Re: Setup VDISK

2005-04-11 Thread Rob van der Heij
In above Page, next statement is written. 'RESERVE LINUX SWAP E6' Is my recognition right? No, the 'E' is because the device is accessed as 'filemode' E and the 6 specifies a specific way ot access mode for some applications (but you don't need to specify that here). Next question. Where

Re: Per engine pricing..

2005-04-11 Thread Joe Poole
OK. (scratches chin) Check out that electric bill. $200 per year times 200 servers that were shut off. Only $4k. You folks were certainly kind to me for not pointing out my mathematical blunder. 200 servers times $200 = $40,000, not 4k. So, if you have a z900 on the floor, and a Shark for

guests with same NIC configuration

2005-04-11 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Hi all, I've inherited a z/VM 4.4 where all guests have the same virtual NIC configuration in PROFILE EXEC: 'COUPLE A000 TO SYSTEM SWITCH1' 'COUPLE A100 TO SYSTEM SWITCH2' where SWITCH1 and SWITCH2 are two vswitch. Penguins (SLES8) seems work fine, but the question is if this configuration

Re: guests with same NIC configuration

2005-04-11 Thread David Kreuter
Looks fine to me. As a small tiny meaningless choice I would have used something completely different for the second nic, like fffc-fffe. Gianfranco Ciotti wrote: Hi all, I've inherited a z/VM 4.4 where all guests have the same virtual NIC configuration in PROFILE EXEC: 'COUPLE A000 TO SYSTEM

Re: guests with same NIC configuration

2005-04-11 Thread Post, Mark K
That looks perfectly fine to me, since it's what we do. That's one of the nice things about virtual machines. You can make them look the same, reducing the amount of flailing around when you move from guest to guest, trying to figure out what is what. Mark Post -Original Message-

Re: Per engine pricing..

2005-04-11 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Here is an interesting question Over the decades, we have always talked about energy savings, like some department manager cares. In any of your shops, does IT actually pay for electricty? I've never seen a budget item. I'ved never seen an invoice. In fact, I've never seen the meter or

Re: Setup VDISK

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Re: guests with same NIC configuration

2005-04-11 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
thanks! now... I can sleep calm dreams! ;)) Monday 11 April 2005 15:59, David Kreuter wrote: Looks fine to me. As a small tiny meaningless choice I would have used something completely different for the second nic, like fffc-fffe. Monday 11 April 2005 16:06, Post, Mark K wrote: That looks

Re: Per engine pricing..

2005-04-11 Thread Vic Cross
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:15:00AM -0500, Tom Duerbusch wrote: Now I don't know many department managers that would spend X dollars out of their budget to save Y dollars in someone elses budget. You might use the savings to justify the expenditure up the line, but the savings are soft

Re: Per engine pricing..

2005-04-11 Thread Tom Duerbusch
This is government, no such thing as one person in charge. We are a City and a County. The Mayor is in control of the City, and another 8 elected offices are in the County (but no County supervisor). So, there are 9 officials in charge. Not even the voters are in charge as the State of Missouri

Re: wheel group on SLES9 problem

2005-04-11 Thread NoëL AntoniO
Without that line, the wheel group doesn't mean much (unless you're using group permissions to limit use of su vs. using pam modules) and any user can su to root (if they knew the password, of course). lNoklL - Original Message - From: Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Per engine pricing..

2005-04-11 Thread Adam Thornton
On Apr 11, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: Oh, btw, the City being it's own County, isn't the same thing as St. Louis County, that is a different County. Confused yet? No. Try harder. Adam -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Re: wheel group on SLES9 problem

2005-04-11 Thread Adam Thornton
On Apr 11, 2005, at 10:16 AM, NoëL AntoniO wrote: Without that line, the wheel group doesn't mean much (unless you're using group permissions to limit use of su vs. using pam modules) and any user can su to root (if they knew the password, of course). Sorry. Misunderstood the problem. What you

/proc/sysinfo

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Troth
When did we get /proc/sysinfo? I think it was 2.4.something, but 2.4.what? Thanks. -- R; -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or

Re: Per engine pricing..

