Re: Hipersockets and Linux...

2021-03-08 Thread Vic Cross
NM will then see your HiperSockets as another "System" connection and manage it for you. Regards, Vic -- Vic Cross Solutions Engineer, Z Acceleration Team IBM Z (Worldwide) E-mail: viccr...@au1.ibm.com Twitter: @viccross -

Re: Sharing dasd between linux

2021-02-08 Thread Vic Cross
be taken around that. I don't have experience with read-only xfs but a quick search shows some positive results. Regards, Vic -- Vic Cross Solutions Engineer, Z Acceleration Team IBM Z (Worldwide) E-mail: viccr...@au1.ibm.com Twitter: @viccross -

Re: RHEL8 Installation Problem

2020-12-23 Thread Vic Cross
paddr }}::{{ guest_install_gateway }}:{{ guest_install_netmask }}:{{ guest_install_hostname }}:{{ guest_install_nicid }}:none nameserver={{ guest_install_nameserver }} inst.repo={{ guest_install_baseurl }}/ inst.ks={{ guest_install_ksurl }}/{{guest_install_hostname }}.ks Regards, Vic Vic Cross Solutions Eng

Re: Universal Naming Convention....

2008-06-28 Thread Vic Cross
this system goes live, I'd predict that one of the first questions that will arise is "why can't I view these documents on my ${PDA}?" I expect that question would be a lot harder to answer if UNC is used... ;-) Cheerio, Vic Cross

Re: Swap oddities

2007-10-29 Thread Vic Cross
environment needs such protection. I also transposed my client's problem onto your shop -- I thought you were concerned about the number of pages allocated to VDISKs. That's why I mentioned the stuff about DELETE/DEFINE of your VDISK swaps. Best of luck with th

Re: Swap oddities

2007-10-29 Thread Vic Cross
consequences aren't as severe when allocations are more fluid and more effective sharing is taking place[3]. Unfortunately I haven't used CMM in anger as I'm a little light on systems to play with nowadays. Cheerio, Vic Cross [1] "Swappiness" controls the likelihood th

Re: Pros/Cons of FCP connection DASD

2007-04-06 Thread Vic Cross
other disk vendors might be another way to make things cheaper, but you'd likely run the risk of becoming unsupported. And, as others have said, what's cheaper or faster might not necessarily be better (for various reasons). Cheerio, Vic Cross -- This message has been scanned for vi

Re: Philosophy: connecting to a Linux server

2007-04-03 Thread Vic Cross
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 16:11 +0200, Rob van der Heij wrote: > We did it slightly different with an experimental patch to OpenSSH > that allows for the public keys to be kept in LDAP. That means there's > only one place where the public key is held. That LDAP server would > allow the end-user to upl

Re: Philosophy: connecting to a Linux server

2007-04-03 Thread Vic Cross
but convenience (or the lack thereof) was a barrier. I'm wondering if some little mobile-phone app that worked over IR or Bluetooth would be a substitute -- people sometimes take more care of these. ;) Cheerio, Vic Cross [1] Known as OpenSSH-LPK. Used to be hosted by the OpenDarwin project

Re: How do I make NFS work

2007-03-16 Thread Vic Cross
rejected. The other thing to check is that all the appropriate NFS support daemons (portmap, lockd, mountd, statd) are running on both client and server (rpc.mountd shouldn't be needed on the client, but if something that *is* needed isn't there you're likely to get strangeness).

Re: SLES9 SP3 64 bit service question

2007-03-15 Thread Vic Cross
> foundSLES-9-s390x > expected SLES-9-s390x-SP3 > > linux40:~ # It's telling you everything you need to know. Your system has installed versions of the XFree86-Mesa and XFree86-Mesa-32bit packages for which both SP1 and SP2 had updates. For some reason, these updat

Re: Problem shutting down Linux under VM

2007-03-08 Thread Vic Cross
cently did not exhibit the behaviour, i.e. shutdown -r worked perfectly. Cheerio, Vic Cross -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: vnc on RHEL4

2007-03-07 Thread Vic Cross
best use of your MIPS, and you are likely to be disappointed in performance if you try and support a number of users... However, it's a *great* system to set up to show off how "Linux is Linux, even on the mainframe"! :) Cheerio, Vic Cross -- This message has been scanned for vi

Re: gpg 2.0 on VT?

