outside the host). What could be the problem? -Original Message- From: Rob van der Heij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Subject: Unable to Ping the Network

2002-04-24 Thread Davis, Jeff
Your network mask is probably incorrect. The linux system must be in a different subnet from the rest of the network. -Original Message- From: Rivers, James E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Subject: Unable to Ping

Re: Why not nagios?

2002-04-24 Thread Carlos Ordonez
MON can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/ Also in last year's redbook - Distributions - there is a chapter that talks about High Availability and it makes reference to MON and shows a simple setup. Carlos :-) Carlos A. Ordonez IBM Corporation Server Consolidation

Re: Performance measurement of Linux in a constrained system

2002-04-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
would not be surprised to find more areas in Linux where elapsed time is assumed to be equal to CPU time. . And how right he was :-) We call it busy wait (as I understand the way to do timing with finer granularity than 10 mS). In my case 'iperf' computed the number of iterations of a tight

Re: Subject: Unable to Ping the Network

2002-04-24 Thread Post, Mark K
James, Being able to ping the local interface just means that the network driver loaded. It doesn't even guarantee that it's talking to the device. As Jeff noted, it could be a netmask problem. It could be something else, such as a lack of a default gateway, or any number of other things.

Re: Why not nagios? was Re: netsaint per redbook ?

2002-04-24 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
Here are links to some of the Netsaint-like products out there. Nagios - http://www.nagios.org/ MON - http://ftp.kernel.org/software/mon/ Ganglia - http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/index.php BigBrother - http://bb4.com/ Snips - http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/snips/ NetVigil

Re: try to load Gigabit OSA Ethernet driver qeth

2002-04-24 Thread Liang, Ih-Cheng
Hi, I tried insmod qeth qeth_options=noauto,0x0f08,0x0f09,0x0f0a but still got the same error. IC Liang. -Original Message- From: Jim Sibley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: try to load Gigabit OSA Ethernet driver qeth

Addressing problems using asm embedded in C

2002-04-24 Thread Condit, Christopher
I'm trying to write some assembler embedded in C via __asm__ __volatile__(). A couple hundred lines or so. Compiler doesn't complain, but linker gives relocation truncated to fit errors on any instruction that refers to a label (B's and EX's). I know that message usually (in C) means you are

Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00

2002-04-24 Thread Jill Grine
This is what I coded in DIRECT: CONSOLE 009 3270 A -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00 Jill, Glad to hear you're

Re: Addressing problems using asm embedded in C

2002-04-24 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Are you using relative jumps? Can you post a sample? -Original Message- I'm trying to write some assembler embedded in C via __asm__ __volatile__(). A couple hundred lines or so. Compiler doesn't complain, but linker gives relocation truncated to fit errors on any instruction

Updates to linuxvm.org

2002-04-24 Thread Post, Mark K
I have updated the main page of linuxvm.org. I've added a link to the unabridged version of the original Linux for S/390 Redbook. Thanks to Giorgio Bellussi for agreeing to host it for us. I've also updated the pointers to the SuSE beta code to match what Dieter Heussner of SuSE reported today

Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00

2002-04-24 Thread Post, Mark K
Jill, Ah. Try a 3215. I think you'll have better luck. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Jill Grine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00 This is what I

Re: try to load Gigabit OSA Ethernet driver qeth

2002-04-24 Thread Liang, Ih-Cheng
Hi, Here are the messages during the boot process: Mar 28 10:48:30 mmsalnxt kernel: SenseID : device 0F08 reports: CU Type/Mod = 1731/01, Dev Type/Mod = 1732/01 Mar 28 10:48:30 mmsalnxt kernel: SenseID : device 0F09 reports: CU Type/Mod = 1731/01, Dev Type/Mod = 1732/01 Mar 28 10:48:30 mmsalnxt

Re: try to load Gigabit OSA Ethernet driver qeth

2002-04-24 Thread Carlos Ordonez
Try the portname in caps... Carlos :-) Carlos A. Ordonez IBM Corporation Server Consolidation |-+--- | | Liang, | | | Ih-Cheng | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | |

Re: Subject: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01: 00

2002-04-24 Thread Jill Grine
Surprise, surprise! I got thru the network stuff. Need to make changes because of what was said in an earlier note about different subnet, but at least something is happening. Thanks all. -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002

Re: Updates to linuxvm.org

2002-04-24 Thread James Melin
Mark, I think the problem is this: The URL is wrapping and some e-mail programs are breaking the link. When I 'clicked' the link in this e-mail the browser tried to get this: http://assistente.inwind.it/spazioweb/banner/warning.php?url=/bunga/linux390 Whereas the whole link is actually this:

Re: Updates to linuxvm.org

2002-04-24 Thread Post, Mark K
But Jill said she was clicking the link on the actual web pages, which should work just fine. The link she posted (that got wrapped) was the one the web site put up for the 404 error. Mark Post -Original Message- From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24,

