Re: Highest subchannel number detected0

2003-03-28 Thread Post, Mark K
Gerard, I don't think your problem is a "limitation." The subchannels that are being reported as inoperable are all less than 025A. Have you made any hardware configuration changes to your system lately? Did you add new CHPIDs to the system dynamically. That is, without a power-on-reset? Mar

Re: CTC Connection Question

2003-03-28 Thread Post, Mark K
Eric, Sorry for the late reply to this. I'm more than a little behind. The messages you're getting are indicating that either the CTC driver didn't load, or the parameters passed to it are such that it isn't finding the devices you believe it should be finding. At times like this, I always tell

Re: Cron script redirect causing truncation

2003-03-28 Thread Post, Mark K
Jeremy, I did some testing. This crontab entry works for me: cd ; COLUMNS=200 LINES=200 top -c -C -b -d1 -n1 >> top.list Apparently both the columns and lines need to be specified. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Jeremy Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Re: fdasd never ends

2003-03-28 Thread Post, Mark K
Betsie, Yes. I forget if the RPM does the zipl command for you or not. You'll need to check into that. Also, in case you weren't aware, you can do the install via ftp: rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.server.name/path/to/updated/k_deflt.rpm Mark Post -Original Message- From: Betsie Spann [mailto:[

Re: fdasd never ends

2003-03-28 Thread Betsie Spann
Jim. Since I have a 2.4.7 system up, can I just ftp the k_deflt.rpm from the patch cd and install it? Betsie Spann VM Systems Programmer - Original Message - From: "James Melin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:25 PM Subject: Re: fdasd never ends

Re: CP Signal shutdown requirements

2003-03-28 Thread Post, Mark K
Or install Mike Kershaw's bootshell program which will get you where you want to go without recompiling the kernel. Then, when you get SLES8 in house, you can change your automation from "CP SEND HALT" to "CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN", update your /etc/inittab, and be ready to go. Mark Post -Original

Re: Read-Only Telnet

2003-03-28 Thread Post, Mark K
This can be accomplished fairly easily by NFS exporting the part of the file system containing the logs as read-only. The developers would be able mount the file system on their workstation, and look at everything that permissions allow, but not be able to modify anything. Mark Post -Origina

Re: fdasd never ends

2003-03-28 Thread Little, Chris
it doesn't change. unfortunately. [OT] btw, have you changed your mind yet on modern "translations" of shakespeare? :) -Original Message- From: Betsie Spann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fdasd never ends James, What is

Re: fdasd never ends

2003-03-28 Thread James Melin
Betsie - This is what I get Linux rockhopper 2.4.7-SuSE-SMP #1 SMP Mon Dec 17 11:23:56 GMT 2001 s390 unknown Have a great weekend! |-+> | | Betsie Spann | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | cle.com>

Re: fdasd never ends

2003-03-28 Thread Betsie Spann
James, What is the output to uname -a? My current is 2.4.7-SuSE-SMP #1 Tue Oct 30 22:39:07 GMT 2001 s390 Betsie - Original Message - From: "James Melin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:59 AM Subject: Re: fdasd never ends > Betsie - IPL your ini

Re: CP Signal shutdown requirements

2003-03-28 Thread Lucius, Leland
> > > forgive me if I keep hammering on this topic, but i'm still > not able to get this to work. I'm trying to get Linux guests > to respond to the CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN command. > > Using > SuSE SLES7 (2.4.7 kernel. This was downloaded from SuSE's > site as k-timer-2.4.7-20030221, dated Feb 21 200

Re: RE : RE : New RedHat 9.0 Linux

2003-03-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 20:16, MCCARTIER wrote: > but Why creating a release like Suse SLES 8.0 or RHAS 3.0 without any > access to the distrib before buying, > and if you want the SLES 8.0 OR RHAS 3.0 you have to pay a support > contract. Red Hat advanced server basically *is* the support contract,

