Re: Mapping Minidisks to File Systems

2008-01-29 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
S390utils on RHEL contains the lsdasd command, which shows this. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:48 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Mapping Minidisks to File Systems

Re: Building kernel modules on Linux 390

2007-11-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Coming into this a bit late, so sorry if I missed the point... On Red Hat, there's a supplied kernel-devel package that has JUST ENOUGH of the kernel source to allow you to build third-party modules. You only really need the full source package if you're going to rebuild the kernel itself, or mod

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

2007-11-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
I've been watching the OQO for a couple of years now. The only thing holding me back has been the price. There are a number of similar devices in the UMPC form factor. I DID buy a mini-pc a couple of years ago that runs Linux and Hercules very well. It's about the size of a CD player, but that

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

2007-11-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
One of my personal fantasies is to run zOS under Hercules on an OQO. Licensing issues aside, THAT would be cool! -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Cox Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:18 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINU

Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on System z

2007-11-29 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Met him once, a few years back, when we were doing Linux-on-z the first time. Nice guy, very smart. Wore wrist braces because of carpal tunnel problems. Hope he's doing better with that. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Andrews Sent

Re: "Large" Number of DASD on zLinux on zVM

2007-10-26 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
ry and practice are different." On 10/26/07 10:59 AM, "Hall, Ken (GTI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is your dasd driver a module, and are you using an initrd? > > If this is the case, the range is taken from /etc/modprobe.conf in the > initrd, not

Re: "Large" Number of DASD on zLinux on zVM

2007-10-26 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Is your dasd driver a module, and are you using an initrd? If this is the case, the range is taken from /etc/modprobe.conf in the initrd, not /etc. You need to rebuild the initrd and reboot. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Henry Sent

Re: Is anyone connecting to a Hitachi SAN-box with FCP NPiV?

2007-10-23 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
We're getting ready to try it with EMC DMX. IBM has been very supportive, but we have a contract with them. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Collinson.Shannon Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:22 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [LI

Re: Defining an LPAR on a z box to run LINUX

2007-08-02 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
When we first tried Linux in an LPAR, about 3 months ago, we were concerned about this. The LPAR we were using was defined for another purpose, and had access to 12,000+ DASD devices. We went to IBM, and they recommended CIO_IGNORE. I tested that under VM, and it appeared to work, but when we tr

Re: LVM/Ext3 extend

2007-08-01 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
It works in 2.6.9 in RHEL4 using ext2online. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Smith Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:34 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] LVM/Ext3 extend Now that I think about it, it was after 2.6

Re: vmcp during boot results in Error: Could not open device /dev/vmcp: No such device

2007-07-02 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Udev should handle this automatically. Like I said in the previous note, however, it can take up to 10 seconds for the device node to appear. Race conditions of this type appear to be common during rc.sysinit, and also affect fcp devices, particularly when you use them in combination with LVM and

Re: vmcp during boot results in Error: Could not open device /dev/vmcp: No such device

2007-07-02 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
There's a delay between the time the module gets loaded and udev notices and creates the device node. This has bit us on other devices (tape, fcp) as well. We've had some discussions with Red Hat about it, and there's supposed to be some kind of fix in RHEL 4.5 or 5.0. -Original Message

Re: Hercules 3.05 announcement

2007-06-28 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Runs very well under Fedora 7, as long as you build it there. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:20 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Hercules 3.05 announcement Jay Mayna

Re: PAV and RHEL 4 issue, not found on pathvec

2007-06-15 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
I have device-mapper-multipath-0.4.5-16.1.RHEL4, but based on what I saw, I don't see how this can be fixed without an update to the kernel driver. The driver at the U4 level doesn't export vendor and model info into sysfs, so there doesn't appear to be any way for device-mapper-multipath to id

Re: PAV and RHEL 4 issue, not found on pathvec

2007-06-15 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
I spent a lot of time going around with this. The problem seemed to come down to that with the kernel I'm using (2.6.9-42.0.8), the dasd driver doesn't provide vendor and model info in sysfs, so device-mapper-multipath can't match up the devices with a rule set. The newer driver in RHEL5 does

Re: FCP - shared disk [was: RHEL 4 - FCP - tape drives]

