Re: dummy device to eth interface

2005-05-19 Thread Ferguson, Neale
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Re: dummy device to eth interface

2005-05-19 Thread Ferguson, Neale
resc011:~ # modprobe dummy resc011:~ # ifconfig dummy0 10.128.200.199 netmask 255.255.248.0 resc011:~ # ifconfig dummy0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:10.128.200.199 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.248.0 inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Lin

Re: Linux default permissions

2005-05-18 Thread Ferguson, Neale
In /etc/profile /etc/csh.login etc. change the umask from 022 to 026. On SUSE the default is 022 which says the default permissions for creating non-executable files is the exclusive or 022 against 666 -> 644. Changing it to 026 should give you 640 -> rw-r-. -Original Message- I've ask

Re: How to use X-Cygwin

2005-05-18 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Have you tried VNC? It's a much "thinner" beast. It's even usable over dialup. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://w

[no subject]

2005-05-17 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2005051701126NWRHSV IBM has expanded a program to lure customers using Sun Microsystems servers and software to Big Blue products running Red Hat's Linux, the company plans to announce Tuesday. The company will offer qualified customers a free service to as

[no subject]

2005-05-14 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/high_performance/2005051400826NWHERH IBM and Red Hat are broadening a partnership to promote Linux on Big Blue's mainframe computers. The two companies said this week they're packaging Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 with IBM's Integrated Facility for Linux, a feature Big Bl

Re: 64-bit Codepages on SLES8

2005-05-14 Thread Ferguson, Neale
rpm -q -f /usr/lib/gconv/IBM500.so shows glibc-locale-2.3.3-98.38 -Original Message- I have some users doing development, and they need the 64-bit versions of IBM500.so, and ISO8859-1.so. Does anyone know what RPM provides these? These should be located at /usr/lib64/gconv/IBM500.so /usr

Pro-SCO hits a new low

2005-05-10 Thread Ferguson, Neale
The "journalist" Maureen O'Gara has hit a new low in her pro-SCO efforts. An article about Groklaw focused not on the content or the intent of the site but got personal by providing information on how to find the site's author's mother, even posting pictures of the house and the number on the lette

Re: Different time between z/VM TOD and z/Linux.

2005-04-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Not behind - ahead. -Original Message- and set your operating system for an offset of -12 hours (I think Japan is 12 hours behind the UK). -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Problems loading IBMtape into kernel

2005-04-14 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Because it's OCO and thus can't be tagged as GPL in the module. -Original Message- I read the hint a couple of times, and I think it is trying to tell you that the IBMtape.o module is not tagged as being GPL compliant. Modules that are not GPL compliant cannot call some functions in the k

Re: ooRexx

2005-04-14 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Nope -Original Message- Interesting. When I did the "make install-strip" none of the man files got gzipped. Did you tweak the spec file in any other way? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructio

ooRexx

2005-04-13 Thread Ferguson, Neale
The source RPM builds cleanly on my SLES9 system with the following update to the spec file: --- oorexx.spec.old 2005-04-13 13:11:53.452401703 -0400 +++ oorexx.spec 2005-04-13 12:38:27.262401703 -0400 @@ -94,15 +94,15 @@ /usr/local/lib/ooRexx/librexxapi.la /usr/local/lib/ooRexx/librxsock.la

OORexx

2005-04-13 Thread Ferguson, Neale
OORexx is now available for download: http://www.oorexx.org/ (Sourceforge download site: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=119701) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: How to determine if you are running on 31 or 64...

2005-03-24 Thread Ferguson, Neale
or use the tam instruction to determine your addressing mode. You can use inline assembler to issue this opcode. -Original Message- May be I need to use both of them, uname -m to tell me if the virtual machine is running 64-bit or not and gconf to tell me if the applicaion is running on 3

OT: External Hard Drives - Respond off list

2005-03-24 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Please excuse the off-topic nature of this request. I am going through selection-paralysis trying to decide on an external hard-drive for my PCs. Requirements: - USB 2.0 (my older PC has no Firewire connection) - Use with Windows XP and Linux (SuSE 9.2) - c. 160GB capacity - Use as an archive as

