Re: A bit more momentum

2003-01-28 Thread Alan
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 09:23, John Summerfield wrote: > As I understand it, Linux, Alan and a few others are here in Perth just now. > Linus ITYM 8) And yes we had a very good technical event in Australia (LCA2003) while the press were all looking the other way. They missed Linus (in a p

Re: CMSDDR-format Linux files. Was: SLES10 Install kernel panic

2006-11-29 Thread Alan
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:34:11 -0500 Rick Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CMS FS (driver) broke after Linux 2.4.19 (utility is fine). > With CMS FS, you could have one or more Linux EXT2FS or ISO > filesystems on a CMS minidisk, mount the minidisk and then mount > the other filesystems via "loo

Re: Best Practices for zSeries linux ISVs?

2006-12-04 Thread Alan
> I regularly describe Fedora Core as a rolling beta (and yes, I do use > it), and reckon that if anyone uses it for serious work they better know > what they're letting themselves in for. Fedora isn't a rolling beta by any means. It's a distribution proper and has betas and finals for each releas

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

2006-12-08 Thread Alan
n't try and do anything hard. Alan -- 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-390

Re: WorldVista on z/Linux -- unexecutable

2007-01-11 Thread Alan
as a few minutes ago, that doesn't > say much. I've rebuilt at least one open source mumps interpreter for S/390 without problems. A compiler isn't fun to port but I've yet to see anything but interpreters Alan -

Re: 1 480 MIP IFL CPU = ?

2007-02-01 Thread Alan
lling. That can significantly impact CPU availability and since its often time bound a faster processor simply does more waits, not more work. Alan -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email t

Re: The quantum computer comes of age

2007-02-07 Thread Alan
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:03:44 -0500 "Evans, Kevin R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like one of your bogometers (I could use one here). Do you sell > them? I can't recommend bogometers, mine exploded when I accidentally left it near

Re: Slightly OT: MP-3000 wanted, maybe

2007-02-20 Thread Alan
pproved fans, ECC memory, and two SCSI controllers driving RAID5 arrays in hotswap chassis. The case is a proper server case with extra temperature controlled fans. The whole thing is on a large UPS. You get what you pay for (sometimes) Alan ---

Re: Slightly OT: MP-3000 wanted, maybe

2007-02-20 Thread Alan
Hercules, and hercules chrooted to a nobody user in a chroot dir containing only the hercules environment and support files. Pass the handle of the tunnel device in as a file descriptor with a hack and off you go. Been there done that 8) Alan --

Re: full screen editor and SSH

2007-02-20 Thread Alan
> It will also suck modem bandwidth like you don't want to believe. I > sometimes run an X desktop or a Windows XP desktop through a modem, and > you really don't want pretty graphical backgrounds or 1600x1200 screens. X is often bounded by latency over a modem which means the more compression awa

Re: Perceptions of zLinux

2007-02-23 Thread Alan
re is no free memory or swap picks what process(es) to kill off and keep the box running. Alan -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or

Re: Linux OOM

2007-02-24 Thread Alan
> the machine was virtually useless. So I've always keep swap large > enough that OOM doesn't get evoked, that is unless I'm the one causing > the weird strange behavior. You can tune what gets targetted first with a modern Linux but little supports using this feature, or you can also turn it of

Re: Linux OOM

2007-02-24 Thread Alan
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:29:32 -0500 Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Cox spake: > > ... > > you can also turn it off and > > do zero overcommit policies. > > Tell me more! > Specifically, is there a particular sysctl for zero overcommit? On Red

Re: Mount one Linux root file system on another Linux server

2007-02-26 Thread Alan
art of a volume then as AlanF says using alternate superblocks might help if your fs supports them. You may also find that "dmesg" provides much useful diagnostic information from the mount failure and that this will help

Re: redhat rel 4 add programs

2007-02-26 Thread Alan
> ??. This is a bit of a problem as redhat don't have a CD drive. Is there a > way I can tell to get file from FTP or Redhat Network ? up2date -i Alan -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instruc

Re: IBM BookManager

2004-05-17 Thread Alan Altmark
t just make sure you don't stop shipping format." Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the me

Re: IBM BookManager

2004-05-17 Thread Alan Altmark
of producing BOOK files exceeds the value, rest assured we'll quit. (Someday PDF will be the second-class citizen and our decendents will be having the same discussion.) Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development

