Is there a Veritas client for the zseries Linux?

2003-03-21 Thread Abdullah Al-humaid
How would you go about backing up the linux server if there wasn't one. One idea I can think of is NFS mounting the linux filesystem on a mchine that has a client. Any others? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on

Re: qeth and hipersocket

2003-03-21 Thread Abdullah Al-humaid
The problem was due the auto configuration of the lcs token ring adapter. When I added a entry for the lcs adapter in the chandev.conf the problem disappeard and the modules now load flawlessly. Any idea why is this happening? --- "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This looks an awful lo

Re: Tomcat is working

2003-03-21 Thread Steve Bui
> By the way we installed the RSD product under LINUX/390 with > tomcat, under USS with Webshere, and under Intel Suse Linux > with tomcat. I am glad to report the customer liked the > performance under LINUX/390 best. The vendor recommended 1 > GIG memory for intel. 256M seemed fine on 390. I did

Re: OT: recipie macros now available for download

2003-03-21 Thread David Boyes
> Perhaps NOW my family's Homestead Configuration Manager will allow me to > install my old 486 with Linux in the kitchen. Perhaps. Anybody got an old > Tenet terminal so I can put the CPU in the basement? Counter space is > precious. Maybe an LCD screen on the side of the toaster, and keyboard in

Re: Tomcat is working

2003-03-21 Thread David Boyes
> I am curious how much virtual storage other people have given to virtual > machines running tomcat. We start at 128M and increase by 32M increments for guests running Java apps. Most seem happy in 192 or 256M machines, with lots of VDISK swap. --db

Re: OT: recipie macros now available for download

2003-03-21 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello again from Gregg C Levine I beg to differ. The only reason why IBM did that, is because somebody actually paid them to do it, or something along those lines. Besides it's good advertising. Besides the messages behind the recipes were fun. I certainly hope David got a good laugh when he saw mi

Re: OT: recipie macros now available for download

2003-03-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 22:19, John Ford wrote: > Perhaps NOW my family's Homestead Configuration Manager will allow me to > install my old 486 with Linux in the kitchen. Perhaps. Anybody got an old > Tenet terminal so I can put the CPU in the basement? Counter space is > precious. Maybe an LCD scree

Re: Tomcat is working

2003-03-21 Thread Ann Smith
One more post - you don't need CLASSPATH at all. It ended up the tomcat doc I was using was old and the example in it was for a SUN JRE. I had JAVA_HOME set to /opt/IBMJava2-s390-14/jre Should be /opt/IBMJava2-s390-14 To use SDK not JRE By the way we installed the RSD product under LINUX/390 wit

Re: Sles8 and V-Disk FBA Swap Two part question

2003-03-21 Thread Rich Smrcina
So the question remains, why doesn't SLES8 not recognize the vdisk swap that is defined, CMS formatted and RESERVEd the same way as it was for SLES7? On Friday 21 March 2003 02:48 pm, you wrote: > > Dave Jones of Sine Nomine has written an EXEC that will do > > just what you want, in the guest's C

Re: Z800 with native fiberchannel (only)

2003-03-21 Thread Herbert Szumovski
At 21:32 20.03.2003, you wrote: >That presentation is on the http://www.linuxvm.org/presentations website >under session 9333. > >-Original Message- >The documentation that comes with the FCP microcode is pretty detailed. >There was a presentation at the last SHARE on SCSI support and the >

Re: OT: recipie macros now available for download

2003-03-21 Thread John Ford
Perhaps NOW my family's Homestead Configuration Manager will allow me to install my old 486 with Linux in the kitchen. Perhaps. Anybody got an old Tenet terminal so I can put the CPU in the basement? Counter space is precious. Maybe an LCD screen on the side of the toaster, and keyboard in a drawer

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > > Since we all know telnet is horrible in this day and age, why isn't it > > dropped entirely? > > them find another way. Shouldn't we just end the debate and > > get rid of it? > > I'd love this if it were possible. > > However, I work daily with wor

Re: Sles8 and V-Disk FBA Swap Two part question

2003-03-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Mark D Pace wrote: > Okay - got that. > > But I am actually using SLES 7 and it doesn't seem to like the swap > signature. Is there something different between SLES 7 & 8 as far as the > swap goes? > What kernel objects? How big is swap? -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux

