Re: How to signal a Linux guest from z/VM?

2006-09-07 Thread John Summerfied
encryption with public/private key management. I was thinking of something slippery like an ampersand, which might be bad if fed unchecked to a shell commandline. I don't think CP's idea of safe characters is quite he same as Unix's. /Tom Kern --- John Summerfied [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: SLE8 and z/9

2006-09-07 Thread John Summerfied
Adam Thornton wrote: On Sep 6, 2006, at 11:38 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: But that's always the issue. If you don't have a Linux support contract, it really doesn't matter what anyone else says. :-) Conversely, if you *do* have a Linux support contract, it doesn't matter what anyone other

Re: can LINUX/390 and z/OS LPARS share devices? LCS or QETH module??

2006-09-06 Thread John Summerfied
David Boyes wrote: I noticed that, if the OSA card is OSA Gigabit Express (OSA-GBX), the last row of the following table. Does that mean, the linux module to be used should be QETH, not LCS. Yes. ( Mark Post had in the first place advised me to leave Marist). Listen to him.

Re: RHEL5 Beta 1

2006-09-06 Thread John Summerfied
Post, Mark K wrote: cel didn't work. I had to put in _something_. If the installation key will be used to determine which packages to install as Brad stated, and it's _likely_ to be along the lines of the current activation codes, this seems to imply some sort of external setup (perhaps in

Re: How to signal a Linux guest from z/VM?

2006-09-06 Thread John Summerfied
Dave Jones wrote: As Dr. Boyes suggests, using the open source IUCV driver is a very good way of solving this type of problem. You can find it here: http://www.sinenomine.net/vm/fsiucv Another approach that might be applicable here is to have a simple client, running on the Linux guest, and

Re: SLE8 and z/9

2006-09-06 Thread John Summerfied
Crispin Hugo wrote: They is/are Novell. IBM have told me that the official Novell view is that sle8 will not run on z9 BC even under z/VM 5. I have not seen this for myself yet. Until answer is satisfactory Ask 'em, Why? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange amounts of paging reported in VM at 4:00 AM.

2006-08-31 Thread John Summerfied
Rich Smrcina wrote: The point of the discussion is that if they all wake up at the same interval (in the case of the MARK message, every 20 minutes), it can cause alot of storage references. I think I understood the point, but unless the entire guest was swapped out, I wouldn't expect it to

Re: Init process consuming CPU

2006-08-29 Thread John Summerfied
Marcy Cortes wrote: It's consistently 6 and 7% of an IFL on 1 http server. On it's twin on the other LPAR, it's consistently about 1.5%. So, is there that much leftover because of the httpd processes? We were wondering about the differences - and also why the velocity numbers don't add up -

Re: Init process consuming CPU

2006-08-29 Thread John Summerfied
Rob van der Heij wrote: On 8/29/06, John Summerfied [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I imagine whatever's running under httpd (CGI, Java, PHP etc) could contribute to it. Wouldn't those run inside the httpd child thread itself, rather than spawn another thread? The httpd parent normally does

Re: Init process consuming CPU

2006-08-29 Thread John Summerfied
Fargusson.Alan wrote: Each CGI runs in its own process. Java typically runs in an application server like Tomcat or WAS, but it can be run as a CGI. I think PHP actually runs the same way as a CGI. yeah, but if they spawn a process then end, httpd adopts the child. If it doesn't clean it

Re: How to find what's been writing to a partition?

2006-08-11 Thread John Summerfied
Dominic Coulombe wrote: There is a directory in / called tmp on which you mount the /tmp filesystem. If you unmount /tmp, there will still be a /tmp, but probably containing no files. So the find command will output /tmp even with the -xdev option, but not its contents. I think that every

Re: Mac Pro

2006-08-11 Thread John Summerfied
Dominic Coulombe wrote: On 8/11/06, Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that Macs are Intel based (duel 3 GH processors)... I wonder if Partition Magic will now support the Mac file system? Partition Magic, along with Boot Magic, is what I use to support multiple OSs on my PCs. The

Re: Mac Pro

2006-08-11 Thread John Summerfied
Adam Thornton wrote: On Aug 11, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:28:53AM -0400, Dominic Coulombe wrote: Linux does support reading files from a HFS or HFS+ filesystem, but writing is dangerous or unsupported - don't remember. That's definitly not true.