News from Brainshare 2005

2005-03-23 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/03/23/0128254.shtml The salient paragraph: I also spoke with Senior Systems Administrator Steve Adams from the Oregon Department of Transportation. He told me how they had used open source development tools to rewrite a portion of the state's driver's license

Latest code drop

2005-03-23 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Regarding OSA layer 2: from the notes - qeth: Added OSA-Express Layer2 Switching Using Layer 2 stops the OSA-Express adapter from stripping the MAC addresses from incoming packets. Incoming and outgoing packets are complete with an LLC header at all stages between the Linux network stack and the

Re: adding dasd sles9 different than sles8

2005-03-23 Thread Ferguson, Neale
On SLES9 to dynamically a device: chccwdev -e 0.0. My zipl.conf has: parameters = "dasd=193,192,200,210,211 root=/dev/dasdb2 TERM=dumb" -Original Message- On sles 9 I attached the dasd, echo "add device range=xxx-xxx " >> /proc/dasd/devices But when I look at /proc/dasd/devices I do

Samba V3 on zSeries Redpiece

2005-03-21 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/redp3988.pdf This document provides the reader with basic performance rules of thumb for Samba Version 3.0.5 on zSeries Linux and gives background information that can be used in configuring and tuning your Samba V3 environment. The data was devel

Re: CPINT Question

2005-03-18 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Didn't you used to have echo "add dasd=298" >/proc/dasd/devices in SLES8? With udev and hotplug a script could probably automate this for you. -Original Message- chccwdev -e 0.0.0298 Setting device 0.0.0298 online Done lnx5:~ # cat /proc/dasd/devices 0.0.0292(ECKD) at ( 94: 0) is

Re: CPINT Question

2005-03-18 Thread Ferguson, Neale
What happens with: chccwdev -e 0.0.0298 -- 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

Google opens up

2005-03-18 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2005031800632OSSWDV "Google has launched a site that provides Google source code for free, along with discussion forums. " "We have derived a great amount of software from the open source community, so we felt it would be appropriate for us to intera

Re: cpint on 2.6 (rhel4/64-bit): Invalid module format

2005-03-18 Thread Ferguson, Neale
To quote Billy Joel: "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints." Sister Theresa, if she were still alive, would be giving me a thorough thrashing at that blasphemy! -Original Message- Are you catholic? Are you applying for sainthood? -

Re: cpint on 2.6 (rhel4/64-bit): Invalid module format

2005-03-18 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I'm in the process of building cpint-2.3.0 and making it GA (it fixes a problem with 32-bit programs on a 64-bit system). The build process requires that you use the kernel build method. The Makefile should now look like: cpint_mod-objs := cpint.o cmdmain.o idmain.o monmain.o actmain.o obj-m :=

Re: CPINT Question

2005-03-18 Thread Ferguson, Neale
That's a potentially dangerous thing to do. You may want to put ATTACH in a new (additional) class by itself and then give the Linux user that class. -Original Message- Thanks for quick responses. Adding CLASS B to the linux guests did the trick.

Re: CPINT Question

2005-03-18 Thread Ferguson, Neale
hcp will exit with a return code that can be checked if you are in a script: sh -c "hcp attach user ;echo $?" -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the m

Re: FCP attached Shark

2005-03-14 Thread Ferguson, Neale
-Original Message- We may be looking at attaching a part of a new Shark 800 as FCP attached dasd for z/Linux. 1. Will a FCP attached Shark, running under z/VM 5.1, participate in VM's MDC? - If used as emulated FBA devices, yes. If used natively, no. 2. Will a FCP attached Shark, runnin

RPM problem

2005-03-10 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I'm having a strange problem with an rpmbuild -bb. Here's an extract of the spec file: %post echo "You must install libgdiplus separately." %package -n mono-basic Summary:Mono's VB runtime Group: Development/Tools Requires: mono-core = 1.1.4-1.ximian.6.1 Provides: x

Re: zLinux Wage Inquiry

2005-03-03 Thread Ferguson, Neale
While not zSeries specific, the following is from the latest "IBM Linux Line": According to Dice Inc., the leading job board for technology, engineering and security-cleared professionals, demand for Linux professionals remain strong. Listings for Linux opportunities climbed 21 percent in Januar