Re: OT: recipie macros now available for download

2003-03-21 Thread Ryan Ware
This is no less significant than IBM keeping score for the US Open tennis tournament :) > -Original Message- > From: John Summerfield [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 3:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OT: recipie macros now available for download >

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Ryan Ware wrote: > Since we all know telnet is horrible in this day and age, why isn't it > dropped entirely? Is there any function it can do that SSH cannot? Every > time someone brings up Telnet, they are smacked down by everyone telling > them find another way. Shouldn't

Re: OT: recipie macros now available for download

2003-03-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, David Boyes wrote: > Since I got about 50 requests for the recipie macros, I've put them up > for download at http://www.sinenomine.net/fun. The package is a single > tar file with the macros, some scripts to process the recipies into > nicely formatted pages and/or print ful

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Post, Mark K wrote: > Why would you want to allow people already logged on to the system to telnet > into the system again? root pts/25 numbat.computerd Fri10am 19:25m 0.02s 0.02s -bash debian pts/26 numbat.computerd Fri10am 19:08m 0.02s 0.02s -bash summer pt

Re: Oracle 9.2 on Suse 7.2 S390

2003-03-21 Thread Tom Russell
Oracle uses only a trivial amount of floating point. I would be *very* surprised if you could measure the amount of CPU time wasted in simulating the Hex Floating point. Oracle requires raw devices only for the Real Application Cluster (RAC) support. Most Oracle on zLinux shops use normal file s

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, David Andrews wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:03, John Summerfield wrote: > > If it has any redeeming features, I've long forgotten them. > > Well, Windows only comes with a telnet client (though not a very good > one). This pretty much obligates you to install e.g. putty o

Re: Read-Only Telnet

2003-03-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Jeremy Warren wrote: > Does anyone know of a simple/quick way to setup a GUARANTEED read-only > access to a linux guest? > > Maybe some type of read-only telnet/ssh daemon? I couldn't find a switch > to either of them. Of course not. Think on what they do. > Basically I ne

Re: Upgrading QDIO, QETH on SuSE Linux 2.4.7 SMP

2003-03-21 Thread Alan Schilla
My QDIO/QETH problem has been resolved. We upgraded to the latest k_timer kernel patches and the qeth unresolved reference during modprobe disappeared. Thanks everyone and special thanks to Alan and Jay for your help with this extremely elusive problem. Al Schilla State of Minnesota. -Original

Re: Sles8 and V-Disk FBA Swap Two part question

2003-03-21 Thread Richard Troth
> Dave Jones of Sine Nomine has written an EXEC that will do > just what you want, in the guest's CMS startup phase: > http://www.sinenomine.net/downloads/SWAPGEN.EXEC Mr. Nit Picky sez that Jones' EXEC does exactly the right thing. There is no reason to CMS FORMAT an FBA volume. Unless you're u

Re: WTHOT: cinnamon rolls

2003-03-21 Thread Mike Ross
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:49:54 -0500, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:21:54PM -0600, Richard Troth wrote: Warning to all: The night Marilyn and I had some stew Dave had made (it was really good!) she went into labor with our first child. Presumably not *every* mem

Re: WTHOT: cinnamon rolls

2003-03-21 Thread Richard Troth
> Not that it's any of my business, but wouldn't Wi-Fi be more > appropriate? Reeling out the cable behind you as you drive > has to be annoying. You silly English person! [insert the rest of that monologue here] The ethernet connects the various lap-tops in the Suburban with each other and wi

Re: WTHOT: cinnamon rolls

2003-03-21 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:56:33PM -0600, Richard Troth wrote: > No cinnamon rolls for her > if she wrecks the Suburban with the ethernet in it! Not that it's any of my business, but wouldn't Wi-Fi be more appropriate? Reeling out the cable behind you as you drive has to be annoying. Adam

Re: Sles8 and V-Disk FBA Swap Two part question

2003-03-21 Thread Mark D Pace
>No, but you're probably not using the whole device as swap, which is >what swapgen does. We don't put any sort of label on it, just treat it >as an extent of 512-byte blocks. >So instead of >swapon /dev/dasdb1, you want to swapon /dev/dasdb >Adam DOH!- Thanks Adam. Mark D Pace Senior

