Re: Linux preferences

2010-12-21 Thread Gregg C Levine
what works. If you're using say SLES for one thing in its Intel shape, then use it for System Z. If you do get RH to work for your Oracle project then it goes for Intel. But currently I'm only back of the benches for this round...... --- Gregg C Levine hansolofal...@att.net "This signa

Junk e-mail delivered to list

2010-11-16 Thread Gregg C Levine
list, but surely there must be a means to prevent such methods and senders? --- Gregg C Levine hansolofal...@att.net "This signature is not the same one. Move along! Move along!" -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: Fall 2009 NEUVM.org meeting tomorrow 09.25.2009 Reminder

2009-09-28 Thread Gregg C Levine
nced. But I do recall some of the original discussions took place on the original VM list from UARK complete with some decidedly interesting discussions. -- Gregg C Levine hansolofal...@worldnet.att.net "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original Message---

Re: PHP to DB2 connection

2009-08-27 Thread Gregg C Levine
programmer or systems administrator) not to install that one. I believe however that the source RPM files are available for download from an FTP site, or via the company website, but I could definitely be wrong with these assertions. -- Gregg C Levine hansolofal...@worldnet.att.net "The Force will be

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

2009-07-02 Thread Gregg C Levine
not going to be accepting bets on it. I see no real reason why someone at ITSO would get his proboscis out of joint concerning the meaning of words such as these. -- Gregg C Levine hansolofal...@worldnet.att.net "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original

Re: PuTTY replacement KiTTY

2009-05-18 Thread Gregg C Levine
gular SSH client as part of their normally installed collection. -- Gregg C Levine hansolofal...@worldnet.att.net "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Henr

Re: Slackware S/390 status

2008-11-18 Thread Gregg C Levine
l came out. And ideally it would not be too hard to update to, say, the 2.6.18 one from source code. But that's what I do for Intel so I'll let it go at that, IMHO. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original

Re: Connect to DB2 with PHP

2008-10-28 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! Russ, typically Slack contains a command to translate those RPM files into TGZ ones. Look for the rpm2tgz command, and follow its instructions. As for your question regarding PHP and DB2, on that issue I'm not sure. I do know that PHP does support the MySQL database product. -- Gr

Linux Journal Ad for SHARE

2008-10-13 Thread Gregg C Levine
ughts that surfaced when the original port was created, namely how long before the mainstream magazines for Linux start carrying such advertisements. Especially since that's the first one I've seen there. It's for the March one in Austin TX. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "T

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-26 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! I know, Ivan, that Mark will figure things out, but for my work can you post the exact methods behind collecting everything from CVS? I'm actually used to seeing the exact retrieval methods as described on the Source Forge project pages. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The

Re: Two Different YaST2 Control Center displays

2008-08-26 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! I agree! It seems an interesting dilemma as to why these items are being included. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Root filesystem

2008-08-13 Thread Gregg C Levine
us who run that particular distribution, but certainly not for business, there's a document enclosed within the boot directory regarding why an initial root device blob needs to be created when using a journal enabled one. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you al

Re: Ruby on Rails

2008-05-21 Thread Gregg C Levine
is still a close favorite. I will leave out casting aspersions at Cobol because there's still a need for a language that's older then most of us. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original Message- &g

Re: Using VI via Telnet to Linux on z ???

2008-03-24 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! For my part, I prefer the VIM variant of the classic VI editor. However since Slackware on Intel does have emacs I've used that. Also the edit function of the MC thingie. Just how peculiar can the termcap entries on Linux be? -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will b

Re: Linux under Z/Series

2008-01-28 Thread Gregg C Levine
pinion, it may not be fact. The second part that is. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John > Summerfield > Sent: Monda

Re: How can I get an assembler definition of a structure?