Re: Hillgang

2005-02-11 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Yes, as a graduate of the Patrician Brothers I have committed to cardinal sin of not remembering the correct date of St Patrick's Day. However, I have no problem with celebrating two days early. Beware the ales of March! -Original Message- I think you have your Ides of March and your S

Hillgang

2005-02-11 Thread Ferguson, Neale
The next Hillgang meeting will take place on March 15 at CA's Herndon office. Check the brochure for details: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hillgang.pdf. Hmm, March 15. St Patrick's Day. Irish/Aussie pub just down the road. Sounds like trouble ;-) Neale Ferguson

Re: Init script for starting oracle 9i on sles8?

2005-02-11 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Of course, it's POETS day! -Original Message- The users that know how apparently took the day off :) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: I

Re: How do I add 1 new DASD ?

2005-02-11 Thread Ferguson, Neale
>From the manual: Adding devices: echo "add device range=devno-range" >> /proc/dasd/devices To see what you now have: cat /proc/dasd/devices Don't forget to add this device or these devices to your zipl.conf file to make them permanent. -Original Message- The link to that manual doesn

Re: Reconfiguring Network for SuSE 8 running in IFL

2005-02-11 Thread Ferguson, Neale
ed - a line mode editor. 1,$l - list the file s/original/new/g - change all occurrences of original to new w - write the file q - quit it -Original Message- I had originally installed SuSE 8 on our prodution VM, and just recently decided to move it to the IFL. I just shut down Linux, DDR

Re: How do I add 1 new DASD ?

2005-02-11 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Ferguson, Neale Enviado el: viernes, 11 de febrero de 2005 17:08 Para: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Asunto: Re: How do I add 1 new DASD ? Did you add it to the dasd= portion of the parameters= entry in /etc/zipl.conf? Did you want to do this without taking the SLES image down? Check the Linux Device

Re: How do I add 1 new DASD ?

2005-02-11 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Did you add it to the dasd= portion of the parameters= entry in /etc/zipl.conf? Did you want to do this without taking the SLES image down? Check the Linux Device Drivers manual (http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/docu/lx24jun03dd04.pdf) -Original Message-

Re: Putty users

2005-02-08 Thread Ferguson, Neale
It's kept in the Windows directory. There are instructions on the Putty site for extracting them and then importing them on the new system. -Original Message- How do I keep all my settings on putty If I copy it to another machine.. Where is all the admin stuff kept for putty?? --

Re: Linux task structure

2005-02-01 Thread Ferguson, Neale
The best option is to use SNMP. Configure and run the netsnmp or ucdsnmp packages and have an agent collect the appropriate MIBs. ESALPS does this very well. This option will also be the same for 2.4 or 2.6. I had used the XASTOR package (I think available on the VM download site) and created a

Re: Poll Results

2005-01-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
How many responses? -Original Message- The results of the unofficial polling regarding SUSE vs RedHat are as follows : 75% SUSE 6.25 % RedHat 18.75 % Debian -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / ar

FCP Access Control

2005-01-26 Thread Ferguson, Neale
One of the interesting items for SCSI users is the following: Configuration Utility: The Configuration Utility for FCP LUN Access Control is designed to be a Linux user space application which may be used to configure the FCP LUN Access Control. To define and activate LUN Access Control, you wo

Interesting z890/z990 enhancements

2005-01-26 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://www.vm.ibm.com/siteinfo/change.html for January 25 announcements. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www

Re: Anyone hear of iiis.org?

