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2005-01-20 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
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Question: Running LINUX with 2 virtual CPUs but 1 seems to be idle - why ?

2005-01-20 Thread Leonard Janus
Hallo list, I am a experienced in zVM but a novice in LINUX. We are running zVM in a lpar with 2 real IFLs. The first test machine has 1 virtual processor and seems to run fine. I read the advise to define the same number of virtual processors as real were available. So I started to define a L

Re: Question: Running LINUX with 2 virtual CPUs but 1 seems to be idle - why ?

2005-01-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:01:33 +0100, Leonard Janus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question is: Why is the second CPU nearly IDLE ? > Is there any more setup (on linux) to do ? Do you have a workload on Linux that allows work to be done on two CPU's at the same time? If the application does not cr

Re: Character mode text editor

2005-01-20 Thread Mark Perry
Hi Daniel, How right you are!, I just tried it. Very strange that on SLES8 (GNU sed version 3.02.80) it lacks the "-i" option, but on SLES9 (GNU sed version 4.0.9) it is supported. You would think SUSE would keep SED up to date on SLES8? All the Best Mark Perry > -Original Message- > Fro

Re: Character mode text editor

2005-01-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:49:09 +0100, Mark Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't believe that sed will do an in-place edit. Hence you must pipe the > output to another file. Make that *ANOTHER* since trying to use the same file for input and output most times does not work as you would like. M

Re: Character mode text editor

2005-01-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:33:14 +0100, Mark Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Daniel, > How right you are!, I just tried it. Very strange that on SLES8 (GNU sed > version 3.02.80) it lacks the "-i" option, but on SLES9 (GNU sed version > 4.0.9) it is supported. You would think SUSE would keep SED

Re: VSWITCH and HIPERSOCKETS

2005-01-20 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:30:44 -0600, Rich Smrcina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could define enough Hipersocket devices so that each Linux machine > that needs a connection to z/OS can have it's own. (the preferred way, > no extra routing hop required) Preferred by some... Upto 5.1.0 owning a

Re: clam antivirus - Clamscan fails, clamdscan works (if clamd running, of course)

2005-01-20 Thread James Melin
it does it on EVERY system. Fresh install also. So unless every one of my linux images is corrupted in exactly the same place in the file system, I wouldn't expect FS corruption to be causing it. The version we're running is 0.80. Looks like a new build was released today, actually. clamav 0.81rc

Re: clam antivirus - Clamscan fails, clamdscan works (if clamd running, of course)

2005-01-20 Thread James Melin
Well I installed the new version .081rc1 - Doesn't seem to have changed the behaviour. I presume nobody else is getting this error. It only shows up when trying to run clamscan. When trying to run clamdscan, which uses clamd, the error does not occur. (which of course makes sense)

Newbie Question

2005-01-20 Thread Paul Hyatt
Greetings All, I am in the process of doing an exploration for a proof of concept project on using Linux on a zSeries box (z900). I am trying to locate information on which flavor of Linux is best suited for various types of deployments. I have looked in the archives but cannot seem to

Re: Newbie Question

2005-01-20 Thread Mike Lovins
I cannot point you to any specific document but I am currently running SuSe Linux on and IFL lpars on a Z800 and it is working very good. I also understand the Redhat works well also. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/20/05 08:52AM >>> Greetings All, I am in the process of doing an exploration for

Re: Operational documentation for z/VM going into production

2005-01-20 Thread David Boyes
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:36:51AM +0100, Rob van der Heij wrote: > > > Depends on the tooling you have. Usually, you integrate it with your > > other monitoring tools (sounds like you've already done this to some > > extent). RSCS with a NJE license is very helpful here, as you can > > usually use

Re: Newbie Question

2005-01-20 Thread Seader, Cameron
I have worked with both redhat and suse on this platform and i seem to like suse better. Suse seems to have betters tools to get the job done in my opinion. Plus suse has a good backer with novell and ibm. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mi

Re: clam antivirus - Clamscan fails, clamdscan works (if clamd running, of course)

2005-01-20 Thread James Melin
For anyone that cares... if I directly specify the daily.cvd file, clamscan works. This command, clamscan -r -d /var/lib/clamav/daily.cvd / works, so I may have a bug or issue to report to the clam AV people. A

Re: clam antivirus - Clamscan fails, clamdscan works (if clamd running, of course)

2005-01-20 Thread Giorgio Bellussi
I suspect you have more than one clamav installed and therefore you might have some strange combination of lib and path. I'd check the following: which clamscan# to see where it's executed from ldd `which clamscan` # to see what libs are accessed strings `which clamscan` | grep conf # to see

Re: Operational documentation for z/VM going into production

2005-01-20 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 01/20/2005 at 09:58 EST, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:36:51AM +0100, Rob van der Heij wrote: > > > > > Depends on the tooling you have. Usually, you integrate it with your > > > other monitoring tools (sounds like you've already done this to some

Re: Operational documentation for z/VM going into production

2005-01-20 Thread David Boyes
> > > I was going to recommend that, but afaik it requires VTAM > to feed the > > > PROP output into automation on z/OS. > > Nope. RSCS still supports direct physical CTC connections, and PROP > > still sends things via RSCS messages. The z/OS side gets > them like any > > other remote message. No

Re: FW: [LINUX-390] SLES 9.0 Refresh?

