Addition of new CPUs

2002-06-12 Thread Nish Deodhar
Hello, I'm not sure if this is even possible, but I've defined additional CPUs under VM and would like them enabled for Linux WITHOUT having to re-IPL the Linux guest image. Is there a command within Linux or otherwise that will let me do this Thanks, Nish

Grede Update...

2002-06-12 Thread Rich Smrcina
Cross-posted to vse-l, vmesa-l and linux-390. Sorry for duplications. Linux for S/390 pioneer Grede Foundries of Milwaukee, Wisconsin has recently moved their internet web presence to Linux for S/390. Linux for S/390 has been growing in acceptance in the industry and at Grede Foundries there

Re: processor speed redux

2002-06-12 Thread Davis, Lawrence
That was a good article that compared an iMac 800 MHZ computer to a Intel 2.x GHZ PC. It's not the size/speed of your tool it's how you use it. Larry Davis, \|/ Nielsen Media Research (. .) VM Systems Programmer ___ooO-(_)-Ooo___ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: Linux LPAR install on MP3000 - LCS definition

2002-06-12 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 06/12/2002 at 10:58ZE10, Vic Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12.06.2002 at 07:19:52, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On real OSA devices the number is ignored afaik. Yep. This is because on OSA, each port is its own LCS device which only has port '0'. So the

Re: Edge Server

2002-06-12 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Serge: Argh, this is a typo. It should be (on all four WebSphere Edge Server items) xSeries. I have reported it to the devcon team. I always thought this new naming convention silly;;-) Thought the move away from System/3, System/36, System/38 and such was to avoid

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: libcrypto.so.2

2002-06-12 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
I am seeing the following on my logs: Jun 12 08:59:49 ibm9672 sshd[25613]: unable to dlopen /usr/lib/sasl/libdigestmd5.so:/usr/lib/sasl/libdigestmd5.so: undefined symbol: des_key_sched Jun 12 08:59:49 ibm9672 sshd[25613]: unable to dlopen /usr/lib/sasl/libgssapiv2.so: libgssapi.so.1: cannot load

3480/3490 tape access on linux 2.4 kernel

2002-06-12 Thread Ira Hochner
greetings all, when i do a modprobe tape390 on the new version of SuSe i see it has tape support and it even knows that there are two tape drives available in the LPAR. How do i get to access and use these drives? TIA Ira Hochner Mainline Information Systems (954) 575-0413 (office) (954)

Ballmer: IBM, Linux, AOL Remain On Hit List As Sun Fades As Threa t

2002-06-12 Thread Colman Fink
http://crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/BreakingNews.asp?ArticleID=35789

Re: Querying software levels

2002-06-12 Thread Ferguson, Neale
rpm -qa will list all the packages in the database. -Original Message- From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LINUX-390] Querying software levels I'm running the Suse distribution of Linux on a

Re: Edge Server

2002-06-12 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:15:34 +0800 John Summerfield said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Serge: Argh, this is a typo. It should be (on all four WebSphere Edge Server items) xSeries. I have reported it to the devcon team. I always thought this new naming convention silly;;-) Thought the move away

Code drop 2002-06-12

2002-06-12 Thread Gerhard Hiller
Linux for S/390 zSeries: Please check out our DeveloperWorks page at: http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/whatsnew.shtml We are releasing a recommended patch for the kernel 2.4.17 stream (for use with the old tool-chain) at:

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: libcrypto.so.2

2002-06-12 Thread Post, Mark K
Peter, I would say that what you're seeing is similar, but not identical. The first message seems to indicate that sshd was compiled against a different version of the libdigestmd5 library than what is on your system, hence the unresolved symbol reference. The second message would indicate

Re: SuSE Kernel 2.4.7 Tapes

2002-06-12 Thread Post, Mark K
Royce, I'm not sure what's happening to your posts. I see them on the archive, but they're not showing up in my email. Oh well... Your problem is that the tape driver is built as a module, and not compiled into the kernel. As such, the driver will not get loaded unless an explicit

Re: Edge Server

2002-06-12 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:06:23 EDT Jim Elliott said: btw What happened to RS/6000? John: And I thought it was Netfinity - xSeries for X-Architecture X cause we don't want to use I for Intel or P for Pentium so we don't have to deal with their trademark, so we'll just X it out. AS/400-

Re: Ballmer: IBM, Linux, AOL Remain On Hit List As Sun Fades As Threa t

2002-06-12 Thread David Boyes
Interesting to see that Ballmer's handlers seem to have actually done some homework for this one. There's the usual MS marketing bombast, but it's a pretty balanced and fair discussion. I'd also complement the reporter -- this is a well-done article. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates

Re: LVM Install

2002-06-12 Thread Chet Norris
Thanks. The last thing I want to do, as you know, is blaze a new trail through Linux. I saw your response about software RAID, I'll look at that. But until I get z/VM in house to replace VIF, it seems I'm doomed to be a pioneer no matter what I do. --- Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chet,

Re: Antwort: Re: libcrypto.so.2

2002-06-12 Thread Rob van der Heij
At 07:41 10-06-02, Tim-Chr. Hanschen wrote: Unfortunately not libcrypto.so.2, but only libcrypto.so, libcrypto.a and libcrypto.so.0.9.6. I tried different OpenSSL version... bad luck. Which is why I suggested to try building the package again that needs this library. When the executables are

Re: What's best way to protect Linux Disk from OS/390?