2007-02-21 Thread Vic Cross
27;s experience, which I found via Google, to see if it's relevant: http://brondsema.net/blog/index.php/2007/02/06/keychain_gpg_agent_pinentry_problems Cheerio, Vic Cross -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

Re: Layer 2

2007-01-01 Thread Vic Cross
s/ccwgroup/devices/0.0.0f[01]0/layer2 0 1 0f00 is the Layer 3 NIC on this system, 0f10 is Layer 2. Cheerio, Vic Cross -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --

Re: Booting from mirrored DASD

2006-12-05 Thread Vic Cross
ade all the disks present. Rob is lamenting that the DASD driver is unable to use VOLSER to map disk device to block node (i.e. we're not able to do something like dasd=L0A201,L0A202,L0A203 on the kernel command line). Well, maybe lamenting is the wrong word... :) Cheerio, Vic Cross -- This

Re: zLinux experience

2006-10-29 Thread Vic Cross
observant of your stripe size to see that files did indeed fall across stripe boundaries and were written across stripe members. Lots of small files might make this difficult and/or wasteful, but if you have large files you'd be okay. Cheerio, Vic Cross -- This message has been scanned for viruse

Re: Detection of DASD volume linked read only

2006-10-29 Thread Vic Cross
h any attempted writes (the kernel errors Eric mentioned). I think what Eric requires is a way to determine if VM has given it to Linux RO, in order for Linux to activate it the right way... The hcp/vmcp methods mentioned will be the way to do this. Cheerio, Vic Cross -- This message has b

Re: Is OSPF limited on zLinux?

2006-10-19 Thread Vic Cross
ndant pathways to your VIPA [1]. What about Linux on Intel? Quagga works the same no matter what platform it is built on (subject to the capabilities of the network hardware of course). Cheerio, Vic Cross [1] Digression: That configuration would possibly work better without any OSPF at all, by ju

Re: Server Time Protocol support for zSeries

2006-10-14 Thread Vic Cross
HMCs? ;-) Cheerio, Vic Cross -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: can LINUX/390 and z/OS LPARS share devices?

2006-09-06 Thread Vic Cross
re sharing DASD, you don't have different device numbers to refer to a pack from different LPARs, right...? Why is it a bad idea for OSAs? Cheerio, Vic Cross -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ---

Re: CentOS DASD format

2006-07-21 Thread Vic Cross
) -- use a CD-RW while getting the parmfile right, unless you need a new set of coasters! :D Cheers, Vic Cross PS: Hoping this is helpful... It's *real* late (early?) over here and I might be starting to ramble :) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by M

Re: CentOS DASD format

2006-07-21 Thread Vic Cross
ate "online" pseudofile in the sys filesystem directory you found; a result of "1" is good) and that the DASD modules are loaded. Cheers, Vic Cross -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

Re: Missing /etc/motd

2006-07-21 Thread Vic Cross
if the following is there: PrintMotd yes :) Cheers, Vic Cross -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Linux guest console via another guest?

2006-06-20 Thread Vic Cross
On 16/06/2006, at 1:02 pm, Ranga Nathan wrote: Thank you all. I have always been curing sick guests by LINKing their minidisks to other guests and mounting the partitions. Occasionally I need to do something in the console. I tried telnet via putty. Ok, 3270 is better. I am now resigned to it.

