Re: DST question

2007-02-08 Thread Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT]
I like using the command to display the dates. Depending on what level your system is, whether the patch is installed, etc. can be discerned from the output. Right date for change, this one is good. I would get a segment fault with SP3 and no fix. Wrong dates with SP2 and no fix. Other stuff.

Re: VM test platforms

2007-01-19 Thread Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT]
In all the places I have worked VM has been the poor step-child that got the least amount of resources. I have always used a 2nd level VM system for testing fixes, new releases, mods, or just trying to do something stupid that I didn't want to take a chance of knocking out my production system

Re: Script problem

2007-01-16 Thread Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT]
This was a great explanation. Thanks -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Edmund R. MacKenty Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:53 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Script problem On Tuesday 16 January 2007 13:39, Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT

Time change

2007-01-03 Thread Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT]
Greetings, I was just looking through some Linux images and found something disturbing. I am checking the timezones using zdump and I have found the following when I do zdump -v CST6CDT | grep 2007: 31-bit image with SP3: runs fine, dates look right 64-bit image with SP3: no data

Re: Time change

2007-01-03 Thread Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT]
change Hi Bob, I am also getting segmentation faults. We are running SLES9-SP3. I have opened up a PMR with IBM regarding this. Bernie Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Kernel levels

2006-12-07 Thread Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT]
Hi all, Hopefully quick question. I've started messing around with cryptsetup and some of the stuff mentions kernel 2.6.10. I am currently running SLES9 with a 2.6.5 kernel and I have SP3. Is there a way to get to 2.6.10 to run under zVM? What is the latest and greatest without making

Re: New DASD

2006-10-31 Thread Bates, Bob
Careful on the DEDICATE statement. I never understood why but the addresses seem backwards to me. The virtual address is first and the real address second. So the DEDICATE would be DEDICATE 991 10FC Bob -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: New DASD

2006-10-31 Thread Bates, Bob
OK, maybe it's egotistically based. It's most important to me as what I know it as so I'll list it first! Bob -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Kreuter Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:12 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Suse S390 help?

2006-09-29 Thread Bates, Bob
OK. I'm not sure if this will help but I ran into a problem installing SUSE 9 under zVM 5.1. Could not get the dasd to partition. Or it seemed to partition but couldn't use it, it's been a while. Anyway, the way I got around it was to format the disks in CMS first, then start the install. The

Linux under VM:Operator

2006-09-13 Thread Bates, Bob
I've was reviewing the archives, reading over notes from Share and I still can't figure it out. I am running Linux under z/VM and want to be able to monitor and interact with them through VM:Operator. I've already got the talking part done but when the system comes up I have to enter the

Re: Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview

2006-08-04 Thread Bates, Bob
Would that be Don Adams as Tennessee Tuxedo? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gregg C Levine Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 5:06 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview Hello! I agree. Or perhaps

Multiple kernels

2006-06-28 Thread Bates, Bob
Good day all, I have a question that I think I saw mentioned once before. I would like to have a previous version of a kernel available at boot time. I can make the zipl.conf file work. I am trying to find the steps necessary to save the current version of the kernel before I

Re: Multiple kernels

2006-06-28 Thread Bates, Bob
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Leland Lucius Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 12:16 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Multiple kernels Quoting Bates, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, is there some doc somewhere that might map out how

Re: SLES9 SSH client session

2006-06-19 Thread Bates, Bob
The sshd_config file must be updated. cd /etc/ssh vi sshd_config /PermitRootLogin be sure it is yes and uncommented. I also change PasswordAuthentication to yes. kill sshd start sshd you should be good to go. In the beginning I

FTP server

2006-05-15 Thread Bates, Bob
Hello all, I am trying to set up an FTP server, SLES9 64-bit, to do the rest of my installs from. The server is running, I have file systems with s390 and s390x code, but when I attempt to do an install, it can't read the software package list, media error? I figure I have

Trouble with Apache

2006-02-01 Thread Bates, Bob
I have tried installing Apache2 under SLES8 and get an error during the make. I feel it's something pretty simple I'm overlooking but forest and trees. So, to keep it short, here's what I see. Anybody got an idea? Thanks in advance. :/tmp/httpd-2.2.0 # make Making all in srclib make[1]:

Re: SLES9, SP2 and zipl

2005-10-03 Thread Bates, Bob
Thanks again I ran mkinitrd and zipl and the system came up without a problem. I'll look into increasing /boot. Bob Bates -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nix, Robert P. Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 1:26 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

SLES9, SP2 and zipl

2005-09-30 Thread Bates, Bob
Hello all, I have a SLES9 31-bit image I installed a short while back un zVM. I am now trying to put the SP2 pack on it using YaST. After I finished I rebooted and it would not come up correctly, it appeared to be looking for a file in the previous kernel level name. Remembering

Re: SLES9 SP2

2005-08-19 Thread Bates, Bob
Yes, that was also done. IBM suggests the - in the directory path could be the problem. We are going to try renaming the path and see if that works any better. Bob -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Melin Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005

SLES9 SP2

2005-08-18 Thread Bates, Bob
Hi folks, I am hoping somebody has worked through this one. We have a SLES9 31-bit image running under z/VM 5.1. In going through Yast to try an install Service Pack 2 we run into a problem. The CDs were copied to an FTP server and when we try and get them we get an error

Re: SLES9 on zVM 4.4 Install Issue

2005-08-02 Thread Bates, Bob
I would be most interested in what the final solution is. We are trying to install SuSe Linux SLES9 using ctc. While we are having problems with the ctc staying active it bothers me that it seems the FTP site times out before the CTC fails. We hope to have the CTC problem resolved tomorrow

SLES9 install under VM

2005-07-19 Thread Bates, Bob
Hey folks, I'm new to the Linux world (but not to VM) and trying to install SLES9 un z/VM 5.1. We have a guest defined with a CTC coupled to the TCPIP machine. During the install process the ctc becomes inoperative when we try to attach to the FTP server. TCPIP message indicates