Re: CSH commands

2004-11-29 Thread Fargusson.Alan
echo $USER echo $HOME echo $SHELL As far as I know these are the same on every version of Linux and Unix (but I could be wrong). -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of CWells Jackson Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

CSH commands

2004-11-29 Thread CWells Jackson
What CSH shell script command can I use Under Linux 7.0 to display the environment varibles showing the current user, home directory and default shellcliffj = This is a new Website for over the counter drugs (OTC), please visit at __ Do you Yahoo!? Rea

Re: Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread Ulrich Weigand
John McKown wrote: >But, are there any z990 enhancements in the gcc compiler? If not, then >recompiling will do not good. Recent GCC versions support the -mtune and -march options to select which machine to generate code for. See the GCC info page for full documentation; the most important varia

Re: FSCK of volumes after x many times

2004-11-29 Thread Brandon Darbro
Brad Johnson wrote: Depending on the file system, EXT2, EXT3, etc, there are defaults that are assumed when you create the file system. I myself do not know how to change that value, but the value gets set, and when the number of times the file system gets mounted meets this value a file system che

Betr.: Re: Clocking in z/VM

2004-11-29 Thread Pieter Harder
>What emulator are you using? That sounds more like an emulator problem, >if >CP FORCE helped -- if you were hung in CP, that wouldn't do much. Extra >is >particularly bad for hangs in my experience (and the current version >doesn't >hang, it GPFs if I type too fast...amazing). >We use Reflection

Re: FSCK of volumes after x many times

2004-11-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Nov 29, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Brad Johnson wrote: The problem is that we shutdown these linux images every night and flash copy to a IBM Shark tune2fs lets you vary the number of reboots between fscks. Adam -- For LINUX-390 subscr

Re: FSCK of volumes after x many times

2004-11-29 Thread mark_perry
Depending on the size and number of your filesystems, I think your point about inconvenient is the key here. While a home user on a PC may find this inconvenient, a production system that was expected back up in a couple on minutes may actually qualify for a small-medium outage ;-) One problem is

Re: FSCK of volumes after x many times

2004-11-29 Thread Post, Mark K
If you're using a journaling file system, it's not unreasonable to turn this off completely. "tune2fs -c 0 filesystem" will do that, although the man page does make a case for not doing it, due to "bad disk drives, cables, memory, and kernel bugs." Mark Post -Original Message- From: Lin

Re: DASD Usage

2004-11-29 Thread Post, Mark K
Perhaps, but I took the question to mean how the OP could find out how much more space on the volume could be allocated, not how much of the allocated space was being used on a particular volume. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: fsck on boot

2004-11-29 Thread Brad Johnson
thanks Mark Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To Sent by: Linux on [EMAIL PROTECTED] 390 Port cc <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: FSCK of volumes after x many times

2004-11-29 Thread Brad Johnson
The problem is that we shutdown these linux images every night and flash copy to a IBM Shark James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] nepin.mn.us> To Sent by: Linux on [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3

Re: Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 11/29/2004 at 12:16 CST, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, are there any z990 enhancements in the gcc compiler? If not, then > recompiling will do not good. Yes. There is support for the way the z990 schedules instructions. There may be others; Uli Weigand has the best

Re: cmsfs on 2.6?

2004-11-29 Thread Richard Troth
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Carsten Otte wrote: > Yea, I can take you one. A little hard to ship via email (size), ... Yes, too large to send thru e-mail. (And not something one would want to post to the list!) I *thought* there was a sample on the FTP server, but it appears that there is not. I wil

Re: Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Carsten Otte > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 12:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Big Iron change > > > Alan Altmark wrote: > >To take advantage of z990-specific features, you would > ac

FSCK of volumes after x many times

2004-11-29 Thread James Melin
Depending on the file system, EXT2, EXT3, etc, there are defaults that are assumed when you create the file system. I myself do not know how to change that value, but the value gets set, and when the number of times the file system gets mounted meets this value a file system check is forced. While

Re: fsck on boot

2004-11-29 Thread Mark Perry
See tune2fs -Original Message- From: Brad Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 November 2004 18:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I have noticed that when the Linux Image loads it says that the dasd volume hasn't been checked with fsck in 20 times. Does anyone know where this is t

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2004-11-29 Thread Brad Johnson
I have noticed that when the Linux Image loads it says that the dasd volume hasn't been checked with fsck in 20 times. Does anyone know where this is triggered and why? It appears to be doing a fsck on volumes based on the time of being mounted. Thanks --

Re: cmsfs on 2.6?

