Re: appropriate value of LOAD AVERAGE

2005-01-26 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:26:11 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My client asked me what is the appropriate value of LOAD AVERAGE value when the system is IDLE. (well i think he meant idle NO MIDDLEWARE (and some DBs) RUNNING) The answer is 0. :-) rmhtest3:~ # ps -ef | grep db2 | wc --lines

Having 1 linux kernel

2005-01-26 Thread Noll, Ralph
Is there any doc on setting up 1 linux kernel and all linux guests booting from That 1 kernel... Right now I have 8 linux guests all with separate boot disks... Be nice to have just one.. Thanks Ralph -- For LINUX-390

Re: HTMLDOC install err. /s390-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lsocket

2005-01-26 Thread Marco Bosisio
Hi, I inform you that now HTMLDOC works. The programmer uses only the htmldoc cmd in batch mode but I launchedthe same in VNC and the GUI works. HTMLDOC : htmldoc-1.8.24-source.tar Some prerequisite has been installed on SLES8 platform Linux/zVM :

Re: Having 1 linux kernel

2005-01-26 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jan 26, 2005, at 8:39 AM, Noll, Ralph wrote: Is there any doc on setting up 1 linux kernel and all linux guests booting from That 1 kernel... Right now I have 8 linux guests all with separate boot disks... Be nice to have just one.. You can put the kernel in NSS and then everyone can IPL that

Awwww...come on, guys...help us out...

2005-01-26 Thread Martha McConaghy
OK, I'm not above begging, at least when it is for a good cause. Response to my request for session chairs for SHARE has been somewhat less than overwhelming. I know it is tough to choose when SHARE is still a month away. However, the Linux and VM Program is putting on a lot of really terrific

Re: Having 1 linux kernel

2005-01-26 Thread Noll, Ralph
That's ok... Don't mind each linux guest having r/w to /usr/opt Just want 1 place to upgrade the kernel... If not might as well have 1u servers. Ralph -Original Message- From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:34 AM To:

Re: Awwww...come on, guys...help us out...

2005-01-26 Thread Alan Altmark
I would like to take this opportunity to ask SHARE attendees to please contribute a small portion of your time to help an organization that represents YOUR interests. I know, you're going But SHARE is still a month away and I don't have time to worry about it right now! Well, other people have

Re: appropriate value of LOAD AVERAGE

2005-01-26 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jan 26, 2005, at 6:24 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: The load average does not help you a lot. What you really want to do is look at the z/VM monitoring and see that the virtual machine is indeed considered idle and drops from queue. When idle, my Linux server tends to use 6 mS of CPU time per

Re: appropriate value of LOAD AVERAGE

2005-01-26 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:36:03 -0600, Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With or without timer ticks? Given the emphasis on On Demand it would be silly not to use the on demand timer :-) Sure, with the timer ticks disabled and after killing the daemons that request early wakeup constanly.

Re: Awwww...come on, guys...help us out...

2005-01-26 Thread Gary Jacek
I won't be at this SHARE, but I want to add my two cents here. If you volunteer as a session chair, you will be treated like GOLD. If you're going to attend one of these sessions anyway, do yourself a BIG FAVOUR and volunteer to chair it. TIA -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Having 1 linux kernel

2005-01-26 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:00:05 -0600, Noll, Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's ok... Don't mind each linux guest having r/w to /usr/opt Just want 1 place to upgrade the kernel... If not might as well have 1u servers. If you don't want to use NSS (for example because it is

Re: Awwww...come on, guys...help us out...

2005-01-26 Thread Miguel Diaz
...and not the cheap gold you buy in Times Square either; we're talking dear god the market's crashing and I need a safe investment gold here :-) Regards, Miguel Diaz Staff Software Engineer z/VM TCP/IP Development IBM Corporation 607.429.3504 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux on 390 Port

Re: Awwww...come on, guys...help us out...

2005-01-26 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Miguel Diaz wrote: ...and not the cheap gold you buy in Times Square either; we're talking dear god the market's crashing and I need a safe investment gold here :-) I just want to point out that in the event of a REAL catastrophe, lead and gold have very similar

z/Linux SuSE 8.2 and Openssh-3.4p1

2005-01-26 Thread Lewis, Ted (OFT)
On SuSE 8.2, openssh-3.4p1 causes an ssh disconnect when updating LDAP expired passwords. Has anyone else experienced this problem and how did they solve it (if it's solved)? According to SuSE, it is a known bug and their recommendation is to upgrade to SLES 9 or download the latest version of

Re: z/Linux SuSE 8.2 and Openssh-3.4p1

2005-01-26 Thread Post, Mark K
Ooof. You just tripped over one of the big reasons why RPM-managed systems need to have all their updates installed via RPM. If you have gcc and glibc-devel installed on your system, what I normally recommend is taking the .src.rpm for the current version of the package, and doing an rpm -ivh on

Re: Having 1 linux kernel

2005-01-26 Thread Mrohs, Ray
Kernel sharing would be a nice-to-have feature. There just seem to be a lot of issues surrounding it's implementation. They involve extensive bootup customizations, r/o and r/w switching, and non-standard manipulations of file systems. Ask five people how to do it and you will get five different

VM: What was an input: REXEC or LOGON Userid?

