Re: Vswitch and SuSE SLES 8 installs...

2006-10-04 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Nix, Robert P. wrote: We recently converted from guest LAN entirely to Vswitch, and all of the SuSE SLES 8 guests converted easily. We've been asked for an additional SLES 8 guest, and can't seem to define a proper network interface to connect it to the Vswitch. What options should we be using?

Re: Who's been reading our list...

2006-05-17 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Kielek, Samuel wrote: You can have multiple LPAR's running z/VM with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of Linux guests all on a single footprint. /me only hundreds: thousand not yet, but give me time... ;) -- Gian -- For

Re: Changeing system name and IP address

2006-05-17 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Mike Lovins wrote: Can some give me the directions on the proper steps to change the system name and the IP address of my test Linux system that is going to replace a current system I am shutting down. I need to use the same system name and IP address because of the TSM application that I have.

Re: Changeing system name and IP address

2006-05-17 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Mike Lovins wrote: This is Sles9 (SuSE) ok: edit /etc/HOSTNAME to change the hostname (imagination!!) and /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-your_eth_name for IP address. otherwise you can use Yast. -- Gian -- For LINUX-390

Re: WebSphere 6.0.2 on ZLinux

2006-02-17 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Manuela Vorazzo wrote: I've a base WebSphere 6.0.0.1 on Zlinux up and Running. Now I've to migrate to WebSphere 6.0.2 and I don't know what I've exactly to do. download Refresh Pack 2, run the update installer and... voila' ;) Is there a pdf that exaplains this or can someone give me some

Re: rpm question

2005-12-05 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Steve Gentry wrote: I am needing to un-install an rpm package. Another user started the install, it didn't install correctly so they deleted the directories and subdirectories; they didn't use RPM to uninstall it. When I issue an RPM -U package-name rpm replies that it can't find the file

Re: VSWiTCH on SLES8

2005-12-02 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: Will SLES8 handle VSWITCH? I've got it working on SLES9-SP2 and I'm going to start converting a lot of servers. How about SLES8? Will it work? What kernel level or SP level do you have to be at if so? SLES8 works fine with VSWITCH also without any SP instelled on.

Re: Dynamically making NFS shares available/unavailable

2005-11-23 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Mark Post wrote: Adam's suggestion will certainly work, but I wouldn't bother. I would make the NFS export available to the one IP address that will be scanning it and forget about it. Could you reformulate the question, please? -- Gian

Re: Which profile file is read on z/Linux?

2005-11-15 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
mainframe_s390 wrote: Hi,all I use SLES9 on zSeries. When I logon to SLES9 on zSeries via root user, which profile file is read?? I can't find .bashrc file and .profile file under /root directory. if you cannot find them, create them! bye, -- Gian

Re: IBM Tape drive

2005-11-10 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Kenneth Libutti wrote: Newbie ( be kind) Is it possible to mount an IBM 3590 tpe dive to a linux guest so it is usable by tar, etc. ? on SLES8, from root: if not exist, create the device: # mknod /dev/ntibm0 c 254 0 # mknod /dev/rtibm0 c 254 1 # mknod /dev/btibm0 b 254 2 /dev/[nrb]tibm0

Re: One of those things that make you go hmmm...

2005-10-13 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Post, Mark K wrote: In my daily review of the linuxvm.org web server logs, I discovered that someone at Microsoft mirrored the entire web site. H. they will want to install the entire copy of internet in the explorer cache and sell us that their browser is faster (Service Pack 3,

PERFKIT module authorization

2005-07-11 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
hi, I'm trying to install Performance Toolkit for VM on a z/VM 4.4 using sg246059 guide. When I run 'PERFKIT' module from PERFSVM guest I get: FCXBAS091I This system has not been authorized for using the program Where is the error or where I must investigate? Trying to find FCXBAS091I with

Re: PERFKIT module authorization

2005-07-11 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Rich Smrcina wrote: Did you 'enable' the product? There is a procedure to do this in the program directory. well... ehm... I thought to have made it, but... from maint: service perftk enable and all works fine! thanks a lot, Gian

Re: reiserfs file system corruption

2005-06-29 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
We have the same identical problem, but only on one guest of two identical zlinux (SLES8, same application, same number of DASD, same z/VM and LPAR, same installation date/procedure...). Did anyone have a solution better than Suse response?! I don't understand why it never happen before on fifty

Re: The YaST's Port.

2005-06-08 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
mainframe_s390 wrote: Hi,all Please teach me. I want to control YaST. And I want to know the port number YaST uses. what do you mean when you say "control YaST" ? or better: is your Yast the SuSE "Yet another Setup Tool" ?? If so, there are no ports to control

x3270 console problem under hercules

2005-06-06 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Hi, I'm trying z/VM 5.1 under hercules... All seems to work fine: z/VM starts and CMS too, but when I'm trying to connect to console (port 3270) the x3270 emulator give me only the banner: Hercules version 2.17.1 built at Aug 14 2004 09:44:07 device 00F1 running on emerson (Linux 2.6.10-5-386)

Re: x3270 console problem under hercules

2005-06-06 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Steve Gentry wrote: If you are not aware of it, you cannot legally run z/VM 5.1 on hercules or any other previous release of VM. The exception to this is VM/370 and it's predecessors. I have a legally licence to run z/VM and it run very well on mine z990 ;) I would like to try it on hercules

Re: x3270 console problem under hercules

2005-06-06 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Adam Thornton wrote: On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:20 AM, Gianfranco Ciotti wrote: I have hmc operator command line and the http GUI avaible... ENABLE ALL is the solution for 3270 console!! Does this mean that you just didn't connect the console to it before you IPLed? yes, or better: I can't

Re: VIPA AND OSPF info needed

2005-05-06 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Friday 06 May 2005 03:24, You wrote: I want to setup a STANDARD VIPA and use ZEBRA for OSPF dynamic routing. I am using two OSA ports, on two different cards. Interface eth0 is on one subnet and eth1 is on another subnet... and I have VIPA defined in another subnet. If you can _use_ VSWITCH!