2007-06-05 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Here's what we were told: Without NPIV, the FCP CHPID acts like a shared HBA, and all LUNS are visible to all virtual machines in all LPARs. Only one OS instance can use a given LUN, however. If another tries, the LUN will appear busy. WITH NPIV, the system assigns an arbitrary virtual WWPN to

Re: RHEL 4 - FCP - tape drives

2007-06-05 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
nal Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Hinson Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:45 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: RHEL 4 - FCP - tape drives On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:29 -0600, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On Tue, Jun 5, 2007 at 9:3

Re: RHEL 4 - FCP - tape drives

2007-06-05 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
We just went through this. First, you need the lin_tape package from IBM. That has the device-specific drivers for the tape drives. You might have to find the source RPM and rebuild it to get a version that matches your kernel. The zcfp.conf file has five fields, but only three are meaningful.

Re: Is there a better place to ask about Linux-390 under Hercules?

2007-02-15 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
The disk issue is most likely the parameter passed to the DASD driver in modprobe.conf. I think all of the distros handle it the same way. Remember, if you change the address list, and you're using an initrd, you might have to rebuild the initrd. On the listserv title, send a note to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Time Zone problem

2007-01-09 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
The tzdata RPM is a noarch, so a version from any distro that's even close should work. I had been asked to look into this, and I was watching for the change to RHEL4, but there has never been any mention in the changelog for the package. So I did a quick search, and found out about using the zdu

Re: Installed package differences (minor off-topic digression)

2006-12-27 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
The sounds are burned into my brain. The difference between the '33 with local echo (Tzchunk), remote-echo (as used with PDP8) Tchunk, and no echo (as used with PDP8 logging into TSS8) Tzzz Tzzz Tzzz... Oh well, enough of that.. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[E

Re: Installed package differences (minor off-topic digression)

2006-12-27 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Nope, sold it. Wish I hadn't. -Original Message- From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 4:13 PM To: Hall, Ken (GTI); LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Installed package differences (minor off-topic digression) "Discribe the sou

Re: Installed package differences (minor off-topic digression)

2006-12-27 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Wish I still had my ASR33, although I don't miss the LA30. I was trying to describe the unique sounds of a Teletype to my 15-year-old son the other day. >>-- db (whose ASR33 and LA36 are working just fine, thank you.) If you are not an

Re: sles 10 install - 32 bit packages

2006-12-21 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Same thing happens on RHEL4, and it confused me at first. Shared libraries & such are installed twice, so you can run both 32 and 64 bit binaries on the 64 bit versions. The 32 bit libraries go in /usr/lib, and the 64 bit ones in /usr/lib64. This can produce some interesting problems if package

Re: ooRexx & Bastille for SLES10?

2006-12-21 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Suse distributed Bastille with SLES8 and SLES9 (IIRC), but it didn't work. When I called for support, I was told it was known to be broken, and not supported on 390/z. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephanie A Maginn Sent: Thursday, Dece

Re: Central vs Expanded Storage

2006-11-03 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Actually, in it's original form (on 3090 or 9021, IIRC), Expanded storage was physically different memory. It was slower, and therefore cheaper. As real storage got cheaper, it was positioned as a paging-avoidance mechanism until the OS could be enhanced to address more real storage. HDS used th

Re: SMART Card Problem mapping to our Linux Drives

2006-11-02 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Assuming these are Samba shares under Linux, there's a mechanism in Samba to map users between the Windows client and Samba. Check the Samba doc for details. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brown, Larry J. Sent: Thursday, November 02, 20

Re: Linux under VM:Operator

2006-09-13 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
The autologin patch wasn't part of SLES8 when I was using that, but it's in RHEL4. I don't know about SLES9 or 10. Check the man page for mingetty to make sure. To enable, just change the line in /etc/inittab from: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty console --noclear to: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/min

Re: Methods to move DVD software to zLinux?

