Re: vmcpi command

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Carroll
FYI I don't see anywhere in the Redhat Init processing that it reads /etc/modules.conf or any variant of it /etc/rc,local is read and /etc/rc.modules is read both by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit Redhat recommends in the doc to add modprobe module to /etc/rc.modules (note you must create it first and

Intrusion Detection Solution for Suse SLES 10 on zLinux

2008-06-05 Thread Robert Giordano
I am looking for a software solution that is supported on zLinux SuSe SLES 10 SP1 for Intrusion Detection. Any thoughts is greatly appreciated! Regards, Bob Giordano System z IT Architect Office - 201 967-2688 TLN - 824-2688 Cell - 201 214-7466 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REXECD with ACF/2

2008-06-05 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 06/05/2008 at 01:55 EDT, Doug Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone setup and gotten REXECD to run successfully with ACF2? A far better question for the IBMVM listserver. I have the following in my DTCPARMS :ESM_Enabled. YES :ESM_Validate.ACFSAFA0 :ESM.Racroute.RPIDUMY

Re: Intrusion Detection Solution for Suse SLES 10 on zLinux

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Perry
Robert Giordano wrote: I am looking for a software solution that is supported on zLinux SuSe SLES 10 SP1 for Intrusion Detection. Any thoughts is greatly appreciated! I've not really tried it, but SNORT ships with SLES See http://www.snort.org mark

Re: REXECD with ACF/2

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Carroll
I seem to have problems posting messages to IBMVM, I can never see my own posts or replies to it. Gave up long ago trying to get it fixed. My mistake, typo in my email It is :ESM.Enable.YES in DTCPARMS I will look into the password phrase support but in the mean time this method isn't working

Re: Intrusion Detection Solution for Suse SLES 10 on zLinux

2008-06-05 Thread Marcy Cortes
I recently read in the SLES 10 SP 2 release notes that AIDE is replacing Tripwire in SLES. Not sure if that's the kind of tool you are looking for. http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or

question about at

2008-06-05 Thread LJ Mace
I need to reboot a linux server and instead of putting several commands in cron then removing from cron I'd like to just use the at command. The preoblem is, I need to do 3 things and a reboot needs to take place as the 2nd process. I've looked around the net but couldn't(didn't) fine the answer

Ignorance question about access list on a directory

2008-06-05 Thread McKown, John
I am constantly getting confused about the r and x access bits on a directory. Unless I am off again, the r bit allows me to sequentially read the contents of a directory (like reading a sequential text file, sort of). The x bit allows me to search a directory for a specific file name (like doing

Re: Ignorance question about access list on a directory

2008-06-05 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Thursday 05 June 2008 11:14, McKown, John wrote: I am constantly getting confused about the r and x access bits on a directory. Unless I am off again, the r bit allows me to sequentially read the contents of a directory (like reading a sequential text file, sort of). The x bit allows me to

Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Pat Carroll
Hi List, I'm trying to find the latest source RPM for the ur driver. The only one I can find is ur-0.4 (from the Large Scale Linux Deployment Redbook (2002)). Anyone have a link? Anyone installed it under RH4 or 5? TIA + Cheers Patrick Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r)

Re: REXECD with ACF/2

2008-06-05 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 06/05/2008 at 09:49 EDT, Doug Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have problems posting messages to IBMVM, I can never see my own posts or replies to it. Gave up long ago trying to get it fixed. My mistake, typo in my email It is :ESM.Enable.YES in DTCPARMS I will look

Software for managing Linux images

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Bulbeck
Hi Everybody, After being away from Linux on z/VM for a couple of years, our company is going to look at implementing this once again! The first question that I have is, what sort of products are available for managing the Linux images? This should include things like cloning new images,

Re: Ignorance question about access list on a directory

2008-06-05 Thread Fargusson.Alan
The x bit is not like a key read. The x bit allows you to access a file in the directory, or another directory under the directory. The term search is used in an unusual way, in that it does not mean to search for files in the directory. I know this is confusing, and in practice I have never

Re: Ignorance question about access list on a directory

2008-06-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edmund R. MacKenty Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:30 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Ignorance question about access list on a directory [snip] You're close, but just a bit off. :-)