Re: Exporting volume group to another guest - not working

2006-05-22 Thread Vic Cross
r attaching the DASD to the new system (and before you do vgimport)? It should come back and tell you that an exported VG was found. You may also have trouble if the VG you are importing has the same name as a VG that previously existed on the system (but I would have thought vgscan would sort tha

Re: Google out of capacity?

2006-05-04 Thread Vic Cross
- it would seem that they've grown considerably beyond that now. I doubt they've updated their TCO analysis accordingly... :) Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: upgrading to sles9

2006-05-04 Thread Vic Cross
the really critical data about LVM is kept in the metadata on the PVs. Using vgexport/vgimport is just, well, nicer IMHO :). Probably not a big issue in your situation, where you're throwing away the old server, but for moving VGs between "persistent" systems it's p

Re: upgrading to sles9

2006-05-02 Thread Vic Cross
h good preparation I imagine you could minimise your downtime to little more than the duration of the application restart. Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL P

Re: AW: simple hipersocket communication between LPARS, pls help

2006-04-26 Thread Vic Cross
nges you might have to make in the future[1]. Then give the apps people the name rather than the IP address -- it's easier for you to change (or arrange to have changed) one DNS entry than for several application people to make possibly dozens of application changes... Thanks so much ...

Re: simple hipersocket communication between LPARS, pls help

2006-04-26 Thread Vic Cross
create a routing loop, and this can be very bad for network operation (and your chances of ever getting the network people to do you a favour in the future). Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: SuSE 2.2.16 kernel to test

2006-04-19 Thread Vic Cross
/etc/rc.config SuSEconfig exit# <-- return to your running system umount /mnt/copy/usr /mnt/copy/var /mnt/copy Replace the DASD names with the actual names you get on your system, of course, and don't forget

Re: Booting into single mode

2006-04-09 Thread Vic Cross
you to have some certain things set up (like IP configuration, backup clients, etc) that might help you in your recovery task. Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: cygwin & x11

2006-02-21 Thread Vic Cross
ort is open against your sshd process but your DISPLAY variable doesn't correspond, check your shell profile scripts (/etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, etc) for a command that sets DISPLAY. Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signo

Re: Questions regarding zipl.conf

2006-02-12 Thread Vic Cross
ll required filesystems are available for the boot to complete. Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: Is SPident broken ?

2006-02-06 Thread Vic Cross
G'day Bernie, On 07/02/2006, at 6:53am, Bernard Wu wrote: With SLES9 +SP3, I get : CONCLUSION: System is NOT up-to-date! foundSLES-9-s390x expected SLES-9-s390x-SP3 The same minimal install produces 2 different results. Is SPident -vvv broken ? There was discussion here about this

Re: VM Mdisk cache and Linux disk caching

2005-12-15 Thread Vic Cross
stack of cache for a time can borrow it from other guests that aren't needing it during that interval. To me it's another example of trading-off between getting absolute maximum performance and the greatest flexibility in the environment. Cheers, Vic Cross

Re: Move an LVM

2005-12-15 Thread Vic Cross
omebody happens to do a vgscan and/or vgchange before you've detached the DASD, you won't get the VG unexpectedly reappearing on your system. These changes are undone by the vgimport on the destination system. Cheers, Vic Cross --

Re: Q.: VIPA implementation

2005-11-02 Thread Vic Cross
will do the heavy-lifting as far as interface redundancy is concerned, and you don't have the processor overhead of a bunch of Linux guests chattering to each other and to the routers nor the storage overhead of all those add

Re: Q.: VIPA implementation

2005-10-23 Thread Vic Cross
my own advice I'm doing the same, since it's been a while since I looked at some of this). Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: Samba - multiple connections from a Windows box

2005-08-10 Thread Vic Cross
uld be a help to you in this case... Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvind

Re: IP weirdness

2005-08-06 Thread Vic Cross
removed (replaced by the MAC address, like the multicast display). Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: Hipersockets and VLANs