Re: SLES10 Install

2006-08-11 Thread John Summerfied
David Boyes wrote: If the virtual NIC definition in the CP directory includes the correct VLAN specification and is defined as an access port on the VSWITCH, the installation system shouldn't know (or care) that VLANs are present. Your old method should work fine. A refinement that might be

Re: question on changing ip/route addrs

2006-08-11 Thread John Summerfied
Macioce, Larry wrote: We are in the planning process of changing our public addrs to bring them in house. But I have a question. I know I can go into YAST and make the change to the network card for the instance ip addr and the router number. But the minute I save the changes I'm going to lose

Re: Mac Pro

2006-08-10 Thread John Summerfied
Dominic Coulombe wrote: Yes, but who knows where Apple will push their bootcamp software... Now I've checked, bootcamp's a lot less than I thought; it seems little more than nothing:-( This doesn't seem very lively either, so not much for those of us who prefer Linux:

Re: Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview

2006-08-04 Thread John Summerfied
Adam Thornton wrote: On Aug 3, 2006, at 7:25 PM, John Summerfied wrote: Alan Altmark wrote: I'd be happy if it just responded Who's there?. :-) Little old lady Little old lady who? I didn't know you can yodel:-| -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Ports

2006-08-04 Thread John Summerfied
Richard Troth wrote: John ... Some recent releases of 'nmap' lack that option. (I say recent describing systems which may still be on the 2.4 kernel, so no telling how far back the utilities may be.) But thanks for the tip! -- R, I guess that's one program you could update to a newer

Re: Small Mail Transport Agent

2006-08-03 Thread John Summerfied
Alan Altmark wrote: On Thursday, 08/03/2006 at 09:56 AST, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, SMTP is a store-and-forward proposition, Since some MUAs (and in particular the mail command) cannot handle failure, then the MTA _must_ accept the initial submission. No,

Re: Ports

2006-08-03 Thread John Summerfied
Marcy Cortes wrote: Thanks all. Richards iptables suggestion did the trick (with the IP changed to the IP of the server). It was TCP. It was done in order to lock out the WAS admin console and instead force that to go through an https server on the same instance that would authenticate the

Re: Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview

2006-08-03 Thread John Summerfied
Alan Altmark wrote: I'd be happy if it just responded Who's there?. :-) Little old lady -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ do not reply off-list

Re: Logging server ? (was Re: Small Mail Transport Agent)

2006-08-03 Thread John Summerfied
Thomas Kern wrote: This sounds like a good idea for another linux appliance. A centralized logging and log-analysis server could be a nice drop-in appliance for a fledgling penguin network. One spot to accumulate logs, rotate logs, analyze logs and archive logs. Sounds much better than having to

Re: Logging server ? (was Re: Small Mail Transport Agent)

2006-08-03 Thread John Summerfied
Dominic Coulombe wrote: I personally like to send my logs to the standard local log file and I also forward them to a remote syslog machine. I use this as a backup in case of the syslog machine being down. Of course I have to destroy local logs after some time, but I like the safety net it

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-28 Thread John Summerfied
David Boyes wrote: I think Lea means: For cluster takeover to work seamlessly, your application has to keep session data in some common location between the servers. There's the point that has me: how do you backup that location? Is it something that, if it fails, you quickly find a new one

Re: Small Mail Transport Agent

2006-07-28 Thread John Summerfied
David Boyes wrote: We are running RHEL4 on these particular guests, and the default MTA is sendmail. I would prefer to run something with a smaller memory footprint if I can; it seems rather pointless to take up much room for something which will only process a couple of messages

Re: Small Mail Transport Agent

2006-07-28 Thread John Summerfied
McKown, John wrote: Why not use your Exchange server as the MTA? Configure the Linux email client to connect to port 25 on the Exchange server's IP address (or hostname, if you are set up to do that). We do emails from batch jobs on z/OS. We have a free software called XMITIP which knows the

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-27 Thread John Summerfied
Stahr, Lea wrote: With clustering, you shut down one image and do an OFFLINE backup while the application runs on the second image. Then bring up the primary image and shutdown the secondary system for backup. which sounds every bit as tricky to me as getting good backups from a live Linux

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-27 Thread John Summerfied
Alan Altmark wrote: On Wednesday, 07/26/2006 at 01:27 EST, J Leslie Turriff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, now, wait; are you saying that the storage device _does_ have a mechanism for communicating with the Linux filesystem to determine what filesystem pages are still cached in main storage