2002-06-12 Thread Ward, Garry
Perhaps it is just the shops I've been in, but generally ICKDSF is secured to only SYS Progs Storage Admins; the random programmer and or end user has no access to it and thereby can't format anything. If you have the problem of folks using ICKDSF when they shouldn't; I'd take it up with your

Re: ipl z/vm without 3270 controller on hmc

2002-06-12 Thread Davis, Jeff
I believe, however, that if you need to use the stand alone loader screen to select your nucleus, etc, a 3270 is required. Jeff Davis -Original Message- From: Steven J. Oswald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 7:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ipl z/vm

Monitoring console output messages from Linux virtual machines

2002-06-12 Thread Purnomo Hadiprodjo
Hi all. We will soon have our first MP3000 installed in our office. Are there any VM tools that enable us to receive console output messages from multiple Linux virtual machines on the console of another virtual machine? I would like to have a single point of control for the consoles of several

Re: Monitoring console output messages from Linux virtual machines

2002-06-12 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 12:01:45 -0700 Purnomo Hadiprodjo said: Hi all. We will soon have our first MP3000 installed in our office. Are there any VM tools that enable us to receive console output messages from multiple Linux virtual machines on the console of another virtual machine? SET SECUSER

Re: Monitoring console output messages from Linux vir tual machines

2002-06-12 Thread Davis, Jeff
Well, sure. Just use secondary console facility. All you need to do is, in the console statement for the directory entry for the linux system, specify the machine you want to receive the console such as: CONSOLE 0009 3215 A CONSMACH Note: the linux machine must be disconnected. If you run a

Re: Querying software levels

2002-06-12 Thread Post, Mark K
Tom, Not quite. If you install and maintain via source _without_using_RPM_to_do_it, then you have to keep track of things manually. If you use RPM, then it's not a problem. On those systems where RPM is used, I try to build RPM packages from the source I download. It's not really that hard,

Re: ipl z/vm without 3270 controller on hmc

2002-06-12 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 06/10/2002 at 08:43 CST, Davis, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe, however, that if you need to use the stand alone loader screen to select your nucleus, etc, a 3270 is required. Right, Jeff. You also need it for stand-alone DDR. (DSF supports the HMC; stand-alone dump

Re: Monitoring console output messages from Linux virtual machine s

2002-06-12 Thread Kern, Thomas
The facility within VM/ESA and z/VM for directing console traffic to an alternate user is called SCIF. This alternate user can be specified on the CONSOLE statement for the linux server virtual machines to be monitored. It can also be set dynamically via the CP SET SECUSER command. There are

Re: Monitoring console output messages from Linux virtual machines

2002-06-12 Thread David Boyes
Yup, it's built in. When you define the Linux guests, put the userid of the machine you want the messages to go to as the last token on the CONSOLE statement in the CP directory entry, or use the privileged SET SECUSER or SET OBSERVER commands to set the secondary user to the appropriate userid.

DB2 for Linux

2002-06-12 Thread James Gallagher
Does the same version of DB2 for Linux work on both the intel platform and Linux under v/m?

Re: VMware

2002-06-12 Thread David Rock
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:16:39AM +0200, Georg Zumstrull wrote: What are you taking about, GSX-Server ESX-Server or just Workstation? How many CPUs? Georg I usr VMware quite a bit and I can tell you that there is really not much comparison between the two setups. The biggest

Re: 3480/3490 tape access on linux 2.4 kernel

2002-06-12 Thread Post, Mark K
Ira, The mt command, using the ntibm? and rtibm? device names. Then you just use tar, afio, cpio, whatever to write to the device name. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Ira Hochner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: DB2 for Linux

2002-06-12 Thread Jim Elliott
Does the same version of DB2 for Linux work on both the intel platform and Linux under v/m? James: Yes and no. The same level (7.2 now) is available for both, and the CDs for both (DB2 UDB EE) come in the same shrink-wrap, but of course the binaries are different. Regards, Jim

Re: Querying software levels

2002-06-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Tom; Nearly every program/package has a command that will display the version that you are using. [root@krypton log]# grep -V grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2 This is quite often -v or -V or --help or some such. The man pages have pointers. Somewhere there is a list of the commands and options

Re: DB2 for Linux

2002-06-12 Thread Post, Mark K
If you mean the exact same binary files, then no. The two architectures have completely different instruction sets, endianness, etc. If you mean the equivalent binaries for that processor for a given version, then yes. Mark Post -Original Message- From: James Gallagher [mailto:[EMAIL

bootshell-SMSG not authorized

2002-06-12 Thread Hank Calzaretta
I'm trying to implement Mike Kershaw's bootshell program in order to shutdown Linux instances from the VM operator console. I issue the following command from OPERATOR: SMSG SYSSOFT1 HALT I get the following response: HCPMFS057I SYSSOFT1 not receiving; not authorized I did a SET SMSG

Re: bootshell-SMSG not authorized

2002-06-12 Thread Kris Van Hees
I might be shooting in the dark here, but do you possibly mean to send the command: SEND SYSSOFT1 HALT instead? Kris On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 03:30:42PM -0500, Hank Calzaretta wrote: I'm trying to implement Mike Kershaw's bootshell program in order to shutdown Linux instances

Re: Domino for Linux S/390?