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 20:19, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote: > Assuming you can get them, per my other notes. > > If Samba 2.2.6 RPM's are only available to licensees of SuSE for Intel, they don't > help me much. Samba source is available to anyone. You just have to build it. If your vendor won't pro

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Post, Mark K
SuSE has a single source code base. They build all their platforms from the same source repository. If you go to one of the SuSE FTP mirrors, and download a source RPM for a particular version, that is the same source RPM that would have been used for all their platforms that contain that particu

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Little, Chris
i understand. i say that because we bought suse 8.1 professional for some other purposes. however suse's policy towards the enterprise products is to be very conservative. -Original Message- From: Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:33 PM To: [EM

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
Not out of my own pocket, thanks. Not when we're paying $$$ for a support contract. To be fair, I SHOULD have just made a list of everything that was wrong, and reported it all to them, but things are moving so fast here I don't have time to wait for them to respond, and Samba 2.2.0a was just T

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
Can't. Policy. Redhat hasn't been very helpful. We never did get their 390 version running here, although I've heard others did. > -Original Message- > From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-

Re: FW: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
> You can't expect SuSE to read your mind. If you have a > support contract > with SuSE, then when you have a problem, ask them to fix it. > Even if you > don't think you will need the fix for long because you don't > plan to use > the broken software for much longer, getting the report in > helps

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote: > Assuming you can get them, per my other notes. > > If Samba 2.2.6 RPM's are only available to licensees of SuSE for Intel, they don't > help me much. > > We're going in circles. If you don't like SuSE, tell SuSE and/or choose another vendor.

Re: ASP?

2003-03-28 Thread Ryan Ware
> -Original Message- > From: Gustavson, John (IDS ECCS) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ASP? > > Instant ASP converts the ASP's to JSP's. The server runs as a jvm. > there are also some commercial products. >

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Little, Chris
spend $70US for SuSE professional? -Original Message- From: Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLES 8 Assuming you can get them, per my other notes. If Samba 2.2.6 RPM's are only available to licensees o

Re: CP Signal shutdown requirements

2003-03-28 Thread Michael Morgan
I don't think that the rexec daemon needs to be running on z/VM. To have it start with a Linux SLES7 guest, modify the /etc/inetd.conf file: execstream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.rexecd .thanks Scott Archer wrote: > > Okay I've got the TCP/IP rexec daemon running on z/VM

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
Assuming you can get them, per my other notes. If Samba 2.2.6 RPM's are only available to licensees of SuSE for Intel, they don't help me much. We're going in circles. > -Original Message- > From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 3:14 PM > To: [E

Re: RE : New RedHat 9.0 Linux

2003-03-28 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 10:51, MCCARTIER wrote: > > Yes, the next official release for S/390 will be Red Hat Advanced Server > > 3.0 and you are obliged to take the support contract of RH. > > Fir the product yes, but not for the free software parts of it. Or r

Re: fdasd never ends

2003-03-28 Thread James Melin
Betsie - IPL your initrd from the Patch CD. The kernal that is loaded from CD 1 of that distribution really cannot handle 3390-mod 9 volumes. IPL the initrd from that patch cd and do the install of your choice. When you have installed all the packages but BEFORE you commit to finishing the install

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote: > Not DIRECTLY. The "Advanced Server" model has the same support model on both > platforms. My point is that there IS another model for Intel, and they do supply > RPM's that CAN be installed on the AS > version IF YOU WANT. On 390, since nobod

RE : RE : New RedHat 9.0 Linux

2003-03-28 Thread MCCARTIER
OK ! You can have RH 9 for intel and recompil it for mainframe and testing it. (we do something like this !) but Why creating a release like Suse SLES 8.0 or RHAS 3.0 without any access to the distrib before buying, and if you want the SLES 8.0 OR RHAS 3.0 you have to pay a support contract. I am

Re: RE : New RedHat 9.0 Linux

2003-03-28 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Eric Bielefeld wrote: > Thanks for the info, and to all of those who replied to this thread. Mathieu's post > quoted below sure makes me think. How much does RedHat support cost now? I had a > meeting with a couple people from our IBM business partner, who said he thought