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-27 Thread John Summerfied
Carsten Otte wrote: Fargusson.Alan wrote: I agree. I think you should make your backups with the Linux system down. You should test this to make sure that there is not some other operational error causing problems. I think we got close to the bottom of the stack now: If one can take down

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-27 Thread John Summerfied
J Leslie Turriff wrote: Sounds to me, then, like the use of the snapshot/mirror/peer-to-peer copy features of storage devices e.g. Shark, SATABeast, etc. are currently dangerous to use with Linux filesystems. They would need to be able to coordinate their activities with the filesystem

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-27 Thread John Summerfied
Stahr, Lea wrote: A piece of cake! Use VMUTIL on VM to do the shutdowns and startups and have the backups scheduled appropriately. Or get the CONTROL-M agent and have that do it all from ZOS. snip I don't understand how that addresses my concern. Stahr, Lea wrote: With clustering, you shut

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-27 Thread John Summerfied
Dominic Coulombe wrote: For an example, you can share RO the /usr filesystem. When you apply a patch on the main system which owns the disk in RW, your other machines ARE NOT aware of the changes until you re-mount the filesystem on each Linux machine. I will put that a little more

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-27 Thread John Summerfied
Nix, Robert P. wrote: Not only would you have to shut down all the guests to introduce your maintenance (although not during the actual apply; you could allocate new disks, copy the old ones, and apply your maintenance there, then switch everybody over), Robert Can you check that your email

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-27 Thread John Summerfied
Rick Troth wrote: On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Yu Safin wrote: If you are not trying to save disk (we use about 1 Gb for all system files), why not use something simpler such as unison/rsync to keep all your files synchronized to a master. That way, if the disk takes a hit you won't see all your

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread John Summerfied
Stahr, Lea wrote: I run SuSE SLES 8 under ZVM 5.1 in an IFL. The DASD are in a SAN that is also accessed by ZOS. Backups are taken by ZOS using FDR full volume copies on Saturday morning (low usage). When I restore a backup, it will not boot. The backup and the restore have the same byte counts.

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread John Summerfied
James Melin wrote: This is more of a 'how do YOU do it ancillary question'... Obviously to get a decent system backup from within Linux you should be in single user mode, or even quiesced completely (if you're doing CDL volume backups, for instance). What are people doing to get a given image

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread John Summerfied
Post, Mark K wrote: For one thing, full-volume backups preserve partition information, making recovery much simpler. If I had to recover a hundred Linux My backup script does this: sfdisk /etc/disktab -d /dev/hda I _could_ copy it separately to a separate repository of this info, and I could

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread John Summerfied
David Boyes wrote: Why is everyone so hung up on volume backups? It strikes me that file-level backups are generally a lot easier to work with, and use less archival media. Restore time in DR situations. Volume-level backups are a LOT faster to restore, and you don't have to configure

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread John Summerfied
Carsten Otte wrote: As Alan said, it's a question of one system knowing what's happening on the other system. There's no way that z/OS is going to be able to know that the Linux system is safe (without some kind of automation on BOTH systems to be able to signal same) so dumps taken from

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread John Summerfied
Rob van der Heij wrote: On 7/24/06, Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It strikes me that file-level backups are generally a lot easier to work with, and use less archival media. File level backup is great for oops backup when you erased a few files and want them back. I am not sure

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread John Summerfied
Carsten Otte wrote: But Dominic, it has nothing to do with a journaled file system. The fact that you stopped the application and sync'd the file system (equivalent to unmounting it) is what makes it work, not the file system implementation. Wrong. Due to caching, as correctly described by

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread John Summerfied
Dominic Coulombe wrote: On 7/24/06, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more time: Unless your Linux systems *are completely down* at the time of backup, full volume dumps from outside the Linux system are more than likely to be useless. Can you explain why is that ? To avoid the

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread John Summerfied
Dominic Coulombe wrote: I'm sorry, but I don't get your point. I don't mind losing data on the system filesystems as we are only interested in the database stuff. On 24-Jul-2006, at 19:19, John Summerfied wrote: so you don't care that it doesn't actually work! It might be that in your

Re: Settup SuSE linux For Network Printing.