2005-01-26 Thread Bruce Hayden
Ref: Your note of Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:58:51 +0100 (attached) Q AUTOUSER is a local exit... (local = all IBM internal systems ;-) Very useful, though.. Bruce Hayden IBM Global Services Endicott, NY - Note follows -- REXECD does not use

VM: What was an input: REXEC or LOGON Userid?

2005-01-26 Thread Bruce Hayden
Ref: Your note of Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:00:42 -0500 Sorry - wrong mailing list! (I get them easily confused..) Bruce -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Debian Sarge on 7060 H30 LPAR

2005-01-26 Thread Richard Pinion
I am attempting to install Debian Sarge on a LPAR of an IBM 7060 H30 using emio (IOCP CTC device and defined as LCS when using z/OS TCP/IP) for the network interface. After selecting LCS and entering the TCP configuration parms, (IP address, gateway address, name server address, host name, and

LVM Volume Group Descriptor Area (VGDA) Recovery HOWTO

2005-01-26 Thread Post, Mark K
A new HOWTO, LVM Volume Group Descriptor Area (VGDA) Recovery has been added to the linuxvm.org web site. Thanks to Peter Abresch for doing this write-up for us. http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/ Mark Post -- For LINUX-390

Re: Debian Sarge on 7060 H30 LPAR

2005-01-26 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jan 26, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Richard Pinion wrote: I am attempting to install Debian Sarge on a LPAR of an IBM 7060 H30 using emio (IOCP CTC device and defined as LCS when using z/OS TCP/IP) for the network interface. After selecting LCS and entering the TCP configuration parms, (IP address,

Re: Debian Sarge on 7060 H30 LPAR

2005-01-26 Thread Richard Pinion
Yes, I think it is finding the card because it asks me to verify the CTC devices addresses of B30-B31. I am unable to perform any actions from the console because of the install script. It keeps asking me for the country and mirror site. How can I stop the install script and get back to a

Re: Debian Sarge on 7060 H30 LPAR

2005-01-26 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jan 26, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Richard Pinion wrote: Yes, I think it is finding the card because it asks me to verify the CTC devices addresses of B30-B31. I am unable to perform any actions from the console because of the install script. It keeps asking me for the country and mirror site. How

Re: Having 1 linux kernel

2005-01-26 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
We use a variation of the Using BIND Mounts to Create A Simplified BaseVol/GuestVol Linux Server process outlined at: http://linuxvm.org/present/misc/basevol.html Instead of the REXX scripts, we used standard scripting. We have the / (root) and /opt file systems as R/O z/VM mini disks. The

Re: SuSE Installation Server

2005-01-26 Thread Ifurung, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike, The procedure you provided ( http://mikemacisaac.com/configureNFS.pdf ) for setting up a linux install server worked well. I did have to change one little thing: blanked out the \t from the files yast/instorder; yast/order. So with the prepared linux (desktop) install server, I was able

Re: SuSE Installation Server

2005-01-26 Thread Post, Mark K
cat /etc/*-release Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ifurung, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:56 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SuSE Installation Server -snip- Question: How can I tell that my

Re: appropriate value of LOAD AVERAGE

2005-01-26 Thread Tomoyuki Yatsunami
--- Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My client asked me what is the appropriate value of "LOAD AVERAGE" value when the system is IDLE. (well i think he meant idle "NO MIDDLEWARE (and some DBs) RUNNING") The answer is 0. :-) I thought so, too. However

Re: SuSE Installation Server

2005-01-26 Thread Ifurung, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Found ans. to my question: # SPident CONCLUSION: ServicePack Level: SLES-9-s390-SP1 = up-to-date == Other info = # cat /etc/*-release SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (s390) VERSION = 9 # uname -a Linux lnxtest1 2.6.5-7.97-s390 #1 SMP Fri Jul 2 14:21:59 UTC 2004 s390 s390 s390

Interesting z890/z990 enhancements

2005-01-26 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://www.vm.ibm.com/siteinfo/change.html for January 25 announcements. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

FCP Access Control

2005-01-26 Thread Ferguson, Neale
One of the interesting items for SCSI users is the following: Configuration Utility: The Configuration Utility for FCP LUN Access Control is designed to be a Linux user space application which may be used to configure the FCP LUN Access Control. To define and activate LUN Access Control, you