2005-01-21 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Yes, I got one too. I liked it because I've been given the title of Dr. without all that silly thesis nonsense! -Original Message- I've never heard of this group before, and I just got an email from Prof. Belkis Sánchez, of the "Organizing Committee of The International Symposium on Free/

Re: HTMLDOC install err. /s390-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lsocket

2005-01-21 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Contrary to what my wife tells me, I have a couple of ideas :-). Two options: 1. Have a look in configure and see if there are any --disable or --without options, you may be able to disable the part that requires png 2. Install the package that include libpng: libpng-devel-1.2.5-182.10 for exampl

Linux on zSeries Library

2005-01-20 Thread Ferguson, Neale
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/linux/library/ -- 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/htb

IBM Offers Support for Xen

2005-01-20 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2005012001926NWSVSW "Open source server virtualization got a boost this week with a new release from the Xen project and a new IBM commitment to help 'harden' it. "Xen is a virtual machine application that allows users to run multiple operating s

Re: RVA,ESS,performance

2005-01-14 Thread Ferguson, Neale
It should have been there with SLES8 SP3 I think. Neale -Original Message- Cool -- thanks! That one had slipped under my radar. Do you happen to know if the patched driver has been included in any of the distributions?

Re: Limiting Java RSS

2005-01-11 Thread Ferguson, Neale
rpm --erase IBMJava2-SDK-1.4.2-0.21 ;-) -Original Message- Any other system tuning parameters to keep JVMs in check? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: SLES 9 /etc/chandev.conf

2005-01-10 Thread Ferguson, Neale
The sysfs file system. Attrtibutes previously specified in the chandev.conf file are written to files within the sysfs tree. Take a look at /sys on a SLES9 file system. -Original Message- File /etc/chandev.conf does not seem to exist in zLinux SLES9. /etc/modules.conf was replaced by /et

Re: "DMSACP112S T(152) device error" normal for Linux mini disk?

2005-01-06 Thread Ferguson, Neale
If you use the DIAG device driver doesn't that use a CMS formatted/reserved device? This would be then accessible by CMS who'd see a single file. I haven't used this driver for some time so cannot recall but I thought this was the way it worked. -

Re: EVMS and reiserfs on SuSE 9.0 390x?

2005-01-04 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Would someone explain these "barriers" as I'm not sure what they're all about? -Original Message- There's a problem with the combo of EVMS and write barriers in SLES-9 - try mounting the volume with barriers turned off: -

Re: Error on startup

2004-12-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
^D (caret-D) and then enter. I think from that prompt exit will also work. -Original Message- Vm doesn't recognize ctrl-d... -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: File system full

2004-12-28 Thread Ferguson, Neale
du -x -h --max-depth=1 / It will then show you the space used by 1st level of directories. Then drill down using the same command with a different argument. Take a look in /var/log. I find /var/log/sa fills things up quite quickly (which is why I usually put it on a device of its own). -Or

Redbooks: Domino 6.5, CISCO MDS 9000

2004-12-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
* IBM Lotus Domino 6.5 for Linux on zSeries Implementation See: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247021.html This IBM Redbook will help the reader plan for, install, and configure the new IBM Lotus Domino 6.5 product on an IBM zSeries system running Linux. We discuss why you should cons

Experiences with Oracle 10g Database on Linux for zSeries

2004-12-24 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp3859.html?Open This IBM RedPaper describes experiences gained while installing and testing Oracle10g for Linux on zSeries, such as: - Setting up the development systems at Oracle for the Linux on zSeries environment - Installing the Or

Re: SSH via putty to RH AS 3.0

2004-12-17 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Check the ssh config in /etc/ssh/sshd.config and make sure: PasswordAuthentication yes -Original Message- I'm going insane. I have a Red Hat AS 3.0 running under z/VM 5.1. I can ssh in from my Intel Linux fine. I can use putty to ssh from another Win2K box fine. On my laptop, however w

Redpaper on cloning FCP disks

2004-12-13 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/abstracts/redp3871.html This Redpaper describes a procedure to clone a root filesystem residing on an FCP-attached SCSI disk. Cloning SCSI disks that act as a Linux root filesystem requires special processing (compared to cloning ECKD DASD). An initial

Mono packages for SLES8

2004-12-13 Thread Ferguson, Neale
The mono 1.1.3 (.NET) packages for SLES8 are now available at: http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.1.3/sles-8-s390 The SLES9 apache2 module that allows the serving of .aspx etc. is also uploaded at: http://www.go-mono.com/archive/1.1.3/sles-9-s390 ---

Re: vncserver/vncclient

2004-12-10 Thread Ferguson, Neale
What happens if you try the rpmbuild command? -Original Message- We tried both: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPECS]# pwd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPECS]# rpm -v RPM version 4.0.3 Copyright (C) 1998-2000 - Red Hat, Inc. This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GN