2008-01-08 Thread Gregg C Levine
ource code for building it for my Slackware-11.0 (Intel) system here. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Binyamin Dissen > Sent

Re: Philosophical: Linux vs. AIX

2007-10-18 Thread Gregg C Levine
d to receive extreme hazard pay for that one. (That by the way is a reference to Ringworld. I leave it to all of you to guess where the phrase surfaces and who said it.) It must be Friday someplace. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi  

Re: Create PDFs

2007-09-25 Thread Gregg C Levine
guage despite being a page description language. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > McKown, John > Sent: Tuesday, Sept

Re: Linux Laptops

2007-08-23 Thread Gregg C Levine
se are all ATI based as it happens. **Grin.** Incidentally getting properly configuration of video on them is pretty simple. It's the networking and other related issues that can (and do) cause problems. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Alw

Re: Linux Laptops

2007-08-23 Thread Gregg C Levine
time talking, and he was pleasantly pleased that I managed to get Slackware 8.0 to run without any problems on a Dell commodity platform. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 39

Re: occasional martian source messages

2007-08-07 Thread Gregg C Levine
suggestion for the subject? -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zach > Pratt > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 5:15 PM > To

Re: z/Linux or zLinux - which is preferred?

2007-07-24 Thread Gregg C Levine
on any of my other machines. Oh and Mark, the good people at Slackware have finally released version 12.0 of their excellent distribution, and this contains a 2.6 series one as its standard one. (It seems the UMSDOS file system is gone for good.) -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] Let Novell Know if you want a easy CMS-friendly starter system!

2007-05-29 Thread Gregg C Levine
lmost anything else to an emulated environment on Intel. It happens I triggered it, but that's all I'll say.) -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[E

Re: Wiki

2007-05-17 Thread Gregg C Levine
duled discussions, with a few arguments thrown in. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RPN01 > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:02 AM >

Re: Humor? Microsoft declares: "The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007."

2007-05-15 Thread Gregg C Levine
associated cost be passed on to the buy of the hardware. However it got laughed out of the forum because he, (or was it she?) refused to believe that I was indeed serious and using that form of phrasing. However here’s where it gets screwy, my local LUG is reacting very strangely to this issue. -- Gregg C

Re: vnc on RHEL4

2007-03-07 Thread Gregg C Levine
e made any mistakes in my assertions there, please feel free to offer corrections. Usual prizes are available for those of you who do find any need for them. However Dennis I'll gladly accept something hanging around your place of work as long as it's not too big to fit into the mail

Re: Slightly OT: MP-3000 wanted, maybe

2007-02-21 Thread Gregg C Levine
rk, I typically stuff everything in. However we are entitled to our differences. I will now return this thread to its original discussion. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi   > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [ma

Re: Kernel Compilation Failure with gcc 3.4.6

2006-09-11 Thread Gregg C Levine
folks I mean that the mirror is based someplace in Australia.) On a side note, I don't suppose you know when 11.0 is going to be ready to be "shipped"? -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -Original Message---

Re: Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview

2006-08-03 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! I agree. Or perhaps the same sounds that a penguin would make? It would fit the image of what's really doing all the work there. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 39

Re: Brain dead question

2006-07-21 Thread Gregg C Levine
ld do the trick. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David > Heilman > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 3:31 PM > To: LINUX-390@V

Re: SLES/SLED10 RC Software Available

2006-06-30 Thread Gregg C Levine
default desktop, but I have not had the chance to examine the package sets. But then again that's my opinion talking and not experience talking. Didn't this same argument surface when the issues of the TOD clock for big guy first surface? -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force w

Re: Does root password expire?

2006-06-15 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! Betsie as far as I know, (for Intel Linux only.) it is not supposed to happen that way. User level ones do, but not the root user. I think Mark already explained why that can happen. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-

Re: OT: Digital signatures and our mail list

2006-06-05 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! I believe that's what I saw as well. I can't remember the exact period as to when we did discuss this, but that's what came out of it. However I just saw one which had its signature intact. (It was also sent in HTML as well but that's for a different argument.) -- G

OT: Digital signatures and our mail list

2006-06-05 Thread Gregg C Levine
hentic one and indeed belongs to the person who signed it in the first place. Should anyone have a problem with this request please contact me off-list for a discussion further on this complex issue. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always.&

Re: Looking for some 'alternatives'

2006-06-01 Thread Gregg C Levine
for posting to an FTP service that would be exposing its locations to your HTTPD service, it may not be possible on the Operating Systems from IBM. Not for Linux however, just the regular ones from IBM. (Sorry Jim, Alan.) -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be wit

Re: Oracle 10.2?