2006-09-12 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
DVD's should be able to convert to ISO files. I've gotten DVD ISO images of Fedora that mount just like CD ISOs, and burn onto DVD-Rs. You still might need a Linux-x86 box somewhere in there though, to avoid case-mangling issues with Windows. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 P

Re: SLES vs RHEL

2006-08-31 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Considering we're using both, I'd assume so. There's a minor bug in the FCP implementation though. Red Hat is working on it. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:13 PM > To: LINUX-39

Re: SLES vs RHEL

2006-08-31 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Red Hat has also been very cooperative with us on our extended POC study. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Ceruti, Gerard G > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:43 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] SLES vs RHEL >

Re: SLES vs RHEL

2006-08-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Okay, RHEL4 is 2.6.9-42.0.2 (can they get any more digits?) as of today's update. Looks like they're leapfrogging. My FC5 x86 machine is 2.6.17. I forget whether Red Hat said they would be going that high in RHEL5 (probably not), but if they are doing it for Intel, they'll be doing it on z.

Re: SLES vs RHEL

2006-08-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
> > If you're paying for SLES and yast doesn't work, whinge and complain > about it:-) I do think it has some bugs, and some components may be a > little frail (I got openldap set up, and then broke it, but OTOH I got > openldap set up much more easily than on RHEL or Debian or FC). > Don't get

Re: SLES vs RHEL

2006-08-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
My experience with Yast has not been good. Maybe it's better now, but when I used it, it tended to break things and hide shadow copies of configuration files where we couldn't find them, then write over our customized REAL files when we least expected. After having to fix a couple of broken sy

Re: Swap partition "filling up" on RHEL4 - NOT

2006-08-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
006 11:37 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Swap partition "filling up" on RHEL4 - NOT > > > If you're running under VM, make the swap devices a virtual > disk. They > can handle a significantly higher load than the real disk. >

Re: SLES vs RHEL

2006-08-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
All I can tell you is from our experience. When we first looked at Linux a few years back (2002 or so), Red Hat didn't have a usable s390/zSeries distribution. We started with SLES7, and moved to SLES8. It wasn't till (relatively) recently, with RHEL3 for zSeries, that Red Hat had anything wo

Swap partition "filling up" on RHEL4 - NOT

2006-08-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
I tracked down a copy of the actual report from the performance guy, and it turns out we've been (partially) barking up the wrong tree. Sorry for the confusion. The real story is that the large swap partition DEVICE was 100% BUSY during part of the test. The original summary report said 100

Re: Swap partition "filling up" on RHEL4

2006-08-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
M > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Swap partition "filling up" on RHEL4 > > > Does 'Teamquest' run on the websphere machine? If so, don't discount > the possibility that it caused the problem. > > Hall, Ken (GTI) wrote: >

Re: Swap partition "filling up" on RHEL4

2006-08-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
UX-390] Swap partition "filling up" on RHEL4 > > > Hall, Ken (GTI) wrote: > > Here's how it looks NOW. Can't speak for the time of the failure. > You stated, one swap device is full and another is not (at the time of > failure). Where do you get that data from

Re: Swap partition "filling up" on RHEL4

2006-08-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
more info then. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Alan Cox > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:06 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Swap partition "filling up" on RHEL4 > > > Ar Mer, 20

Re: Swap partition "filling up" on RHEL4

2006-08-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Here's how it looks NOW. Can't speak for the time of the failure. MemTotal: 1345376 kB MemFree: 6968 kB Buffers: 73984 kB Cached: 134016 kB SwapCached: 10784 kB Active:1110932 kB Inactive: 105864 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree:0

Swap partition "filling up" on RHEL4

2006-08-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
We've been doing some load testing with WAS on RHEL4 under VM, and the other day something weird came up. The machine is defined with 1.3 gb. storage under zVM 5.2, and about 1.5 gb. swap space in two partitions: One about 1 gb. (dasdf), and the other about .5 gb. (dasdd) We use a product cal

Re: Filesystem type and re-sizing filesystems

2006-08-28 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
You can resize ext2 and ext3 filesystems while mounted with ext2online. It's a standard part of RHEL4. I don't know about other distributions. We've used it, and it works fine. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carsten Otte Sent: Monday, Augu

Re: [OT] I WANT A PONY

2006-07-07 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
You might want to keep in mind a scene from the movie "Dogma": Jay: Guys like us just don't fall out of the **cking sky, you know. [Rufus falls out of the sky] Jay: Beautiful, naked, big-titted women just don't fall out of the sky, you know. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 P

Re: Unexpectedly closing VM console breaks Linux server under z/VM

2006-06-29 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
into CP > READ, after (the default) 15 minutes, CP will force it off. > Try killing > your 3270 emulator after reconnecting, seeing CP READ, and waiting 15 > minutes. I think you'll find out the guest "goes away." > > > Mark Post > > -Original M