2002-06-12 Thread Jim Elliott
I've no luck in searching for Domino to run on an S/390 Linux virtual machine. Does anyone have information on whether there is a Domino platform available to run there? Domino is NOT available for Linux on S/390. IBM is investigating whether to provide this, but it is not available at this

Re: 3480/3490 tape access on linux 2.4 kernel

2002-06-12 Thread Ira Hochner
i dont find ntibm or rtibm in /dev or in modules.conf but i do see the drives in /proc/tapedrives and when i do lsmod. Ira Hochner Mainline Information Systems (954) 575-0413 (office) (954) 294-1719 (cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email) Post, Mark K

weirdminds want to know

2002-06-12 Thread paultz
In a previous posting (some parts below), I complained to Mark Post that I had one of those workstations that I could not install an SSH X server upon (no C: drive access). Alan Cox responded with a post about weirdmind. I have since gotten a copy and taken it for a test drive, and find that it

Re: ipl z/vm without 3270 controller on hmc

2002-06-12 Thread Steven J. Oswald
Thanks to all who responded. I understand about the utilities which use 3270 data streams and/or require an interrupt from a real device, but I often find myself in situations at customer sites where I need to bring systems up to test something and cannot afford to wait until a gen takes place.

Re: Domino for Linux S/390?

2002-06-12 Thread Rich Smrcina
It's all a matter of business opportunity. If everyone here can show IBM that they are willing to shell out the dubloons for the software, IBM will listen up. Voice your opinion here, but better yet collect your prose and sent it off to IBM. If you don't have a local rep, call a branch office

Re: Linux LPAR install on MP3000 - LCS definition

2002-06-12 Thread Vic Cross
On 13.06.2002 at 00:45:18, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, 06/12/2002 at 10:58ZE10, Vic Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep. This is because on OSA, each port is its own LCS device which only has port '0'. So the default (0) is fine. Unless it is a dual-port

Edge Server

2002-06-12 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
The title of the page http://service2.boulder.ibm.com/devcon/devcon/docs/wes20sus.htm is IBM WebSphere Edge Server Version 2.0 for Linux SuSE - zSeries I downloaded file wes20sus.zip. Then... linux390:/upload2/4 # ./install ./install: /upload2/4/instwiz/platform/bin/wiz: cannot execute binary

Linux LCS Adapter install in an MP3000 LPAR

2002-06-12 Thread Ira Hochner
I am currently trying to install the latest version of Suse Linux (2.4 kernel) in an LPAR and having trouble defining the ethernet card. The machine is a MP3000 H30 with 3 LPARs with 3 ethernet cards and 1 token ring card. LPAR 1: VSE had TR card dedicated to it. LPAR 2: not in use LPAR 3: LINUX

Possible Loop in kswapd - any fix available?

2002-06-12 Thread Sivey,Lonny
I logged on to z/VM the other day and discovered the system 100% busy. RTM showed one of the 65 Linux guests had heavy CPU activity. I logged into the Linux guest and it looks like kswapd was in a loop. This is an off-the-shelf RH 7.2 distribution. Anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix

Re: Strange cygwin problem

2002-06-12 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers Is this the most recent version of the Cygwin tools? Did you remember to update it at least once a week? But never mind that did you see anything strange across your monitor? And is the whole system plugged into a surge suppressor?

List strangeness

2002-06-12 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers Is there a special reason why messages that are dated in the past, yesterday, with a time index for say, 1:51 for a message, arriving a few minutes ago? I grok that the list server moves mail around at a certain speed, and then its up

Punch Cards are Making a Comeback

2002-06-12 Thread Post, Mark K
IBM RESEARCH ON Tuesday announced what it believes is a breakthrough in data storage using nanotechnology that allows a trillion bits of information to be packed into a square inch, the equivalent of about 25 million printed textbook pages on a postage-stamp size surface. The research project,

SuSE Kernel 2.4.7 Tapes

2002-06-12 Thread Royce Wolf
SuSE L/390 SLES7 (31 bint) running under VM 2.4.0. I have the following parameters line in the /etc/zipl.conf file, but the attached tape drive is not recognized at boot time. parameters=dasd=0290,0300-324 tape=181-182 dasd_force_diag=290,300-324 root=/dev/dasda1 noinitrd The command:

Re: FW: A Business Case for Linux

2002-06-12 Thread John Summerfield
This URL was forwarded to me by a co-worker. This study was published by Mitre in July of 2001. It spends some time looking at how Linux and Open Source software fits in with the needs of the military, but the majority of it covers the strengths and weaknesses of Linux versus Windows NT and