mq-deadline scheduling?

ice driver allow only mq-deadline? (There's an even newer s390-tools patch for SLES 12SP5 that fixes two other things, and gets one to 18.29.1.) Thank you, Ted Rodriguez-Bell te...@wellsfargo.com<mailto:te...@wellsfargo.com> Wells Fargo, z/VM and z/Linux Company policy requires: T

Re: Experience IBM Spectrum Scale

it was the equivalent of "find... | xargs gzip" but was a lot faster (even just the find was much faster) and completely transparent to his users. Ted Rodriguez-Bell z/VM and z/Linux te...@wellsfargo.com Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privile

Re: Defined minidisks RHEL 6.0 on z/VM to grow / FS, forgot to Persistently Setting DASDs Online with /etc/zipl.conf and zipl.

is pasted from my notes, but I haven't had to mess with zipl.conf when doing this. Ted Rodriguez-Bell te...@wellsfargo.com Mainframe and Midrange Services, Wells Fargo Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or

Re: Dracut fix is available now from SUSE for problem with SP4 dasd disks

for our problem. Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization, z/VM and z/Linux, Wells Fargo Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclo

SLES kernel fixes (Was Bug with XFS and SLES 12SP3 kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-default)

on the 21st, and that for some people it was serious. Ted Rodriguez-Bell Wells Fargo Mainframe and Midrange Services te...@wellsfargo.com<mailto:te...@wellsfargo.com> Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addres

Bug with XFS and SLES 12SP3 kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-default

s) you get "Not Affected". So I don't think waiting for the fix will significantly harm anyone's system security... If anyone cares, our ticket is SR101165092091 Ted Rodriguez-Bell Wells Fargo Mainframe and Midrange Services te...@wellsfargo.com<mailto:te...@wellsfargo.com>

Re: Linux "sleep" command not waking up under high CPU utilization

ant to be the person who fills the logging disk by starting every line with "* * * * *". It will cause people to curse many generations of your descendants. And please: let us know what you find out! Ted Rodriguez-Bell Wells Fargo, Mainframe and Midrange Services [ Only slightly an opi

Re: Problems with perl after sles 11 sp4 to sles 12 sp2 upgrade

797 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1710088 Nov 3 08:59 /usr/bin/perl5.18.2 (note that the link count is 2 and they have the same inode number), so something got bollixed up in the installation Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization, z/VM and z/Linux, Wells Fargo Company policy requires: T

Rexx for SLES12?

world" program, but that's unsupported and may not fly with the Powers That Be. Thank you! Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux te...@wellsfargo.com Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you

Re: Bash loop failing

e some really, um, interesting interactions between that and ${FILE[@]}. In an empty directory the above with -u throws an error in bash, but not in ksh. Using the indices as Neale does is safe in bash even when FILE is empty. Ted Rodriguez-Bell te...@wellsfargo.com<mailto:te...@wellsfargo.com

LISA meetup?

Is anyone else going to LISA next week? If so, do we want to get together? If I get any positive responses I'll put something up on their bulletin board by Wednesday morning. (LISA is Usenix's large systems administration conference: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa16 ) Ted

Re: Bash specially-crafted environment variables code injection attack

ritical" rating on this means "really, really critical"; usually LTSS updates come days or weeks later. Ted Rodriguez-Bell Wells Fargo Company policy requires:  This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.  If you are not the addressee or authorized to r

Re: zLinux SLES 11 SP3 - Registering the Wrong Kernel Version

If mkinitrd && zipl worked, perhaps the :menu stanza in /etc/zipl.conf is hardwired to point to your old kernel. If you change that file, you'll need to rerun at least zipl. Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization, z/VM and z/Linux, Wells Fargo (415) 222-4516 office   (415)

Re: Netstat Grep Port Range

et one say /.*:2[0-2][0-9]{3}/, but awk's apparently doesn't. One could also use the split function on $4 to split it at the colon and get the port as a number, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the student... Ted Rodriguez-Bell Wells Fargo & Co., Linux on zSeries te...