Re: WTHOT: cinnamon rolls

2003-03-21 Thread Richard Troth
> > The night Marilyn and I had some stew Dave had made > > (it was really good!) she went into labor with our first child. > > Presumably not *every* member of the L/390 community is going to meet > the pre-reqs necessary for those conditions to apply. Pre-reqs ... isn't that RPM's job to handle

Re: WTHOT: cinnamon rolls

2003-03-21 Thread David Boyes
OK, last food-related post. I've created a mailing list for those of us who want to continue to discuss food for penguinistas. You can subscribe by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command: subscribe penguin-food firstname lastname Posts can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] We can swap rec

there seems to be a problem, er oppurtunity, with ibmtcp-l. . .

2003-03-21 Thread Steve Gentry
FYI for the folks at marist maintaing the ibmtcp-l list. Aproxmitely every 5 minutes I am getting an e-mail from this server with nothing in it. I know this happened before within the last 3 or 4 months. Regards, Steve G.

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread Richard Troth
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Post, Mark K wrote: > Have you considering completely scrapping telnet and using SSH instead? > See recent threads about why telnet should not be used for any reason, > any time. Just to be nit-picky, the telnet *client* is still very useful. A great number of other protocols

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
> Since we all know telnet is horrible in this day and age, why isn't it > dropped entirely? > them find another way. Shouldn't we just end the debate and > get rid of it? I'd love this if it were possible. However, I work daily with workstations that have virtually every operating system in co

Re: Sles8 and V-Disk FBA Swap Two part question

2003-03-21 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:31:32PM -0500, Mark D Pace wrote: > But I am actually using SLES 7 and it doesn't seem to like the swap > signature. Is there something different between SLES 7 & 8 as far as the > swap goes? No, but you're probably not using the whole device as swap, which is what swap

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread David Boyes
> Since we all know telnet is horrible in this day and age, why isn't it > dropped entirely? > them find another way. Shouldn't we just end the debate and > get rid of it? If the OS vendors are prepared to supply an alternative client capable of supporting encrypted traffic with their operating s

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread Ryan Ware
You don't install Putty, it is a single .exe. Copy it anywhere to your HD. You can run it off a floppy if you want. I don't think the reason we still have telnet is because windows doesn't include an ssh client. > -Original Message- > From: Fargusson.Alan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

Re: Sles8 and V-Disk FBA Swap Two part question

2003-03-21 Thread Mark D Pace
Okay - got that. But I am actually using SLES 7 and it doesn't seem to like the swap signature. Is there something different between SLES 7 & 8 as far as the swap goes? Also - my swap disk is defined in the user direct, so I removed the part where it defined the tdisk and replaced v_addr hardc

Re: Sles8 and V-Disk FBA Swap Two part question

2003-03-21 Thread Dave Jones
Mark, RXDASD is available from the IBM VM download page at http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages. Dave Jones Sine Nomine Associates Houston - Original Message - From: "Mark D Pace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 10:10 AM Subject: Re: Sles8 and V-

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread Fargusson.Alan
Probably because many windows users don't have the option of installing an SSH client on their own workstation due to the policy of the employer. It isn't always feasible to make other departments install an SSH client to access your system. It would be nice if Microsoft would distribute an SSH

Re: Sles8 and V-Disk FBA Swap Two part question

2003-03-21 Thread Mark D Pace
I can't seem to find RXDASD that is the target of NUXLOAD. Any ideas on how I can find this? Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 850.219.5184 Fax: 850.219.5050 http://www.mainline.com

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 15:33, David Andrews wrote: > Also, I guess some governments still don't like encryption, and the last > I knew packet radio didn't allow it. Very few, and mostly totalitarian states. Amateur radio is one that does forbid it worldwide (pretty much), but telnet is still the wr

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to localhost only

2003-03-21 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:12:48PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > I would recommend using firewall rules rather than DENY/ALLOW as they > are stronger protections. I'd recommend exterminating telnet entirely > but providing you have total trust in anyone on your local lans, no > wireless links and so on

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to local host only

2003-03-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 03/21/2003 at 10:33 EST, David Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:03, John Summerfield wrote: > > If it has any redeeming features, I've long forgotten them. > > Well, Windows only comes with a telnet client (though not a very good > one). This pretty much obl