2006-05-30 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! Is it my imagination, or did Oracle support offer the wrong OS in their response? I believe Chris you asked about 10.2 of Oracle for Linux on Z, rather then what she stated. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-

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

2006-05-17 Thread Gregg C Levine
that the experts who I know IBM has either working for them, or working for the companies on this list, you know who you are, it means that the days are numbered for that publication. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi

Re: Google out of capacity?

2006-05-05 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! Google runs Linux. It quite logically wrote its own distribution using the Linux from Scratch Book rules. And naturally wrote its own file system. And I looked at the original website. It made me think of Slash Dot, except with more intelligent posters. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Google out of capacity?

2006-05-04 Thread Gregg C Levine
out of context. And besides, to view the link you've posted, requires a subscription. Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

Re: GPFS

2006-04-11 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! Jim, you mention this: "Sorry, but GPFS is available only for Linux on x86, Linux on POWER and AIX on POWER. There are no plans to make this available on zSeries." Okay, where do I find GPFS for Linux on x86 on the IBM websites? --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Rem

Re: 3270 keyboard setup so that "vi " can be used

2006-04-03 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello! Good question. On my own systems who run Intel Linux, Slackware in case anyone is curious, I only use vi when necessary. Would the VIM (vim) editor run on a system that's using the 3270 style keyboard? Something else to think about. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Re

Re: CentOS vs. Tuttle, OK

2006-03-28 Thread Gregg C Levine
d of thing that's called far beyond the call of duty. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Jon Brock > Sent:

Re: OT: Re: Re-compile XEN 3.0

2006-03-17 Thread Gregg C Levine
success by using that release of Xen and either Red Hat, or Debian, but definitely not SuSe. I suspect Slackware would definitely work, but I do not have the machine resources to try it. -- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-

Re: VSFTP Daemon

2006-02-17 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Good question. Is it a possible that it was removed from the SLES kits because at the time there might have been an open security issue with it? When I build a server for a customer, (Intel currently), I normally select ProFTPD, and eventually switch over to the one made

Re: Xen

2006-02-17 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Indeed. I remember spending an interesting several hours at their NYC offices, one of the scheduled items that were discussed was indeed Xen. It happens I raised that very same issue. They did confirm that the only way to manage something when using Xen and their OS, was

Re: Linux on Intel;

2006-02-10 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Let's see The only brand I can think of, that is its available practically everywhere is Belkin. They make excellent USB cards. They've had a USB 2.0 one out for a while now in fact I had bought a USB 1.1 card from them at the same time they brought out the

Re: Next dumb question: Searching for a product

2006-02-06 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Tom would the Ghostscript product do what you are looking for, in your shop? --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: CPU Consumption by ksoftirqd_CPUx processes

2006-01-13 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine I believe you are right Marcy. For the S/390 world, the kernel developers needed to solve the SMP issues very quickly. They sacrificed scaling to match the needs of managing hardware processors. Now this depends on the kernel version that comes with SLES8. As with

Re: z/Linux to p/Linux

2006-01-05 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine If I may comment a bit. I have seen an ESX system startup. It wasn't pretty. I also do not remember when. I do remember noting that its startup sequences did in fact resemble Red Hat Linux. Possibly one of the earlier versions before they went to the FC pr

Re: VMWare: Virtual Machine Security Flaw 'Very Serious'

2005-12-23 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Indeed. I actually read the posting. I wonder how many black hat hackers are aware of it. And have exploited it. Oh and have a good holiday Dave. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi >

Re: JRun on SLES9

2005-12-07 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Actually yes. I've seen that happen when I try to execute a binary that's not in the format my system uses. Sometimes there are other reasons, but mine happens to be an x86. The Big Iron is obviously S/390 and related systems. And according to one of our members

Re: SSH for zVM?