Re: Unexpectedly closing VM console breaks Linux server under z/VM

2006-06-29 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
I wonder what we're doing differently. I just tried this with my test server several times, and it disconnected properly each time, leaving the guest running. When I logged back ON though, the session went to CP READ and the server was partly locked up until I satisfied the read. > -Ori

Re: Unexpectedly closing VM console breaks Linux server under z/VM

2006-06-29 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Maybe if there's no network, like you forgot to change the IP address before moving the machine to a different subnet. I've recovered quite a few unreachable machines using the 3270 console. It just requires some familiarity with line-mode commands. > -Original Message- > From: Linux o

Re: Unexpectedly closing VM console breaks Linux server under z/VM

2006-06-29 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Make sure you have "CP SET RUN ON" in the PROFILE EXEC for the machine. Sounds to me like it's going into CP READ when it disconnects. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Rich Smrcina > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:30 AM > To: LINUX

Re: Changeing system name and IP address

2006-05-17 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Red Hat (RHEL4) is simple, compared to SLES. I think there are only two or three files involved, compared to like 6 or 7 on SLES. We did this quite a bit because of the way we cloned systems, and Yast wasn't an option because all we had after the clone was the 3270 console. > -Original Mes

Re: Changeing system name and IP address

2006-05-17 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
For SLES9, don't forget /etc/hosts, and if your subnet changed, /etc/sysconfig/network/routes. There may also be a host name in /etc/inews_mail_gateway. If you're using Postfix for mail, /etc/postfix/main.cf. You might also have to delete ssh keys in /etc/ssh. Basically, delete any file with

Re: Changeing system name and IP address

2006-05-17 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Depends on which distro and version you're using. SLES7 is different from SLES8 and SLES9, and they're different from RHEL. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Mike Lovins > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 10:22 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.

Re: Is it possible to move an LVM from guest to guest?

2006-05-11 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
> along the model of other commands chmod, chroot, .... > > Richard Hitt[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hall, Ken (GTI) wrote: > > >Assuming cchccwdev is a program, Red Hat doesn't have it, so > here's the "manual" procedure, which should work on a

Re: Is it possible to move an LVM from guest to guest?

2006-05-11 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
e! > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Ranga Nathan > Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:58 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Is it possible to move an LVM from guest to > guest? > > > &

Re: Is it possible to move an LVM from guest to guest?

2006-05-10 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Unmount the filesystem, and run "vgexport" for the volume group. Then take the volume offline via sysfs, and detach it from the guest (This assumes you're on the 2.6 kernel. With 2.4 it's a little more complicated). Repeat the process in reverse on the other system, doing a vgimport on the ot

Re: What file system type to use for LVM ?

2006-04-27 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Mount options NOATIME and NODIRATIME But I don't see those on the current Reiser doc pages. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Phil Tully > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 1:28 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Wha

Re: SuSE 2.2.16 kernel to test

2006-04-19 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
gt; > To the best of my knowledge it is SLES 7. It was installed > so long ago that > I can't remember. Any help will be gratefully received! > > Loren Charnley, Jr. > IT Systems Engineer > Family Dollar Stores, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (704) 847-6961 x 2000 > &

Re: SuSE 2.2.16 kernel to test

2006-04-19 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Is this SLES7? I wrote a script way-back-when that handles this, but it's customized for our configuration. At least I can identify the files involved though. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Loren Charnley, Jr. > Sent: Wednesday, Apr

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] GPFS

2006-04-12 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
18 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Fw: [LINUX-390] GPFS > > > On 4/12/06, Hall, Ken (GTI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > IIRC, UnionFS was part of the core of the Levanta "virtual > server" product, when we looked at it in 2

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] GPFS

2006-04-12 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
IIRC, UnionFS was part of the core of the Levanta "virtual server" product, when we looked at it in 2003-2004. The idea was that you installed each product group in a separate filesystem, and then layered them onto each other to produce custom-tailored images. Obviously, they had it working on

Re: Checking with the experts...

