Re: Root file system on ramdisk

2007-03-08 Thread Richard Troth
Or maybe root on a read-only disk? -- R; -- 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/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-39

Re: Root file system on ramdisk

2007-03-08 Thread Richard Troth
Yeah ... like this. (I should read all followups before posting!) -- R; - Original Message - From: "Romanowski, John (OFT)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03/07/2007 11:05 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Root file system on ramdisk I've built our SLES9 rescue system as a read-onl

Re: How does swap space work ?

2007-03-08 Thread Carsten Otte
Bernard Wu wrote: > Thats exactly my point. The high priority swap target is not full, > not even half full, yet the lower priority swap file gets used. It was full when the swap slots have been assigned. That does not mean it has to be full still at the time you looked at it. -- Carsten Otte has

Re: How does swap space work ?

2007-03-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 3/8/07, Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It was full when the swap slots have been assigned. That does not mean it has to be full still at the time you looked at it. And for what we want to achieve, it means your first swap disk overflowed and you probably need to make that bigger. B

Re: More Presentations from SHARE 108

2007-03-08 Thread Phil Smith III
Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, re PDFs only working if saved locally: >Yeah, I see the same behavior. Not sure what might be causing that. I'm sure -- it's because Acrobat is good technology but a lousy product. A crying shame. ...phsiii -

Re: Betr.: Re: How does swap space work ?

2007-03-08 Thread Clovis Pereira
Tom: For the variables, try (on the begining of the exec, this work for a similar exec I use): // numeric digits 12 About the control blocks, many are mapped into MACLIBs. One example (one of them): try "MACLIST HCPGPI"... __

Re: Root file system on ramdisk

2007-03-08 Thread James Melin
I'd be very interested in seeing what you did to accomplish that, myself. -J "Romanowski, John (OFT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port

Re: SLES 9 SP 3 - Oracle 9i install problem

2007-03-08 Thread Brad Hinson
(resending, seems to have been lost..) I agree, this is an ugly workaround. fwiw, this only affects the JVM used by the installer; after install you'll be using your external (stable) JVM. Oracle really needs to update their installer JVM. I bounced this around, but given the lifecycle of 9i co

Re: More Presentations from SHARE 108

2007-03-08 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 07:49 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > I'm sure -- it's because Acrobat is good technology but a lousy product. Evince works for me. I don't even have acroread installed. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Root file system on ramdisk

2007-03-08 Thread Romanowski, John (OFT)
Jim, I've emailed you the Bash script (it's only my 2nd Bash script so be nice ;) The script needs a SLES9 31- or 64-bit (it handles either) to run on and an output ECKD mdisk at address 0.0.ded1; ded1 doesn't have to be online or formatted, the script handles all that; ded1 mdisk has to be larg

Re: Root file system on ramdisk

2007-03-08 Thread James Melin
Thank you for sharing. I'll look for it to wander in to our mail server shortly. And I susepct your code is not as ugly as my code. I still have cobol damage. "Romanowski, John (OFT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Root file system on ramdisk

2007-03-08 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2007 at 5:32 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah ... like this. (I should read all followups before posting!) You are far from the worst offender in that regard. Mark Post ---

Re: Problem shutting down Linux under VM

2007-03-08 Thread LJ Mace
Thank you for the info. The presentation doesn't fit I'm missing the first and last few letters/words on every page,but I digress. I added the 2 parms and now the -h option works great the problem I still have is with the -r option. Is there a fix for that? thanks Mace --- Susan Zimmerman <[EMAIL

Re: Root file system on ramdisk

2007-03-08 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2007 at 12:16 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Romanowski, John (OFT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim, > I've emailed you the Bash script (it's only my 2nd Bash script so be > nice ;) If you're willing to have it on linuxvm.org, send it to me also. Mark Post -

Re: Problem shutting down Linux under VM

2007-03-08 Thread Rich Smrcina
XAUTOLOG. LJ Mace wrote: Thank you for the info. The presentation doesn't fit I'm missing the first and last few letters/words on every page,but I digress. I added the 2 parms and now the -h option works great the problem I still have is with the -r option. Is there a fix for that? thanks Mace -

Re: Problem shutting down Linux under VM

2007-03-08 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On Thursday 08 March 2007 20:52, LJ Mace wrote: > Thank you for the info. The presentation doesn't fit > I'm missing the first and last few letters/words on > every page,but I digress. > I added the 2 parms and now the -h option works great > the problem I still have is with the -r option. Is > the

Re: Root file system on ramdisk

2007-03-08 Thread Romanowski, John (OFT)
I haven't had the time to write it up for linuxvm.org; I don't have a general-use document to explain the rescue system and it's associated identity export/import feature; I have an in-house document that is enough for someone to use the rescue system and features at our site.