Re: vncserver/vncclient

2004-12-10 Thread Ferguson, Neale
What level of RPM (in later versions there's now an rpmbuild command)? Did you do a rpm -i (if not do rpm[build] --rebuild --clean ? Are you in /usr/src/packages/SPECS? -Original Message- We tried the newest rpm source from both tightvnc and realvnc. They had the same problem after we

mono 1.1.3 for SLES9 (.NET for zSeries)

2004-12-09 Thread Ferguson, Neale
The 1.1.3 version of Mono (the .NET infrastructure for Open Systems) is available at http://mono-project.com/downloads. This has been built for SLES9 (it uses the new pthread library). This drop includes the Just In Time (JIT) compiler. If you decide to install mono-web-1.1.3-1.ximian.0.1.s390.r

Re: Dynamically adding DASD...

2004-12-09 Thread Ferguson, Neale
insmod dasd_mod dasd=... -Original Message- I had the same problem. I tried to detect using 'insmod dasd dasd=0158' but it could not find the 'dasd' module. But when I used yast, dasd, it showed up and I activated it --

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-08 Thread Ferguson, Neale
FORCE may require you to give too many privileges to the virtual machine. You could use SIGNAL SHUTDOWN which is class C (it's class A also I know). You can also change the class of the command to restrict it to a class of its own that the stonith guy belongs to. -Original Message- You

Re: SLES9 Install hang

2004-12-06 Thread Ferguson, Neale
For the install and when using NFS I had my vstor at 512M or 768M (I can't recall). You only need it for the install, you can set your machine back down to what you prefer after. Neale -Original Message- I don't think that was my problem. I upped the virtual size from 256MB to 300MBs an

OSA Express Implementation Guide

2004-12-06 Thread Ferguson, Neale
A draft redbook is available: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg245948.html This IBM Redbook discusses how to install, tailor, and configure the Open System Adapter-Express features that are available on the zSeries Servers (z800, z900, z890, and z990). It focuses on the hardwa

Slack again

2004-12-03 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Any one seen this before using a lcs device? Pinging the gateway PING 65.212.159.1 (65.212.159.1): 56 data bytes lcs_fix_multicast_list failed to add multicast entry e001 multicast address table poss

Re: Effect of LIMITSOFT vs NOLIMIT?

2004-12-03 Thread Ferguson, Neale
If NOLIMIT is set then it's possible for the share leftover when everyone has had their SHARE satisfied can be consumed by a single virtual machine. Using LIMITSOFT means this leftover will be shared according to the value set. Imagine an apple pie. After everyone has had 1 slice and there's som

Re: 127 device limitation for hipersockets

2004-12-02 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I'd use a VSWITCH for the small packet traffic. The OSAs would internally switch things between partitions. I'd use real hipersockets for the big packet stuff to directly connect partitions/machines. That way you're not relying on a single machine being up and acting as a router as well as elimi

Re: Which Suse 9.0 CD?

2004-11-30 Thread Ferguson, Neale
s390 = 32-bit arch s390x = 64-bit RC5a is an updated RC5. -- 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/w

Re: z/VM Virtual Switch Controller define problem

2004-11-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
OPERATOR is generally automatically logged on by the system at startup. -Original Message- Thank you. Removing the A corrected my problem. I do not know if it is necessary or not. We have no users logged on to z/VM. We just installed it and are trying to become somewhat familiar with it.

Re: z/VM Virtual Switch Controller define problem

2004-11-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
128M BCG The manual specifically shows an A, is the manual incorrect or am I still confused? Thanks. Peter "Ferguson, Neale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] oftwareAG-USA.com To > [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: z/VM Virtual Switch Controller define problem

2004-11-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
What do you use to manage your users: Dirmaint, VM:Secure or by hand? In the VM directory (USER DIRECT) the definition for the virtual machine the USER statement usually has the classes for that user. (There is also the CLASS statement but that's not used as much in my experience.) You need to r