Re: NFS Help - RHEL3 Linux client, VM server

2004-05-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2004-05-14 at 10:28, Alan Altmark wrote: > PCNFS is really the best way to do it, if there's a PCNFS client available > for Linux. There are servers and I've seen a test client. pcnfs always struck me as horribly

Re: NFS Help - RHEL3 Linux client, VM server

2004-05-17 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 05/17/2004 at 06:57 CET, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Gwe, 2004-05-14 at 10:28, Alan Altmark wrote: > > PCNFS is really the best way to do it, if there's a PCNFS client available > > for Linux. > > There are servers and I've seen a t

Re: lcs devices under gentoo for s390

2004-05-18 Thread Alan Altmark
ut together. But it appears things have > changed for kernel-2.6.5. And I don't have any S390 documentation for this > level of the kernel. The 2.6 doc is in Developerworks in the April 2004 stream section: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/docu/lx2

Re: This newbie is getting there with SLES8 but...

2004-05-18 Thread Alan Altmark
also don't run VM's Portmapper; but again, should that be an issue? Shouldn't > it just route the traffic through? VM TCP/IP just routes the traffic. If you can PING the Linux system from the outside, then all is well with VM TCP/IP. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Dev

Re: Anyone what to sell me SuSE Linux for s/390?

2004-05-20 Thread Alan Altmark
the services. This is the price of "free software". It's "free" as in "free speech", not as in "free beer". And it is the hidden cost of maintaining your own kernel. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development --

Re: Anyone what to sell me SuSE Linux for s/390?

2004-05-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2004-05-20 at 13:33, David Heilman wrote: > I agree with you. But, my point is that if I can not buy the product without jumping > through hoops, > why should I think that I'll get good services if and when I get it. As far as > getting the updates > and not support, why not just buy a ne

Re: FW: VM TCPIP (A Little Off Topic)

2004-05-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 05/21/2004 at 11:54 AST, Miguel Diaz/Endicott/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The SYSTEM CONFIG file is the better place to grant access. Until, of course, you get z/VM 5.1. Then you'll use your ESM (e.g. RACF) to grant access!! Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Dev

Re: FW: VM TCPIP (A Little Off Topic)

2004-05-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 05/21/2004 at 01:56 EST, James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At what point did it become optional to specify a port name? Since October 1, 2003. See my post at http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-390.41397 (Also posted to VMESA-L the same day.) Alan Altmark Sr.

Re: Linux Restart

2004-05-21 Thread Alan Altmark
ifconfig ctc0 192.168.20.6 pointopoint 192.168.20.8 mtu route add default gw 192.168.20.8 Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Linux Benchmark

2004-05-23 Thread Alan Cox
Any vaguely modern x86 is using bus mastering DMA and has been for years. Similarly any higher end box tends to have good hardware assisted I/O subsystems. The limits tend to be the I/O devices and the busses on most platforms PCI bus is reaching the upper limit of its useful life, and only expens

Re: I've found Darl McBride's Smoking Gun!

2004-05-25 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 05/25/2004 at 02:15 EST, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 14:07, Post, Mark K wrote: > > Yeah, but did you notice the poster to the right of the "jail?" That smells > > of alien influence to me. > > I notice that you have produced a derivative of my idea

Re: Initial LPAR install zSeries

2004-05-26 Thread Alan Altmark
ill probably be a README file on the Linux CD that gives more details on what to do from this point for your particular distribution. -- Posted by: Alan Altmark Sr. Software

Re: End of 3745 need?

2004-05-26 Thread Alan Altmark
move your OS/2 SNA or MS-SNA apps Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: Initial LPAR install zSeries

2004-05-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 05/27/2004 at 09:57ZE10, Vic Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan, Steve is only partially correct with this. Yes, you can use the > "Load from CD-ROM or Server" function on the HMC to start the installation > system in the LPAR. Once started in this w

Re: SuSE vs Red Hat

2004-05-27 Thread Alan Altmark
n the choice is entirely yours. And don't let anyone convince you that any of the above is "free". It isn't. TANSTAAFL. There ain't no such thing as a free Linux. (Apologies to Mr. Heinlein, his heirs,

Re: Attempting to get hipersockets configured in Linux - point to point working!

