Re: db2 v 8.1 and debian/suse/red hat

2003-02-06 Thread Jae-hwa Park
I also just installed db2 8.1 on redhat. I'm using redhat 7.2 for s390(31bit), kernel 2.4.9-38. On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:24:15AM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote: > anyone running db2 ver 8.1 on debian...red hat.. or suse.. > > > > Ralph Noll > Systems Programmer > City of Little Rock > Phone (501) 371-

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > lynx -dump http://www.microsoft.com/install-malware | bash > > This creates a temporary file in /tmp (or whatever) and executes it, to > the best of my knowledge. But I believe that such a limitation will break > many other programs Dos handles "pipes"

Re: RPM Data Bases and Sharing Linux Disks

2003-02-06 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Richard Hitt wrote: > Hi, William > > The rpm database is nominally in /var/lib/rpm, if I'm not mistaken. An > unprivileged user should trivially be able to change this to his own > directory, by making a ~/.rpmmacros file and adding to it a %_dbpath > value. See /usr/lib/rpm

Re: Multiple posts Yep

2003-02-06 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Kittendorf, Craig wrote: > I'm also getting these and other for mail lists at VM.MARIST.EDU. All with > blank subject which I don't open. I opened a couple and looked at the headers. They're harmless. The major cost is us talking about them;-) I figure list-admin will fi

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > The longer term risk is more likely to be network based. Imagine if the slammer > worm also did chernobyl style bios erasure... That kind of attack is a when not > an if. > I've seen the occasional report of a virus that would do that, or rub out the disk dri

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat

2003-02-06 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > Is anyone else on this list having the problem of getting multiple copies of posts? >I'm getting at least two copies of every post, sometimes as many as six or eight. >I've gotten at least six of this particular post. I've been getting lots of emp

Re: Multiple posts Yep

2003-02-06 Thread Alex Leyva
Im getting blank mails too. On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Ryan Ware wrote: > Yup and I'm getting blank ones from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -Original Message- > > From: Ken Dreger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:43 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Multiple p

Re: Multiple posts Yep

2003-02-06 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Would anyone appreciate a non mainframe user's opinion here? Two so far. Any ideas as to what caused them? They remind me of what happens when an outbound mailer's program goes through an anti-virus program. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need help figuring out why my zOS1.4 VNIC won't come active on GUESTLAN TYPE=HIPERS

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Myers
>If the CHPID was assigned properly in your virtual machine, >perhaps you need to DEFINE the NIC and COUPLE it before you >IPL the z/OS guest? Well I am running out of things to try. I put the DEFINE NIC and COUPLE commands in the autoexec for the zOS guest.. but that made no diff. The comment a

Re: An Intel Slackware question about the 2.4.x kernels

2003-02-06 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Okay thank you Alan. Right now it's booting, and behaving itself. Still no response from Slackware itself, so I think they are busy researching the problem. Yes, I'll agree that it is a problematic thing. And what gets me, is the sparse documentation inside the kernel itse

Re: Multiple posts

2003-02-06 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello again from Gregg C Levine Thanks Jim. I saw them, and decided I'd wait until further feedback. But is there any clew as to what went wrong with the system to cause it? --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force

Any one using RAWIO with SuSE SLE8?

2003-02-06 Thread Jim Sibley
Has anyone tried RAWIO with SuSE SLES8? If you have, what are some good references? Regards, Jim Linux S/390-zSeries Support, SEEL, IBM Silicon Valley Labs t/l 543-4021, 408-463-4021, [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Grace Happens ***

Re: Disaster Recovery scenario - comments, suggestions, real world advice

2003-02-06 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, James Melin wrote: > We are having a Disaster Recovery exercise in April. My boss thinks it > would be nifty if we could recover the 2.4 Linux system I just got > installed (with much help from you SMOONOL's - Secret Masters Of Obscure > kNowledge Of Linux). > > The disaster re

e: Disaster Recovery scenario - comments, suggestions, real world

2003-02-06 Thread Adam Thornton
n Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:52:03PM -0500, Daniel Jarboe wrote: > Adam Thornton wrote: > > None. A plain old system will run just fine under VM. All the > > VM-specific patches are optimizations you can apply if you happen to > > know you're running under VM. But VM does virtualize the > > machine