Re: try to load Gigabit OSA Ethernet driver qeth

2002-04-24 Thread Liang, Ih-Cheng
I did try in caps, but did not work. IC Liang. -Original Message- From: Carlos Ordonez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: try to load Gigabit OSA Ethernet driver qeth Try the portname in caps... Carlos :-) Carlos

Re: Linux CLAW Woes

2002-04-24 Thread Danny Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded it and ftped UTSG-claw-2.4-patch to my Linux. The readme tells me to run the patch command, which fails miserably. The patch command is there, however it cannot find what it is suppose to be patching. I am sure that I am missing the obvious. Um... I wrote

Re: Updates to linuxvm.org

2002-04-24 Thread Jill Grine
http://assistente.inwind.it/spazioweb/banner/warning.php?url=/bunga/linux390 /books/sg244987.pdfhostname=spazioweb.inwind.it -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Updates to linuxvm.org

Try This URL

2002-04-24 Thread Post, Mark K
pedanticBefore we insult Giorgio too much more, the site is in Italian./pedantic The link that Jill should be clicking on, and is generating the 404 error for her is this: http://spazioweb.inwind.it/bunga/linux390/books/sg244987.pdf If anyone else can put this URL into their browser, and get

OT: ATT Cambridge labs shuts down

2002-04-24 Thread Rick Troth
Bad news. This is particularly bad news to those of us who use VNC. UK version of PARC. The Cambridge lab is where VNC was created. Too bad some other techno giant hasn't seen fit to fund this lab. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:48:05 -0500 From: Hal

Re: Updates to linuxvm.org

2002-04-24 Thread James Melin
Hmm. COuld it be a browser cache thing? Worked for you earlier but not for anyone? I cant get there at all either. |-+ | | Post, Mark K | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | m | | |

Re: Updates to linuxvm.org

2002-04-24 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine As I said in a private message to Mark, earlier, works for me. No errors just lots of cookies. I am downloading a fresh copy as of right now. I think it's an Internet thing, here today, gone today, back tomorrow, gone tomorrow. That kind of thing. ---

Re: Linux CLAW Woes

2002-04-24 Thread Post, Mark K
Peter, Ok, here's the deal. You need to make sure that you have either the kernel-source RPM, or the kernel SRPM installed. If you have the kernel-source RPM, you should see the kernel source tree under /usr/src/linux. If it is the kernel SRPM, you will see a file named kernel-2.4.spec (or

FW: Addressing problems using asm embedded in C

2002-04-24 Thread Condit, Christopher
Thanks for the info Paul, but unfortunately I didn't specify my question adequately. I'm writing *IBM* assembler, where a move is spelled MVC. My third-hand doc says to write IBM opcodes but use Unix syntax. Whatever that means. Here's a simplified example that would get 2 errors, for 2 label

Re: Subject: Unable to Ping the Network

2002-04-24 Thread John Summerfield
Your network mask is probably incorrect. The linux system must be in a different subnet from the rest of the network. The other machines need to be able to find it, but it's not necessarily the net mask that's wrong. I've run Linux under Hercules under Linux using a virtual CTC, and used an

Re: Why not nagios? was Re: netsaint per redbook ?

2002-04-24 Thread John Summerfield
Here are links to some of the Netsaint-like products out there. Nagios - http://www.nagios.org/ MON - http://ftp.kernel.org/software/mon/ Ganglia - http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/index.php BigBrother - http://bb4.com/ Snips - http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/snips/ NetVigil

Re: FW: Addressing problems using asm embedded in C

2002-04-24 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Condit, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the info Paul, but unfortunately I didn't specify my question adequately. I'm writing *IBM* assembler, where a move is spelled MVC. My third-hand doc says to write IBM opcodes but use Unix syntax. Whatever that means. Here's a

Re: FW: Addressing problems using asm embedded in C

2002-04-24 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Wait a second gang Which version of GCC, and GAS, and the other utilities are we talking about? The latest version of the Binary Utilities for the Unix/Linux families supports, for example Intel instructions, and formats, so it stands to reason that it would do that

Re: FW: Addressing problems using asm embedded in C

2002-04-24 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Yes, of course, Dave. Sorry to remind you of old news. But you are still right. And I am now waiting for them to get back to me. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Force will be with

FW: Addressing problems using asm embedded in C

2002-04-24 Thread Ulrich Weigand
Christopher Condit wrote: __asm__ __volatile__( CHI %3,20\n BHLABEL1\n LA2,1\n B LABEL2 LABEL1 LA2,0\n LABEL2 BR14\n : =a (retValue) : d (pProc), d (pStack), d (cbStack) ); Well, BH LABEL1 is a

Re: FW: Addressing problems using asm embedded in C

2002-04-24 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Hi, Like I indicated in my first reply and subsequently (and eloquently) expanded upon by Uli, you should use relative addressing rather than base-displacement. Here's a quick reworking of your example. Scan the .h files in /usr/include/asm for examples of using S/390 assembler inline. asm (