Runlevel3 start up problems

2002-05-22 Thread Gustavson, John (ECSS)
We are running SUSE 2.4.7 kernel. We have had problems with the start-up scripts in /etc/init.d(rc.d)/rc3.d for Apache, TOMCAT, and ucd-snmpd. We put several echo's of return codes in the scripts, which all return 0, and it looks like the scripts are running fine, but the processes do not

Communicating with Console on HMC (SERVC instruction?)

2002-05-22 Thread Snyder, Bradley (LNG)
Does anyone know how to send messages to the console (i.e. operating system messages item) on the HMC? Please DO NOT, and I repeat DO NOT respond to this with any GPL-licensed code examples. I'm looking for a general description or a pointer in the right direction. The closest I have come is

Using ram disks

2002-05-22 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; How does one go about getting access to the /dev/ram? disks? I have tried formatting and making file systems and just mounting but I can't seem to find the right combination. Many TIA, Dennis -- Dennis G. Wicks Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications

Re: Timer Patch

2002-05-22 Thread Marcy Cortes
At 10:56 20-05-02 -0400, Mcphillips, James wrote: Here is what I received from SuSE support. For k_timer and the OCO's in k_deflt I put this on a couple of guests yesterday. I noticed today that the cpu time used by an idle Linux has been reduced from about .23% of a cpu (as told by VMRTM) to

Steps to apply all RPM Updates to RH 7.2 system?

2002-05-22 Thread Dave Myers
I am tasked to upgrade a RH 7.2 system. Are these correct steps?? Is it OK to run the RPM updates against a live system, assuming I have backed up first using OFFLINDR ? I'm not sure I really need to do step3 ??? TIA Dave 1. Backup/Clone RH 7.2 2. Apply all RPM updates to RH 7.2 system from

Re: Runlevel3 start up problems

2002-05-22 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
22.05.2002 15:37:08 Gustavson, John (ECSS) wrote: We are running SUSE 2.4.7 kernel. We have had problems with the start-up scripts in /etc/init.d(rc.d)/rc3.d for Apache, TOMCAT, and ucd-snmpd. We put several echo's of return codes in the scripts, which all return 0, and it looks like the

Re: Runlevel3 start up problems

2002-05-22 Thread Yuval Turgeman
Sergey Korzhevsky wrote: 22.05.2002 15:37:08 Gustavson, John (ECSS) wrote: We are running SUSE 2.4.7 kernel. We have had problems with the start-up scripts in /etc/init.d(rc.d)/rc3.d for Apache, TOMCAT, and ucd-snmpd. We put several echo's of return codes in the scripts, which all

Re: Adding a DASD volume

2002-05-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
At 12:06 22-05-02 +0700, Felix Yoyok S. Aditias wrote: I can get to http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?linux-390 now without problems, so maybe the port 8000 wasn't right? If the steps are not correct, which documentation should I refer to? I think you're confusing a few steps. The 'insmod

Re: Runlevel3 start up problems

2002-05-22 Thread Tim Verhoeven
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Gustavson, John (ECSS) wrote: We are running SUSE 2.4.7 kernel. We have had problems with the start-up scripts in /etc/init.d(rc.d)/rc3.d for Apache, TOMCAT, and ucd-snmpd. We put several echo's of return codes in the scripts, which all return 0, and it looks like the

Re: kernel bug with samba

2002-05-22 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
WBR, Sergey - Forwarded by Sergey Korzhevsky/IBA on 22.05.02 18:51 - daniel.jarboe@cu stserv.com To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux cc: on 390 Port Subject: Re:

Hercules 2.16.2 announcement

2002-05-22 Thread Jay Maynard
What's new in release 2.16.2 Release date: 20 May 2002 Fixed 3350 dasdtab entry (Greg Smith) Fixed 370 interval timer error (Valery Pogonchenko) Control panel attach command bug fix (David Fish Trout) The latter is a fix for my screwup.

Re: has anyone seen this?

2002-05-22 Thread Daniel Casey
One of my favorite geek-stuff websites: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/2898.shtml Dunbar, Maggie To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maggie_Dunbar@ cc: bmc.com Subject: has

Re: has anyone seen this?

2002-05-22 Thread Rick Troth
this one had LINUX inside the fish! Perhaps a messianic view of Linux?

Bastille

2002-05-22 Thread Thomas Emde
Hello, I installed Bastille 1.3.0 under SuSE Linux/390 7.0 (2.2.16 Kernel). When I enter InteractiveBastille, the following is returned: Using Curses user interface module. Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration. This distribution version: SE7.0 is not yet supported!

Using CTCs as serial devices, rather than network interfaces?

2002-05-22 Thread Adam Thornton
I'm playing around with some of the Linux-HA stuff, and one of the things I want to try is to heartbeat two images together. Rather than doing UDP, I'd like to use vCTCs as a straight serial interface. How do I use the CTC as if it were a tty? Adam

Re: Even more strangeness...