2006-07-21 Thread John Summerfied
Mike Lovins wrote: Can someone help me. I have been trying to determine how to set up my SuSE linux to access a printer that resides on our network. I have had little luck or I don't understand what I have read. Can someone direct me on what needs to be done or where I can go to get the

Re: Question on /sys/devices/qeth

2006-07-16 Thread John Summerfied
James K Barnett wrote: Hello, First time posting on here, but enjoy going through the emails. Try compose, or click the address you want to write to, rather than reply. Some folk will quietly ignore you - because of the mistake or because they're skipping the entire thread -, but worse,

Re: starting apache

2006-07-11 Thread John Summerfied
Rob van der Heij wrote: On 7/11/06, John Summerfied [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does sudo service apache restart work? Don't see that on my SuSE system. There's rcapache but that is just a symlink into /etc/init.d/apache so that does not buy anything. But as I said, even if it were setting

Re: starting apache

2006-07-11 Thread John Summerfied
Rob van der Heij wrote: On 7/11/06, Rick Troth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider what Kris said about the '-i' flag on 'sudo'. It appears there's no such flag in the sudo that I have with SuSE so I can't tell. It's fairly new: not in RHEL 4 or Fedora Core 3. I think SUSE 10 has it,

Re: starting apache

2006-07-11 Thread John Summerfied
Dominic Coulombe wrote: The C program is a good idea but : 1) remove the gcc and other build tools after the development ! 2) you will still need Tripwire to be sure nobody replaces your binary... or use a RR dasd. The SETUID bit is a good idea if you are sure that the binary is not modified

Re: starting apache

2006-07-11 Thread John Summerfied
Dominic Coulombe wrote: On 7/11/06, John Summerfied [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob van der Heij wrote: On RHL derivatives, service is the one true way to run the init.d scripts. I don't currently have a SUSE system to check for myself, but I think it does have something. You just have

Re: MVSLOGIN for x86 Linux

2006-07-10 Thread John Summerfied
McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 3:36 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: MVSLOGIN for x86 Linux snip Hercules does a fine job of running MVS 3.8, and at one

Re: starting apache

2006-07-10 Thread John Summerfied
Dominic Coulombe wrote: Hi Alan, I would use sudo for this purpose. You can configure this user to execute only selected commands as root. The user only need to provide his own password. Every attemps to run unallowed commands is reported (logged). You can allow the startup/shutdown script

Re: starting apache

2006-07-10 Thread John Summerfied
Rob van der Heij wrote: On 7/10/06, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why you allow them only the init script. The init template provided with most distributions does not depend on the environment beyond the basics. If you let them run a shell in any form, then yes, you will lose.

Re: Cannot open root device, Kernel panic

2006-07-06 Thread John Summerfied
Nix, Robert P. wrote: Actually, you can go through the complete dialog for the install system, creating the network and using the IP address of the failing system. This allows you to start up a (much more comfortable) ssh session. You can even run yast and begin the GUI install, up through

Re: Websphere Information Integrator

2006-07-06 Thread John Summerfied
Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiousity, how much effort is generally involved in porting an application such as this to z? Is it just a matter of building it from source on z and making sure everything works? (Not that even that is in any way a small efford.) Or are there

Re: Cannot open root device, Kernel panic

2006-07-05 Thread John Summerfied
Marist EDU wrote: I see you're fixed, but to explain ... This SLES8 guest under z/VM stopped responding and now when we log on the guest we get the following messages. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to fix this? md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for

Re: Linux guest console via another guest?

2006-06-21 Thread John Summerfied
Vic Cross wrote: Cheers, Vic (got to think of a cool name for *my* alter-ego, since Chuckie is already taken) Verity. Speaks truth, shortens to Very. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/

Re: create a z-linux test system

2006-06-06 Thread John Summerfied
Nix, Robert P. wrote: I'd say that your best bet (and speediest method to get up and running) would be to just install Linux again on the second LPAR, and do the same customizations you did on the first one. Cloning takes some additional planning and setup before you'd be able to successfully

Re: Looking for some 'alternatives'

2006-06-06 Thread John Summerfied
James Melin wrote: Way back in the day, I used FP 98 (again that's what was sanctioned, regardless of how lousy a product it is) back in the day, and that invoked a real FTP conversation irrespective of there being a web server involved. Is there any way to get FP 2003 to just DO what I want

Re: create a z-linux test system

2006-06-06 Thread John Summerfied
Nix, Robert P. wrote: Having Linux up in a zOS partition would be a neat trick, unless you brought zOS down first... Are you talking about a separate LPAR on your system, or did you mean zVM? You can share DASD between Linux instances, as long as the disk is read-only to all Linux images

Re: create a z-linux test system

2006-06-06 Thread John Summerfied
David Boyes wrote: I am talking about *two* LPARs: one is up and running, and I want a second test system in a separate LPAR. Making updates and test on the test system - copying over to the production system. Similar to the method we also use for z/os ... You can share DASD between Linux

Re: Silly question DASD reserve / release.