Re: CP Signal shutdown requirements

2003-03-28 Thread Rich Smrcina
If you want to start a process on VM from linux, you only need the rexec client program on Linux. The rexec daemon is started from inetd (or xinetd). Look at /etc/inetd.conf (for inetd). On Friday 28 March 2003 01:57 pm, you wrote: > Okay I've got the TCP/IP rexec daemon running on z/VM. Now

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote: > To reiterate, Red Hat and SuSE for Intel give you a CHOICE. At least they SUPPLY > the new version RPM's. That's not the case (officially) with the SLES-for-390 > version. > > Config files shouldn't be stepped on by a properly built RPM. Some

Re: FW: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote: > Well, 2 come to mind: > > 1) It stopped accepting connections at 50 users. > > 2) There was a problem with joining domains with smbpasswd. It couldn't find the DC. > > Both gone in later releases. > > > >Same thing with Openldap, and the latest v

Re: CP Signal shutdown requirements

2003-03-28 Thread Scott Archer
Okay I've got the TCP/IP rexec daemon running on z/VM. Now I'm assuming I also have to have a rexec daemon running on my Linux guest. I'm very much a Linux newbie.. How do you start the daemon on the Linux side? I've looked in the man pages, but no luck on actually starting it up. TIA, S

Re: fdasd never ends

2003-03-28 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Old problem (Dec 2001?). You need to the update kernel. -Original Message- Hi, SuSE SLES7, 2.4.7-SuSE-SMP Ran dasdfmt on a 3390-9 but fdasd never seems to finish. I ran fdasd /dev/dasdc, picked option 'n' for native linux, checked it with the print option and then hit 'w' to write the VT

fdasd never ends

2003-03-28 Thread Betsie Spann
Hi, SuSE SLES7, 2.4.7-SuSE-SMP Ran dasdfmt on a 3390-9 but fdasd never seems to finish. I ran fdasd /dev/dasdc, picked option 'n' for native linux, checked it with the print option and then hit 'w' to write the VTOC. messages: writing VTOC... rereading partition table ... <6> dasdc:VOL1/ 0X0202:

Re: Duplicate entries in /etc/services for no apparent reason

2003-03-28 Thread Patterson, Donald
Look closer...they are not dups. You have an entry for UDP and one for TCP. Thanks, Donald Patterson T. Rowe Price Investment Technologies email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: (410) 345-3035 pager: (410) 743-2416 \\\|/// \\\ ~ ~ /// ( @ @ ) ===

Re: FW: CP Signal shutdown requirements

2003-03-28 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Sorry, the latest SLES8 has the latest stuff. I'm not sure about SLES7 stuff. Can you check the source for the 20030221 kernel? (The stuff is in /drivers/s390/.../hwc.c) It appears you have the support contact with SuSE so what do they say? -Original Message- forgive me if I keep hammering

FW: CP Signal shutdown requirements

2003-03-28 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
forgive me if I keep hammering on this topic, but i'm still not able to get this to work. I'm trying to get Linux guests to respond to the CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN command. Using SuSE SLES7 (2.4.7 kernel. This was downloaded from SuSE's site as k-timer-2.4.7-20030221, dated Feb 21 2003. Should hav

backing up via flashcopy

2003-03-28 Thread Little, Chris
We have 11 3390-9 on a shark dedicated to a linux guest in an lvm configuration. We're trying to back them up via flashcopy and then backup those via os/390. I'm trying to see if we're getting a good backup by taking the flashcopies, dedicating them to another guest and bringing them up as a logi

Re: Duplicate entries in /etc/services for no apparent reason

2003-03-28 Thread PAUL WILLIAMSON
One is tcp, the other is udp, quite normal. Paul >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/28/03 01:37PM >>> MOST of the entries in my /etc/services file have been duplicated identically for some reason Is this bad? How could this have happened in the first place? Do I need to remove the duplicate lines, if s