2002-05-22 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Are you running under z/VM? If so, use #CP TR STOR INTO address.length to trap overwriting of the area in question. -Original Message- The first mprotect() is to allow the jump tables to be rewritten by the run-time linker. The second is to protect the text segment so that nobody

mprotect() doesn't not even work...

2002-05-22 Thread Jason McMullan
/ Kernel Problem Report Test Case Summary: mprotect() can't set a memory region as read-only In the course of our project development, we've noticed a major flaw in the Linux 2.4.x kernels: in-process memory protection just doesn't seem to work at all. I've tried the attached simple

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2002-05-22 Thread Pamela Christina IBM z/VM - Endicott
Subject: Re: zSeries Technical Conference featuring z/OS, z/VM, and Linux Hello, I responded to a note that Bob sent to me directly. (I read LINUX-390 in a daily roll-up). Yes, there will be transportation (buses) for the delegates between the hotels and IBM conference center (morning

Sanity Check please! Steps to apply Updates to a RH 7.2 system

2002-05-22 Thread Dave Myers
I have been tasked to upgrade a RH 7.2 system. Are these correct steps?? Is it OK to run the RPM updates against a live system, assuming I have backed up first using OFFLINDR ? I'm not sure I really need to do step3 ??? TIA Dave 1. Backup/Clone RH 7.2 2. Apply all RPM updates to RH 7.2

Re: Using ram disks

2002-05-22 Thread Post, Mark K
Dennis, Take a look at Using the RAM disk block device with Linux in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Dennis G. Wicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using ram disks Greetings;

Re: What PTF level am I at?

2002-05-22 Thread Dennis Musselwhite
Matt, You can get some idea of the system level using the CP command: CP QUERY CPLEVEL That should (at least) reassure you that you are using z/VM Version 4 Release 2.0 and it will list a service level that indicates which service tape has been installed. CP Guest LAN support on VM

Linux backup software

2002-05-22 Thread Neil Carson
I apologize if this has been asked before. What Linux software is available to perform logical backups of Linux S/390 files and directories? Ideally we would be looking for 'freeware or shareware' but if you know of any commercial ware that would be appreciated also. We would be looking for

Re: has anyone seen this?

2002-05-22 Thread Joe Jenkins
You can buy one from thinkgeek.com The Linux Fish: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/2898.shtml On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dunbar, Maggie wrote: Over the weekend I was driving somewhere, and I got behind a car that had one of those fish symbols on the back bumper - you know, the ones that

Re: What PTF level am I at?

2002-05-22 Thread Matt Lashley
Thank you Dennis. I'll try all of those and add them to my ever-growing cheat sheet list. Dennis MusselwhiteTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: m.com Subject:

Re: Strange problem [Suse Linux on S390 VM]

2002-05-22 Thread Horst Hummel
Donal, the sense data you get are indicating that you might have problems with your hardware (DASD / path to the DASD). This is a so called 'Message to Operator' and the error recovery action code means that the device driver should try an other path to the device (if possible). If you can't

Re: Runlevel3 start up problems

2002-05-22 Thread Post, Mark K
John, I just put an update on the linuxvm.org site about this. It points to two entries in the mailing list archives you might want to check out: http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.25655 http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.25677 Mark Post -Original Message- From:

Re: Adding a DASD volume

2002-05-22 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
22.05.2002 08:06:27 Felix Yoyok S. Aditias wrote: Hi all, I get message of server not found when searching in http://www.marist.edu:8000/htbin/wlvdbs?LINUX-VM I use suse linux 7.0 with kernel 2.2.16 ipl-ed from dasd. When I want to add a DASD volume, I try : insmod dasd dasd=2123 but this

Re: Sanity Check please! Steps to apply Updates to a RH 7.2 system

2002-05-22 Thread John Summerfield
I have been tasked to upgrade a RH 7.2 system. Are these correct steps?? Is it OK to run the RPM updates against a live system, assuming I have backed up first using OFFLINDR ? I always update my IA32 systems while they're live, but I think it can go awry. Think of something starting up

Re: mprotect() doesn't not even work...

2002-05-22 Thread Ferguson, Neale
It appears mprotect is setting the write protect bit of the storage key, but this is being undone shortly after: - 00031F1E' SSKE B22B001300060CF0D203CC 1 --- Write okay when storage got by mmap - 00400790 ST50102000 40018000CC 1 --- 1234 stored V40018000

Re: mprotect() doesn't not even work...

2002-05-22 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
Hi Jason, I've tried the attached simple program on RedHat 2.4.9-17 and the lastest 2.4.17 build from IBM, and both fail miserably: This is a bug in arch/{s390,s390x}/mm/fault.c that is present since the beginning. A small wonder that nobody noticed it until now... The following patch should

Re: mprotect() doesn't not even work...

