Re: Somewhat funny article on the "UNIX guru"

2011-02-15 Thread Gentry, Stephen
"Veteran Unix admin trait No. 6: We generally assume the problem is with whomever is asking the question" I don't think that applies just to Veteran Unix admins. 8-) Steve -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, F

Re: Virtualization with the Best TCO?

2010-08-25 Thread Gentry, Stephen
"Pushy" is used in the proper context. However, it may not be the "Kings English" (no slight intended). -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Agblad Tore Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:27 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Vi

Re: IBM zEnterprise System announced???

2010-07-22 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I was expecting more in the x86 area (Windoz, specifically servers) as that is a much needed consolidation area. Or did I miss something? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Barton Robinson Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 1:45 PM To: LINUX

Re: Open Office 3.2 on SLES 11 for s390x

2010-06-07 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I'll add my 2 cents. Since Open Office is heavy on the Java part and therefore cpu intensive, I wouldn't think it would be a good candidate to run on the z platform. I suppose if you had enough ponies, i.e., mips then it could be usable. I use it here but it's more to show that it will run. Steve

Re: Linux for System z T-shirts

2010-05-01 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Are you pondering what I'm pondering Greenie? Uhm, I think so Z but where are we going to find a T-Shirt store this time of night? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of OAKES Roger * SDC Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 6:58 PM To: LINUX-390@V

Re: z/VM; zLinux; SuSE SLES10; JAVA/64Bit; WAS 7.0 FP5; Slow Initialization of WAS with High CPU on IFL

2010-02-03 Thread Gentry, Stephen
We had the same problem when starting JBoss and then starting the apps that run in/on JBoss. Once it got through the startup "phase" things settled down and ran ok. We just thought it was the nature of the beast. Steve -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.maris

Re: zSeries OS licenses, Was: Re: ch-0.0.0e21 (TX in ch_action_txretry): Busy

2009-11-11 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I was working at a University data center when this happened. My boss was fuming over it. Within a few years after this, the computer science curriculum started to migrate away from a mainframe emphasis. Partly because of the death of HESC and partly because the industry was changing. The Univers

Re: intrusion detection on the zLinux Platform

2009-09-17 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Can I work on question 3 now? 8-) I've reworded my question and have reposted it to the listserve group. I'm even more curious now as to why it was added as an option (CLEAR_TDisk) to VM. No reply necessary, just sharing. Steve -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@

Re: OT (was Re: RHEL 5.4 Beta is out in the wild)

2009-07-06 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I worked with a young lady, fresh out of college, a few years ago who is a very sharp programmer. Apparently, foobar, fubar, etc, were used frequently in her class examples, to the point that she included them as variables in programs she wrote for the company. A senior programmer was helping her

Re: RHEL 5.4 Beta is out in the wild

2009-07-02 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Shawn could you provide a url/link for downloading this? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shawn Wells Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 7:34 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: RHEL 5.4 Beta is out in the wild RHEL 5.4 public beta i

Re: Control-D from 3270 ?

2009-05-04 Thread Gentry, Stephen
If you want to shut it down could you do a SIGNAL SHUTDOWN command? Steve -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Lionel B Dyck Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 2:10 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Control-D from 3270 ? I had a linux syst

Re: VM NFS Server and Linux NFS Client

2009-03-30 Thread Gentry, Stephen
How is your NFS share defined in the VMNFS CONFIG file? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Sammons Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 7:27 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: VM NFS Server and Linux NFS Client Hi, Curious if anyone

Re: SWAPGEN and PROFILE EXEC's - slight OT

2009-01-16 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Let's take this in a different direction for a moment (a.k.a. OT) Disregard the VDISK usage for a moment. The swap disk will be on a mini-disk. What are the advantages (or disadvantages) of IPL'ing the boot disk in the directory vs IPL'ing cms, doing some stuff in a profile exec and then IPL'ing

SWAPGEN and PROFILE EXEC's

2009-01-15 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I want to use the SWAPGEN exec to create a VDISK. To my knowledge, the only way to do this is with an EXEC (usually a PROFILE EXEC) to create the swap disk. I have switched from using a PROFILE EXEC to IPL'ing the boot disk directly in the USER DIRECTory. Is there a way I can run SWAPGEN in this s

Re: Encryption on a 7060

2009-01-13 Thread Gentry, Stephen
To echo some of the others comments: We ran Linux (Redhat) on our H50 and response time wasn't that great. We could say we were running Linux on the mainframe (bragging rights) but that was about it. We did this when the H50 was considered a new box (via the market) At that time, for us, it was a

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-10 Thread Gentry, Stephen
There is some doc. on the internet regarding this technology. http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/NCR/NCR.CRAM.1960.1026 46240.pdf (Watch the wrap). Anybody want to write a driver for this? 8-) Steve G -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: zVM 3.1 at 100% CPU after z9 upgrade

2008-10-30 Thread Gentry, Stephen
What should it be set at? Steve -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayer, Paul W Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:56 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: zVM 3.1 at 100% CPU after z9 upgrade cat /proc/sys/kernel/hz_timer O or 1 ? -O

Re: var subdirectory : epilog

2008-09-29 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Thanks to all who responded. I ended up using the #cp vi vmsg 0 1 method. Prior to deleting /var, I created the new disk space first. I updated the .conf file, ran mkinitrd and zipl. Rebooted linux. When it came up, the new dasd was available so I partitioned it and formatted it. I made a backup

Re: var subdirectory

2008-09-27 Thread Gentry, Stephen
nux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:58 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LINUX-390] var subdirectory I think I've painted myself into a corner. My root subdirectory has gotten full. When I built this linux, /opt and a co

var subdirectory

2008-09-27 Thread Gentry, Stephen
I think I've painted myself into a corner. My root subdirectory has gotten full. When I built this linux, /opt and a couple other subdir were installed as separate mount points. Now, I'd like to move var to a separate dasd/mount point. When I try to rm the var subdirectory, I use the -rf comman

Re: SuSe LINUX Enterprise starter system for z - next hurdle

2008-05-30 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Did you do any kind of VM formatting to mdisks 150 -> 152 before trying to partition with Linux? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Cousins Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:13 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: SuSe LINUX Enterprise sta

Re: Mapping Minidisks to File Systems

2008-01-29 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Not a command per se but I look at the VM console log file for that linux instance. It usually tells what mdisk address is associated with linux name (dasda, dasdb, dasdc, etc). Steve G. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mrohs, Ray Sent: Tue

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz: oqo

2007-11-30 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Mark, goto oqo.com I didn't know such a device existed, but it was inevitable that it would. Yeah, it would be pretty neat with it running Hercules and then a mainframe os Steve G. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Applying mount namespaces

2007-09-24 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Worked for me. Watch out for the wrapped line. Steve G. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RPN01 Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 2:15 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Applying mount namespaces I just get a bad URL response. Was t

Re: Suse disk frustration

2007-09-21 Thread Gentry, Stephen
Did you do a zipl or what ever is used in Suse to rebuild/update the boot record? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martha McConaghy Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 11:46 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Suse disk frustration OK, I'