Re: z/VM Virtual Switch Controller define problem

2004-11-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Somehow the user you are using is a class A user and the first/only one on the system. As such VM has made your user the system operator and your console mode defaults to CP - all commands go straight to CP and not to the operating system within your virtual machine. You need to: 1. Logoff 2. G

db2 v8.1 problem

2004-11-23 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I just installed the trial version of DB2 UDB v8.1. I installed FP7a and now when trying to run db2start I get: db2start: Symbol `g_sqltCompTraceFlags' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking I have considered but have respectfully declined. Anyone run into this before? Als

Re: Problems with SLES 9 and guest lan

2004-11-23 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Because in my situation qdio was being loaded by the scsi driver load. The qeth was occuring before scsi. -Original Message- The qdio.ko module needs to be loaded before qeth.ko one. Don't know why Neale's script didn't do that first. (This is why I always try to use modprobe instead of

Re: Problems with SLES 9 and guest lan

2004-11-23 Thread Ferguson, Neale
try and load the qdio prior to the others and see what happens... -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martha McConaghy Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Problems with SLES 9 and guest lan Ne

Re: Problems with SLES 9 and guest lan

2004-11-23 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I ran into this problem when I installed the SLES9 beta. I didn't have the problem when I upgraded using the GA level. It appears to me that qdio is not being started early enough (i.e. before qeth is attempted to be started). I wrote the following script that I used to bring up the eth connection:

SLES9 Evaulation Download

2004-11-18 Thread Ferguson, Neale
"Check out this free 30-day evaluation of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 complete with free Installation Support and upgrade protection for 30 days. To access the software & Upgrade Protection and installation assistance, please follow the two-step process outlined below.." http://www.novell.co

Re: Shutdown by Operations

2004-11-17 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Are you running under VM? If so, what level. What level of Linux? For most modern kernels and z/VM systems you can use the VM command: "SIGNAL SHUTDOWN WITHIN " from a privileged virtual machine (like the operator). Use HELP CP SIGNAL from CMS to get details on the command and its options.

Re: subversion

2004-11-17 Thread Ferguson, Neale
There were a number: 1. The SUSE packages had so many pre-reqs it became a nightmare to manage (over 30 many of which needed building from source) 2. One of the Fedora s390 pre-reqs wouldn't build cleanly I ended up using the tarball from the svn site and got it working (but not before some biz

Re: ILC for signal handlers

2004-11-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Excellent news. Many thanks Uli. Changing ucontext would cause significant ABI issues, so we like to avoid that if at all possible ;-) In any case, for those signals where the PSW address points after the faulting instruction, the siginfo_t always contains a fiel

ILC for signal handlers

2004-11-14 Thread Ferguson, Neale
When a signal like SIGSEGV or SIGFPE is intercepted by a signal handler that receives signal no., siginfo_t, and ucontext the PSW is that of the program old PSW. However, the instruction length code (ILC) is not passed anywhere nor can is it accessible (nor could it be relied upon) from low-core

Re: RHAS 3 (s390x) path to ld-2.?.?.so ???

2004-11-12 Thread Ferguson, Neale
OOps, that was from RHAS 3.94 (beta) -- 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: RHAS 3 (s390x) path to ld-2.?.?.so ???

2004-11-12 Thread Ferguson, Neale
ls /lib64/ld*: ld-2.3.3.sold64.so.1 ld-lsb-s390x.so.1 -Original Message- Would there be anyone out there with an installed RHAS 3 s390x (64-bit) server that could kindly provide me with the full pathname to the 'standard' (64-bit, NOT the 32-bit compatibility version) run

subversion

2004-11-10 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Does anyone have subversion running on SUSE for s390? I tried building it from SUSE source RPMS I found on their i386 distro. I tried using the Fedora s390 package but it's pre-reqs were for all sorts of different levels of libraries than we have on SLES9. Neale Ferguson

Re: cpint throws unresolved symbol errors?