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Thr eat

2003-02-06 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Phil Payne wrote: > > And if they bothererd to read the licenses that are on the proprietary > software packages that they merrily click through, they'd understand they're > up the creek without a paddle there as well. > > It's much worse. At least one current end user license

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:17:23PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > Unfortunately viruses now target the most easily deceived and > priviledged part of the OS - the user. Fixing users is a research > project. I believe that Simon Travaglia has done some research in that area. Adam

Re: Multiple posts

2003-02-06 Thread Jim Elliott
I sent a note to Harry Smith about the problem. He is listed as the owner of the list server. Regards, Jim

Re: RPM Data Bases and Sharing Linux Disks

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Hitt
Hi, William The rpm database is nominally in /var/lib/rpm, if I'm not mistaken. An unprivileged user should trivially be able to change this to his own directory, by making a ~/.rpmmacros file and adding to it a %_dbpath value. See /usr/lib/rpm/macros, in which you'll find: %_dbpath

Re: An Intel Slackware question about the 2.4.x kernels

2003-02-06 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 18:01, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Would anyone familiar with the kernel creation process be able > confirm, or even deny that it has been repaired by the later 2.4.x > kernels? In this case it would be the 2.4.19, or 2.4.20 kernel. > > I phrased my subject that way, so that peopl

Re: Need help figuring out why my zOS1.4 VNIC won't come active on GUESTLAN TYPE=HIPERS

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Myers
Dennis, Does this look right? DISPLAY SCHIB 003B SCHIB DEV INT-PARM ISC FLG LP PNO LPU PI MBI PO PA CHPID0-3 CHPID4-7 003B E104 02201168 4 89 80 00 80 80 80 80 0300 DISPLAY SCHIB 003C SCHIB DEV INT-PARM ISC FLG LP PNO LPU PI MBI PO PA CHPID0-3 CHPID4-7 003C E105 022011

Re: Need help figuring out why my zOS1.4 VNIC won't come active on GUESTLAN TYPE=HIPERS

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Myers
Another quick question... do you know if zOS 1.4 supports both types of guest lans (type=qdio and type=hipers). I could not get the type=qdio to work eitherso that's why i am trying type=hipers now. Dave Myers Denver Solutions Group Senior Systems Engineer Office Phone:   (303) 996-7112 Ce

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, John Summerfield wrote: > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > machines is fairly slight. Consider; > > > Most Windows viruses spread by using Lookout Express and other office > > > procut APIs. A great way of reducing your risk of infection on Windows > > > is to u

Re: Need help figuring out why my zOS1.4 VNIC won't come active on GUESTLAN TYPE=HIPERS

2003-02-06 Thread Dennis Musselwhite
Hi, You mentioned that you picked CHPID number 03 to use... > TCPIP PROFILE: > - > DEVICE IUTIQD03 MPCIPA > LINK HIPERL03 IPAQIDIO IUTIQD03 > > Note: the "03" designates the CHPID to use for IQD...and > since 03 was not in use...I picked this one. Normally, CP manag

Re: Need help figuring out why my zOS1.4 VNIC won\'t come active on = GUESTLAN TYPE=HIPERS

2003-02-06 Thread Vic Cross
On 07.02.2003 at 06:46:24, Dave Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no requirement to HCD-gen the CHPID according to the > doc. Hmmm... not sure about this. Of course they do not go into the hardware configuration, but they still have to appear in the MVS config. The same, I would imagi

Re: Multiple posts Yep

2003-02-06 Thread Kittendorf, Craig
I'm also getting these and other for mail lists at VM.MARIST.EDU. All with blank subject which I don't open. Craig -Original Message- From: Scott Chapman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multiple posts Yep I'm not g

Re: Multiple posts Yep

2003-02-06 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
In addition to multiple posts, I'm also getting blank posts from the list, just like you. about forty today so far. They say there are three signs of stress in your life. You eat too much junk food, you drive too fast and you veg out in front of the TV. Who are they kidding? That sounds lik

Re: Multiple posts Yep

2003-02-06 Thread Ryan Ware
Yup and I'm getting blank ones from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Ken Dreger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Multiple posts Yep > > > Yes, I am also seeing this... > > Ken > > > > At 12:38 PM 2/6

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 11:07, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Is your pine updated? (A reminder: a rather trivial hole in pine <=4.44 > was only exposed when pine 4.50 was about to be released, and it turned > out tha the problem was fixed there. THe author of pine knew of this > problem much earlier. It is