2006-06-06 Thread John Summerfied
McKown, John wrote: Please be kind. I don't have a z/Linux system around. But I know that you cannot share a filesystem between two z/Linux instances in read/write mode and hope to keep a usable filesystem (in the general case). I wonder why the dasd driver cannot (or does it?) implement an

Re: Help with the sudoer file

2006-06-01 Thread John Summerfied
Nix, Robert P. wrote: Look for the rootpw, targetpw or runaspw option in the Sudoers file. These would force it to ask for root's password instead of the issuing user's password. While not the program default, many distributions come with one of these set. Also, your guard against the use of

Re: Help with the sudoer file

2006-05-28 Thread John Summerfied
Post, Mark K wrote: The password that sudo requests is the password of the user issuing the sudo command. So, if Oper01 issues the sudo command, it will be prompted for the Oper01 password. That is a configuration choice: when I installed openSUSE 10 I discoverd sudo asking for the target

Re: numerical form of root file system?

2006-05-24 Thread John Summerfied
Post, Mark K wrote: It's not an inode value. Inodes are found in file systems, they're not device-related. The number you see is the decimal value of a two-byte hexadecimal number. The hexadecimal number is the major and minor numbers on the device in /dev. For example, on one of my systems,

Re: numerical form of root file system?

2006-05-24 Thread John Summerfied
. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Summerfied Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:46 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: numerical form of root file system? Post, Mark K wrote: It's not an inode value. Inodes

Re: Question on /var/spool

2006-05-23 Thread John Summerfied
LJ Mace wrote: Last week or maybe the week before someone wiped out our 200 pack. With the help of some friends on this and other boards I have put it MOSTLY back together. It boots and things work so now I'm putting some non critical(or what I'd call non critical) files back where they

Re: MySQL location

2006-05-23 Thread John Summerfied
Jon Brock wrote: Sorry. Forgot to put the correct subject heading the first time . . . Jon Anybody know where the default directory for the later versions of MySQL is? It used to be /var/lib/mysql (I think), but I don't know about nowadays. Probablly depends on whether you use a package

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

2006-05-19 Thread John Summerfied
Richard Pinion wrote: I imagine everybody's desktop is different, hardware/OS, but I've not had the same success rate with my home or work PC as you have had. Are you running a Mac or Intel, Linux or Windows? I think the new Mac commercials are sooo cool! Those were two semprons (32-bit)

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] Who's been reading our list...

2006-05-18 Thread John Summerfied
John Campbell wrote: [GRAIN TYPE=SALT MODE=Stand Up Philosopher] A long time ago in a website far, far away, I once sent a note to the fellow talking about mainframes. In fact, some years after I wrote the original author a note and then forgot about it, I discovered that my reply had somehow

Re: Changeing system name and IP address

2006-05-18 Thread John Summerfied
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: Fw: [LINUX-390] Who's been reading our list...

2006-05-18 Thread John Summerfied
Fargusson.Alan wrote: I suspect you are thinking of the prefix instructions used in the block move. Or maybe you didn't notice that you can use the prefix instruction. In any case the block move on Intel is about the same as a move character on the mainframe. In the 8086 days it took

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] Who's been reading our list...