2005-10-20 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Question! What are the settings for the /dev/rdr and the /dev/punch? Naturally I know these are S/390 Linux and zVM appropriate, but it seemed like a good question at the time. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always.&quo

Re: Linux kernel and git

2005-10-18 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Mark, when I was building my Slackware kernels from raw kernel source code, rather then from the stuff provided by the company I'd visit www.kernel.org to let me know what the newest revision for either the 2.2 series or for that matter which version of the 2.4 serie

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

2005-10-12 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine An expression said by Pogo comes to mind. "We have met the enemy. And he is us." --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [m

Re: 2005-10-04 Recommended Linux on zSeries code drop to developerWorks

2005-10-06 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Mark, the way people argue, won't change much when they get older, when it covers technology. I am convinced however. This is far more restrained then the usual flame war, "Why do this, this way?", as opposed to "Do this, this way?". --- Gregg

Re: ELF Binaries and Linux on z/Series

2005-09-30 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Since the both of you, Adam, Chris, have commented on this, I'll post both here: Adam, I'm leaving out of this discussion Oracle, Chris, I also left out TSM, and IBM's DB2. Basically I was thinking of the system as a whole, before we start installing our s

Re: ELF Binaries and Linux on z/Series

2005-09-30 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine How do you figure? Besides, isn't closed source some what anathema to Linux by now? Even the majority of special-purpose IBM written modules aren't OCO by now. I mean other then the one for the tape drives. Yes, Alan I know I did it again, feel free to comp

Lotus Domino servers and Linux-

2005-09-23 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine One of my customers is finally leaning towards my direction towards Linux. He would like me to setup a system to act as a mail management server for his system. Intel of course, but that's predictable. I suggested, expecting it to be turned down, that it should

Re: OT: but so funny.

2005-09-10 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine But it's nice to know that ESR maintained his sense of decorum, and objectivity, and really didn't try to destroy the guy on the subject of intelligent recruitment. And yes, I have met some clueless 'droids from that place. (Clue here is that word I used

Listserve foibles

2005-08-12 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine I'm going on vacation tomorrow afternoon. So I want the list server to not send me any messages from the three groups I subscribe to here. Naturally I asked the list server for its commands. It did not include a "NOMAIL" command as part of its co

Re: Security questions and scads of NOUSER based SSH attacks

2005-07-21 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine This is all good advice, I'll probably need to dig up documentation on iptables, and go on from there. And as it happens this is a relatively new system so I am the only user. But yes, people who do get permission to access my systems do need to choose non dicti

Security questions and scads of NOUSER based SSH attacks

2005-07-20 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Question, is anyone seeing activity on their Internet connected L/390 systems regarding the SSH port, and this NOUSER thing? All of sudden I'm seeing anywhere from two to as many as four different attacks on my system, Slackware 10.1 with all of the noted security

Re: SLES9 Installation - Very Basic

2005-07-19 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine I see you fine Mike. What's the system telling you? - Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: PHP-based Content Management Programs Under Threat

2005-07-05 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Is it just me, or are the exact same PHP security risks being discussed on the security lists for Slackware? They keep posting newer packages with those complaints fixed. Or so it would seem. And if there are so many such problems surfacing, then why are so many sites

Re: My status...

2005-06-28 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Well David, you do know what they say about a secret written down versus one spoken, I suppose? Good luck with your next venture. Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -Original Messag

Re: Some comments on the new XBox

2005-05-12 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine One of the shops where I buy some stuff, sells XBOX support gear, in addition to the thing itself. They sell a third party keyboard for the thing. And Adam is correct, the connectors do resemble USB ones. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Pro-SCO hits a new low

2005-05-10 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine David A, that confirms a theory I had about that outfit, a number of years earlier. Now I am all for keeping in touch with the companies one meets at trade shows, or seminars. However, that firm has a lousy trade record when it comes to sending out unsolicited e-mail