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Thr eat

2003-02-06 Thread David Boyes
There's a Newsgroups: header coming in some of the duplicated posts. Is someone out there gating this list to a newsgroup? -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Wolfe, Gordon W > Sent: Thursday, F

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat

2003-02-06 Thread Daniel Casey
I believe it happens when people do a "Reply All" in their e-mail clients. For instance, when I do a reply all, the To: address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the cc: address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I remember, I usually try to remove the cc: address so it only goes to recips in To: address. |--

Re: db2 v 8.1 and debian/suse/red hat

2003-02-06 Thread Ferguson, Neale
31-bit. I had no problems with the install. I ran db2_install and then from db2 directory ran install. -Original Message- what kernel of suse? and 64bit or 32bit??

Re: Multiple posts Yep

2003-02-06 Thread Scott Chapman
I'm not getting too many multiples of previous posts, but I am getting *lots* of empty messages from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" which kind of sounds like something is messed up somewhere... Scott Chapman AEP Ken Dreger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Multiple posts Yep

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Stermer
I'm not getting multiples but I am getting a blank email from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" every so often. (probably about six so far.) > -Original Message- > From: Ken Dreger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: February 06, 2003 12:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Multiple posts Yep > >

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat

2003-02-06 Thread Phil Payne
> Is anyone else on this list having the problem of getting multiple copies of posts? >I'm getting at least two copies of every post, sometimes as many as six or eight. I've gotten at least six of this particular post. Not multiple posts, but dozens of spurious null posts: Return-path: <[EMA

Need help figuring out why my zOS1.4 VNIC won't come active on GUESTLAN TYPE=HIPERS

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Myers
I followed examples in the HiperSockets/Guest Lan Redbook and can't seem to get my Z/OS 1.4 VNIC to come active. I have an open ticket with IBM, but thought someone might have some ideas. I am getting this error when I start the device: EZZ4308I ERROR: CODE=80100067 DURING ACTIVATION OF DEVICE IU

Multiple posts Yep

2003-02-06 Thread Ken Dreger
Yes, I am also seeing this... Ken At 12:38 PM 2/6/2003 -0800, you wrote: Is anyone else on this list having the problem of getting multiple copies of posts? I'm getting at least two copies of every post, sometimes as many as six or eight. I've gotten at least six of this particular post

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat

2003-02-06 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
Is anyone else on this list having the problem of getting multiple copies of posts? I'm getting at least two copies of every post, sometimes as many as six or eight. I've gotten at least six of this particular post. It only happens with posts from this list (I subscribe to three lists) It doe

Re: db2 v 8.1 and debian/suse/red hat

2003-02-06 Thread Noll, Ralph
what kernel of suse? and 64bit or 32bit?? > -Original Message- > From: Ferguson, Neale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:46 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: db2 v 8.1 and debian/suse/red hat > > > Just installed it on SuSE > > -Original Message

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread David Boyes
> IIRC, the RTM worm worked by exploiting a buffer overflow in > fingerd on > VAX systems and debug mode in sendmail on Sun boxes; it > therefore would > not have done anything to VM systems, if there were any it hit. > However, I don't know if it came a-knockin' to any of those systems or > not.

Re: db2 v 8.1 and debian/suse/red hat

2003-02-06 Thread David Boyes
The try-n-buy packages install and initialize correctly on Debian 3.x. I haven't done much more than that with them, but it does get that far without problems. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

Re: CDL layout, and the Logical Volume Manager

2003-02-06 Thread Don Mulvey
>As I am sitting here designating the file system for my next Linux LPAR, It >occurs to me that it will be advantageous to take the 2 remaining 3390-mod >3 1 gig custom volumes I have and make them into a single 2 gig volume with >LVM. My management wants all this done in CDL so that we can take vo

Re: Disaster Recovery scenario - comments, suggestions, real worl d ad

2003-02-06 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Adam Thornton wrote: > None. A plain old system will run just fine under VM. All the > VM-specific patches are optimizations you can apply if you happen to > know you're running under VM. But VM does virtualize the > machine, so if > it will run on the iron, it will run under VM. Just checking

CDL backups and runlevel

2003-02-06 Thread James Melin
I want to take CDL backups of my Linux volumes. Is there anyway to take decent image backups from single user mode? I'm not looking to IPL my Linux server every day just so I can have exclusive access of my volumes. I would prefer to switch into a lower runlevel that would still allow telnet access