2004-05-27 Thread Alan Altmark
and then off the wire consumes more resource that the actual transmission, so the transmission medium speed is not a big element in the equation. The fewer times you turn the crank, the more important it becomes. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development --

Re: Crypto on z800

2004-05-27 Thread Alan Altmark
re error" and we don't publish what all those codes mean, you should feel free to open a hardware PMR. Let the IBM support structure work for you. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-39

Re: Did some extensive hipersocket testing/benchmarking.... need help interpreting results.

2004-05-28 Thread Alan Altmark
OS and an ram disk under Linux. Thought it might be I/O > related. Helped a little, but still not where it should be. Ummm...you have to have the same MTU on both sides. Make sure you have MFS (OS= in IOCDS) at 64K. Alan Altmark Sr. Softw

Re: Did some extensive hipersocket testing/benchmarking.... need help interpreting results.

2004-05-28 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 05/28/2004 at 03:19 EST, "Lucius, Leland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can live with that. What is the theoritical maximum for a > hipersocket? It's a function of microcode. The faster the processor, the faster it runs. Theoretically, of course. Alan Al

Re: Did some extensive hipersocket testing/benchmarking.... need help interpreting results.

2004-06-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2004-05-28 at 18:13, Lucius, Leland wrote: > Yepper, it does. I'm currently running with a 56KB MTU (on z/OS side) and have > tried lower. Never could get the FTP up very high. I even transferred files > between a TFS under z/OS and an ram disk under Linux. Thought it might be I/O >

Re: Did some extensive hipersocket testing/benchmarking.... need help interpreting results.

2004-06-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2004-05-28 at 20:04, James Tison wrote: > FTP is a __TERRIBLE__ benchmark. Remember that besides network > bandwidth, other factors that might introduce latency are things > like OS scheduling delays/timeslicing on both client and server > ends, disk I/O delays on both ends, etc; _not_to_me

Re: Did some extensive hipersocket testing/benchmarking.... need help interpreting results.

2004-06-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2004-05-28 at 20:43, Janek Jakubek wrote: > We had a TCPIP performance issue when we upgraded from > OS/390 2.7 to 2.10. The conclusion of that the problem is attached > below (from an IBM ETR record). > This could be another lead to follow Except that the problem occurs with an 8K MT

Re: Did some extensive hipersocket testing/benchmarking.... need help interpreting results.

2004-06-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2004-06-03 at 22:26, Lucius, Leland wrote: > Well, I can set the default TCP buffer size to different values for the z/OS > stack and we have it set to 65535, so I'd say it's on the largish size. > But, I don't know if the FTP server issues a setsockopt() to set a different > value or not.

Re: Linux Consoles?

2004-06-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-06-02 at 18:31, McKown, John wrote: > I don't understand why remote logging would slow down an application. > That is likely due to my ignorance. I thought that the app used the > syslog() calls to send the information to the resident syslogd. The > resident syslogd would then "do what

Re: VSWITCH router

2004-06-04 Thread Alan Altmark
was reachable through your virtual router? (The purpose of the vswitch is to eliminate the need for a virtual router.) Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: z/VM Linux Network recommendations

2004-06-09 Thread Alan Altmark
ing is not my forte. VSWITCH with VLANs. Note that VLANs are an optional part of the VSWITCH. That keeps the big mean routing monkey off your back. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscr

Re: TSM for Linux on zSeries

2004-06-10 Thread Alan Altmark
version. > Does it work with ESCON-attached tape drives? No. > Will it interface with VM:Tape and STK tape silos? No Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: z/VM Linux Network recommendations

2004-06-14 Thread Alan Altmark
ke it from there; it may be using VLANs or it may not - you won't care. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: z/VM Linux Network recommendations

2004-06-14 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 06/14/2004 at 07:38 MST, Lionel Dyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan - thanks - guess I have some more reading to do on this. :-) Be careful. That just may make things more confusing. If you want to understand what IEEE VLANs are, how they work, and how switches are c

Re: Linux/390 in production

2004-06-14 Thread Alan Altmark
veys and analyses show. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http:

Re: z/VM Linux Network recommendations

2004-06-14 Thread Alan Altmark
802.1q switch (which they will understand). If your networkers want to run OSPF in your guests, go ahead. But if they just want to run OSPF simply for OSA failover, it isn't necessary as the VSWITCH provides that function transparently (kind of like

Re: Linux/390 in production

2004-06-14 Thread Alan Altmark
such a broad term. :-) You read it here. This is public. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Kernal Crash from shell bug

2004-06-15 Thread Alan Cox
ts only a denial of service attack requiring at least login access so not in most views of the world that serious, but the x86 vendors are pushing/have pushed update kernels obviously. Alan -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: J2EE performance?