2006-05-18 Thread John Summerfied
Richard Pinion wrote: Richard You may be posting in HTML. Better if you don't - shorter emails kinder to dialup users, less likely to be tagged as spam (some people, would you believe it? refuse HTML email altogether). It might explain why Mozilla's quoting is a bit off. I've always wanted to

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

2006-05-18 Thread John Summerfied
Richard Pinion wrote: I'm sure this is a completely different class of processor, but I recently purchased an AMD Athlon 3200+ XP. After chaning the memory chips, power supply, heatsink/fan, video card, and removing all other cards I finally decided the chip was faulty. It would attempt to

Re: Poor transfer rates between z/VM Linux guests on VSWITCH

2006-05-18 Thread John Summerfied
Peggy Andrews wrote: Hi, all. Given recent events (the new who's been reading our list), Nobody will get a balanced view of anything reading a mailing list such as this. Of course, it's centred on problems we have: a list devoted to extolling the virtues of its primary topic will quickly

Re: Poor transfer rates between z/VM Linux guests on VSWITCH

2006-05-18 Thread John Summerfied
Rob van der Heij wrote: On 5/18/06, Peggy Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't miss the posts, but I'm not sure what to do with that information to prove that we can run at the same performance level. It is very hard to demonstrate the suitability of the platform with a few synthetic

Re: Moving from ESS 800 to DS8100

2006-05-18 Thread John Summerfied
Post, Mark K wrote: Now, for the CentOS system, the same methodology will be used, except for the file system labels. Once the two disks have been copied, you'll need to change the file system labels on the new disks. Otherwise, when you try to boot either the old system or the new one,

Re: Linux/390 DVDs for sale

2006-05-15 Thread John Summerfied
Alan Cox wrote: On Gwe, 2006-05-12 at 10:40 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: Please take care to verify your DVDs are good: I've had problems burning DVDs on Fedora Core 3 (two systems, both with LG burners), and my Acer Aspire running SUSE 10.0. The Fedora DVD burning stuff is fine

Re: FTP server

2006-05-15 Thread John Summerfied
Bates, Bob wrote: Hello all, I am trying to set up an FTP server, SLES9 64-bit, to do the rest of my installs from. The server is running, I have file systems with s390 and s390x code, but when I attempt to do an install, it can't read the software package list, media error?

Re: Linux/390 DVDs for sale

2006-05-12 Thread John Summerfied
McKown, John wrote: I burn DVDs on my AMD64 / SuSE 9.3 system quite a bit. No problems, so far. I use k3b. What kernel is that? fwiw what brand/model of burner? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics

Re: Linux/390 DVDs for sale

2006-05-12 Thread John Summerfied
McKown, John wrote: far. I use k3b. What kernel is that? fwiw what brand/model of burner? -- Cheers John uname -a reports 2.6.11-21.11-default NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive I must revise. I have burned about 10 DVDs and quite a few CDs on this system with no problems.

Re: Linux/390 DVDs for sale

2006-05-12 Thread John Summerfied
McKown, John wrote: uname -a reports 2.6.11-21.11-default NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive I must revise. I have burned about 10 DVDs and quite a few CDs on this system with no problems. Interesting. I just downloaded growisofs and read index.html. It seems this should work: dd

Re: What configurations are people using for Disaster Recovery for Linux under z/VM

2006-05-11 Thread John Summerfied
James Melin wrote: Alan, Thanks for the Clarification. Based on that I shouldn't be seeing the performance I am seeing. I'm just trying to figure out what in hell can cause a performance difference of 227:1 at DR vs back home. Yes. That's correct 227:1 sometimes slightly better, sometimes

Re: What configurations are people using for Disaster Recovery for Linux under z/VM

2006-05-11 Thread John Summerfied
Adam Thornton wrote: On May 8, 2006, at 2:19 PM, James Melin wrote: What I've never been able to figure out is how to tell z/VM that the backup process on z/OS is done and to either change runlevels or IPL the guest or what have you. Again daily system shutdowns are not suitable for a 24/7

Re: Linux/390 DVDs for sale

2006-05-11 Thread John Summerfied
Post, Mark K wrote: Thanks to the vast generosity of John McKown, I now have a DVD burner on one of my Intel Slackware systems. As I said in a previous post, I am now willing to provide DVDs of any freely available Linux/390 distribution that you can find .iso files for. (If you want one for

Re: VIM question.

2006-05-04 Thread John Summerfied
on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Summerfied Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 5:23 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: VIM question. Fargusson.Alan wrote: I use VIM on several systems, including z/OS Unix, Mac OS X, and Linux. I noticed on the Linux systems the extend

Re: VIM question.

2006-05-04 Thread John Summerfied
Fargusson.Alan wrote: The quoted documentation corresponds to my understanding to the -o option. As I stated in my question: vim -o file1 file2 should open two windows, one with file1 and the other with file2. It doesn't do that on the Intel Linux system I have here. In fact a vi -o3 gives

Re: Google out of capacity?