2005-06-30 Thread Vic Cross
f your company is using 10/8, then pick something from 172.16/12 or 192.168/16) and don't try and advertise it or use it as a backup routing path or anything else. The systems attached to the Hipersockets will be the only systems that ever need to know about it. Of course I'd never *really*

Re: Question for those "C" types out there

2005-06-14 Thread Vic Cross
"), or use "script", as already suggested. Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: Sharing OSA GbE Ports

2005-06-01 Thread Vic Cross
nothing more than security-by-obscurity. Hope this helps... Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: How to share TCPIP and VSwitch from level 1 to level 2

2005-05-09 Thread Vic Cross
only be able to reach consoles at 2nd level by DIALling from 1st level... :) Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LI

Re: xinetd - how to figure out from which interface a connection is coming

2005-05-02 Thread Vic Cross
an environment variable that you can use? Would be easier than copying a xinetd configuration dozens (hundreds?) of times... Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: src-vipa

2005-04-19 Thread Vic Cross
r system has to do LDAP lookups to resolve all the UIDs and GIDs in the "ls" output to names...) If this is the case, find out what configuration would be stopping the LDAP server from talking to you. Routing might be a problem here -- can

Re: Guest LAN broken on SLES9 SP1...?

2005-04-17 Thread Vic Cross
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:51:46AM -0400, Dennis Musselwhite wrote: > VM63261 is a z/VM 4.3.0 APAR and the most recent service affecting Guest LAN > on z/VM 4.3.0 would be VM63655 (PTF UM31332) and all prereqs. If that does > not fix the problem we will need more diagnostic information. I ran the

Guest LAN broken on SLES9 SP1...?

2005-04-13 Thread Vic Cross
G'day all, I'm stumped. I just applied SP1 to a working SLES9 system, and after the IPL my Guest LAN connection now appears to be non-functional. I've checked all the obvious things but so far I'm none the wiser. Connectivity to another system on the same Guest LAN is fine. I cannot ping VM TC

Re: Per engine pricing..

2005-04-11 Thread Vic Cross
oposition than the budget cuts that might mean job losses. How many CEOs would knock back a proposal that: a) reduced overheads, and b) didn't involve giving anyone the sack? Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: appropriate value of "LOAD AVERAGE"

2005-01-31 Thread Vic Cross
, the 'normal' number you'd expect to see will vary from system to system, and you get to know it -- when something abnormal appears, you "just know". :) Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / sig

Re: CTCMPC Driver

2005-01-25 Thread Vic Cross
a line off-list, if you like, if you've got questions about EE. Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

OT: MsVS vs VMware musings (was Re: VMware vs. VM)

2004-12-11 Thread Vic Cross
inux, then you'd have to be very wary about MsVS (IMNSHO). What might work today would definitely be unsupported by Ms, and may become disfunctional in the future if (when?) Microsoft decides to make MsVS a Windows-only virtualiser. Cheers, Vic Cross [1] VMware did a pilot of a version for

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-08 Thread Vic Cross
ace that stuff to the z/VM SMAPI, or even the new feature that came in with z/VM 5.1 that the very thing. Cheers, Vic Cross PS: STOMITH: Shoot The Other Machine In The Head STONITH: Shoot The Other Node In the Head Yes, I know: you say tomato, I say tomato... :) Just in case anyone saw STOMI

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-07 Thread Vic Cross
ver decisions on the actual status of the application. As Mark mentioned, there are quite a few of these packages. Keepalived (which is a sub-project of Linux Virtual Server, btw) is one that from experience works on Guest LANs (so should work fine on VSWITCHes too

Re: Hipersockets and z/VM access

2004-11-25 Thread Vic Cross
owed to use -- and if it's a Hipersockets Guest LAN on z/VM, check the DEFINE LAN as that hardware setting is mirrored there. > It is like dealing with teenagers! I would describe everything about working with computers tha

Re: Hipersockets - z/OS side

2004-11-24 Thread Vic Cross
since it was a "clean slate", perhaps it was easier to have the sysprog do the VTAM work than code the automagics. :) Cheers, Vic Cross [1] With the introduction of Enterprise Extender (HPR over IP) at around OS/390 2.8, there was a neat circular dependency created: TCP/IP had to star

Re: Updated Red Paper REDP3719?