2005-04-11 Thread Tom Shilson
Often the department that owns the servers gets a square-foot charge flat rate, adjusted each year. Power is a factor in that charge. The server-owning department will get a reduced charge if they reduce power, but it not immediately obvious. Perhaps if the server-owning manager talked to the

Re: Per engine pricing..

2005-04-11 Thread Tom Duerbusch
In my case, I doupt anyone would spend the timeG. It all ends up being soft money. Cost savings by a department is usually reused long before the savings are realized. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/11/05 12:03 PM Often the department that owns the servers gets a

QDIO Failure on FTP

2005-04-11 Thread Dave Czajkowski
I'm running SLES8/64bit using k_deflt-2.4.21-251 and vsftpd-1.1.0-21 connected via VSWITCH under zVM 5.1. When I try to initiate an FTP of a 200 MB file, I almost immediately drop my qeth connection. I am running in a 5 GB virtual machine. If I drop down to a 2GB machine, it works ok. Below

RedHat Experience Presentations Anywhere?

2005-04-11 Thread Lee Stewart
(I didn't see any answers to this and now don't see my question in the archives, so here it is again in case it didn't make it before... Sorry if it's a dup...) Does anyone know of any real life experience presentations using Red Hat? I can find a few sales type presentations, but nothing with

Re: wheel group on SLES9 problem

2005-04-11 Thread NoëL AntoniO
Actually, although it's less secure, I wouldn't mind if a non-wheel user where able to su to a wheel-user, since they'd still need the passwords for both wheel-user and root. (Right now, I'll take whatever I can get ;-) lNoklL - Original Message - From: Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: /proc/sysinfo

2005-04-11 Thread Post, Mark K
According to the developerWorks web site, some time around 2.4.7. There's a bug fix dated 11/23/2001 that talks about the module that implements it being missing from the Makefile. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Troth

Re: QDIO Failure on FTP

2005-04-11 Thread Pieter Harder
Do you have VM63506 on your system. Your problem suspiciously sounds like that one. Best regards, Pieter Harder [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11-04-05 19:11 I'm running SLES8/64bit using k_deflt-2.4.21-251 and vsftpd-1.1.0-21 connected via VSWITCH

[PATCH] s390: drop redundant NULL pointer checks before kfree()

2005-04-11 Thread Jesper Juhl
(please keep me on CC when replying) Checking for NULL before calling kfree() on a pointer is redundant. This patch drops such checks from arch/s390/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- extmem.c |8 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -upr

Re: QDIO Failure on FTP

2005-04-11 Thread NoëL AntoniO
I've also run into problems with 2GB virtual memory on SLES8/64-bit. Unfortunately, I don't remember any details of this problem, as we've always capped our machines to 2GB since then. However, I don't remember them being related to vsftpd (not to say that it wasn't affected as well). lNoklL PS.

Re: RedHat Experience Presentations Anywhere?

2005-04-11 Thread Post, Mark K
The only one I'm aware of is this one: http://linuxvm.org/present/SHARE104/S9214mr.ppt Most of the ones to date have been for SUSE, but I don't know that you'll find much difference between the two. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: boot problem with Slack390

2005-04-11 Thread Post, Mark K
Greg, Of course, as far as I can throw you. :) I've added bootdisks/slack390.ins files to all the versions on the download servers. If someone would like to test, and inform me (offline) of success or failure, I would appreciate it. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390

Tape Library

2005-04-11 Thread Istvan Nemeth
Hi! We are planning to use our 3494 tape library (with 3590 drives) from Linux/390. It's a pity that IBM made only OCO drivers..and it doesn't supports media changing... so the library manager is going to be network attached (soon). Do I have to write standard IBM label on the tapes? Thanks: