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

2003-03-24 Thread John Ford
> -Original Message- > Behalf Of Richard Troth > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 2:49 PM > > > 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 Jo

Re: Is there a Veritas client for the zseries Linux?

2003-03-24 Thread Robert Matthews
But there is one . . . http://www.legato.com/products/networker/linuxclient.cfm LEGATO NetWorker Client for Linux on the Mainframe (NCLM) provides automated, robust backup and recovery of business-critical Linux data on the IBM zSeries and S/390 mainframes. NCLM delivers the manageability, scal

Re: logon

2003-03-24 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Try this when you get a prompt. PATH=/bin:/usr/bin ls

Multiple guests sharing /usr RO... Using RPM

2003-03-24 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Is there a generally accepted "best way" to upgrade/install packages with RPM with a shared RO /usr across multiple images? Management is leaning toward all guests having the same software installed, where service A would be running on one image, and service B on another, though the software is in

Re: Does the linux-390 kernel use CP437/CP500 for ASCII/EBCDIC?

2003-03-24 Thread Dougie G Lawson
> I'm running debian-390 under hercules-390 (v2.17.1), both under RH7.3 > and under WinXP. A strange problem showed up recently, in that the > split vertical bar character would disappear when entered from the > hercules HMC console. Not get translated into something else, just > plain deleted.

Re: Does the linux-390 kernel use CP437/CP500 for ASCII/EBCDIC?

2003-03-24 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 03/24/2003 at 12:09 EST, "Peter J. Farley III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, my question to this list is whether CP's 437/500 are the > ASCII/EBCDIC code pages used in the base console code in the linux-390 > kernel (without any "locale" considerations, just LANG=C) to translate > HM

Re: 1000th z800 Sold

2003-03-24 Thread Sebastian Welton
>Anyone else find it a stretch of credibility that the 1000th z900 and the >1000th z800 both >went to Linux-only shops? >As far as I'm aware there isn't a single Linux-only z800 in Europe. I may >well be wrong, but >it's still fingers of one hand making a rude sign. Okay not quite Linux-only, bu

z/VM TCPIP Question as pertaing to Linux Guest

2003-03-24 Thread Ketchens, LeMarr T. (RyTull)
I was wondering if I had any changes to my z/VM TCPIP stack, would I need to shutdown and reipl all my Linux Guests before recycling the z/VM TCPIP stack? If not, what would be ways to insure that? __ Lemarr T. Ketchens Technical Services MVS Systems Programmer [EMAIL

Re: z/VM TCPIP Question as pertaing to Linux Guest

2003-03-24 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 03/24/2003 at 08:14 CST, "Ketchens, LeMarr T. (RyTull)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if I had any changes to my z/VM TCPIP stack, would I need to > shutdown and reipl all my Linux Guests before recycling the z/VM TCPIP > stack? If not, what would be ways to insure that?

RE : z/VM TCPIP Question as pertaing to Linux Guest

2003-03-24 Thread MCCARTIER
You can use OSD Type for OSA Card and using QDIO mode for connecting Linux Guest to TCP/IP machine. Then, when you reboot TCP/IP machine Linux Guest wil be dynamically reconnected. Regards Mathieu C. CARTIER ALEOS www.aleos.net -Message d'origine- De : Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Does the linux-390 kernel use CP437/CP500 for ASCII/EBCDIC?

2003-03-24 Thread Peter J. Farley III
At 08:57 AM 3/24/03 -0500, you wrote: >What's the matter with the kernel source, Peter? It shows that, yes, >it uses code pages 037 and 500. It looks like 037 for the 3215 and >3270 console and 500 for the integrated system console (037 if running >on VM). All conversions are to 437 (based on co

Re: Read-Only Telnet

2003-03-24 Thread Jeremy Warren
Sorry for the lack of detail... Basically, It's a 3rd party java based application, numerous configuration files, etc, which are dynamically updated via the application itself. Lots of log files, etc. The users access it via a web page front end, but our developers are asking to get "beneath th

Re: Is there a Veritas client for the zseries Linux?

2003-03-24 Thread Jeremy Warren
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Re: Samba - 1 for 1 or 'n' to 1

2003-03-24 Thread David Boyes
Depends on the politics of your situation. Usually the reason for separate servers has little to do with technical merit and everything to do with administrative fiefs. Trying to consolidate many to one usually fails due to political control problems, which is why most of the historical "consolida

Re: Does the linux-390 kernel use CP437/CP500 for ASCII/EBCDIC?

2003-03-24 Thread Peter J. Farley III
At 01:47 PM 3/24/03 +, you wrote: >> I'm running debian-390 under hercules-390 (v2.17.1), both under RH7.3 >> and under WinXP. A strange problem showed up recently, in that the >> split vertical bar character would disappear when entered from the >> hercules HMC console. Not get translated in

Re: Read-Only Telnet

2003-03-24 Thread David Boyes
Jeremy, One thought I had would be to make all the volatile portions of the environment based on VDISKs and have the machine IPL CMS and populate the VDISKs with a default environment using DDR or similar tool, then IPL Linux. You bring the the machine up, they play with their app, and you log it

Re: Does the linux-390 kernel use CP437/CP500 for ASCII/EBCDIC?