Re: SLES 11 SP3 problems

Mike: Does this also apply to the PTF for the paging kernel bug we found (kernel-default-3.0.101-0.15.1.6580.16.PTF.859225.s390x.rpm)? If it does, the bug is pretty rare; we haven't hit it in a few machine-months of operation... Thanks for warning us! Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enter

Re: LINUX-390 Digest - 14 Jan 2014 to 15 Jan 2014 - Unfinished

David: An appropriate sentiment, given what's happening Sunday night. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/features/news/sherlock-season-3-premieres-jan-19-2014/) Ted Company policy requires:  This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.  If you are not the addr

Re: LINUX-390 Digest - 14 Jan 2014 to 15 Jan 2014 - Unfinished

David: You wrote: Ø If backleveling the kernel makes the problem go away, then it's clearly a kernel logic problem in the s390x port. Thanks! That was my logic too; it's nice to have it validated by someone who knows more about the kernel than I do. Yours very truly, Ted Rodr

Swap behavior change between SLES 11SP2 and 11SP3?

-390@vm.marist.edu/msg64647.html And if you got this far: thank you! Ted Rodriguez-Bell Mainframe and Midrange Services, Wells Fargo te...@wellsfargo.com Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to

Re: SLES 11 SP3 problems

We also tried the earlier suggestion of setting MALLOC_ARENA_MAX to 1. That doesn't seem to affect this at all.) In a way, it's remarkable that this little script ever finishes. We would never be able to go so far into swap space if we were swapping to physical disk on a PC. Thank

Re: SLES11 and java 1.6

The packages have had a -32bit in their name, as in the SLES 10 java-1_6_0-ibm-32bit-1.6.0_sr10.1-0.11.1. I don't see any -32bit packages for 11 either. Ted Rodriguez-Bell te...@wellsfargo.com Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information

TCP performance

be looking at? (If this has been discussed, an approximate date or header would help me go through the archives.) Thank you, Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux te...@wellsfargo.com, 415-243-6291 -- Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or

Re: Mounting a filesystem *really* read-only

As the poser of the original question, I'd like to thank everyone who took the trouble to answer. There were far more answers than I expected and a lot of things brought up that I hadn't thought of. Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux te...@wellsfargo.co

Mounting a filesystem *really* read-only

e doesn't change the filesystem on the other. But is there some other reason to think this might be unsafe? Would Novell support be a better forum than this one? (And we don't want to mess with a clustered filesystem if we don't have to; they'd work but for this it would be

Re: automatic email?

nterested contact me off-list. More seriously: it's really not hard to configure Postfix for this. You basically have to set the myhostname and relayhost variables in /etc/postfix/main.cf. Be kind to your mail group and accept bounces. Yours very truly, Ted Rodriguez-Bell te...@wellsfargo.com

Large (multi-TB) filesystems

ied this before I start arguing. Does anyone have any interesting experiences, good or bad? If you reply directly to me I'll summarize, but I expect that any good stories will entertain the whole list. Ted Rodriguez-Bell z/VM Systems Programming, zSeries Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED], 415-

Reserved blocks on ext2/ext3 filesystems?

.5%?), but we're also wondering if we have any performance-related time bombs. Thanks for any help! Ted Rodriguez-Bell z/VM Systems Programming, zSeries Engineering, Wells Fargo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For LINUX-390 subs

FCP with NPIV

pdf), says that a WWPN of 0 is a sign that the zoning on the switch is bad. But if I can see it from VM that isn't the problem. Is it? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Ted Rodriguez-Bell WFS Enterprise Hosting Services - z/VM & z/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED], 415-243-6291 -- Company pol

Re: Informix on z/Linux ?

Our DBAs have tested Informix on SLES 9 and the testing went smoothly. They want to test a newer version under 10. We're not using it yet for anything real, though Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM & z/Linux Enterprise Hosting Services, Wells Fargo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Applying updates to multiple servers

If you use RHEL this isn't easy (we may keep Zenworks just to do that); I don't know about SLES. Personally, I have fond memories of ZENworks but I gave it up a year ago to learn VM... The VM group is probably going to go to our own yum repositories as we get out of Levanta, but that

Re: Philosophical: Linux vs. AIX

is trying to get more of our Unix applications moved over all the time. Ted Rodriguez-Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not u

Re: Trimming a File

with the filtered one and leave the old one as FILE.bak; you don't have to do the extra rename in: sed -n '1,$p' FILE > FILE.new; mv FILE FILE.bak; mv FILE.new file In all cases you need to make sure that the process writing to the file closes it before you start, or all

FW: [LINUX-390] Wrapper around SSH to run command on mutliple Linuxes?

have a specialized daemon on each system like radmind or cfengine. Then you get into authentication and security issues, or your scripts run more when the daemons feel like it rather than when you need an answer. Cfengine is a brilliant piece of work, but this isn't quite the problem for