Re: libgtk-x11-2.0.so

2005-05-02 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Monday 02 May 2005 16:36, You wrote: Yes, it's on CD2 in UnitedLinux/i586/gtk2-2.0.6-73.i586.rpm I would seriously question why your user wants to run graphical applications on Linux/390, though. ...and I would like to know why Suse run xdm by default on SLES8-s390... (typical installation

Re: Hipersockets and DB/2

2005-04-14 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
I'm not very exert, but error seems that z/OS tries to resolve the host name of 192.168.1.68 machine but faild. What do you mean for refuses remote connections? Can you ping, if echo replay is enabled, z/OS machine from zlinux using ip address? Thursday 14 April 2005 06:14, You wrote: After, I

guests with same NIC configuration

2005-04-11 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Hi all, I've inherited a z/VM 4.4 where all guests have the same virtual NIC configuration in PROFILE EXEC: 'COUPLE A000 TO SYSTEM SWITCH1' 'COUPLE A100 TO SYSTEM SWITCH2' where SWITCH1 and SWITCH2 are two vswitch. Penguins (SLES8) seems work fine, but the question is if this configuration

Re: guests with same NIC configuration

2005-04-11 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
thanks! now... I can sleep calm dreams! ;)) Monday 11 April 2005 15:59, David Kreuter wrote: Looks fine to me. As a small tiny meaningless choice I would have used something completely different for the second nic, like fffc-fffe. Monday 11 April 2005 16:06, Post, Mark K wrote: That looks

SLES8 SIGSEGV JVM

2005-01-19 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Hi all, I have a problem with my SLES8 (kernel 2.4.19-3suse-SMP) and JVM or WAS 5.1: randomly time JVM crash. Reading the javacore file I can see that linux send a SIGSEGV signal (kill -11) to JVM and the libraries which generate the problem seems to be /lib/libc.so.6. Any sugestions? thanks a

Re: vswitch question

2005-01-18 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Monday 17 January 2005 23:45, You wrote: Hi, Anyone know of a way to delete a VSWITCH without IPLing? Betsie z/VM 4.4, from MAINT: q vswitch VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH_NAME Type: VSWITCH Active: 0 MAXCONN: INFINITE ... cp detach vswitch VSWITCH_NAME VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWITCH_NAME is

Re: Copy Folders

2005-01-11 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Tuesday 11 January 2005 15:48, You wrote: Think I'm missing something.. This is what I am doing, when trying to copy folders from one hard drive to another. Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong? One drive is called home and the other one is home2, however there is also a 'home'

Re: Linux Hipersockets under z/VM

2005-01-07 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Friday 07 January 2005 16:45, You wrote: I am having problems with hipersocket. I have hipersockets working fine on 2 native Linux LPARs however, this is my first attempt under z/VM. linuxm01:/etc/sysconfig/network # ifconfig hsi0 hsi0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Re: Can't Resize Root Disk

2004-12-22 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Tuesday 21 December 2004 18:12, You wrote: I am trying to move my root disk from a big disk to a smaller one. The new root disk won't reboot. Does anyone have suggestions? try this changes: Here is what I did: Shut down my target system From a second system, CP LINK to the old root

Big Iron change

2004-11-29 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Hi list, a little question: if I have some Penguins installed on z900 (z/VM 4.4) and I change the Big Iron with a z990, did I have any improvement if I reinstall the linux machines? thanks, -- Gian -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Re: Increase memory of VM Guest

2004-11-09 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Tuesday 09 November 2004 18:48, You wrote: Hello ALL, A quick question that Im searching an answer for: How do I increase the memory of a VM guest that was created with 75MB? You can do it modifying user direct profile: 0. logoff the guest you want modify 1. connect to VM with user MAINT

Re: zipl boot menu

2004-10-19 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Alle Tuesday 19 October 2004 01:09, hai scritto: I'm trying to use the menu functionality that zipl provides. It doesn't seem to make any difference in the way my system comes up. The output I get from zipl seems to indicate that when I reboot I'll get the menu, but instead it just

Re: zipl boot menu

2004-10-19 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Tuesday 19 October 2004 01:09, you wrote: I'm trying to use the menu functionality that zipl provides. It doesn't seem to make any difference in the way my system comes up. The output I get from zipl seems to indicate that when I reboot I'll get the menu, but instead it just immediately

Re: zipl boot menu

2004-10-19 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
Tuesday 19 October 2004 01:09, you wrote: I'm trying to use the menu functionality that zipl provides. It doesn't seem to make any difference in the way my system comes up. [cut] Insert timeout=x , where x are the seconds of waiting before system comes up in defaul mode. Your zipl.conf will

Re: OT - posting in this mailing list

2004-10-19 Thread Gianfranco Ciotti
my option have been successfully updated!! thanks a lot, Gian Tuesday 19 October 2004 11:03, you wrote: Welcome! You can send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a single line set linux-390 repro to get a copy of your own posts as well. The default is not to get that copy. You can also