2004-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2004-06-21 at 18:59, Mcphillips, James T wrote: > Same here, JBoss on Linux390 on a z990 IFL, 50% fail > rate at 90 users. Anybody have any recommendations > for memory management or Java tuning? The primary recommendation I'd make for Java is "just say no". If you can't do that then look

Re: J2EE performance?

2004-06-23 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2004-06-22 at 16:20, Daniel Jarboe wrote: > reflect the change. Spending the additional resources to > write "higher-quality" code just didn't pay anymore. Good > enough was, well, good enough (and cost a lot less). Your average user cannot tell good from bad code. This leads rapidly to

Linux stress test

2004-06-24 Thread Levy, Alan
Are there any stress test products out there that I can download ? I would like to test a linux java application simulating thousands of concurrent hits to get an average response time. TIA. Alan Levy -- For

Re: Linux stress test

2004-06-24 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2004-06-24 at 18:44, Levy, Alan wrote: > Are there any stress test products out there that I can download ? Several - things like cerberus being pretty extreme system testers. > I would like to test a linux java application simulating thousands of > concurrent hits to get a

Re: VLAN support in SuSE zLinux

2004-06-24 Thread Alan Altmark
the concepts of VLAN-unaware VSWITCHes, default VLAN IDs, virtual port VLAN IDs, and virtual trunk and access port definitions. VLAN ANY as expressed in z/VM 4.4 is a concept alien to IEEE 802.1q, the standard governing the use of VLANs. If a guest needs access to more than one VLAN, explicitly lis

GFS

2004-06-24 Thread Alan Cox
turn up some quite different and interesting uses for GFS - it'll be fun seeing what they are. Alan -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LI

Re: Linux stress test

2004-06-25 Thread Levy, Alan
Ok - maybe thousand was overstating it. Let's say hundreds instead. The web application is used for the buildings department as a front end to a DB2 database running on our OS390 mainframe. It will be used by the public to search for buildings and tradesmen. Alan Levy W: 718-403-8020 C: 34

Re: FCP support

2004-06-28 Thread Alan Altmark
y are qualified, we'll make a public statement about it. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the messa

Re: Redhat Intel to SuSE Mainframe

2004-06-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2004-06-28 at 22:39, Marcy Cortes wrote: > Users here are moving a websphere app from Redhat on Intel to SuSE on Linux > on the mainframe. They are saying that they think RedHat was using UFT-8 > and we're not and that's screwing up some data. How would/can one change > that on SuSE? UTF

Re: Progress on PL/1 for Linux

2004-07-07 Thread Alan Altmark
ot throw some sort of error or warning. The language wasn't well > conceived. You mean, aside from the ON SIZE, ON OVERFLOW, and ON FIXEDOVERFLOW conditions? Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For L

SLES8 install using QDIO Token Ring

2004-07-07 Thread Alan Altmark
SUSE SLES8 apparently has no support to install using the newer QDIO Token Ring OSAs. The install complains about "detected tr0; was expecting eth0". Does SLES9 have it? Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM D

Re: Linux under VM and Cloning

2004-07-08 Thread Levy, Alan
We tried making /usr a ro minidisk. It did not work for us. When we had to upgrade our kernel using an RPM, it failed since it tried to load files to the /usr which was not owned by the clone. How did you get around this ? Alan Levy W: 718-403-8020 C: 347-203-0638 Nextel: 172*26*9628

Re: Linux under VM and Cloning

2004-07-08 Thread Levy, Alan
If the RPM updates the root of the clone, then how do you update the kernel on a maintenance server and propagate it ? You cannot propagate the root. Alan Levy W: 718-403-8020 C: 347-203-0638 Nextel: 172*26*9628 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: PARM and such [was: Linux under VM and Cloning]

2004-07-08 Thread Alan Altmark
(which is up to 128 EBCDIC characters that have been UTF-8 encoded by CP or LPAR), which Linux does. In the latter case, Linux can use PARMs (with the patch). I don't see the imperative to change CP further. What problem is solved that cannot be solved more simply in Linux? Al

Re: Linux on zSeries and file caching...