2004-11-08 Thread Vic Cross
, Vic Cross (at home, speaking for myself) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: VLAN Connectivity w/ RHEL 3

2004-11-07 Thread Vic Cross
VSWITCH will not tag-and-send untagged frames since it cannot guess which VLAN ID to tag them with). Also, I see a qeth0 in your chandev.conf: make sure that traffic is not being routed out that interface instead of through the VSWITCH. If you're still having trouble, we'll need to see

Re: SLES9 Yast2 mail and MTA config

2004-10-28 Thread Vic Cross
so little DNS traffic, then why not, you know, just > let them hit the *real* DNS server? Pretty sure that nscd caches more than just DNS. If you're using NIS or LDAP, for example, nscd is supposed to prevent you from driving your information service into the ground whenever some

Re: z/VM LPAR Configuration Question

2004-10-24 Thread Vic Cross
FL stand for again? ;) The fact that z/VM is not Linux is not important here -- you are running z/VM to support Linux workload. IIRC, the archives have longer discussions about what kinds of z/VM workload is permitted on IFLs, and other such topics for night-time reading. :) Cheers, V

Re: SLES9 installation problem - again

2004-10-22 Thread Vic Cross
e, is OSE the correct CHPID type? Should it be OSA? Cheers, Vic Cross PS: On Gigabit/1000BaseT -- it's disappointing that the industry chooses to use the generic term "Gigabit Ethernet" to refer to a specific implementation of Ethernet that operates at gigabit speed. Sigh... No wond

Re: SLES9 installation problem - again

2004-10-21 Thread Vic Cross
ion - How do I interrupt the > configuration script so I can issue commands. You can issue "^c" (without the quotes) to simulate a Ctrl-C, which should break you out of the script and give you a prompt. Hope this helps, Vic Cross [1] I say *technically* incorrect because I have a system w

Re: Formatting and Partitioning on SLES 8

2004-10-20 Thread Vic Cross
to specify it), the second creates a single partition that uses all space on the device, the third creates an ext3 filesystem on the partition (if you want a different filesystem type, substitute the appropriate command). Chee

Re: 3270 console in Slack390 9.1

2004-09-28 Thread Vic Cross
nning for the device. These are usually started from inittab, but you could test just by starting it manually from the command line of another (working) session. You'll need to know the device node name (the /dev/ name) of your 3270 and specify that on the getty comman

Re: Question how to use define two OSA adapters and use them with VIPA under z/VM

2004-09-10 Thread Vic Cross
ctually took any notice of those routes would be another question. I don't mean to harp on that aspect of the configuration, but this was something that occurred to me as important in this context. Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LI

Re: Question how to use define two OSA adapters and use them with VIPA under z/VM

2004-09-10 Thread Vic Cross
ig you may end up with a fairly even distribution anyway (due to some randomness in the timing of ARP responses from your OSAs), but that's not to say that it's a reason to stay that way ;) Cheers, hope this helps, Vic Cross --

Re: SLES9 I must be stupid

2004-09-05 Thread Vic Cross
ing anonymous. Hope this is helpful... Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: Dynamic I/O Configuration and removing eth1

2004-08-20 Thread Vic Cross
s. Your interface will probably be eth2 until your next reboot, however, so this might be more trouble to you than it is worth to do it dynamically... Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: Tcpdump on Linux-390.

