Re: RH NFS Server

2011-09-23 Thread Sterling James
This is the permissions in the Linux side of the /matt dir. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 14 11:36 matt Thanks -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Sterling James Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 3:52 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: RH NFS Server

2011-09-22 Thread Sterling James
Matt, Here's a swag; I think at zOS 1.10, the NFS client using NFS V4 protocols; Try changing you parm to; PARM('lntest1.li.pch.com:/matt,XLAT(Y),ver(3)') and retrying the mount. HTH From: Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 09/22/2011 01:33 PM Subject: Re: RH NFS

Re: RH NFS Server

2011-09-20 Thread Sterling James
I think it, FILESYSTEM(SYS1.OMVS.NFSTEST), needs to be a unique name like FILESYSTEM(NFSMNT01). From the command line; /usr/sbin/mount -tnfs -o'10.1.2.3:/nfsmnt1,vers(3),soft,xlat(Y),cln_ccsid(1047),srv_ccsid(819)' -fNFSMNT01 /nfs/mnt01 Thx - Please

Re: crypto with sshd

2011-02-15 Thread Sterling James
I starting to get a little confused, since I thought this provided openssh the use of OpenSSL dynamic engine loading support, so that the ibmca engine can now use Central Processor Assist for Cryptographic Function (CPACF). If that were true, use of CPACF would not be reflected in

Re: Fedora 14 for IBM System z 64bit official release

2011-01-26 Thread Sterling James
This may relate to the issue; From: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x After installation the yum repo doesn't point at our mash tree. Simply do the following to fix that: echo '[fedora] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch

Re: Creatying a new interface

2010-12-07 Thread Sterling James
But when I try to bring it up it fails: ifup eth2 Device eth2 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. I think you need to Creating a qeth group device before you do the Ifup echo read_device_bus_id,write_device_bus_id,data_device_bus_id /sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/qeth/group Thx

Re: CMM

2010-11-17 Thread Sterling James
When the term CMM is used, is that referring to using VMRMSVM as a driver or cpuplugd? - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or company to

Re: RedHat 6.0 Beta

2010-10-06 Thread Sterling James
Has anyone successfully installed RHEL6.0 Beta under z/vm yet? I have 5.4 running with no problem. I've selected specialized storage devices and select the correct devices. get warning - device may need to be reinitialized, so I let it init all the devices that will be. then I get a STORAGE

Re: Question about multipathing on zDebian (Lenny)

2010-10-05 Thread Sterling James
I'm not familiar with zDebian (Lenny); but if it's suse-like should that be; /etc/sysconfig/hardware/config-zfcp-0.0.a200 vs /etc/sysconfig/hardware/config-ccw-0.0.a200 In Redhat, you need a /etc/zfcp.conf and /etc/modprobe.conf needs to contains alias scsi_hostadapter zfcp Both need the

Re: mapping zLinux scsi disks to real devices

2010-08-10 Thread Sterling James
I'm running zLinux on zVM and an lsscsi command tells me that /dev/sda is at [0:0:0:1] Try lszfcp -D - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or

Re: Strange zfcp problem on Redhat V5R2

2010-07-30 Thread Sterling James
On 7/30/2010 at 12:15 AM, Offer Baruch offerbar...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I always build the volume group from the multipath devices but sometimes I still see duplicates when I pvscan... What is the solution? Is there a way to exclude the /dev/sdx from lvm? You would need to change the

Re: Files on disk

2010-07-21 Thread Sterling James
What's compression set to? I know that has other implications, also. Look at the makesparsefile option for restore. Tivoli Storage Manager backs up a sparse file as a regular file if client compression is off. Set the compression option to yes to enable file compression when backing up sparse

Re: 2010-05-28 Linux on System z kernel 2.6.34 related updates on developerWorks

2010-06-15 Thread Sterling James
Please refer to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/whatsnew.html for several 'Development stream' updates: * description of upstream kernel 2.6.34 features that were contributed by Linux on System z development * kernel 2.6.34 patches for kerntypes and kernel message catalog *

Re: Red Hat 5 Update 5 Install Failing on Network

2010-05-24 Thread Sterling James
CP Q V ALL STORAGE = 512M Don't you need at least 1G for the install. - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or company to which it is

Re: building wireshark on SLES10SP2?