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread Ryan Ware
Since we all know telnet is horrible in this day and age, why isn't it dropped entirely? Is there any function it can do that SSH cannot? Every time someone brings up Telnet, they are smacked down by everyone telling them find another way. Shouldn't we just end the debate and get rid of it? > -

Re: Sles8 and V-Disk FBA Swap Two part question

2003-03-21 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Mark D Pace wrote: > I can't seem to find RXDASD that is the target of NUXLOAD. Any ideas on > how I can find this? Oops. Guess we ought to put that on the web site: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/#rxdasd Adam

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:03, John Summerfield wrote: > If it has any redeeming features, I've long forgotten them. Well, Windows only comes with a telnet client (though not a very good one). This pretty much obligates you to install e.g. putty on Windows machines in order to communicate with sshd

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread Daniel Casey
I agree. If you have a small internal user base to support telnet functionality to your machine, then I would seriously look into using OpenSSH and eliminate telnet. If they are telnet'ing from other Unix type os'es, then SSH clients should be available for them and there are telnet clients for W

Re: What is the best way to limit Linux Telnet access to /localho st o nly

2003-03-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 21:15, Kharnas, Simon wrote: > Hello, Mark. > > I am trying to limit the telnet logon from the outside world. I thought that > DENY and ALLOW files can limit that access, so that the outside (i.e. > Internet users) would not be able to logon to the server on a regular basis. >

OT: recipie macros now available for download

2003-03-21 Thread David Boyes
Since I got about 50 requests for the recipie macros, I've put them up for download at http://www.sinenomine.net/fun. The package is a single tar file with the macros, some scripts to process the recipies into nicely formatted pages and/or print full books with indexes, and the original 100 or so

Read-Only Telnet

2003-03-21 Thread Jeremy Warren
Does anyone know of a simple/quick way to setup a GUARANTEED read-only access to a linux guest? Maybe some type of read-only telnet/ssh daemon? I couldn't find a switch to either of them. Basically I need to grant read-only access to a system to a group of users so they can look at an applicatio

Re: The Waterloo tapes

2003-03-21 Thread Joe Poole
Try http://www.cbttape.org/ On Thursday 20 March 2003 17:38, you wrote: > I got some very useful exec's from these tapes. The one I really > would like to find again is the 'VTAM EXEC' can anyone point me > to an updated version of this exec. > > vr, > > P. Abruzzese

Re: Oracle 9.2 on Suse 7.2 S390

2003-03-21 Thread Nilson Vieira
> > In fact, Oracle was one of the folks who lobbied the most for getting > > 'raw' (uncached by the Linux kernel) device access, and this did in > > fact turn out to improve Oracle performance (on Linux/Intel). Well, How do i get this done om Linux 390?

Re: "batch" compiles

2003-03-21 Thread Wesley Parish
Then there is reputed to be floating around the Internet a slash-n-burn version of JCL, still very much in alpha. You could get ahold of that and turn it into a "real" JCL, tying it in with some of the utilities mentioned in the earlier replies, and just forget about the "Linuxisms" side of thi

Hillgang - Attendee List

2003-03-21 Thread Ferguson, Neale
At http://sinenomine.net/events/ is a link to the attendee list for next week's meeting. If you've signed up please check it out and get back to the list if you are not listed.

Re: Oracle 9.2 on Suse 7.2 S390

2003-03-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, David Boyes wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 08:12:27AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, David Boyes wrote: > > > 31-bit systems are limited to 2G storage). > > Is that actually true if you're running a 2.4 kernel and glibc 2.2? > > 2048M is the largest

Re: ext2 and reiserfs

2003-03-21 Thread Wesley Parish
I'd prefer to have ext3 instead of ext2 - it's a little safer. And I'd divide it up this way - / and /usr get reiserfs, since the journal only stores meta-data, while for the /var and /home I would give them ext3, since that also stores the most recent as-yet-unsaved data as well. My /boot runs

Re: WTHOT: cinnamon rolls

2003-03-21 Thread Dougie G Lawson
I've written up my sticky gingerbread recipe and sent it to Dave. I've also found and downloaded the whole usenet cookbook and run it through rcnroff | a2ps | ps2pdf and created a 912 page pdf of the current cookbook. http://194.105.168.44/recipe.pdf (imperial measures) - doesn't include my recip