2006-04-03 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
FTP clients and servers are supposed to handle this transparently. If you send in ASCII or "text" mode, the proper end-of-line protocol should be automatically used on the receiving system. In binary mode, of course, you're on your own. RPM packages should obviously always be sent in binary m

Re: Setting Hostname in SuSE Linux image on VM

2006-03-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Just a suspicion, but I think Bernard may be thinking of /proc/sys/kernel/hostname, which does show zero length, but when displayed, contains the host name. I think Ryan (and I) were looking at the program /bin/hostname, which on my machine is 15464 bytes. > -Original Message- > From:

Re: Setting Hostname in SuSE Linux image on VM

2006-03-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
I think you hit on it. For some reason my /bin/hostname file is > completely empty. In another image it looks like a binary file. > > Any idea how to rebuild it? > > Thanks, > Ryan > > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Be

Re: Setting Hostname in SuSE Linux image on VM

2006-03-30 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Try running "which hostname" to make sure you're picking up the right program. On my Red Hat system, it's in /bin. (We used to run Suse, so I'm familiar with that too, I just don't have a sample Suse system anymore.) Then run rpm -qf `which hostname` to find out which package it belongs to. O

Re: Cannot read package from the installation media. Media error?

2006-02-22 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
My guess would be you're using a Windows FTP server on your laptop, and this doesn't work. You either need to use an FTP server or NFS on Linux. The problem has to do with Windows being rather casual about case-sensitivity in file names. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Linux on Intel;

2006-02-10 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
They even had one that was selling for $50, with a $50 rebate a couple of years ago. Made a dandy Christmas present. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Alan Altmark > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 2:23 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU >

Re: Linux on Intel;

2006-02-10 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Just as an FYI on this topic, I bought some combo USB/Firewire cards at a local PC show a while back. They had no identifiable brand name that I can recall, but they came in blue boxes, and were fairly cheap ($15-$25). They DID NOT work. Using USB 2.0 with my iPod gave all sorts of errors. F

Re: Redhat Linux 2.4.9 Hanging

2005-11-03 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
a bit of a shock though. :) > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Carsten Otte > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:32 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Redhat Linux 2.4.9 Hanging > > >

Re: Redhat Linux 2.4.9 Hanging

2005-11-03 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
> Carsten Otte > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:10 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Redhat Linux 2.4.9 Hanging > > > Hall, Ken (GTI) wrote: > > We used to see behavior like this on our SLES8 systems, > when too many images were brought up

Re: Redhat Linux 2.4.9 Hanging

2005-11-03 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
We used to see behavior like this on our SLES8 systems, when too many images were brought up at once. It seemed to be related to contention for the disks because we'd reboot the images independently and they'd come up fine, and never seemed to hang on individual reboots. Try staggering the aut

Re: iSCSI

2005-10-04 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
I tried a little, but the iSCSI driver package and the Linux kernel never quite seem to be at compatible levels. I believe I got it to compile, but couldn't get any farther. I haven't tried recently though. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf

Re: LVM for system fs in production?

2005-09-20 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
We used LVM for all filesystems except the root FS. Since the volume group "virtualization" is activated by the SYSVINIT scripts, /boot, /lib, /bin and /etc have to be on "native" disk. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Eli > Criffield

Re: Dasdfmt and other potential block sizes

2005-08-15 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
In the "more than you wanted to know" department, I have sitting on my semi-junk pile an old Sony Optical disk drive that came off a Sun Sparcstation clone. It uses 600 mb. optical cartridges that only support a 1024 byte sector. It was originally supported by SunOS (the precursor to Solaris),

Re: Supporting zLinux

2005-08-12 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
I had Nagios up for quite a while. It's not too bad once you understand it. I'd be happy to look at the drafts. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > David Boyes > Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 11:49 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subjec

Re: SLES9 install stuff - more weirdness

2005-08-09 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
In this case though, it's going to depend on how the installer is doing the mounts. If it's issuing a separate mount for each CD image, unless the server allows subdirectories to be mounted under a parent export, it's not going to work. That's how I remember Linux working. > -Original Mes

Re: SLES9 install stuff - more weirdness

2005-08-09 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Try exporting the individual subdirectories. I've run across this sort of NFS weirdness before. You can only directly mount the exported directory, not the ones under it. I know someone is going to tell us it isn't supposed to work this way, but I've been down this road before. > -Origin