2004-07-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2004-07-13 at 17:19, Dave Jones wrote: > Folks, does anyone know how to build a Linux 2.4.x kernel that has Linux > file caching disabled? I want to disable Linux's file caching and let > CP's minidisk caching functions do it instead, and to reduce the virtual > storage requirements for the

Re: good basic editors: gui or command line

2004-07-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2004-07-13 at 22:07, Brandon Darbro wrote: > - ed (worse than edlin for DOS...) Thats unfair, ed is vastly more logical and powerful than edlin. Its an extrodinarily elegant tool if you know what you are doing and understand regexps.. > - Gedit (Gnomes editor) Gedit can be extremely

Re: Progress on PL/1 for Linux

2004-07-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2004-07-13 at 23:42, Jeffrey Savit wrote: > David is quite right: several brokerages used APL quite heavily. They > would hire people out of business school and throw them into analytics > departments. When I started working with these guys I was aghast at the > idea of using interpreted AP

linux performance

2004-07-15 Thread Levy, Alan
Our first production linux machine will be stress tested on Monday with Mercury Interactive (by someone else here). While the test is going on, is there anything I can do to monitor both linux and ZVM 4.4 ? Any suggestions on commands, processes, etc ? TIA Alan Levy W: 718

Re: time

2004-07-26 Thread Alan Altmark
of "virtual clock drift" and allow you to configure the rate of drift, just for fun. :-) Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: HCM

2004-07-26 Thread Alan Altmark
a running MVS system, create a > workable IODF,and then one would either activate, or bring everything down > and POR via the HMC. z/VM supports HCD and HCM as well. "It's not just for MVS anymore." :-) Alan Altmark S

Re: time

2004-07-26 Thread Alan Altmark
support within the guest is required. "It just works the way it oughtta. It's a miracle." Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: VM TCPIP guest router not on GLAN?

2004-07-26 Thread Alan Altmark
in PROFILE TCPIP? Yes - the GATEWAY statement is the routing table. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Installation and administration

2004-07-27 Thread Alan Altmark
are that Linux servers breed like peng...uh...bunnies. Saying "I'll only have two Linux servers on the mainframe" is like saying "I'll only eat TWO potato chips.") Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development

Re: Under what conditions will Linux start releasing Cache?

2004-07-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 15:25, James Melin wrote: > the application data is local. If there are any of the Linux Kernal > developers monitoring this list, add my voice to those that are telling you > that not being able to control cache behavior is a really frustrating when > working in a virtualize

Re: Package installer for Debian/390

2004-07-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 19:01, Richard Pinion wrote: > apt-get install > > If you want a nice front-end, > > dselect If you want a really nice front end - synaptic 8) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructi

Re: Curiousity question - RE: 2004-07-30 Recommended Linux for zSeries code and docu drop to developerWorks

2004-07-30 Thread Alan Altmark
y 3590s anyway. Legal reasons that are not related to intellectual property. (The other OCO modules had intellectual property issues associated with them.) Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390

Re: SSH for z/VM

2004-07-30 Thread Alan Altmark
ata, nor does it have access to the identity of the remote end. Even the console traffic itself is problematic. "Should it be linemode or fullsreen? How to choose?" Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development --

Re: SSH for z/VM

2004-07-30 Thread Alan Altmark
, and (b) you have an FTP client that supports secure-port ftp. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH for z/VM

2004-07-30 Thread Alan Altmark
e downside, no ability to issue #CP commands. On the upside, the ability to use vi before your virtual network connection is established. More problems: How to decide which virtual interface to use? Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engi

Re: SSH for z/VM

2004-07-30 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 07/30/2004 at 01:10 EST, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 12:54, Alan Altmark wrote: > > On the downside, no ability to issue #CP commands. > > cpint? Ahem. I said "#CP". Nothing prevents the guest from issuing CP comman

Re: COBOL on Linux

2004-07-30 Thread Alan Altmark
sets directly? Use caution. It certain environments it creates a security problem, not to mention possible data integrity issues. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / ar

Re: COBOL on Linux

2004-07-30 Thread Alan Altmark
otection services will be verboten. Not an immediate concern for anyone, of course, but just something to keep in the back of your mind. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: Cobol on Linux