2004-11-04 Thread Ferguson, Neale
depmod -e -Original Message- Howdy all - I've built cpint on a RHEL 3 guest running kernel 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL. When I run depmod -a I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# depmod -a depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.21-15.0.3.EL/misc/cpint.o

Re: FW: Cloneing Linux Guests on FCP SCSI

2004-10-26 Thread Ferguson, Neale
SLES9 uses sysfs: echo "0x5005076300cfa20a" >/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0012/0.0.d008/port_add echo "0x5403" >/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0012/0.0.d008/0x5005076300cfa20a/unit_add echo "1" >/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0012/0.0.d008/online -Original Message- so this is very tricky for SuSE 9 t

zTPF

2004-10-25 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/high_performance/2004102501526NWHESW "Users of Transaction Processing Facility (TPF), IBM's mainframe operating system, seem to have both pride in the OS and an inferiority complex, often referring to it as 'IBM's unknown operating system.' Even IBM called it 'litt

Re: signal command for shutdown - Howto?

2004-10-25 Thread Ferguson, Neale
/etc/inittab needs an entry to handle the signal: # CTLR-ALT-DEL (signal shutdown on S/390) ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h -t 4 now -Original Message- Is there something within linux that you have to do to tell it what you expect it to do when it gets that signal?

Re: CAN-2004-0887

2004-10-22 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Check the code drop of 2004-10-21. I think it may be related to this. Neale -Original Message- Can't find any info on this but it is mentioned here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.2/2264.html -- For

Re: On my way to 64 bit ?

2004-10-08 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Are you building a system from scratch or moving apps from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit system? If the latter and you are staying on, for example, SLES8 then your apps should work. There is a 32-bit compatability (or 64-bit toleration) layer of code in the kernel as well as the 32-bit libs living

Linux on Kernel Management Style

2004-10-06 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://lwn.net/Articles/105375/ First off, I'd suggest buying "Seven Habits of Highly Successful People", and NOT read it. Burn it, it's a great symbolic gesture. : : Thus the key to avoiding big decisions becomes to just avoiding to do things that can't be undone. Don't get ushered into a

Re: Search script

2004-10-01 Thread Ferguson, Neale
grep -n "virtual" *.conf -Original Message- Does some have a script they could share that would do the following Search through a list of filesie. *.conf Look for a particular string ie. 'virtual' If the string is found I would like to display the line and filename that contai

Patent Office Rejects Microsoft's FAT Patent

2004-09-30 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news/2004093003026NWLL "In the reexamination proceeding initiated earlier this year by the Public Patent Foundation ('PUBPAT'), the United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected all of the claims of Microsoft's patent on the FAT file system, which Microsoft

Re: Documentation for User Process Faults

2004-09-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
interruption code 0x6 = specification exception (which is why the invalid PSW message is there - the user PSW has an odd address which is invalid) Where is the 0x40001 or 0x020001 error you refer to? Neale -Original Message- I was trying to _not_ do that, since what I'm really looking f

Re: Documentation for User Process Faults

2004-09-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Can you forward the user oops output? -Original Message- So, when I see a 0x40001 or 0x020001 error, how do I map that to something in the POP? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: Documentation for User Process Faults

2004-09-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
The Principles of Operation manual (SA22-7832-03 chapter 6) describes all the program interruption types. -Original Message- > knowing how to interpret the "User process fault: interruption code" > messages that get generated. Is there a pointer to a document that > contains explanations

Re: New to Linux

2004-09-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I've used and liked Microfocus COBOL. -Original Message- Thank you for the quick responses. I will search the web but does anyone have a personal recommendation for a COBOL compiler on Linux? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Re: New to Linux

2004-09-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
You cannot move binaries from DOS to Linux especially on different hardware platforms. You need to rebuild from source. -Original Message- Hi. We are new to Linux and trying to move workload from a DOS pc to a Linux lpar on a MP3000. I created a /home directory and a user, copied

Re: 2004-09-23 Recommended Linux for zSeries code & docu drop to developerWorks

2004-09-23 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I like sounds of the new vmconvert command that converts a VMDUMP to lkcd format so that it can be analyzed by the linux dump tools. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Securing VM using LDAP?

2004-09-20 Thread Ferguson, Neale
That client comes from the port of LDAP 1.2 I did for OpenEdition/OpenExtensions. -Original Message- Hmmm. I know that Princeton has a VM LDAP client interface. I do not, however, know whether Melinda distributes it. -

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