Re: Sles 8.0 service pack 2.0 and 3.0

2005-05-04 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine You mean its forming a pattern? Coincidences often form patterns. Before we get involved in one of the national debates regarding that life form, I suggest we return to our usual discussion. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: libgtk-x11-2.0.so

2005-05-03 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine I've noticed that as well. For example, they originally included a large amount of items which were more appropriate for the desktop world. And early on, Linux on S/390 also included the hardware clock scripts which looked for the real time clock. I would imagine

Re: I have a chance to get my hands on a brand new itanium box here at the office

2005-04-26 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine James, what is it running at the moment? I believe Suse does have a distribution configured for that platform, same with the people at Red Hat. Then again, I use Slackware, and they prefer to be on the IA32 platform. Suggest you check the websites for both distributions

Re: SSH based attacks

2005-04-12 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Make sense. Alan, would you be willing to explain further? But please send this idea off list. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenob

Re: SSH based attacks

2005-04-12 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine I should. However, my problem is that I can't find an easy to understand explanation for setting up IPTABLES. I can provide one clew. So far, that worm is not causing any more attacks. It's as if it had stopped. For that explanation can you po

SSH based attacks

2005-04-12 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Of the systems that run Linux, how many of you have them directly accessible to the Internet? As all of you know, I run Slackware Linux here, for Intel, practically every day the system is on, I see people attempting to access the system via SSH from unknown, to it, IP

Security advisories for both Slackware, and other distributions

2005-01-19 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine I've been reading, and remembering to apply all of the upgraded packages that Slackware has been creating for itself based on the numerous security advisories that they quote. This is for Intel mind, but I surmise that Mark has been doing the same for S/390. No

Re: Sigh.. is it really too much trouble to check the terminal type?

2004-10-20 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine And I agree with you, David, regarding the terminal settings for the different systems we use. Some sort of detection mechanism should be created to prevent these guessing games. Of course, if wishes were banthas, or penguins, we'd have a heard of

Re: FreeVM-L lives! [was: Linux Questions]

2004-10-14 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Actually, according to the folks at LSOFT, their software was ported to Linux, they might be able to confirm that a port was done to what we discuss here. I bumped into them at a trade show a while ago, discussed the subject. At first they thought I was daft, then as the

Re: Installing hcp

2004-10-12 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine If I remember correctly its so that Linux will know where each module is, and what symbols are exported. Granted Linux for the Z series is not completely the same as for Intel systems, but that part should be correct. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A request for whomever at standardbank.co.za

2004-10-08 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine I can safely attest to the fact that it is indeed happening for the list that supports the H entity with its problems. I just sent off a message concerning someone's porting efforts, or ideas, and why it's not a good idea. And then got back a complaint from

Re: A request for whomever at standardbank.co.za

2004-10-06 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Jim, this has not been seen by me. I did send one off to the list, commenting on John's posting of the link from Groklaw concerning that patent law snafu yesterday. Must have happened since then. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROT

Re: Groklaw: Kodak sues (and wins!) Sun for patent violation on Java.

2004-10-04 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Having read the story I am inclined to agree. But I'd also add revolting to that. It's reprehensible, when a supposedly reputable company such as Kodak would stoop so low. The patent laws should be revised. ------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL

Re: Iso images for slackware/390. Where??

2004-09-30 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Mark will probably complain that I stole his lines, but here goes: They don't exist as such as of yet. To find Slackware/390 in both forms I suggest you visit the website, www.slack390.org as far as I know that site will describe the only means to obtain the e

Re: linuxvm.org offline

2004-09-19 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Barton, folks, my AT&T DSL hookup is also a COVAD job. Apparently COVAD supplies the high-speed data lines for AT&T, how I don't know. I did not ask. However, since I saw one of those attempts streaming at my setup, about a week earlier, I can sympathize wit

Re: Off charter - Mickeysoft

2004-09-15 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Compliments are in order Adam, you've just made my evening. Wait a minute, our Fish? He was decidedly polite in his last few postings. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force wi