Duplicate entries in /etc/services for no apparent reason

2003-03-28 Thread James Melin
MOST of the entries in my /etc/services file have been duplicated identically for some reason Is this bad? How could this have happened in the first place? Do I need to remove the duplicate lines, if so is there a whiz-bang way to do that? msg-auth 31/tcp # MSG Authent

Re: minidisk vs. dedicate

2003-03-28 Thread Ulrich Weigand
David Boyes wrote: >Field testing seems to indicate that there is a noticeable benefit to >this approach. Could you describe the scenarios where this setup provides benefit? I guess there might be some benefit in cases where you expect requests to be satisfied from the MDC frequently, i.e. read/o

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
"Hide" might be a bit strong, but I did have to ask. We get periodic announcements of updated RPM's, but the announcements don't include links to the source RPM's. When I asked, SuSE support sent me a link to the RPM source directory, BUT it requires a registration code that's specific to that

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine About the hiding of the source RPMs for S/390 issue. Are you sure about that one? Every time I wanted to track down a source one for a binary one on their FTP site, I've found it. Granted, it isn't in the same format/name, as the Red Hat ones, but it works. Of course this

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
Only for the exact version you purchased. Having access to RPM's for SLES7 for 390 doesn't get you access to the non-SLES for Intel. They (SuSE) also "hide" the source RPM's. When I needed one to re-implement my changes to Openldap, I had to ask for the specific location. My experience with R

Re: RE : New RedHat 9.0 Linux

2003-03-28 Thread Florian La Roche
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:01:20PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 10:51, MCCARTIER wrote: > > Yes, the next official release for S/390 will be Red Hat Advanced Server > > 3.0 and you are obliged to take the support contract of RH. > > Fir the product yes, but not for the free softwa

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Little, Chris
and if you've purchased the sles or rhas, shouldn't you have that logon? -Original Message- From: Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLES 8 True, assuming you can find them. I'm not sure, but you might

Re: RE : New RedHat 9.0 Linux

2003-03-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 10:51, MCCARTIER wrote: > Yes, the next official release for S/390 will be Red Hat Advanced Server > 3.0 and you are obliged to take the support contract of RH. Fir the product yes, but not for the free software parts of it. Or run Debian or mix and match, whatever. Heck not

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
True, assuming you can find them. I'm not sure, but you might also need a registration code/login. > -Original Message- > From: Little, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] SLES 8 > > > if that's the ca

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Little, Chris
if that's the case, you can always download the srpms and build them yourself. -Original Message- From: Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLES 8 Not DIRECTLY. The "Advanced Server" model has the same s

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
Not DIRECTLY. The "Advanced Server" model has the same support model on both platforms. My point is that there IS another model for Intel, and they do supply RPM's that CAN be installed on the AS version IF YOU WANT. On 390, since nobody is even BUILDING new RPM's, you don't even have the opt

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Little, Chris
Yes, but do they give you a choice for there "server" (sles or rhas) products on intel? -Original Message- From: Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLES 8 To reiterate, Red Hat and SuSE for Intel give you

Re: FW: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
I didn't look that closely at the 2.2.5 RPM from SuSE. We haven't gotten SLES8 past initial testing, and we don't do printing through the servers anyway. No, the Samba RPM's are vanilla. Some of my other ones have patches retrofitted, but I don't remember which. > -Original Message- >

Re: FW: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Ken Hall wrote: > Samba on SuSE 8.0 is 2.2.5, which is better than 2.2.0a, but 2.2.8 builds and runs very nicely. But if you build vanilla 2.2.8, you lose the many patches that SuSE has applied to 2.2.5. I noticed a file named something like printing.diff had over 9000 lines of changes. I didn't

SLES8 kernel introduced problems

2003-03-28 Thread Ann Smith
I posted a couple of issues lately (invalid IP address messages and inability to ftp to class A or class C addresses). The problems were introduced by a recent SLES8 kernel upgrade. We backed off kernel-source-2.4.19.SuSE-43.