2005-01-20 Thread Post, Mark K
They almost certainly will not be available for free download. If you activate the 30-days of support that you get with the free download, you will be able to get them from the SUSE maintenance portal. If, that is, they create new .iso files just for this. They don't always do that. Mark Post

Re: Newbie Question

2005-01-20 Thread Post, Mark K
Picking a Linux/390 distribution is going to be very different from site to site. You need to look at a number of things before deciding. The good thing is you can get free evaluation copies for them and take a look for yourself. Things to consider: Are you going to be using products that are ce

CTCMPC Driver

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
We are currently running SuSE SLES8-SP3 (31-bit) on our z800 mainframe under z/VM 5.1. We have a need to run the IBM Communications Server to replace soon-to-be-unsupported communication controllers and CIP routers. This is an ideal solution for us and a perfect use of Linux. The IBM Manual G

IBM Offers Support for Xen

2005-01-20 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2005012001926NWSVSW "Open source server virtualization got a boost this week with a new release from the Xen project and a new IBM commitment to help 'harden' it. "Xen is a virtual machine application that allows users to run multiple operating s

Re: Newbie Question

2005-01-20 Thread Tom Shilson
We seem to be settling on SuSE, more for support than any other reason. If we choose SuSE and an application we need will only be supported on RedHat, we will deal with that on a case-by-case basis. tom - - - - - - - - - - - - Toto, I have a feeling we're not in the mainframe world any more. _

even more sles9 install weirdness

2005-01-20 Thread Mark D Pace
Thanks to all that have blazed the trail of sles9 before me. I have followed this thread pretty close and have used the installroot procedure to create an installroot for my CDs. I can start the install, get into yast, setup the DASD, and then I change my software to Minimal install. But when the

Re: Newbie Question

2005-01-20 Thread Steven . ADAMS
We're about the same as Tom's group. We went with Red Hat for a year and then moved over to SuSE for support reasons. For us, because of our current relationship with Novell, there are annual cost reduction benefits as well but the move was primarily motivated by support. Steve -Original Mess

Re: even more sles9 install weirdness

2005-01-20 Thread Eric Clapsaddle
I kinda went around the README file and found a way to work using ftp and ssh. I had to mount cd 1 at /zlinux/cd1 mount cd1 again at /home//zlinux/cd1 then mount cd2 at /home//zlinux/cd2 cd3 etc. I think it's because the first time it takes the full path that you give (in my case /zlinux/cd1) an

Re: even more sles9 install weirdness

2005-01-20 Thread dclark
Verify the checksum of your iso files and make sure they are good. I have included a "cat mkinstallroot" make sure that the location from where you mount and copy the CDs is accessible to the script. I used /ISO_Images_Dir only as an example directory location. Yours will be different. Doug #

Re: Newbie Question

2005-01-20 Thread Nix, Robert P.
Another option is to use SuSE, but contract with IBM for your support. We're headed that direction, mainly to reduce the number of support agencies we have to deal with on a regular basis. -- Robert P. Nix 507-284-0844 Mayo Foundation 200 First St. SW Rochester, MN 55905 "In

Interpretation of bad_stat_data from reiserfsck -a

2005-01-20 Thread Sam Cohen
I'm having an interesting issue I'd like to get some opinions on. I'm working in an environment with SLES-8 (ServicePack 3+) using reiserfs for / and /var. It's running under z/VM 4.4 (RSU0403). If I shut down a Linux guest (using SIGNAL SHUTDOWN WITHIN 300 (inittab sets C-A-D to shutdown -h now

Linux on zSeries Library

2005-01-20 Thread Ferguson, Neale
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/linux/library/ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htb

Samba and Apache Crash System

2005-01-20 Thread Tom Shilson
We are running a RedHat 7-point-something system with Samba and Apache. When we are loading files via Samba and someone is looking at (changing?) the same file with Apache, the kernel crashes. I don't have a copy of the console available at the moment. I can understand there being a problem, but br

Re: CTCMPC Driver

2005-01-20 Thread Post, Mark K
That functionality was added with the patches in linux-2.4.21-s390-18-fixed-june2003.tar.gz, dated October 12, 2004. You'll need a kernel and modules built from source that was updated after that. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

Computerworld says - SCO wins a legal victory

2005-01-20 Thread Ranga Nathan
Anyone seen this? http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,99098,00.html?source=NLT_PM&nid=99098 Does it have any impact on this case? __ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX

Re: Computerworld says - SCO wins a legal victory

2005-01-20 Thread Paul L. Rogers
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Ranga Nathan wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:17:49 -0800 > From: Ranga Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Computerworld says - SCO wins a legal victory > > Anyone seen this? > > > http://www.computerworld.com/g

Re: [Boston.pm] Computerworld says - SCO wins a legal victory

2005-01-20 Thread Federico Lucifredi
Ranga Nathan wrote: Anyone seen this? http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,99098,00.html?source=NLT_PM&nid=99098 They won a "discovery order" of sorts... they can get a look at code IBM did not show them. Does it have any impact on this case? Hmm - th

Re: [Boston.pm] Computerworld says - SCO wins a legal victory

2005-01-20 Thread John Macdonald
On Thursday 20 January 2005 20:22, Federico Lucifredi wrote: > Ranga Nathan wrote: > > >Anyone seen this? > > > > > >http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,99098,00.html?source=NLT_PM&nid=99098 > > > > > > > They won a "discovery order" of sorts... they c

Re: Computerworld says - SCO wins a legal victory

2005-01-20 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jan 20, 2005, at 7:17 PM, Ranga Nathan wrote: Anyone seen this? http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/ story/0,10801,99098,00.html?source=NLT_PM&nid=99098 Does it have any impact on this case? _ Just another delaying tactic. Read groklaw; they cover SCO vs. IBM in