Re: Off charter - Mickeysoft

2004-09-15 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Phil, that's a normal idiotic diagnostic message. It's also written to be as insulting as possible to the user. For myself IE has been throwing those for a longish while now. Office products have been behaving themselves for a while now. Oh, and what soun

Re: Slack/390

2004-08-23 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Mark, that was me. And your interpretation of my instructions are indeed correct. Richard if this works, I'd appreciate getting an e-mail. No comment regarding the GNOME desktop however. I looked at the Labtam product, as well as one other. Way too expensive for my

Re: Slack/390

2004-08-23 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine One clause must be given here, with regards to the following statements, I have been using the Slackware distribution because it works for me. You have tried the MIX X server? Then you should have read their FAQ on accessing the services from a Linux box. Their FAQ uses

Re: Slack/390 - where ???

2004-08-12 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine I believe the location is, ftp://ftp.ibibilio.org there is a directory called Linux (but in lower case), under the pub one. Then go to the distributions one. And you will have ample help here, for facilitating your work with it. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL

Re: SLES9 and SCSI

2004-08-05 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Jim how does the Initial Root device builder install its modules? And how are they loaded when the system is booted? Can you deselect those from the scripts? Remember Linux was first created on a PC, and contains many mechanisms that are more appropriate to the PC

Re: IBM opensources Derby

2004-08-04 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine Umf. That's what I get for posting before my morning coffee solution.. Change "have" to "haven't". --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force

Re: IBM opensources Derby

2004-08-04 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Why Phil, I didn't know you saw that, and cared. That was stated tongue in cheek. And I did note that your reforming. Which this post indicates. I have seen one that inflamed anyone in over a year. The last one was, well, call it about two or more years ea

Re: Suse install under z/vm

2004-08-03 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine I'm probably chiming in with an opinion late for this thread but here goes: On my Intel based systems, I need to make sure the right hard disk is assigned. Inside the device directory, they go hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13

Re: For the security weenies

2004-08-02 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine If you can't convince them, confuse them. That being said, I prefer the systems from Star Trek. I'll leave that to the imagination of everyone here. ------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: Groklaw: Sun looks at buying Novell.

2004-08-02 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine I agree. It is funny. However the comments below it, resemble that of slash-dot. Little relevance, and almost no intelligence. One of the people there posted a comment regarding something for MS. I wonder where he got his facts? At an OEM briefing, they said it would be

Re: Backup of Virtual Linuxes [WAS: Re: Red Hat AS 3.0]

2004-07-29 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine Adam, folks, and especially you, Jim. I spent the better part of a session on IBM software, middle and other wise, trying to convince some 'droid from Tivoli of that fact. He was firmly convinced that the only purpose for z/VM was that it should be used to m

Re: CA Open Sources DB at LinuxWorld

2004-07-29 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Neale, for those of us who've forgotten what Ingres is, would you care to present a restatement of facts regarding the database product? Or for that matter anyone else. I recognize the name from the Cliff Stoll book, but that's about it. -----

Re: Linux 2.6 Kernel

2004-07-19 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine I second that thought. And a little late perhaps. William see if you can boot with your earlier kernel, and make a note of the messaging output that the whole process generates. Then reset things to talk to the newer one, and match the notes you've made wit

Having problems replying to posts

2004-07-16 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Here's my problem. My ISP had a traumatic event from the severe weather from this week. I'd like to be able to reply to some posts, including the one from William Scully, regarding the 2.6 family problems he's been having since I recognized them from m

Test

2004-07-15 Thread Gregg C Levine
We are testing our connection to the Internet. Please disregard. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke.&q

Re: APL and the like (and some WAY off topic typewriter questions ....)

2004-07-09 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine John, where in Florida? And for keeping the tourists down to a minimum the state has two options. One are the bugs, they are as big as fighters down there, and two, happens to be the alligators. It happens there are more of them, then there are people

Re: APL and the like (and some WAY off topic typewriter questions ....)

2004-07-09 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine You forgot one government agency. IRS. Or even the DOD. But one wonders. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use

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