2003-03-24 Thread Richard Troth
> I notice, though, that the translations on the page you point out are > not symmetrical. In particular, the ascii->ebcdic translate table > converts ascii square brackets (x'5B', x'5D') to ebcdic x'AD' and > x'BD', but the ebcdic->ascii translation presumes square brackets are > at x'BA' and x'B

Re: Does the linux-390 kernel use CP437/CP500 for ASCII/EBCDIC?

2003-03-24 Thread Peter Flass
I can't understand why (well, I uess I can) they didn't standardize on CP 819 and 1047. I'm using that pair for all my in-house stuff. "Peter J. Farley III" wrote: > > At 08:57 AM 3/24/03 -0500, you wrote: > > >What's the matter with the kernel source, Peter? It shows that, yes, > > >it uses

Re: Does the linux-390 kernel use CP437/CP500 for ASCII/EBCDIC?

2003-03-24 Thread Peter J. Farley III
At 10:32 AM 3/24/03 -0600, you wrote: >The translation when talking to the HMC should match real hardware >(though perhaps with a switch; the default should match the hardware). Do you by any chance know just exactly what *is* the HMC on a real-iron G5/6 or z900/800? Is there a document that desc

CP Signal shutdown requirements

2003-03-24 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
We've just upgraded to z/VM 4.3 and would like to begin using the CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN command to shut down our Linux servers. We are running SuSE SLES7 with the timer patch,and I think I have the latest update. When I try the SIGNAL command I get HCPSIG2110E User LNX54321 is not enabled for sig

Re: CP Signal shutdown requirements

2003-03-24 Thread Ferguson, Neale
They later kernels from SuSE have the patch in it. My patch has been adapted by the kernel folks so that it's different to the quiesce-diffs you've located. SLES8 definitely has it. You'll need to update /etc/inittab to enable the signal to do the ctrl-alt-del processing. -Original Message

Re: Read-Only Telnet

2003-03-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:19:42AM -0500, Jeremy Warren wrote: > Sorry for the lack of detail... > > Basically, > > It's a 3rd party java based application, numerous configuration files, etc, > which are dynamically updated via the application itself. Lots of log > files, etc. The users access it

Re: Does the linux-390 kernel use CP437/CP500 for ASCII/EBCDIC?

2003-03-24 Thread Richard Troth
> And under VM, of course, the translation should follow the 3215 HW > capabilities, requiring at least as many kernel tables as there could > be legitimate "consoles" for it to talk to, I would think. That or VM > needs to provide an HMC virtual device (I know, that one's a lot less > likely to g

Re: Read-Only Telnet

2003-03-24 Thread Jeremy Warren
> So the first question is: what do they need shell access for? do they > need full shell access? > > * What do they need to run? Is it a something from certain set of > commands? If so: take a look at rbash, pdmenu, and similar. The prime example that the developers keep bringing up is along th

Re: Read-Only Telnet

2003-03-24 Thread Steve Guthrie
You may wish to do what we have done with our application running on all platforms, not just Linux/390. We direct logs files out through a secure port to one or more "log servers". The level of detail of this action is set by the system administrator and the log files for the application are revi

Re: Read-Only Telnet

2003-03-24 Thread Scott Chapman
I don't think anybody has mentioned it, so... Could you just set up Apache to follow symlinks, and allow directory listings and then create symlinks to the directories that the developers need access to? Then a simple refresh in the browser gets the updated file. Note: I haven't actually done th

Re: Does the linux-390 kernel use CP437/CP500 for ASCII/EBCDIC?

2003-03-24 Thread Peter J. Farley III
At 11:42 AM 3/24/03 -0600, you wrote: >Having a vast array to choose from and loading one at a time ... THAT >might be palatable. In fact, it would be truly spiffy if some user- >space program could take IBM-defined binary translation files and do >the right thing to the kernel's console driver f

cpio behaviour between sles7 & sles8

2003-03-24 Thread Little, Chris
is there a documented difference between cpio in sles7/390 and sles8/390? When extracting the oracle 9iR2 archive, the cpio that ships with sles8 errors with a "premature end of file". I copied the cpio binary from sles7 and it worked fine.

Re: Oracle 9.2 on Suse 7.2 S390

2003-03-24 Thread Ulrich Weigand
David Boyes wrote: > Historically, I guess I'm somewhat suspicious of compatibility modes > like the mixed mode 31/64-bit stuff. None of the implementations of > such code I've ever worked with was sufficient (DEC Alpha, Cray, HP) > for production level reliability. Perhaps you folks are better >

Debian/390 from Sine Nomine Associates

2003-03-24 Thread Stephen Frazier
Last December Sine Nomine Associates put out a set of CD's that were designed to make it easy to install Debian Linux quickly on a VM system. I would like to talk with someone else that has used these instillation CD's. I wish to compare experiences with them. Stephen Frazier Information Techno