2004-11-29 Thread Carsten Otte
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Where is that package from? Might be worth to massage into a proper 2.6 > filesystem driver. Anybody's got some test fs images? Yea, I can take you one. A little hard to ship via email (size), just let me know how I can get it to you. Should work fi

Re: Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread Carsten Otte
Alan Altmark wrote: >To take advantage of z990-specific features, you would actually have to >recompile the kernel with the right options. Yea, I agree. But since the kernel only computes a small fragment of PU time usually, it may be worth more to recompile computing intensive applications for the

Re: Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread Carsten Otte
>a little question: if I have some "Penguins" installed on z900 (z/VM 4.4) and >I change the Big Iron with a z990, did I have any improvement if I reinstall >the linux machines? No, the code shipped by the distribution partners and all middleware I know of is optimized for the 800/900 series. No ne

Re: DASD Usage

2004-11-29 Thread Carsten Otte
>You can do a "pvdisplay /dev/dasd?#" command for each volume that makes up >the logical volume. Or, you can do "cat /proc/lvm/global" and look at all >of them at once. True, but this does not indicate how much user data resides there. The output indicates how much space of the physical volume

Re: DASD Usage

2004-11-29 Thread Carsten Otte
> /dev/grpnotes/volnotes > 48G 3.2G 42G 7% /local > >but volnotes have 8 volumes 3390 model 9. >My question: is there any way to know the real usage of each volume? The basic idea when using logical volumes instead of phyical ones it that you can create volumes based on

Re: Clock setting in VM

2004-11-29 Thread Ranga Nathan
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Re: cmsfs on 2.6?

2004-11-29 Thread Richard Troth
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > cmsfssed.sh: this release of Linux is not supported! Like Karsten said, it's just a quick config hack to get the utility to build on a 2.6 based system. (The util runs on a ww-ii-dd-ee range of systems, including OpenVM.) On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, C

Re: Clocking in z/VM

2004-11-29 Thread Ranga Nathan
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Re: Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread David Boyes
> Gotta disagree -- "it depends" (as I've heard it said many > times). I have > one machine under _very_ heavy interactive load. Going from > z/900 to z/990 > made all the difference in the world to it, in terms of performance as > well as stability (the z/VM Q3 issue I'd been experiencing > disapp

Re: Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 11/29/2004 at 08:50 EST, James Tison/Poughkeepsie/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gotta disagree -- "it depends" (as I've heard it said many times). I have > one machine under _very_ heavy interactive load. Going from z/900 to z/990 > made all the difference in the world to it, in terms of pe

Re: Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> Ah, but the question was, does he have to reinstall his penguins. And > the answer is "probably not". They will get faster because the > hardware is faster, but reinstalling the Linux image itself probably > won't help. At least not if you install it with all the same > parameters. And you ca

Re: Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread James Tison
Aha. I read it as a question of value. Sorry about that. We didn't have to reinstall a single thing. It all just worked (SLES 8). --Jim-- James S. Tison Senior Software Engineer TPF Laboratory / Architecture IBM Corporation Meum cerebrum nocet Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux o

Re: Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Nov 29, 2004, at 7:50 AM, James Tison wrote: Gotta disagree -- "it depends" (as I've heard it said many times). I have one machine under _very_ heavy interactive load. Going from z/900 to z/990 made all the difference in the world to it, in terms of performance as well as stability (the z/VM Q3

Re: sles9 install

2004-11-29 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
You shouldn't really have to do anything special if you use the built-in install scripts and yast. The default install process seems to set nearly everything up properly. One thing it could do better is tell you when you need to reboot. Once, I thought yast had just died, but it ended pending

Re: Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread James Tison
Gotta disagree -- "it depends" (as I've heard it said many times). I have one machine under _very_ heavy interactive load. Going from z/900 to z/990 made all the difference in the world to it, in terms of performance as well as stability (the z/VM Q3 issue I'd been experiencing disappeared). Your m

Re: Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread David Boyes
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:14:26AM +0100, Gianfranco Ciotti wrote: > a little question: if I have some "Penguins" installed on z900 (z/VM 4.4) and > I change the Big Iron with a z990, did I have any improvement if I reinstall > the linux machines? If you use the same Linux distribution software,

Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Hi list, a little question: if I have some "Penguins" installed on z900 (z/VM 4.4) and I change the Big Iron with a z990, did I have any improvement if I reinstall the linux machines? thanks, -- Gian -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: z/VM Virtual Switch Controller define problem

2004-11-29 Thread Josà RaÃl BarÃn Rodriguez
Hi Peter. To update the VM directory without dirmaint you can use DIRECTXA <-- being the name of your file with filetype DIRECT. On the other hand try the following: - ipl cms parm instseg no - It will get into VM READ state. Press ENTER. - Then Q DISK - Then access 591 z - The Query com