2010-04-08 Thread Sterling James
I may be all wet, but I use tcpdump to capture the raw trace data; tcpdump -i eth0 -w eth0.trc Then use etereal gui to look/filer it. Thanks - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments

Re: non-disruptive adding memory to z/VM LPAR

2010-03-31 Thread Sterling James
Does any of the distros (rhel or sles) support nondisruptive adding memory to the guest under z/VM 5.4 or 6.1? Thx - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the

Re: A Question on Sizing z/VM Linux Guests

2010-02-05 Thread Sterling James
I realize that it would not be a apples to apples comparison, but is there a similar discussion about sizing guests that are running DB2? With STMM on? And the Be ware!s? Does DB2 have instrumentation that can tell you how it's using memory and indicate good value. I am aware the STMM is suppose

Re: A Question on Sizing z/VM Linux Guests

2010-02-05 Thread Sterling James
LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: A Question on Sizing z/VM Linux Guests On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Sterling James ssja...@dstsystems.com wrote: I realize that it would not be a apples to apples comparison, but is there a similar discussion about sizing

Re: Rhel 5.4 install problems

2010-01-19 Thread Sterling James
Try defining a second cpu DEF CPU 02 - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or company to which it is addressed and may contain information

Re: java SDK

2009-12-21 Thread Sterling James
try ;yum provides libstdc++.so.5 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.s390 - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or company to which it is

Re: OSA-Express3 10 Gb, Vswitch, and SLES10 Linux Throughput

2009-10-26 Thread Sterling James
From Craig Collins grizl...@gmail.com We wondered if a nic setting in SLES10 could be keeping the connection from getting above the 1 Gb/s mark, We don't have a OSA-Express3 10 Gb, but what are you driving that file transfer with? ftp? iperf? One thread? Have you look at the cpu cosumption that

Re: OSA-Express3 10 Gb, Vswitch, and SLES10 Linux Throughput

2009-10-26 Thread Sterling James
Hi Pieter, Do you have any numbers to compare vswitch vs native? OSA throughput, and cpu? Thanks - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or

Re: Kickstart question

2009-10-21 Thread Sterling James
I would suggest that you do the dasdfmt (from another running guest) before you start the kickstart. Thanks Thang Pham thang.p...@us.ibm.com Sent by: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU 10/21/2009 09:55 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU To

Re: Kickstart question

2009-10-21 Thread Sterling James
21, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Sterling James ssja...@dstsystems.comwrote: I would suggest that you do the dasdfmt (from another running guest) before you start the kickstart. Thanks Thang Pham thang.p...@us.ibm.com Sent by: Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU 10/21/2009 09:55 AM Please

Re: z/VM terminal server

2009-10-19 Thread Sterling James
Did you add to /etc/inittab on the LINUX149, something like; V1:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/iucvtty iucv1 V2:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/iucvtty iucv2 Thanks - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any

Re: Multipathing for ECKD devices

2009-10-09 Thread Sterling James
Brad Hinson wrote: This is just the new format for output from lsdasd. It is now PAV-aware, so it knows that (in this example) disks 206 and 207 are aliases. You can still use these devices (base+alias) in a multipath, using the device-mapper-multipath package. As a reminder, for RHEL this

Multipathing for ECKD devices

2009-10-07 Thread Sterling James
Has the ECKD dasd device driver in SLES11/Redhat 5.4 changed to provide muiltipathing vs multipath? lsdasd Bus-ID Status Name Device Type BlkSz Size Blocks == 0.0.0206 alias

SAN dasd - parted vs fdisk

2009-10-01 Thread Sterling James
Our Unix people are used to using parted for preparing san dasd to be used, including creating lvm volumes. In the past, I used fdisk, setup the multipathing, then added the mpio device to lvm, I never using parted. Can parted be used for san dasd in the z environment? pros or cons, gotta's?

