Re: Advice on zLinux for a systems-administrator from the x86 world

2009-02-10 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 2/9/2009 at 7:04 AM, Erling Ringen Elvsrud wrote: > Hello list, > > I work as a Linux systems administrator. Currently we have about > 200 virtual (vmWare) and 40 physical linux servers. Most of these > servers are used > for WAS (Websphere appserver), a few for WPS (Websphere process se

Re: Nawk for SLES10 ???

2009-02-10 Thread David Boyes
On 2/10/09 6:50 PM, "John Summerfield" wrote: > The same description also says, "mawk is a new awk." Mawk omits some of the classic awk syntax "features", most of which are better off gone, but you may find some differences with really ancient awk scripts (or awk programmers).

Re: Nawk for SLES10 ???

2009-02-10 Thread John Summerfield
Tim Pinkawa wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:12 PM, John Summerfield wrote: and then Debian uses mawk which "is smaller and much faster than gawk." Interestingly, nawk is symlinked to mawk by default on Debian-based systems. The same description also says, "mawk is a new awk." $ readlink

Re: Nawk for SLES10 ???

2009-02-10 Thread Tim Pinkawa
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:12 PM, John Summerfield wrote: > and then Debian uses mawk which "is smaller and much faster than gawk." Interestingly, nawk is symlinked to mawk by default on Debian-based systems. $ readlink /usr/bin/nawk /etc/alternatives/nawk $ readlink /etc/alternatives/nawk /usr/b

Re: RHEL 5.2 Native LPAR install problem: Anaconda reports rpm 'corruption' error when attempting to install first package

2009-02-10 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 2/10/2009 at 1:10 AM, bruce woodley wrote: -snip- > (The Suse SLES10 SP1/SP2 install failed because of mismatch between the > TAPEIPL modules and the memory resident INITRD file system. I guess no one > at Suse/Novell thought anyone would install via a TAPEIPL in an native LPAR, > so did

Re: Enterprise LDAP authentication

2009-02-10 Thread John Summerfield
Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: We have a new client requesting to use the enterprise ldap server (running on a windows box I think). First reading indicates I can run an ldap server on a zlinux machine and point it to the enterprise ldap server for authentication. I found the Redhat rpms.

Re: Nawk for SLES10 ???

2009-02-10 Thread John Summerfield
David Boyes wrote: Gawk should be functionally compatible with nawk. Awk was in version 7 Unix -- it's a K&P thing, I think. Nawk appeared with System V from ATT-land. Gawk is the GNU tooling and combines most of the function of both (It's a superset of both awk and nawk). and then Debian use

Re: Nawk for SLES10 ???

2009-02-10 Thread David Boyes
Gawk should be functionally compatible with nawk. Awk was in version 7 Unix -- it's a K&P thing, I think. Nawk appeared with System V from ATT-land. Gawk is the GNU tooling and combines most of the function of both (It's a superset of both awk and nawk). On 2/10/09 2:39 PM, "Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)

Re: Nawk for SLES10 ???

2009-02-10 Thread Adam Thornton
On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Andrej wrote: 2009/2/11 Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) : We have customers in the process of porting an application from Solaris to SLES10 on zseries. They have a korn shell script which includes the following: export DOMAIN_NAME=`echo $1 | nawk '{print tolower($1)}'` The c

Re: Nawk for SLES10 ???

2009-02-10 Thread Andrej
2009/2/11 Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) : > We have customers in the process of porting an application from Solaris > to SLES10 on zseries. > They have a korn shell script which includes the following: > export DOMAIN_NAME=`echo $1 | nawk '{print tolower($1)}'` The command is tolower is supported by gawk -

Re: Nawk for SLES10 ???

2009-02-10 Thread Adam Thornton
On Feb 10, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) wrote: We have customers in the process of porting an application from Solaris to SLES10 on zseries. They have a korn shell script which includes the following: export DOMAIN_NAME=`echo $1 | nawk '{print tolower($1)}'` Is there a 'nawk' for linu

Nawk for SLES10 ???

2009-02-10 Thread Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
We have customers in the process of porting an application from Solaris to SLES10 on zseries. They have a korn shell script which includes the following: export DOMAIN_NAME=`echo $1 | nawk '{print tolower($1)}'` Is there a 'nawk' for linux ? I see that nawk means 'new awk' but I am not familiar wi

Enterprise LDAP authentication

2009-02-10 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
We have a new client requesting to use the enterprise ldap server (running on a windows box I think). First reading indicates I can run an ldap server on a zlinux machine and point it to the enterprise ldap server for authentication. I found the Redhat rpms. Anybody know any gotchas or recommen

Re: RHEL 5.2 Native LPAR install problem: Anaconda reports rpm 'corruption' error when attempting to install first package

2009-02-10 Thread Brad Hinson
rapp0...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Jax! That was quick - I was anticipating a turn-around time of 24 hours or so! I believe that we did find this rpm directory on the DVD, (along with many others), but we were not able to rpm -V it because we do not have any linux (of any distro on any platform)

Re: Shadow file systems or?

2009-02-10 Thread John Summerfield
Ian S. Worthington wrote: Hi -- I have a product to build the source of which lives in an svn repository on a remote system. To make life interesting the product build writes files back into the same tree the source lives in. I have previously built this product by copying the tree from the sv

Re: RHEL 5.2 Native LPAR install problem: Anaconda reports rpm 'corruption' error when attempting to install first package

2009-02-10 Thread John Summerfield
bruce woodley wrote: I am a newbie to Linux on z, but I have been given the go-ahead to install a linux on z system subject to the constraints: I thought you were making fine music! 1) I keep it quiet to avoid offending our Solaris admins 2) do not invite fee-charging external consultants 3)

Shadow file systems or?

2009-02-10 Thread Ian S. Worthington
Hi -- I have a product to build the source of which lives in an svn repository on a remote system. To make life interesting the product build writes files back into the same tree the source lives in. I have previously built this product by copying the tree from the svn repository over to linux a