What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Warren Taylor
Is there anywhere that describes exactly what you get with vnc? -- 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/ht

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Richard Troth
www.realvnc.com -- R; - Original Message - From: Warren Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03/08/2007 05:07 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: What is vnc Is there anywhere that describes exactly what you get with vnc? -

Three More SHARE108 Presentations

2007-03-08 Thread Mark Post
Christian Bornträger has contributed the three sessions he gave at SHARE in Tampa. I've uploaded them to the web site. 9256 Christian Bornträger IBM's Migration Kit for Solaris OS to Linux 9259 Christian Bornträger Making Your Penguins Fly: Introduction to SCSI over FCP for Linux on Syste

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Warren Taylor
and how can this be applied to Linux running on VM? There is no desktop on VM? - Original Message From: Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2007 2:14:36 PM Subject: Re: What is vnc www.realvnc.com -- R; - Original Message -

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2007 at 5:35 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warren Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and how can this be applied to Linux running on VM? There is no desktop on > VM? Correct. You would use VNC to connect to a graphical desktop environment on a Linux guest. Typically

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Warren Taylor
For my RHEL4 on a VM guest, all I can see is using emacs through putty to do our editing. (we are a heavy editing environment). I have managed to used gedit from a linux desktop but that was somewhat painful and now refuses to work at all (but I don't really miss its instability). Am I stuck wit

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 3/8/07, Warren Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and how can this be applied to Linux running on VM? There is no desktop on VM? While seriously old stuff, this one might explain various aspects of it. http://www.rvdheij.nl/Presentations/2001-L42.pdf

Re: Shell Script with FTP

2007-03-08 Thread John Summerfield
Tracy, David wrote: Hello, Does anyone have a copy of a Shell Script with some FTP commands in it that they can share? FTP from UNIX to VM/CMS ID. Thanks in advance ...Dave Some time ago, when I used OS/2 as my chosen OS, I found it necessary to transfer files between Windows NT a

Re: Help with Virtual IP's.

2007-03-08 Thread Moeur Tim C
To anyone in the midst of composing a reply, thank you, but I've figured out the solution. To those following this thread the solution lies in a command: qethconf vipa add vipaaddress device I ran the command and now my vipa address is pingable every where. Tim I'm setting

Re: Help with Virtual IP's.

2007-03-08 Thread John Summerfield
Moeur Tim C wrote: I'm setting up VIPA's, zebra, quagga, and ospfd under my Redhat AS 4 zLinux running under VM 5.2 It nearly works, but not quite and I'm hoping to get some insight from this list group. I have an environment with two OSA's into a single Vswitch. On the zlinux machine I have

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 3/8/07, Warren Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For my RHEL4 on a VM guest, all I can see is using emacs through putty to do our editing. (we are a heavy editing environment). I have managed to used gedit from a linux desktop but that was somewhat painful and now refuses to work at all (b

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread John Summerfield
Warren Taylor wrote: For my RHEL4 on a VM guest, all I can see is using emacs through putty to do our editing. (we are a heavy editing environment). I have managed to used gedit from a linux desktop but that was somewhat painful and now refuses to work at all (but I don't really miss its insta

Re: Root file system on ramdisk

2007-03-08 Thread John Summerfield
Thomas Kern wrote: I cannot say if anyone has done it nor that it should be done for a production workload, but I would like to see a 'recovery' system packaged in an NSS so that I can quickly IPL a known system from within a broken instance, fix the broken stuff and then IPL the fixed system. Mu

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread David Boyes
Vnc provides a method of remotely accessing a X11-based GUI remotely by means of a simplified (and less bandwidth-hungry) network protocol and a OS-independent client *as if one was directly interacting with the X desktop*. This is important for VM in several ways: 1) Most (if not all) IBM main

Re: vnc on RHEL4

2007-03-08 Thread John Summerfield
Gregg C Levine wrote: To change things as you're interested in doing would require a major rewrite of the code behind it, and to be honest I am not even sure it would be possible. Now if I have made any mistakes in my assertions there, please feel free to offer corrections. Usual prizes are av

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 3/9/07, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3) It removes a 'different' aspect of Linux on the mainframe. Since the current generation of Linux admins seem incapable of coping without a GUI, vnc allows mainframe and non-mainframe systems to appear exactly the same. It has more to do wi

Re: Help with Virtual IP's.