Re: Software for managing Linux images

2008-06-05 Thread Huegel, Thomas
Here's one. Provisioning Expert for Linux on zSeries - Version 1.4 from Mainstar IBM also has one, I can't remember the name. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Bulbeck Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:41 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pat Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I'm trying to find the latest source RPM for the ur driver. The only one I can find is ur-0.4 (from the Large Scale Linux Deployment Redbook (2002)). Anyone have a link? Anyone

Re: Ignorance question about access list on a directory

2008-06-05 Thread Fargusson.Alan
You got it backwards. See how confusing this is? $ ls -ld x dr-x-- 2 f4185 users 4096 Jun 5 08:41 x $ ls x data $ cat x/data Thu Jun 5 08:41:36 PDT 2008 $ chmod 400 x $ ls -ld x dr 2 f4185 users 4096 Jun 5 08:41 x $ ls x data $ cat x/data cat: x/data: Permission denied $ chmod 100

Re: Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Pat Carroll
HI Mark, Thanks for the reply. I've found those links but can't get it to build on 2.6.9 (RH4.4). It's not yet included in a stock RH dist. I'm trying to (somewhat) automate the processing of VMDUMPs (if we ever have any ;)), and it would be convenient to have the ur driver around for that

Re: question about at

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:57 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], LJ Mace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to reboot a linux server and instead of putting several commands in cron then removing from cron I'd like to just use the at command. The preoblem is, I need to do 3 things and a reboot

Re: Software for managing Linux images

2008-06-05 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 06/05/2008 at 11:47 EDT, Huegel, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's one. Provisioning Expert for Linux on zSeries - Version 1.4 from Mainstar IBM also has one, I can't remember the name. o IBM Director with the z/VM Center feature o IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) Alan

How to communicate to a Linux guest who is in run level 1 ?

2008-06-05 Thread Bernard Wu
Hi List, I have a Linux guest that I have put into run level 1. Now I want to bring the guest back to run level 3, but the network is unavailable. Rather than signon to a 3270 session and issue init 3, can I communicate from another VM guest to this Linux guest to put it back into run-level 3 (

Re: Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Perry
Mark Post wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pat Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, I'm trying to find the latest source RPM for the ur driver. The only one I can find is ur-0.4 (from the Large Scale Linux Deployment Redbook (2002)). Anyone have a

Re: Software for managing Linux images

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:41 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Doug Bulbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everybody, After being away from Linux on z/VM for a couple of years, our company is going to look at implementing this once again! The first question that I have is, what sort of

Re: Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:31 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- The vmur(.ko) is also included in RHEL 5.2 How about the userspace tool(s)? Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Re: Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Perry
Mark Post wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:31 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- The vmur(.ko) is also included in RHEL 5.2 How about the userspace tool(s)? look like it: ihlscob0:~ # rpm -qilp

Re: Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Pat Carroll
The user space tools are there, but the driver (unless I'm missing something) is not. Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: question about at

2008-06-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:54 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: question about at On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:57 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], LJ Mace [EMAIL

Re: Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Perry
Pat Carroll wrote: The user space tools are there, but the driver (unless I'm missing something) is not. Oh its there: ihlscob0:~ # rpm -qilp /mnt/rhel52/Server/kernel-2.6.18-92.el5.s390x.rpm|grep vmur warning: /mnt/rhel52/Server/kernel-2.6.18-92.el5.s390x.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,

Re: How to communicate to a Linux guest who is in run level 1 ?

2008-06-05 Thread Bernard Wu
Thanks Mark, But I'm a newbie to VM so, what is SECUSER and where is it set ? Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Sent by: Linux on LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU 390 Port

Re: Unit record device driver

2008-06-05 Thread Pat Carroll
Hmmm...yep...I was looking for ur.o (IIRC that's the output of make ur-0.4). Thanks Mark Patrick Carroll | Enterprise Architect L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) | Double L St. | Freeport ME 04033 http://www.llbean.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 207.552.2426 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: question about at

2008-06-05 Thread David Boyes
If you need to do these tasks more than once: Write each step as a separate script that tests for the presence of a file in a known location (that your distribution doesn't clear on reboot)(eg, if ![ -f /var/pid/step1] do your step and create /var/pid/step1 at the successful end of the step,

Re: How to communicate to a Linux guest who is in run level 1 ?