Re: Suse 7 kernet 2.4 Packages

2003-02-06 Thread James Tison
Hello Ken, Warning: I"m not running SuSE. 1) Yes, you've added it, but it's not useable yet. You'll then need to: a) Low level format the disk surface (see "man dasdfmt") b) Partition it (see "man fdasd") c) Apply a filesystem to it (I suggest you see "man mke2fs", but you have

Re: Disaster Recovery scenario - comments, suggestions, real worl d ad

2003-02-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:50:04PM -0600, James Melin wrote: > What patches/changes are needed under 2.4.7 to run under VM (timer patch > comes to mind) that are not needed/might never be put on an LPAR system? > > This sounds like the least amount of pain None. A plain old system will run just

lvm

2003-02-06 Thread Noll, Ralph
how do you tell what volumes make up an LVM like my lvm has 6g what volumes does that consist of Ralph Noll Systems Programmer City of Little Rock Phone (501) 371-4884 Fax (501) 371-4712 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \\\|/// \\\ ~ ~ /// ( @ @

Re: Setting up OSA-express for Z/VM ... running in an LPAR.

2003-02-06 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 02/03/2003 at 09:53 GMT, Eddie Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I assume that I will share the DATAPATH with the Z/OS LPAR??? Eddie, the subchannels are not shared. The LPAR uses its own set of subchannels, assigning them read/write/data based on your specification. Alan Altmark

Yet Another Systems Programmer Trying to Install Linux390

2003-02-06 Thread Dyer, Kenny
I've downloaded SLES7 beta to try in an LPAR. The only configured tcpip connection to our MP3000 H50 is thru a Cisco router running CLAW. The network connection menu from the IPL tape does not include CLAW as a choice. What are my options from here? I'm considering configuring the MP3000 ethern

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat

2003-02-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:42:56PM +0100, Phil Payne wrote: > It's much worse. At least one current end user license permits the > vendor to use all appropriate means - physical and electronic - to > verify that the terms of their license are being complied with. So if > they come into your netw

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat

2003-02-06 Thread Phil Payne
> Phil, > > I went to the article referred to at the start of this thread > (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857638,00.asp), and can't find your > quote. Is it from something the article links to? No, it's from an analysis by Another Analyst Company That Shall Not Be Named that I turned up d

Re: System administration facility/dirmaint

2003-02-06 Thread Nick Laflamme
Alex Leyva wrote: Hi all, somebody knows whats the diferences between the System Administration Facility and DirMaint? The situation is that the people from IBM told us that they will install it after install zvm, i have never heard about it, i read the info about it and i think that it is a repl

Re: Backing up VM with linux facilities

2003-02-06 Thread David Boyes
> I would think having an Amanda Server in CMS would make > backing up using an > ATL much easier. True, but it's a more difficult problem. The server makes much more use of multitasking, etc which isn't well supported in OE/VM, and recoding it for CMS MT is non-trivial. Getting a CMS helper to d

Re: Disaster Recovery scenario - comments, suggestions, real worl d advice

2003-02-06 Thread James Melin
What patches/changes are needed under 2.4.7 to run under VM (timer patch comes to mind) that are not needed/might never be put on an LPAR system? This sounds like the least amount of pain |-+> | | "Peter Webb, | | | To

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Thr eat

2003-02-06 Thread Post, Mark K
Yes, and worse than that as well. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Beinert, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Thr eat Doesn't UCITA attempt to make

Re: Disaster Recovery scenario - comments, suggestions, real worl d advice

2003-02-06 Thread Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission
You may not have VM, but your DR service probably does. Any chance you can get them to run it in the LPAR you will use for Linux? If so, then you can work with their staff to define a VM guest with dasd addressess like back 'ome, and boot Linux without changes. We have found that our contract says

Disaster Recovery scenario - comments, suggestions, real world advice

2003-02-06 Thread James Melin
We are having a Disaster Recovery exercise in April. My boss thinks it would be nifty if we could recover the 2.4 Linux system I just got installed (with much help from you SMOONOL's - Secret Masters Of Obscure kNowledge Of Linux). The disaster recovery exercise will not allow us to have an organi

Re: Down time

2003-02-06 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > PC systems can also (if you pick good hardware, environment and UPS etc) deliver >very good > uptimes: > > 11:41am up 469 days, 12:24, 73 users, load average: 1.35, 1.14, 1.15 Even on my cheap hardware, I can think of only two hardware failures that woul

Re: VG to Mdisk mapping ?