2002-05-22 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Is this the same bit of logic in 2.4.7: good_area: write = 0; si_code = SEGV_ACCERR; switch (error_code 0xFF) { case 0x04:/* write, present*/ write = 1; break;

Re: Sanity Check! Steps to apply Updates -- Followup Questions

2002-05-22 Thread daniel . jarboe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Observation: Also read that RPM itself may need to be updated first, before running the other RPMs; however, in the S/390 updates I see not RPM for RPM, so I'm assuming I'll be ok. You'll probably want to look at more than just the s390 updates.

Re: Sanity Check! Steps to apply Updates -- One more thought...chroot

2002-05-22 Thread Dave Myers
The thought comes to mind that IF I were to follow my OS/390 maintenance procedures, I might consider cloning this system, then from my production system issue a mount of cloned root to /SERVICE and chroot to /SERVICE to apply these RPM's. Is that workable, prudent etc. or does it cause too

Re: Linux backup software

2002-05-22 Thread Konkol, Josh
We use FDR/Upstream. It appears to work fine. Josh -Original Message- From: PAUL WILLIAMSON [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux backup software I'm not sure if this will work, but Arkeia is pretty good, and is

Re: Linux backup software

2002-05-22 Thread Jon R. Doyle
Well you said Freeware, and the best fit it tar, in fact I think it is better than some commercial stuff, as long as you do not need so called agents like connectors to Oracle or something for Hot back-up/restore. You can make some really neat scripts for tar using cron jobs, at jobs, and even

Re: kernel bug with samba

2002-05-22 Thread Hall, Ken (ECSS)
This is a known bug. There have been two kernel upgrades since the pre-release version. I assume that's what you're running, since the GA version had the first upgrade integrated. If you have a maintenance agreement, you can get the new kernel packages from SuSE. If not, I guess you're out

Re: Linux backup software

2002-05-22 Thread Jim Elliott
I apologize if this has been asked before. What Linux software is available to perform logical backups of Linux S/390 files and directories? Ideally we would be looking for 'freeware or shareware' but if you know of any commercial ware that would be appreciated also. We would be looking for

Re: Linux backup software

2002-05-22 Thread Adam Thornton
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:01:55PM -0700, Jon R. Doyle wrote: Well you said Freeware, and the best fit it tar, in fact I think it is better than some commercial stuff, as long as you do not need so called agents like connectors to Oracle or something for Hot back-up/restore. You can make

Re: Linux backup software

2002-05-22 Thread Neil Carson
Thank you to everyone who replied. ...Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/22/02 04:16PM On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:01:55PM -0700, Jon R. Doyle wrote: Well you said Freeware, and the best fit it tar, in fact I think it is better than some commercial stuff, as long as you do not need so called agents

Re: Red Hat 7.2 install - problem with fdasd

2002-05-22 Thread Makhijani, Beena
Thanks, using dasdfmt did solve the problem and I also had to IPL after dasdfmt before I could run Anaconda. Beena -Original Message- From: Rob van der Heij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.2 install - problem

Re: Using ram disks

2002-05-22 Thread Rob van der Heij
I'll have to browse around in /usr/src/linux/Documentation more. It looks like there is a lot of good stuff in there. Or the quick way: ;-) mke2fs /dev/ram0 mkdir /mnt/mini mount /dev/ram0 /mnt/mini

OpenSSH Problem

2002-05-22 Thread Mike Spaniol
Hello, I've been trying to get SSH to work on my linux virtual machine to logon to a remote host. With the help of this list, I've now got it working if I run from userid Root on my linux virtual machine. I'm trying to get it to run now from a standard userid, operator. I've added a user,

Re: OpenSSH Problem

2002-05-22 Thread Rick Troth
Mike ... Best to compare the problem account and host to a working user@host pair. Do you have SSH working anywhere? So the first thing I would recommend is to back away from this particular one and see if you can get that SSH client working to some other Linux (or UNIX) host with any account

Changing network device

2002-05-22 Thread Sue Sivets
We will be changing cpu's in the next couple of weeks, and I'm using a network adaptor that is built into the current cpu (MP3000) for several Linux distributions. I have another adaptor in a 3172 that I'd like to change to. I need to change 3 distributions - Marist, Suse 7.0 and Suse 7.2.

Re: Linux backup software

2002-05-22 Thread Keldin
Our company uses FDR/Upstream with StorageTek silos and Schuled with OPC-E using batch jcl that gets submitted to start the backup process. (for aix). It works well. - Original Message - From: John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 6:30

patch problem

2002-05-22 Thread Tim-Chr. Hanschen
Hi, I tried to patch kernel 2.4.17 with linux-2.4.17-s390.diff and got the following: patching file Documentation/Configure.help patch: Can't create file /tmp/pooFPYtf : File exists I used: patch -p1 linux-2.4.17-s390.diff. The file does not exist! The directory tmp is completetly