2007-03-08 Thread David Kreuter
good news. But I have a question for you: if you are using two OSA cards in the same vswitch, they are on the same network. Do the osa cards plug into the same physical switch or bridged switches? Unless you are planning a second vswitch on a different network, I'm not sure what the vipa is ga

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2007 at 5:57 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warren Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For my RHEL4 on a VM guest, all I can see is using emacs through putty to do > our editing. (we are a heavy editing environment). I have managed to used > gedit from a linux desktop bu

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Warren Taylor
due to the uniqueness of our work, an IDE is probably not worth the expenditure and if I hear one more reference to vi I"m going to croak. These editors are far too weak to be considered for any type of serious work. even emacs is too weak to accomplish the task. we have a small number of users

Re: Help with Virtual IP's.

2007-03-08 Thread Marcy Cortes
Don't know what Tim is up to, but perhaps he'd like to take over that virtual IP at another location, say disaster recovery site. Marcy Cortes "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you

Re: Problem shutting down Linux under VM

2007-03-08 Thread LJ Mace
The server gets the kill signal and stops but never reboots . thanks Mace --- Christian Borntraeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2007 20:52, LJ Mace wrote: > > Thank you for the info. The presentation doesn't > fit > > I'm missing the first and last few letters/words > on > >

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2007 at 8:17 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warren Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > due to the uniqueness of our work, an IDE is probably not worth the > expenditure and if I hear one more reference to vi I"m going to croak. These > editors are far too weak to be cons

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Warren Taylor
I'll rephrase that into 'any serious editing' - Original Message From: Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2007 6:02:16 PM Subject: Re: What is vnc >>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2007 at 8:17 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warren Taylor <[EMAIL

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread John Summerfield
John Summerfield wrote: Warren Taylor wrote: For my RHEL4 on a VM guest, all I can see is using emacs through putty to do our editing. (we are a heavy editing environment). I have managed to used gedit from a linux desktop but that was somewhat painful and now refuses to work at all (but I don't

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Warren Taylor wrote: due to the uniqueness of our work, an IDE is probably not worth the expenditure and if I hear one more reference to vi I"m going to croak. These editors are far too weak to be considered for any type of serious work. even emacs is too weak to acco

Re: Problem shutting down Linux under VM

2007-03-08 Thread Vic Cross
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 17:38 -0800, LJ Mace wrote: > The server gets the kill signal and stops but never > reboots . I see this issue in the following circumstances: * z/VM up to (including) 5.1 * 64-bit Linux (SLES 9 in my case) * more than one virtual CPU "shutdown -r" finishes, a CP message a

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Warren Taylor
It seems I've struck a nerve with my frustration using the native linux editors. I guess I'll rephrase and just say that the best alternative I have found is to ftp to the linux workstation and gedit the file, then ftp it back. It gives me the ability to manipulate large files with ease. Others

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread John Summerfield
Warren Taylor wrote: It seems I've struck a nerve with my frustration using the native linux editors. I guess I'll rephrase and just say that the best alternative I have found is to ftp to the linux workstation and gedit the file, then ftp it back. It gives me the ability to manipulate large f

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Warren Taylor wrote: It seems I've struck a nerve with my frustration using the native linux editors. No, it's more that you've struck a nerve by wildly inaccurately denouncing emacs and vi as "weaker" than gedit. Less immediately accessible, sure. Less pretty in

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-08 Thread John Summerfield
Adam Thornton wrote: On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:47 PM, Warren Taylor wrote: But these are just things we'd expect any reasonably-competent editor to be able to do. Now, let's look at some of the lesser-explored corners of Emacs: Does gedit support psychoanalysis of Zippy the Pinhead? Of course i