2003-02-06 Thread Ferguson, Neale
/proc/dasd/devices -Original Message- From: Phil Tully [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] VG to Mdisk mapping ? Neale Thanks, PVSCAN provides the first bit of info. "Would pvscan help? It would tell you

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Threat

2003-02-06 Thread John Ford
Phil, I went to the article referred to at the start of this thread (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,857638,00.asp), and can't find your quote. Is it from something the article links to? -jcf - Original Message - From: "Phil Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tu

Re: db2 v 8.1 and debian/suse/red hat

2003-02-06 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Just installed it on SuSE -Original Message- From: Noll, Ralph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LINUX-390] db2 v 8.1 and debian/suse/red hat anyone running db2 ver 8.1 on debian...red hat.. or suse.. Ralph Noll Syste

Re: db2 v 8.1 install

2003-02-06 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
In db2setup after 9) OSN="IRIX" break ;; *) echo "\nInvalid number entered ... please try again" ;; esac done fi Insert: OSN="Linux390" WBR, Sergey "Noll, Ralph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTE

OSA EXPRESS - not working for Dynamically Activated New Addresses

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Myers
I have a WORKING OSA EXPRESS. I have been using it for 5 linux tcpip stacks (port sharing) This has worked fine. I originally had only 16 addresses gen'd in my HCD and added 48 more via DYNAMIC ACTIVATION. The new addresses show up as available to zVMbut when I try to use the new address in n

db2 v 8.1 and debian/suse/red hat

2003-02-06 Thread Noll, Ralph
anyone running db2 ver 8.1 on debian...red hat.. or suse.. Ralph Noll Systems Programmer City of Little Rock Phone (501) 371-4884 Fax (501) 371-4712 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \\\|/// \\\ ~ ~ /// ( @ @ ) ===oOOo=(_)=oOOo=

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:52:05AM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Hello from Gregg C Levine > All of this discussion regarding viruses and S/390 Linux and VM, > brings up another question. And here it is: When the worm written by > RTM, Bob Morris son, ravaged the Internet, about 14 years ago, did

Antwort: Re: Yet Another Systems Programmer Trying to Install Linux390

2003-02-06 Thread Jochen Friedrich
Hi Kenny, we had the same problem when we tested Linux/390 some time ago. Here is what we did: we set up a CTC connection between the Linux LPAR and a test z/OS LPAR and set up the Cisco to route the CTC address via that test LPAR. Then we ran the installation using escon0 (CTC) and finally we co

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread John Alvord
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Coffin Michael C wrote: > Agreed. In order for a virus to have any effect on VM it would have > to be written in such a way as to launch itself and run in CMS in a > user virtual machine (extremely unlikely) and/or infect CP itself > (next to impossible, if not completely impo

Disaster Recovery scenario - comments, suggestions, real world advice

2003-02-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:36:10AM -0600, James Melin wrote: > We are having a Disaster Recovery exercise in April. My boss thinks it > would be nifty if we could recover the 2.4 Linux system I just got > installed (with much help from you SMOONOL's - Secret Masters Of Obscure > kNowledge Of Linux)

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine All of this discussion regarding viruses and S/390 Linux and VM, brings up another question. And here it is: When the worm written by RTM, Bob Morris son, ravaged the Internet, about 14 years ago, did it hit any connected VM systems that the people here are aware of? And c

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
At present there really aren't any significant viruses for mainframe Linux. Not too many virus hackers have access to a S/390 to build their code and probably aren't willing to put out the effort to run Linux/390 under hercules just to hack it. Not to mention few have s/390 expertise. Notice

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Thr eat

2003-02-06 Thread Beinert, William
Doesn't UCITA attempt to make this type of 'license' a standard? Bill -Original Message- From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Thr eat > And if th

CPU upgrade/replacement

2003-02-06 Thread Abruzzese, Pat
I would like to mention to anyone looking to upgrade their CPU to check out Denver Solutions Group. They did a wonderful job for us and their rep. Ed Ham was personally on site before, during and after the upgrade. It was a painless upgrade and with their pricing it was an easy sell to our manageme

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Stermer
Thanks to all who responded. You have given me enough ammo for the next round of meetings. Bill Stermer ACS - City of Anaheim