Re: RE : New RedHat 9.0 Linux

2003-03-28 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Thanks for the info, and to all of those who replied to this thread. Mathieu's post quoted below sure makes me think. How much does RedHat support cost now? I had a meeting with a couple people from our IBM business partner, who said he thought that RedHat support cost about $30,000 per year.

Re: Encrypted file systems on Linux - are any mainstream?

2003-03-28 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Adam, Alex, Scott, Jose, Thanks for the replies. > Cryptographic Filesystems: Design and Implementation > http://securityfocus.com/infocus/1673 Excellent report! -Mike MacIsaac, IBM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (845) 433-7061

Re: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
To reiterate, Red Hat and SuSE for Intel give you a CHOICE. At least they SUPPLY the new version RPM's. That's not the case (officially) with the SLES-for-390 version. Config files shouldn't be stepped on by a properly built RPM. > -Original Message- > From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAI

Re: FW: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
Samba on SuSE 8.0 is 2.2.5, which is better than 2.2.0a, but 2.2.8 builds and runs very nicely. Still no Kerberos server, still no autofs ldap support. Openldap is up to 2.1.14, at least. We're supposedly going to be making my hand-built RPM's available soon, if anyone wants later (or more cap

Re: FW: SLES 8

2003-03-28 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
See below. > -Original Message- > From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [LINUX-390] FW: SLES 8 > > > Ken Hall said: > >The downside (I've found) of the SuSE philosophy on > maintenance of the SLES > >series

Re: Encrypted file systems on Linux - are any mainstream?

2003-03-28 Thread José Manuel Canelas
Scott Courtney wrote: On Thursday 27 March 2003 03:59 pm, Michael MacIsaac wrote: Is anyone using an encrypted file system on Linux (the data is encrypted/decrypted betwee the disk and the OS)? Is there a de facto standard or is this still somewhat bleeding edge with Linux? How does it compare w

Re: Linux Server Time, Daylight Saving, Hardware clock, NTP, & the LI KE.

2003-03-28 Thread Dennis Wicks
In a word ... Yes! "Arthur, Drew D Jr [LTD]"To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: print.com>Subject: Linux Server Time, Daylight Saving, Hardware clock, NTP,

MVMRUG Meeting Info - April 25 - Columbus Ohio

2003-03-28 Thread Moore, Terry A.
The Spring meeting of the Midwest VM Regional User Group will be held in Columbus, Ohio on Friday April 25. Information about the upcoming meeting -- agenda, location, logistics, registration -- can be found on the MVMRUG.ORG web site at http://www.mvmrug.org/nextmtg.html. Advance registration is

Re: RE : New RedHat 9.0 Linux

2003-03-28 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, MCCARTIER wrote: > Yes, the next official release for S/390 will be Red Hat Advanced Server > 3.0 and you are obliged to take the support contract of RH. > > I Think it's time to move to DEBIAN S/390 ? > > What do you think ? I think the onus is on the vendors to show value

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

2003-03-28 Thread MCCARTIER
You could Have UTSGLOBAL solution to backup on zLinux and they have a dirver for STK Libaries. With this solution you can create Virtual Tape Devices on an ESS or HDS and then backup thoses virtual tapes on a STK real tape devices. It is a good solution if you use Flashcopy mode, and you backup du

RE : New RedHat 9.0 Linux

2003-03-28 Thread MCCARTIER
Yes, the next official release for S/390 will be Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0 and you are obliged to take the support contract of RH. I Think it's time to move to DEBIAN S/390 ? What do you think ? There is no more Free software for S/390 in RH and Suse Mathieu C. CARTIER -Message d'orig

Highest subchannel number detected0

2003-03-28 Thread Monteleone
Hello, Does anybody know what should I do to bypass this limitation? I don't really understand what is the problem. <4>Kernel command line: dasd=a101,a106-a10a root=/dev/dasda1 noinitrd ctc=escon0:0x0d10:0x0d11 <4> <6>Highest subchannel number detected (hex) : 025A <4>SNID - Device 0D10 o