2004-08-20 Thread Vic Cross
On Friday 20 August 2004 18:23, Rob van der Heij wrote: Rv> I know better than argue with you... I recall the early version had Rv> tweaked one of the formats since I could not use the same thing to Rv> decode a tcpdump stream from my PC anymore. Good point. If you run "tcpdump-qeth -r " on a fil

Re: Tcpdump on Linux-390.

2004-08-20 Thread Vic Cross
header to the packets captured off the network. SuSE included the wrapper script in their distro (from SLES8, IIRC). Google for "tcpdump-qeth". Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: Deleting files in a directory more than 5 days old

2004-07-27 Thread Vic Cross
n be used to increase disk performance. Before using 'find -atime', check if your filesystems are mounted this way and "test in an inconspicuous area" to see that the result is as you expect (I'm pretty sure tha

Re: mp2003

2004-07-27 Thread Vic Cross
s with his REXX version of the script. Put one tapemark between each file and two at the end, and see what difference it makes. Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [

Re: VM TCPIP guest router not on GLAN?

2004-07-26 Thread Vic Cross
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Daniel Jarboe wrote: > In this case would the ping to the gateway ip address from > the outside have succeeded? It may well have -- at least it would on most Linux systems. Linux, for example, will respond to a packet addressed to any of it's configured IP addresses from any

Re: VM TCPIP guest router not on GLAN?

2004-07-26 Thread Vic Cross
own, got it redefined > even-odd-even, and started again (this time WARM). Your difficulties talking to the OSA would -- should ;) -- not have impacted the Guest LAN. Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: mp2003

2004-07-26 Thread Vic Cross
rmat so it won't work on other emulators. Good thinking, but! :) Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visi

Re: mp2003

2004-07-26 Thread Vic Cross
ou need to obtain and build the debootstrap source on the existing system, meet a couple of pre-requisites (including wget) and said existing system needs to be able to get network access to a Debian APT repository (but you were going to be configuring for one of those anyway, right?

Re: SuSE 8 - package installation or build from targz?

2004-07-19 Thread Vic Cross
the mix (since Tao is built from RHEL3's SRPMs, it won't relieve RPM-grief). Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: logical volume question

2004-06-30 Thread Vic Cross
ted. You'll need to fix that, but not before moving the existing /home into the LV (without overwriting what may already be on the LV, if it was at some stage successfully mounted). Mark has some hints on moving filesystems on linuxvm.org that might be use

Re: Novell Linux Technical Resource Kit

2004-06-30 Thread Vic Cross
. Might have been a peculiarity of the mobo or chipset, but that was useful to me ;) Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO

Re: Using crypto cards with Linux

2004-06-24 Thread Vic Cross
tty good chance it will work). Then you (and your CE) will have some ammo when you place the service call. ;) Other than that, it should all Just Work. Load the z90crypt driver, and run the test programs given in the Redbook -- you should get good results. Cheers, Vic Cross ---

Re: First time Linux under S/390

2004-06-16 Thread Vic Cross
ig change to this box every time you add a Linux guest OR define the entire subnet of Linux addresses in advance; the latter was not possible with the OSA-2, because the OAT had a (quite small) limit on the number of addresses that could be defined there. Hoping this helps! Cheers, Vic Cross

Re: z/VM Linux Network recommendations

2004-06-15 Thread Vic Cross
d to failures). >From a networking perspective VSWITCH provides similar function to having your guests attached directly to the OSA, but you get the benefit of having the ability to switch to a different OSA port if a problem happens on the first one. Hoping that we're reducing confusion ra

Re: z/VM Linux Network recommendations

2004-06-13 Thread Vic Cross
Another point -- don't get VLAN and VSWITCH confused. VLAN is not required for VSWITCH, meaning that if all your guests can appear to be on the same network you do not have to configure any VLAN stuff at all (even at the LAN switch por

Re: First time Linux under S/390

2004-06-13 Thread Vic Cross
network stops at .127 - the broadcast address - and the Linux guest is at .129). My suggestions: double-check that there is no firewall product on the PC, or a firewall configuration on the Linux guest, that is stopping the traffic flowing. If that's clear, check that IP forwarding is enable