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > machines is fairly slight. Consider; > > Most Windows viruses spread by using Lookout Express and other office > > procut APIs. A great way of reducing your risk of infection on Windows > > is to use some other email client and office suite. > > Or to p

Re: Debian install problem

2003-02-06 Thread Maciej Ksiezycki
Mark, Matt, Jochen and Stefan - thank you for your replies. A simple change in /etc/modules.conf (as described by Jochen) has helped overcome my problem. Btw, this "nano-tiny" editor is a wonderful thing ! :-) Maciek -- Maciej Ksiezycki Unizeto, Poland www.unizeto.pl - -

Re: OT (almost) - boot Linux from CDROM on Intel?

2003-02-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 04:03:12PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > Unless told otherwise [Knoppix] does not write to any disk This is not quite true; knoppix will discover and use a swap partition if present. -- - mdz

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread Daniel Casey
Here's a collection of popular software from LinuxWorld: http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=741840 Here's the security link...there are several virus scanning programs listed: http://www.linuxworld.com/download/security.html

Re: Disaster Recovery scenario - comments, suggestions, real worl d advice

2003-02-06 Thread Coffin Michael C
Hi James, This is a cinch if you have VM (which you don't). The nice thing about VM is that even though you are running on different hardware at different real addresses, your Linux guests don't know that - everything is still at the correct virtual addresses. Backing up your Linux system (using

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Thr eat

2003-02-06 Thread Phil Payne
> And if they bothererd to read the licenses that are on the proprietary software packages that they merrily click through, they'd understand they're up the creek without a paddle there as well. It's much worse. At least one current end user license permits the vendor to use all appropriate means

db2 v 8.1 install

2003-02-06 Thread Noll, Ralph
did you install db2v8.1 from cd...we are having problems...getting Error: Platform Specific Installer not Found. can't don't know what is happening any suggestions

Re: Yet Another Systems Programmer Trying to Install Linux390

2003-02-06 Thread Ken Dreger
Ken, just take a nic card from your H50 (make sure it is not used!) and update the IODF for your configuration, give it some disks, I use 3 3390-3 drives usually, because they are the most common, I know it wastes space, but you want to kick the tires right !!! Make the Lpar enabled, take cd1 and i

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread Coffin Michael C
Agreed. In order for a virus to have any effect on VM it would have to be written in such a way as to launch itself and run in CMS in a user virtual machine (extremely unlikely) and/or infect CP itself (next to impossible, if not completely impossible - certainly impossible from a non-priviledged

Re: Newbie Virus question

2003-02-06 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, John Summerfield wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Bill Stermer wrote: > > > Hi to all listers, > > > > We are still trying to get our management to buy off on Linux/390 and commit to a >zSeries upgrade along the way. During the round table talks we were asked about virus >protect

Re: Power of Open Source - Microsoft Warns SEC of Open-Source Thr eat

2003-02-06 Thread Wesley Parish
On Thursday 06 February 2003 09:18 am, you wrote: > A dirty little secret is that this frequently means that they won't touch > it because they wouldn't have anyone else to sue if things go in the > toilet. And if they bothererd to read the licenses that are on the proprietary software packages t

Re: OT (almost) - boot Linux from CDROM on Intel?

2003-02-06 Thread David Goodenough
Knoppix. Its Debian based, and is a very good demonstrator of whether all the hardware in a box is usable by Linux. Unless told otherwise it does not write to any disk, but you can install it to disk it you want. It is perhaps the fullest function recovery CD there is. It includes not only basi

Re: Root almost filled on 3390-3

2003-02-06 Thread Werner Kuehnel
Gordon and all the others who replied, thanks for all the information you provided. I think I've enough information now to keep on with my Linux installation. Werner "Wolfe, Gordon W" wrote: > > Werner, > > I'm glad I was able to help you find your storage problem. I remember when sonmeone >sho

Re: OT (almost) - boot Linux from CDROM on Intel? - thanks

2003-02-06 Thread Beinert, William
Thanks. Knoppix is what I was looking for. Bill -Original Message- From: Rod Furey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT (almost) - boot Linux from CDROM on Intel? CD based SuSE Live Eval - as mentioned in Michael's

Re: Down time

2003-02-06 Thread Post, Mark K
If we were talking about a new technology, that might be relevant. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Fargusson.Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 3:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Down time On the other hand, when cars were a new technology they we

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