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:49 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bernard Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mark, But I'm a newbie to VM so, what is SECUSER and where is it set ? Bernard, I could try to explain, but I'm far more likely to get it wrong than completely correct. I know there's

Re: Ignorance question about access list on a directory

2008-06-05 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Thursday 05 June 2008 11:45, Fargusson.Alan wrote: You got it backwards. See how confusing this is? $ ls -ld x dr-x-- 2 f4185 users 4096 Jun 5 08:41 x $ ls x data $ cat x/data Thu Jun 5 08:41:36 PDT 2008 $ chmod 400 x $ ls -ld x dr 2 f4185 users 4096 Jun 5 08:41 x $ ls x data $

Re: question about at

2008-06-05 Thread LJ Mace
Thank you to all that replied. Mace --- On Thu, 6/5/08, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: question about at To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 12:54 PM If you need to do these tasks more than once: Write each step

Rsync

2008-06-05 Thread Diego Sales Gimenez
Hi, the rsync command can copy file from the remote server, but what if we have servers are in clusterd ( 2 servers ) where we are running rsync command from.. how it is going to put the file on both servers in a clustered environment? Thanks, Diego Sales Gimenez Mainframe Support -

Re: Ignorance question about access list on a directory

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:28 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Edmund R. MacKenty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- So you would use the 'r' bit to allow the directory to be listed but prevent access to files within it. Or the 'x' bit to make files that can be accessed only if you already

Re: Rsync

2008-06-05 Thread David Boyes
the rsync command can copy file from the remote server, but what if we have servers are in clusterd ( 2 servers ) where we are running rsync command from.. how it is going to put the file on both servers in a clustered environment? You either run the rsync multiple times to transfer to each

Learn something new every day

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Post
I just did about SLES10 SP2 (and perhaps prior) for System z. It turns out that if you have a properly crafted AutoYaST install file (autoinst.xml), and your kernel parmfile has all the required network information, install server information, and pointer to autoinst.xml, AND you say you want

Re: Rsync

2008-06-05 Thread Diego Sales Gimenez
Do you know if csync2 is available for linux-390? David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU 05/06/2008 16:10 Please respond to Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: Rsync the rsync command can copy

Re: Rsync

2008-06-05 Thread David Boyes
Do you know if csync2 is available for linux-390? I downloaded the source tarball and it built on SLES 10 SP2 and Debian/390 without errors. As the man page says, reading the docs is a prereq to using it, so I don't know if it runs correctly, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work if

Re: How to communicate to a Linux guest who is in run level 1 ?

2008-06-05 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 06/05/2008 at 12:51 EDT, Bernard Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I'm a newbie to VM so, what is SECUSER and where is it set ? If you want to do it dynamically, SET SECUSER. If you want to be in effect when the guest logs on, then either specify a secuser on the CONSOLE statement or

Re: Learn something new every day

2008-06-05 Thread Scott Rohling
Sounds just like RH kickstart :-) Sent from my iPhone On Jun 5, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did about SLES10 SP2 (and perhaps prior) for System z. It turns out that if you have a properly crafted AutoYaST install file (autoinst.xml), and your kernel parmfile

Remove a qeth device

2008-06-05 Thread Bhemidhi, Ashwin
We have 2 qeth network devices defined in our development Linux guest machines. drwxr-xr-x 6 root root0 Jun 5 16:11 0.0.0600 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root0 Jun 5 16:11 0.0.0700 0600 comes up as eth0 0700 comes up as eth1 The reason for such a setup was to be able to SSH into the guest Linux

Re: Remove a qeth device

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Post
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:53 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bhemidhi, Ashwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- We now have completed our development/testing and would like to remove qeth device 0.0.0600 from the Linux guest devices definitions and so that qeth device 0.0.0700 come up as

Re: Remove a qeth device

2008-06-05 Thread Bhemidhi, Ashwin
We are running Redhat Linux 2.6.18-1.2747.el kernel. So if I understand it correctly if the NICDEF statement for the 0600 qeth device in the zVM configuration file for the guest is removed then the corresponding interface will not come up it Linux sys file system and 0700 will be the only network

Re: Remove a qeth device

2008-06-05 Thread Doug Carroll
Remove the NICDEF of the NIC you no longer require from the USER DIRECTORY update the ifcfg-ethx files as needed Here's what I do From the Servers Console service network stop vmcp DET NIC VDEV mv /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 $HOME mv /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

New Version of AutoYaST Generator Script

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Post
All, An updated version of the bash script that will generate an AutoYaST file for a more-than minimal installation has been added to the Patches page. This version is for SLES10 Service Pack 2. Note that more than minimal is not overstating things. A good number of packages that really