Re: Most 'mature' distribution?

2003-01-07 Thread Ihno Krumreich
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:52:28PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:00:37PM -0500, Mark Post wrote: You're asking for conflicting things. Advanced and stable don't usually go together in software. One thing you're going to find in the Linux/390 arena is that

Two articles on IBM and Linux

2003-01-07 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-01-07-004-26-IN-BZ-HE; LinuxWorld Australia: IBM's Open Source Advocate Advocating use of open source software wasn't a natural for Frye. Upon first learning of Linux at a conference in 1997, Frye admits being a little dismissive about the

FTP Failures to Linux Guest

2003-01-07 Thread Gowans, Chuck
We have a customer who's transferring approximately 200 files nightly from an OS/390 2.10 guest to a RedHat Linux 7.2 at the 2.4.9-38 kernel level. The files vary in size but are generally always smaller than 600k. The FTP process fails 99% of the time after transferring anywhere from 20 to 150

Re: Two articles on IBM and Linux

2003-01-07 Thread Phil Payne
Zeitler: I don't think we'd have a single product line. But we would give customers a lot more deployment choice. We're taking our hypervisors [software for controlling multiple operating systems at once], putting them in microcode and letting people put multiple [operating systems] on one

3270 emulation packages

2003-01-07 Thread Abruzzese, Pat
I need a 3270 emulation package that is web based. Anyone currently using one. vr, P. Abruzzese

Re: 3270 emulation packages

2003-01-07 Thread McKown, John
Well, I must admit that I don't understand this question in the area of Linux. But there are a number of web based 3270 emulation packages. Generally they only run under Windows. The ones that I know of are: 1) IBM's HostOnDemand (HOD) 2) Hummingbird's e-Gateway (zero footprint on the client)

Re: Most 'mature' distribution?

2003-01-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:02:35AM +0100, Ihno Krumreich wrote: On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:52:28PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:00:37PM -0500, Mark Post wrote: One thing you're going to find in the Linux/390 arena is that releases are probably going to be

Re: EVMS scrapped?

2003-01-07 Thread Don Mulvey
Sistina's announcement that LVM 2.0 would be incorporated into the 2.6 Linux kernel came shortly after IBM programmers working on their own competing Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) announced they would scrap much of their project. The new kernel service is device mapper and we (evms)

Re: Most 'mature' distribution?

2003-01-07 Thread Post, Mark K
I hate to argue (sometimes, honest), but SuSE 8.1 is out for Intel, and has been for several months. SLES8 was supposed to be released in December, but I haven't seen any formal announcements saying it actually happened. While you can argue that SLES8 is a different product than SuSE 8.1, that

Re: Most 'mature' distribution?

2003-01-07 Thread Hall, Ken (ECSS)
We're expecting our GA copy of SLES8 for S/390 any day now. We've been told by SuSE that it has shipped. It was released a few weeks later than the Intel version. Apparently their website hasn't been properly updated yet. -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL

getting ripd and zebra working

2003-01-07 Thread John P Taylor
I'm currently having some problems trying to work-out how to get a linux/390 router to broadcast rip version 2 to a neighbouring router this is the setup :- SLES-linux-390-router: has 2 interfaces: eth0 (with qeth/qdio drivers for an OSA Express GB card) ip address 10.0.138.86 gateway to

Re: 3270 emulation packages

2003-01-07 Thread Nestor Acosta
Pat, we are using IBM Host On Demand over Zlinux Suse 7.0. Very good. Brgds. Néstor. -Mensaje original- De: Abruzzese, Pat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:34 AM Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: 3270 emulation packages I need a 3270 emulation package

Re: Most 'mature' distribution?