2006-05-04 Thread John Summerfied
Joseph Temple wrote: IBM probably could build them, whether we could sell them at price Google could afford is another issue... Does anyone know how many of what class of servers are being used? Also, my guess is that some sort of hybrid might be the answer. That is some of the clusters may

Re: What configurations are people using for Disaster Recovery for Linux under z/VM

2006-05-04 Thread John Summerfied
James Melin wrote: I just want to reconcile what the People here are saying with what the folk on the list say regarding what constitutes a 3rd level guest I'm being told by our head sysprog AND someone else with considerably more VM experience (he's the new guy) that in Basic mode, the

Re: VIM question.

2006-05-04 Thread John Summerfied
Henry E Schaffer wrote: On my Sun/Solaris I'm running VIM version 6.3 and it handles (as I wrote earlier) both vim -o test1 test2 and vim -o3 properly. My Intel/Linux runs version 6.3.71 (from the Fedora distribution) and does exactly the same thing. (vim -h only says 6.3) The .71

Re: Bad response time

2006-05-03 Thread John Summerfied
Steve Gentry wrote: You don't mention what type of box your running on. I run VM 4.3 and run Linux as a guest under that. I (we) are running on a z800 mod 1 (approx. 190 mips). I can drive the cpu to 60% or better when running KDE and other GUI stuff. I'd love to see 6% util. running Linux in

Spreadsheets woes - not to do with Linux or Mainframes but probably of interest

2006-05-03 Thread John Summerfied
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/05/03/buggy_spreadsheet/print.html I'd guess efforts at debugging spreadsheets are less rigourous than, say, for your corporate core business systems. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics

Re: VIM question.

2006-05-03 Thread John Summerfied
Fargusson.Alan wrote: I use VIM on several systems, including z/OS Unix, Mac OS X, and Linux. I noticed on the Linux systems the extend features don't work. I noticed this on Intel and Z. The features I miss are the -o option (as in vim -o file1 file2), selecting blocks of text with V, and

Re: Bad response time

2006-05-03 Thread John Summerfied
Tom Duerbusch wrote: First, KDE is a hog. It really shouldn't be used for production. Pooh!! KDE is fine. The mainframe isn't the platform for running desktop applications, and _that_ is the problem. Get a cheap Sempron or Celery, a Gb of RAM and any Linux desktop will run well. --

Re: Starting WAS, MQ, DB2, etc...

2006-05-03 Thread John Summerfied
Rick Troth wrote: Now I have to really grumble at IBM... Am I missing something or isn't that missing what should be a key part of the product? Is it really reasonable that every single shop has to write their own init.d script Every shop expected to reinvent that wheel? Surely they

Re: upgrading to sles9

2006-05-02 Thread John Summerfied
Levy, Alan wrote: Why the image? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ do not reply off-list -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Re: upgrading to sles9

2006-05-02 Thread John Summerfied
Levy, Alan wrote: What's the alternative ? Most people don't send graphics in their email. Plain text is good. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ do not reply off-list

Re: your chance

2006-05-01 Thread John Summerfied
Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission wrote: The only picture related to this list is a fox in an 'M'(http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?linux-vm). So that suggests she is an animal lover. And with the ability to be in several countries around the world at one time, suggests she is rather

Re: Tom Shepherd - in IBM Meeting in Dallas April 24-26

2006-04-29 Thread John Summerfied
Alan Altmark wrote: ignorance. Not to worry - they'll see the public OOM when they return from wherever and hopefully remember the next time. Not with the default settings for this list, tho they might see the discussion:-) -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tom Shepherd - in IBM Meeting in Dallas April 24-26

2006-04-29 Thread John Summerfied
Collinson.Shannon wrote: If you can tell me how to avoid it, I'd love to do so. My company recently opened up our out of office messages to go to external email recipients (like this list) and I don't believe I can stop it from within Microsoft OutLook. As I'm required, by management, to set

Re: Wine on z/Linux

2006-04-29 Thread John Summerfied
Rod wrote: Try pointing people to: http://www.winehq.com/site/myths#only_x86 for the story on the x86 only bit. http://darwine.opendarwin.org/faq.php is useful as it pointedly points out that they want to add an x86 emulator to the project to get this to run on a PPC box Some time ago

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