2004-07-31 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2004-08-01 at 00:59, David Boyes wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:50:23AM +0530, Maneesh Menon wrote: > > I meant Lex and Yacc > > Better look at the complexity of the language first. The LLR grammar > for COBOL is *not* trivial. You'd also still need to write the code > generator; also

Re: SSH for z/VM

2004-08-02 Thread Alan Altmark
rity policy might be considered to be an "unforgivable offense". (Those security weasels are *such* nervous nellies.) Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: Installation and administration

2004-08-02 Thread Alan Altmark
the number of guests goes up (subject to memory constraints, of course) and the value of z/VM increases. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Installation and administration

2004-08-02 Thread Alan Altmark
/VU/YR / 12mos/YR]. Tier B drops that to $423/month. At tier G (26 or more CPUs) that drops to $141 per month per CPU. As you can plainly see, the more you buy, the more you save! Add more CPU now!! GO! GO! GO! GO! Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM

Re: For the security weenies

2004-08-02 Thread Alan Altmark
k is another...:-) > > Neither is as good as not turning it on, though. Make sure is unplugged from power supply. Just in case, throw the mains. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINU

Re: For the security weenies

2004-08-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 08/02/2004 at 02:47 EST, "Daniel P. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Two words: Bolt Cutters. > > Just be sure you unplug it first... Youse guys forgot about sneaky battery-backup wireless. Encase in lead. Chuckie -

Re: For the security weenies

2004-08-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 08/02/2004 at 05:37 EST, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's really even safer if you just never build the machine at all. > Nonexistent machines are the safest kind. Plus they're easy to brag > about: "My imaginary 75-Petaflop Helium-3-cooled system with 14 > googolplexbyte

Re: For the security weenies

2004-08-02 Thread Alan Cox
Guys if I wanted to read alt.humor.notfunny I'd try usenet. Or can we have linux-390-ontopic ? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or

Re: For the security weenies

2004-08-02 Thread Alan Altmark
ver's A-disk? Blech. Of course, you could use SFS and aliases for the A-disk before IPLing Linux. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Installation and administration

2004-08-03 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 08/02/2004 at 04:14 EDT, Carlos A Bodra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan, > > Where can I find these numbers??? In the announcement letter for your geography. Go to http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/OIX.wss and use the "Specific Information Search" pul

Re: For the security weenies

2004-08-03 Thread Alan Altmark
service machines that might > want to use SWAPGEN? SWAPGEN should be placed on TCPMAINT 198. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: SLES9 and SCSI

2004-08-05 Thread Alan Altmark
able to the > LPAR. (For VM, the choice is small and having the SCSI > driver active may or may not be a problem). Are the FCP adapters defined in the IOCDS? If so, take them out. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development

Re: Can NFS export a samba share?

2004-08-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-08-11 at 19:58, Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote: > Hi, > If I have a SLES 8 zLinux server connected via samba to a read-only > Windows share can the Linux server export that share read-only via nfs > to other SLES8 zLinux servers? NFS depends on stable inode numbering so generally its a

Re: Newbie question - Redhat 8 and 9

2004-08-12 Thread Alan Cox
find Hercules too hard to configure. It is however not really quick enough for serious use and it just runs a single Linux image so you can't use it to play with VM, multiple images and the like. Alan -- For LINUX-390 subscr

Re: Newbie question - Redhat 8 and 9

2004-08-12 Thread Alan Cox
lt for Hercules in rpm format (ready to install package files) that can be installed with one command. That should also make life easier for you. Alan -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: VDSK Swap - allocation size?

2004-08-12 Thread Alan Schilla
Unless I missed it, no one has spoke to the pros/cons of multiple v-disk swap. I was discussing a number of things with Velocity software just yesterday and the recommendation given was to tune virtual storage down to the point swapping just begins and then set up 10 1 meg vdisk swap spaces rather

Model 27 dasd

2004-08-17 Thread Levy, Alan
Has anyone created an LVM from multiple mod 27's (32,720 cylinders) ? If so, is there anything I have to watch out for ? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Slack/390

2004-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2004-08-19 at 13:49, Richard Pinion wrote: > I login as root and type in gdm and the same for xdm. gdm comes up but I can't get > a session using Labtam's Xserver Windows software. gdm defaults to local access only. Either gdmconfig or fiddling with the config file by hand can be used to

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