Re: Attempting to get hipersockets configured in linux

2004-05-27 Thread Vic Cross
c/ directory (/etc/sysconfig/network, if it's like my SuSE 9.0 box) for your interface to be correctly configured. You could copy the ifcfg-eth0 file in that directory and edit as required, or you could use YaST to set up hsi1 this time and have a look at what files it changes for future referen

Re: Crypto on z800

2004-05-26 Thread Vic Cross
is to a CP/IFL that is not defined or available to the LPAR, the LPAR will not be able to use the crypto[1]. Cheers, Vic Cross [1] I may be wrong on this -- this was a piece of advice we encountered along our way while diagnosing problems with crypto on a z800, but we later foun

Re: End of 3745 need???

2004-05-26 Thread Vic Cross
G24-6298). This will let you check through the functions that you're doing with 3745s now to find out how those functions can (or cannot) be performed in other equipment. Only now, whenever you read "Comms Server for AIX" or &

Re: Initial LPAR install zSeries

2004-05-26 Thread Vic Cross
rt the installation process", yes. "Install", well, no. Sorry to be a pedant... ;) Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: P/390 3215

2004-05-22 Thread Vic Cross
t played with, but I think both need an existing driver system to install). > Lastly, are the Red Hat and SuSE linux versions aboe to show somehing on the > 3215 console? Sure, just the same as they do running under VM and using the virtual 3215. On a P/390

Re: ifl

2004-05-18 Thread Vic Cross
eed and not at the speed of the CP. Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: lcs devices under gentoo for s390

2004-05-18 Thread Vic Cross
probably wouldn't hurt to check it one more time ;) What about /proc/subchannels and the like? I guess they will have equivalents in the new kernel... Is there a /proc (or /sys) pseudofile that is the equivalent of /proc/chandev? These will be other he

Re: lcs devices under gentoo for s390

2004-05-18 Thread Vic Cross
f the interface from that. Sure, the config is not the same as 2.4, but at least you will know the right numbers to put in places -- very important for getting the EMIO stuff to work. When I get some spare time I'm going to give this Gentoo build a try, after that I mig

Re: FW: VM TCPIP (A Little Off Topic)

2004-05-17 Thread Vic Cross
: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp3719.html I'd be keen to hear what you think of it, so please let me know or use the feedback e-mail address on the Redbooks site. Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: New to Linux: where is located YaST on an installation system

2004-04-29 Thread Vic Cross
correctly finish the system setup and give you access to YaST. BTW, "yast" on the command line rather than "Yast", "YaST", "YAST" or other combinations will work fine. Cheers, Vic Cross --

Re: VSWITCH Connections

2004-04-15 Thread Vic Cross
've specified on a backup controller doesn't suit... Ideally, you want any TCPIP service machine you've defined as a controller to be able to back up any other one, and it adds complexity if you restrict each controller to an RDEV range. Cheers, Vic Cross ---

Re: FTEs per Server

2004-04-13 Thread Vic Cross
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Adam Thornton wrote: > Mains voltage across the keyboard is more traditional. Y'know, Adam, I sort-of picked you as a BOFH-type... ;)) Cheers, Vic Cross -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: Contraction for Linux on zSeries

2004-04-13 Thread Vic Cross
s idea... ;) It would probably be further contracted to "Linz" (i.e. "Lins"). I know that others on the list have expressed a dislike for zLinux (or IBM-ised to z/Linux) -- why was that? zLinux would get my vote... Cheers, Vic Cross

Re: vsftpd troubles

2004-04-06 Thread Vic Cross
omain 0/1/0 > (109) (DF) > Anyone know how to persuade it to give a more readable output? Use the tcpdump-qeth wrapper, instead of invoking tcpdump directly. In SLES8 it should be provided, although you may have to install anothe

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