Re: CDL/LDL

2003-02-14 Thread Willem Konynenberg
t aspect of the disk... If you don't like this, you can always ignore the VTOC and use some other partition table that is stored within the logical view of the device. So, if someone can explain why the dasd driver needs to be the way it is, such that we need to have these discussions on why yo

Re: rh7.2 upgrading util-linux package

2002-12-13 Thread Willem Konynenberg
be to keep it separate, choose a fitting name from a wider Unix context, rather than the current "fdasd" name, which contrasts it to "fdisk" in a narrow PC Linux context, and make sure there is no confusion with the fdisk program. Does anyone know what these tools on UTS and/or AIX/370 were called? -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Konynenberg Software Engineering

Re: Modularized vs Monolithic kernel

2002-12-11 Thread Willem Konynenberg
.). The discussion between Andy and Linus is famous and has been retained in the archives. Andy felt very strongly about the micro-kernel approach, and Linus felt very strongly that that might be a theoretically nicer design, but with existing technology not practically feasible (yet). -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Konynenberg Software Engineering

Re: time change

2002-10-22 Thread Willem Konynenberg
he timezone can be set per process/session, with a system-wide default. Summer/winter time switch-over dates and other conversion details are included in the timezone definition files as used by the system libraries. For a more detailed explanation and further references, see "man tzset".

Re: but is it right?

2002-08-28 Thread Willem Konynenberg
and a /lib64 directory, and a /lib symlink to one of them. Note that the LSB refers to FHS 2.2 for matters concerning the file system hierarchy. -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Konynenberg Software Engineering

Re: Enlarging Root File System

2002-08-26 Thread Willem Konynenberg
l/image > #ramdisk=/boot/initrd > parameters="dasd=0200-21f root=/dev/dasdo1 noinitrd" > > [dumptape] > target=/boot > dumpto=/dev/rtibm0 > > > It was placed into production using the command: zipl -c /etc/zipl.new.root > On further investigation (and from a s

Re: Sendmail

2002-07-17 Thread Willem Konynenberg
een automatically generated from a corresponding sendmail.mc file, as it should be. In the sendmail.mc file, the corresponding line would be MASQUERADE_AS(your.domain.name)dnl You may wish to study the sendmail documentation at sendmail.org, as I think there are some other related parameter

Re: Can z800 attach to Sun SAN 9960 for S/390 Linux?

2002-05-20 Thread Willem Konynenberg
load the second stage boot loader off a SCSI drive. Perhaps it might want to use some parameters passed in whatever method seems appropriate. The boot loader itself could, in theory, be stored on a tiny VM minidisk and shared among all Linux guests. (in a way, the VM minidisk would be equivalent to

Re: read

2002-04-30 Thread Willem Konynenberg
lso has the reverse consequence that you should not depend on any stage of a pipeline to run in a subprocess (and thus *not* affect the current execution environment of the script). -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas

Re: IP Addressing Oddity

2002-04-25 Thread Willem Konynenberg
t the numbers are intended to be decimal, not octal or hexadecimal... (and other RFCs contain examples that confirm this) I suppose the UNIX standard take precedence here... ;-( -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question -- Charles Babbage

Re: IP Addressing Oddity

2002-04-25 Thread Willem Konynenberg
specific base, the desired base must be specified to the parsing function. It would appear that some code that parses a "dotted decimal" IP address has erroneously be written using the default automatic base detection, where it should have forced base 10. -- Willem Konynenberg <[

Re: OK who messed with the redbook?

2002-04-15 Thread Willem Konynenberg
to learn something about the Hercules > effort, use the software! > > Phil, you got flamed. Most folks think you earned it, even if it was OTT. It looks like Phil is getting himself quite a bit of mileage out of that one flame, isn't he? But then, he'd better, since he worked long and hard to harvest it... -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: S/390 games pack

2002-04-01 Thread Willem Konynenberg
subset. http://www.xs4all.nl/~jmvdveer/algol68.html Algol68G Although not a complete implementation, the documentation seems to suggest that this one may be fairly complete, as ALGOL68 compilers go. -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am not able r

Re: Hostid Value.

2002-03-27 Thread Willem Konynenberg
ssor serial number is only unique for that particular vendor and model of processor, which does not satisfy the documented purpose of the gethostid function. -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Messages Manual

2002-02-04 Thread Willem Konynenberg
SE are lacking. Lack of a Messages and Codes Manual should not be taken as proof positive that Linux is an inferior operating system. It just shows that Linux comes from a different background, a different culture. Not inferior, just different. -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: OT: editor discussions

2002-02-01 Thread Willem Konynenberg
co you find at funet.fi. Uteco was last updated in 1989, ptf-teco was last updated in 1995, and TECO-C was last updated in 1991. Any other versions around? -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question -- Charles Babbage

Re: Messages Manual

2002-01-30 Thread Willem Konynenberg
to stand for "Simple", which I believe was interpreted as "Simplistic", and has meanwhile been corrected to mean "Complex". ;-) -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question -- Charles Babbage

Re: got GB-ethernet working! was "getting GB ethernet working with SLES 7"

2002-01-30 Thread Willem Konynenberg
John's message would have resulted in a file /etc/chandev.conf with a single line containing the text "qeth0,0xee00,0xee01,0xee02". Given the amount of trouble he did with four echo commands in sequence, I suspect he intended the result to be different. (Hint: try swapping the ">&

Re: IBM announces LINUX-only 1 to 4 engine zSeries

2002-01-28 Thread Willem Konynenberg
ct... Nah, more like the User Mode Linux project... -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question -- Charles Babbage

Re: reasons why management don't want linux

2002-01-20 Thread Willem Konynenberg
ore interesting comparison to me seems to be Linux on Intel vs Linux on S/390. Unless, of course, the aim is to sell Linux on S/390... -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question -- Charles Babbage

Re: reasons why management don't want linux

2002-01-19 Thread Willem Konynenberg
d totally irrelevant for the comparison that Alan was making. PC linux boxed sets are available from Red Hat, Suse, and others at roughly $100. -- Willem Konynenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question -- Charles Babbage

Re: PPP module for SuSE

2001-12-14 Thread Willem Konynenberg
Back to the original question: Although I would also be interested to hear why one would want to have a PPP connection on an S/390 system, the fact that it cannot be configured with the current s390/config.in seems incorrect. All other architectures support it, either implicitly by sourcing drivers/n