Re: Has anyone looked into a console server

2009-09-30 Thread Sterling James
I see on http://freshmeat.net/projects/conserver/ Conserver provides remote access to serial port consoles and logs all data to a central host. I can not speak to your Conserver reference, but I have done some testing of the z/VM IUCV terminal applications from the os390-tools 1.8.1 using

Re: Adding dasd to Red Hat, mkinitrd problem

2009-09-10 Thread Sterling James
(ex: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img 2.2.5-15) How do I get the new dasd added to this RedHat system? Thanks to anyone who can help. Check out http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-2404, How do I add a new DASD to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest in z/VM (IBM's virtualization

Can't get hvc_iucv to work

2009-07-13 Thread Sterling James
Hello, I downloaded the Redhat 5.4-beta; Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 Beta (Tikanga) Kernel 2.6.18-155.el5 on an s390x I've updated /etc/inittab with; h0:S:once:/sbin/sulogin hvc0 H2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear hvc2 t5:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/iucvtty hvc5

Can't get hvc_iucv to work

2009-07-13 Thread Sterling James
iucvconn usera lnxhvc2 hangs until I kill it. My bad. This work by hitting enter, and everything works. On to single-user mode. Thanks - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are

Re: mount LVM vg and lv

2009-06-15 Thread Sterling James
Don't you need to; - pvscan – vgexport VolGroup00 vgimport VolGroup00 – vgchange VolGroup00 -a y - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or

Re: cpuplugd and hung connections/defunct processes?

2009-05-01 Thread Sterling James
Hello Leland, Any ideas on how I could prove it WASN'T cpuplugd? I'd rather not have to turn it off... We've encountered a very similar problem, that disappears if we turn off the cpu management of cpuplugd. So I would be hard pressed to prove it WASN'T cpuplugd. But, now, with two reported

Re: cpuplugd s390-tools - adjusting linux guest size dynamically

2009-02-17 Thread Sterling James
When using cpuplugd for adjustment of vcpus, has anyone noticed a problem with apache2/php applications and defunct processes? TIA - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are

Re: s390/hvc_console: z/VM IUCV hypervisor console support

2009-01-08 Thread Sterling James
Anything new in this area? TIA - Please consider the environment before printing this email and any attachments. This e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the individual or company to which it is addressed and may contain information which is

Re: SHARE 111 Presentations on linuxvm.org

2008-09-03 Thread Sterling James
Hello, I was looking through session 9262 - Martin Schwidefsky - What's New in Linux on System z? and came across the following • TTY terminal server over IUCV ( kernel 2.6.27) • Provide central access to the Linux console for the different guests of a z/VM. • The terminal

Re: question on '/' root filesystem as zFCP/multipath-tools/LVM

2006-08-16 Thread Sterling James
Hello, I had the understanding that due to the limitations of the SCSI IPL feature that multipathing of the root filesystem was not supported. I cannot find the reference doc that gave me this impression, but I continue to look for it. Thanks,

I/O error

2002-12-19 Thread Sterling James
Can someone give me a hint to what these errors are indicating? Here is the message log when the move failed: Dec 19 13:27:50 lnxpwrsl kernel: dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdaf(94:124),021f@0x20:EXAMINE 24: No Record Found detected - fatal error Dec 19 13:27:50 lnxpwrsl kernel: Sense data: Dec 19

Shutdown signal

2002-09-19 Thread Sterling James
Has anyone done anything or heard about anyone monitoring for the VM shutdown signal?

Sharing an OSA-E

2002-01-23 Thread Sterling James
We have a LINUX running in LPAR mode with an OSA--E as the only network interface. We looking into bringing zVM to run it in the LPAR and, then, run multiple LINUX images underneath it. I have a couple of question, being new to VM and OSA-E; 1) What's the best way to set up the network for the