2003-01-07 Thread Phil Payne
I hate to argue (sometimes, honest), but SuSE 8.1 is out for Intel, and has been for several months. SLES8 was supposed to be released in December, but I haven't seen any formal announcements saying it actually happened. Got a copy right here on the desk. Packaged differently - 3 CDs with 2

Re: 3270 emulation packages

2003-01-07 Thread Nick Laflamme
Abruzzese, Pat wrote: I need a 3270 emulation package that is web based. Anyone currently using one. If you already have VM:Webserver, there should be a 3270 emulator packaged with that. I wouldn't recommend it for regular heavy use, but as a work-around for some kinds of terminal software

FW: SSH Security Exposures

2003-01-07 Thread Post, Mark K
I got this from a co-worker today. The dates on these reports are mid-December, so this may be old news to some. The list of affected clients and platforms is pretty long, and include PuTTY 0.53 and earlier, Unix Any version, and Windows Any version. Mark Post - - - - - We just heard about a

Re: 3270 emulation packages

2003-01-07 Thread paultz
Pat, x3270 will run under Weirdmind. Regards, Paul == Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:34:02 -0500 From: Abruzzese, Pat Subject: 3270 emulation packages I need a 3270 emulation package that is web based. Anyone currently using

Re: NETDEV_2: command not found

2003-01-07 Thread Hall, Ken (ECSS)
Have a look in your /etc/rc.config, where the network devices are defined. It looks like you have a line like: NETDEV_2 where it should be: NETDEV_2= Instead of a variable assignment, it's interpreting the command as a program call, and rc.config runs in EVERY init script. -Original

Cloning users from one system to another

2003-01-07 Thread paultz
If I have a RH7.2 user environment setup on system A, and I create a brand new system B, can I clone the defined users from system A to system B? If so, which files would need to be copied? Thanks, Paul

Re: Cloning users from one system to another

2003-01-07 Thread Hall, Ken (ECSS)
/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, assuming you're using standard internal authentication. -Original Message- From: paultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LINUX-390] Cloning users from one system to another If I have a

Re: Cloning users from one system to another

2003-01-07 Thread Daniel Jarboe
/etc/groups is another ~ Daniel -Original Message- From: Hall, Ken (ECSS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cloning users from one system to another /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, assuming you're using standard

Re: Cloning users from one system to another

2003-01-07 Thread Post, Mark K
Paul, Now is the time to make sure that you're assigning the same person the same UID and GID values across your systems. As time goes on, and you want to do things like use NFS, etc., this will become rather important. If you already have other Linux or UNIX systems in your shop, you should

Re: ssh from z/OS === Linux

2003-01-07 Thread Mark Perry
Welcome back Paul, the reference you mention is a herring rouge, it is a reference to Partition Manager which is not related to ssh. There should be a hexadecimal reason code at the end of the message, what is it? Most likely causes are not having RACF authority to CLASS=FACILITY,

Re: Cloning users from one system to another

2003-01-07 Thread paultz
Thanks Ken, Daniel and Mark. This sounds easy ... I'll give it a try. Paul

New Presentation on linuxvm.org

2003-01-07 Thread Post, Mark K
Now that I finally got caught up, I was able to actually solicit some more content for the web site. Rich Smrcina generously agreed to have his Linux for S/390 Technical Discussion presentation added. It's a nice presentation in that it's pretty current, and covers a lot of ground, but also

Re: NETDEV_2: command not found

2003-01-07 Thread Rich Blair
Thanks Ken. That was it. Rich -Original Message- From: Hall, Ken (ECSS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NETDEV_2: command not found Have a look in your /etc/rc.config, where the network devices are defined. It looks

Re: FTP Failures to Linux Guest

2003-01-07 Thread Vic Cross
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Ward, Garry wrote: Firewall folks had to make some changes (kicking and screaming about security) to make sure the ports were not denied. A customer of ours wanted FTP access to/from an OS/390 system, but in our case *we* were doing the kicking and screaming. They wanted

Re: 3270 emulation packages

2003-01-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know of any open source or atleast free 3270 emulation packages? - Jason Herne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) COSI z/Server team lead On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 13:59, paultz wrote: Pat, x3270 will run under Weirdmind. Regards, Paul ==

Re: 3270 emulation packages

2003-01-07 Thread Post, Mark K
For Linux systems, x3270 is the usual choice. For Windows systems, the choices are much less functional, and I don't have the names right now. Mark Post -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

z/Journal to debut!

2003-01-07 Thread Phil Smith III
(Cross-posted to VMESA-L, LINUX-390, IBM-MAIN, FLEX-ES, P370-L, and CMS-PIPELINES) As some of you have likely heard, Bob Thomas is back in the publishing business! Bob was founder and publisher of 4300 Quarterly, which catered to the IBM midsized mainframe shop back in the early 1980s and which

Re: Cloning users from one system to another

2003-01-07 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 04:49, you wrote: Paul, Now is the time to make sure that you're assigning the same person the same UID and GID values across your systems. As time goes on, and you want to do things like use NFS, etc., this will become rather important. If you already have other Linux

Re: Cloning users from one system to another

2003-01-07 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 04:32, you wrote: If I have a RH7.2 user environment setup on system A, and I create a brand new system B, can I clone the defined users from system A to system B? If so, which files would need to be copied? Apart from those files people have already mentioned, you also

Re: 3270 emulation packages

2003-01-07 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 01:25, you wrote: Pat, we are using IBM Host On Demand over Zlinux Suse 7.0. Very good. Brgds. Néstor. -Mensaje original- De: Abruzzese, Pat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:34 AM Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: 3270 emulation

Re: FTP Failures to Linux Guest

2003-01-07 Thread Steven Adams
If this turns out to be the problem, you might also try to force your ftp server to ACTIVE mode connections only and tell your client to use ACTIVE (port 20/21) instead of PASSIVE. If you can't seem to get your Security team to work with that, try getting them to allow ssh traffic and tunnel

Re: 3270 emulation packages

2003-01-07 Thread Steven Adams
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 09:56 am, you wrote: Does anyone know of any open source or atleast free 3270 emulation packages? - Jason Herne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) COSI z/Server team lead On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 13:59, paultz wrote: Pat, x3270 will run under Weirdmind. Regards,

Re: Cloning users from one system to another

2003-01-07 Thread Vic Cross
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, John Summerfield wrote: Apart from those files people have already mentioned, you also need to think about home directories. Not that I have (any) experience with distributed Unix environments, but I always thought that this kind of thing was managed using NIS for the user

Re: 3270 emulation packages

2003-01-07 Thread Vic Cross
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, John Summerfield wrote: Someone I know who, at the time, worked for IBM GLobal Services reported to me he was using a Java applet in his Netscape (on OS/2 I believe). What its availability is I don't know; perhaps an IBMer here does? Perhaps it was Host-On-Demand...? I

How to move a Linux system to another DASD volume

2003-01-07 Thread BAKER, Craig
Greetings, We have just added a Shark DASD subsystem to our z800 and we now want to move our ThinkBlue64 Linux System to it from our existing DASD. The approach that I took was to backup the filesystem using tar then restore it to the new DASD. Then I updated zipl.conf on the new DASD and ran

Re: How to move a Linux system to another DASD volume

2003-01-07 Thread Post, Mark K
Craig, The first thing that comes to mind is to make sure that you got the device numbers in the correct order. Just because the system found a file system on a device it thinks _should_ have the root file system on it, doesn't mean it really _is_ the root file system. What you say you did,

Re: How to move a Linux system to another DASD volume

2003-01-07 Thread Florian La Roche
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:18:39PM +1100, BAKER, Craig wrote: Greetings, We have just added a Shark DASD subsystem to our z800 and we now want to move our ThinkBlue64 Linux System to it from our existing DASD. The approach that I took was to backup the filesystem using tar then restore it to

Re: Cloning users from one system to another

2003-01-07 Thread Rob van der Heij
At 02:27 08-01-03, John Summerfield wrote: Rather than using those files, best to coordinate the information with the yp* packages or (possibly, I've not investigated it) an LDAP server or equivalent. Been there... After spending a lot of time reading the various HOWTO files and other

Re: 3270 emulation packages

2003-01-07 Thread Carlos Ordonez
Host on Demand... Saying goes: Great minds think alike - I say: Great minds think for themselves! Carlos A. Ordonez IBM Corporation Server Consolidation |-+--- | | Abruzzese, Pat| | | Pabruzzese@Thom| | |

NETDEV_2: command not found

2003-01-07 Thread Rich Blair
Hello - Our environment: SUSE SLES-7 (s390) 2.4.7 Here's a partial snapshot of what's coming out on our console when we ipl this system. Seems like all of the /etc/init.d/rc5.d/ scripts get this error: /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S21atalk: NETDEV_2: command not found /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S21ircd: