Re: LVMs gone!

2010-06-08 Thread Daniel Jarboe
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Macioce, Larry < larry.maci...@com.state.oh.us> wrote: > I tried to reboot the test system today and it sits in init 1 , NONE of > the lvgs can be accessed. > > When a reboot occurs, Linux doesn't see volume 207(this was the vol used > to increase the filsesystem)

Re: Change SAMBA password

2010-05-20 Thread Daniel Jarboe
While it's beyond what you were asking for, here's another vote for Samba running in SECURITY=DOMAIN mode with winbind if your users are already authenticating in a Windows Domain / Active Directory type environment. Word of warning: it is another layer of complexity and relinquishment of control

Re: IPL of SLES11 .ins file in Hercules yields immediate disabled wait state

2009-04-14 Thread Daniel Jarboe
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: > Can you display the program old PSW and the instruction that the address > portion of the PSW points to? (Actually, the address less the ILC.) > That fished it out. Enabling instruction stepping increased the instruction count, but not by

Re: IPL of SLES11 .ins file in Hercules yields immediate disabled wait state

2009-04-14 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> > > What kind of hardware and operating system are you running this on? > A Ubuntu 8.10 installation. P4 Intel chip, 1GB RAM. I still end up at disabled wait state with 3.04.1 (though with the older release of hercules it reports instcount of 18 rather than 2). I'll have to try this on some o

Re: IPL of SLES11 .ins file in Hercules yields immediate disabled wait state

2009-04-14 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I'm pretty sure that's by design, and not a problem. The kernel > starts out in 31-bit mode, and then switches to 64-bit mode. > I've been seeing the same thing for years now, and I still do on > my own Hercules setup that can successfully boot up SLES11. Hi Mark, can you confirm? $ md5sum vmr

Re: IPL of SLES11 .ins file in Hercules yields immediate disabled wait state

2009-04-14 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Posting on Linux-390 list too... --- In hercules-...@yahoogroups.com, Harold Grovesteen wrote: > The assumption that has been made is that the files listed in your .ins > file were in fact loaded. That assumption needs to be validated. > > Please display real storage for each of the starting add

Re: IPL of SLES11 .ins file in Hercules yields immediate disabled wait state

2009-04-13 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> > > I would not deny that this might be a problem, but with an instruction > > count of 2, it did not get very far, unless of course it is the very > > first instruction. This question came up on the Hercules list, and I > > recommended this list. Can anyone validate for the poster, the correct >

IPL of SLES11 .ins file in Hercules yields immediate disabled wait state

2009-04-13 Thread Daniel Jarboe
I'm having trouble IPLing the starter SLES11 system using Hercules 3.06. The IPL method should be equivalent to a LPAR load from CD-ROM. The deployment.pdf included within SuSE's docu directory didn't reveal any obvious differences why what works for SLES10 SP2 installation under Hercules doesn't w

Upgrade to SLES10 (s390x from s390)

2007-01-10 Thread Daniel Jarboe
It used to be the case that there was not a supported upgrade path from SLES 31-bit to 64-bit addressing modes. Is that still the case? Has anyone performed a SLES9 SP3 s390 -> SLES10 s390x upgrade in place, or is trying this still more trouble than its worth (i.e. install clean and be done with

Re: upgrades SLES8 to SLES9

2006-04-24 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Gordon Will wrote: > I have several linux guests I would like to upgrade from SLES8 to SLES9. > > Do I have to set options in the PARMFILE, use YAST/YAST2, or is this even > possible. The basic process is to ipl the latest SLES9 installation system (you will want the latest), and after you've add

Re: SUSE Linux for 390

2005-10-20 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I actually don't think there is any software checking. > We bought support during the period and we never had > to change anything from the original install. What ends is your ability to pull maintenance from portal. ~ Daniel

Re: Large Mail file and Warn file

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Thanks, > Would you be willing to send a listing of your logrotate.config > file?. /etc/logrotate.d/syslog is installed with your syslog package Just make sure you have logrotate installed and set up in cron (normally this is done automatically for you, run daily). ~ Daniel ---

Re: Can't Access YAST to complete install

2005-08-15 Thread Daniel Jarboe
You can also ^C out of the install script at the console and eventually it will drop you into a shell. Next time you re-ipl, it will pick up in the install script again. Once in a shell check the output of /sbin/route. Make sure you can ping -c 1 ip_of_your_default_gateway, that kind of thing (d

Re: SLES9 service packs 1 and 2

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Jarboe
The information can be found under CORE of your release on portal. Details: s390: http://portal.suse.com/psdb/d217ab2113221d24870fee955dc766cf.html s390x: http://portal.suse.com/psdb/ad5d207a398847172fbd448b7fc0b61d.html Long story short: http://sdb.suse.de/download/s390/update/SUSE-CORE/9/imag

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade abended!

2005-06-23 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> That is exactly the problem. It hasn't finished at all! > > Isn't there some way to force it to restart? Or do I just > use the MicroSoft default solution of reformat and reinstall? You still haven't said what's not working... just that you saw something that might have been an error message po

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade abended!

2005-06-23 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> [bromine:/]$ apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Starting > Starting 2 > Done > Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > [bromine:/]$ There's nothin

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade abended!

2005-06-23 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Thanks for the reply! > > Nothing is happening! Every thing I have tried with apt-get > just returns 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not > upgraded. So not sure where the problem is yet... you try to apt-get install a new package and you get no messages except 0 upgraded, 0 ne

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade abended!

2005-06-23 Thread Daniel Jarboe
So what's happening? Do you have a half configured package, and dpkg attempts to finish the configuration and fails? Does a dpkg --configure -a tell you anything interesting? ~ Daniel -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Wicks Sent: W

Re: Install problem again

2005-06-21 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I canĀ“t get by the initrd 75% problem when installing. Is this for x86? Was a little confused at all the i386 talk in your email. Otherwise, this sounds similar to an experience we recently had. When using either the SLES9 or SLES9-SP1 installation images the process would hang with zipl (w

Re: SAMBA questions

2005-06-15 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> > 1. Can SAMBA handle nested global groups? > I don't believe so - UNIX/Linux groups cannot contain groups. I recall > someone flattened nested groups somehow, but this was a migration > strategy, not a coexistence one. Support for nested groups in Samba3 is fairly new. Mind link wrap... http:/

Re: z/VM Operator Console

2005-06-03 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> We noticed that when we IPL the z/VM system, the operator console does not > go into scroll more right away. It starts in ?VM READ? and sits there with > the ?more? prompt until the 60 second timeout and scrolls the next screen. > After the IPL is completed and once we hit enter, it will go into

mainframe time for developement?

2005-05-11 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Is anyone aware of any sources that provide mainframe time for porting linux applications to s390 and zSeries hardware? I seem to remember some kind of IBM community, and perhaps something offered by sourceforge, but looking at both now and through this lists archives I can't find any information.

Re: OT: password rules, was: pam_cracklib.so questions

2005-04-18 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Yeah, good luck making this stick. > > You *KNOW* the CEO's password is "boobies". And change the combination on my luggage! (spaceballs) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMA

Re: Samba V3 on zSeries Redpiece

2005-03-21 Thread Daniel Jarboe
In conclusions and recommendations, "Our optimal configuration included: 1 MB of Memory " ...? ~ Daniel -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ferguson, Neale Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 8:46 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Samba V3

Re: dasd/initrd question for 2.6

2005-01-25 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> SLES9 uses 3 sources for activating dasds. > If I recall correctly SLES9 activates the dasds in this order: > > 1. entries in zipl.conf (dasd=) > (dynamically activated by code in the initrd) > 2. dasds which were active when mkinitrd was executed. (And exactly in the > same order) > (These

SLES9 mkinitrd problem? (was: dasd/initrd question for 2.6)

2005-01-24 Thread Daniel Jarboe
mkinitrd appears to add the dasd devices as they appear in alphabetical order of /sys/block. Which means dasda, dasdaa, dasdab, dasdac, dasda* before dasdb, dasdc, etc. Is anyone else using SLES9 that, after install time, added more devices to put you over 26? Thanks, ~ Daniel -

dasd/initrd question for 2.6

2005-01-24 Thread Daniel Jarboe
In our 2.4 systems we set the dasd device order with zipl.conf. The order the devices were added corresponded to which minor number it received... /dev/dasda before /dev/dasdb, etc. Now our SLES9 system uses the initrd... In the initrd's linuxrc script, there are a bunch of calls like: ech

Re: Samba and Apache Crash System

2005-01-21 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Current: Kernel: 2.4.9-17. Samba: 2.2.8a, Apache: 1.3.22. You should try a newer RH 7.2 s390 kernel. The 2.4.9-17 kernel for RH 7.2 s390 had a weird interaction with samba. ~ Daniel -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / ar

Re: Character mode text editor

2005-01-19 Thread Daniel Jarboe
It depends on the sed... For example, an update in place from Unix style end of lines to the Windows carriage return style for some files. sed -i 's/$/\r/' filename works on sles9 and fedora core 3, but not sles8 ~ Daniel -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: Samba 3.0

2005-01-14 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Many of them are the same type of printer HPLaserJet 4si, > HPLaserJet 5, etc. and distributed to over 150 drops/locations > through-out our campus. During the process of setting up these > printers using Point-and-Print I have scripted several steps to > save time. But I have not been able to

Re: Problems using SIGNAL SHUTDOWN

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> 1. Test : zipl.conf without vmpoff=LOGOFF > shell command poweroff does not work for both, VM recognizes shutdown of > GUEST2, but no logoff > > 2. Test : zipl.conf with vmpoff=LOGOFF > shell command poweroff works for both, VM recognizes shutdown of GUEST2, > but no logoff > > The guest were run

Re: Linux equivalents of Unix commands?

2004-12-10 Thread Daniel Jarboe
A pseudo-equivalent to prstat is top, but top lacks prstat's granularity. Pstack was ported to linux and is available in at least Debian's and RedHat's repositories (maybe others), though I don't see anything for SuSE. A Fedora srpm is here: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/co

Re: Permissions on Samba Printshare files

2004-12-07 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> When print files appear in the printshare, they belong to xgroup, > but they have permissions as 600, instead of our intended 660. In > this printshare, that's important because the files don't go straight > to a printer. Instead, a process picks them up and modifies them. > Our work-around is t

Re: Permission denied on Samba 3.0.9-17 download.

2004-12-06 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> URL: http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/sles8-s390/ Works now ~ Daniel -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.

Re: Permission denied on Samba 3.0.9-17 download.

2004-12-03 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Can whomever it is that maintains this please open up the > permissions on the files? Brandon, I've let Volker L know... I seriously doubt he's on this list. In the meantime if you are very anxious, I can send you a samba3-3.0.9-17.src.rpm. I can also send you s390 compiled rpms, but cannot gua

Re: Adding an additional volume using LVM

2004-11-30 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> was the issue of umounting the lvm. Everytime I was issuing the > umount /dev/system/samba I received an error msg "device busy". > Fortunately I knew which other linux servers had the share mounted > (via nfs) and closed down that service to be able to umount it. > How would I be able to asserta

Re: Security alert for SMBFS - Anyone know anything?

2004-11-23 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Anyone seen this? > > http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11695/info Yup, it requires you to mount a smbfs filesystem from a hostile system onto linux. This is a different animal than samba. This is a network filesystem mounted kind of like nfs (fs type will say smbfs). If you don't have users

Re: Problems with SLES 9 and guest lan

2004-11-23 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Yes. uname -r returns 2.6.5-7.111-s390x . There is a directory > in /lib/modules that corresponds to this name. Are you in runlevel 3 (or something other than 1)? runlevel will tell. > Being new to Linux, I've been doing most of my work through Yast, > including downloading and applying patc

Re: Problems with SLES 9 and guest lan

2004-11-22 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I have a 64-bit SLES 9 test system that I've been playing with. I > recently applied some patches that Suse had recommended applying. > After I recycled the system, it will no longer talk to the guest lan. > It worked prior to the patches and no changes have been been made on > the VM side. It

VM dispatching

2004-11-22 Thread Daniel Jarboe
A few weeks ago we had what over time grew into a big problem dispatching guests. Guests would stop being dispatched sometimes for 10 minutes at a time, for no reason that we could identify. Usually shutting some guests down would get everyone dispatching again, but it was a mess. We applied som

Re: problems during sles9 installation

2004-11-18 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> What was the amount you gave it (for those that follow)? The doc said 256MB+ for nfs, 512MB for ftp/VNC. I had 256MB plus some swap (which the installer activated), and at the time of the failure this looked like more than enough. The system was up to 110MB just for buffer/cache with another 5

Re: problems during sles9 installation

2004-11-17 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> can you give more memory to the guest (just during the > installation phase)? The SLES9 install completed cleanly after giving it more memory. Thanks, ~ Daniel -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: problems during sles9 installation

2004-11-17 Thread Daniel Jarboe
>From a different client I can consistently get through most of the install up to zipl segfaulting. When YaST2 attempts to reinstall the bootloader, and it "hangs". 100% repeatable for me. > - What type of disks? > - Amoung of memory? ECKD DASD (CDL formatted) 256 MB memory, plus the installer

Re: problems during sles9 installation

2004-11-16 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Looks like the kernel has some definite problems. If this is as > repeatable as it sounds, I would report it to SUSE, and perhaps the LKML. I switched from a coworkers machine to my linux box here and things are a bit better. Now twice I've made it all the way through the install up to zipl se

Re: problems during sles9 installation

2004-11-16 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Where did you get the documentation on doing an upgrade from > sles 8 to sles 9? TIA! There's a docu directory in CD1 (SLES-9-s390-RC5a-CD1.iso). I didn't look to see if the doc addresses upgrading, but it was an option during the install process. I'd poke around on CD1 first... there were sev

problems during sles9 installation

2004-11-15 Thread Daniel Jarboe
I didn't see anything in the installation doc so I thought I'd ask if anyone has seen this before: I'm trying a new install of SLES9 (s390 31bit) under VM. I had previously formatted all the DASD from another SLES8 system. The install was working on the second CD (core9/CD1) over NFS (loop mount

Re: Documentation for User Process Faults

2004-09-29 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> knowing how to interpret the "User process fault: interruption code" > messages that get generated. Is there a pointer to a document that > contains explanations for these that anyone knows about? You've probably already seen this, but just in case... there's a tiny bit in linux/arch/s390x/mm/f

Re: Guest freeze

2004-09-15 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Grinder is running on an external PC. So it's not that. Good call though. Don't know if you've used this or not, but here's a quick installation thing that may help to determine if your storage sizes are realistic or not... http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/linux/pdf/avmlinux.pdf

Re: Guest freeze

2004-09-15 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Hi Daniel, > > I have seen the __alloc_pages message in /var/log/messages as well as > the VM: Killing process message. So you are definitely short on storage. Which is why you can get ping responses, but no new shells/processes forked to log on. > One of the guests is 1280Mb, the other 1792.

Re: Guest freeze

2004-09-15 Thread Daniel Jarboe
If you watch the console long enough, do you see anything like: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed or VM: killing process? How large did you define the guest? How much is a "small amount" of swap? What kind of workload? What error message do you get when you try to log onto the linux c

Re: shmmax

2004-09-08 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I increased my machine from 32M to 128M. I used the echo 134359738368 > >/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax > Everytime I reboot, the value returns back to 32M. How do I make this > permanent on a SLES8 machine ? sysctl called by the startup scripts is the recommended way... check out /etc/sysctl.conf T

Re: Recycling servers ?

2004-09-03 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I was told that linux servers have to be rebooted periodically > to clear out buffers, cache, storage, etc. Not really. Linux is designed to reclaim/reuse/adjust as needed. Many people are quite proud of their uptimes... If you seem to be losing storage, I'd check on the virtual storage sizes

Re: RH 7.2, Apache and MS Front Page Extensions

2004-08-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I'm installing, or trying to, MS Front Page Extensions in my RH > 7.2/Apache LPAR. If you've been able to successfully accomplish this I'd > like the opportunity to ask some questions. Thanks I don't know if he still does, but when I was using MS FPSE's on RH 7.2 s/390, joshie.com had fo

Re: Using RPM to install a source RPM

2004-08-26 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I try a 'rpm --install nano-1.2.3-1.src.rpm' and absolutely nothing > happens. "rpm -qlp nano-1.2.3-1.src.rpm" shows the files that will be unpacked by the rpm. You either want to "rpm -bb the_spec_file" or simply "rpm --rebuild nano-1.2.3-1.src.rpm". Good luck, ~ Daniel ---

Re: tivoli storage manager client?

2004-08-19 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Guessing (WAG mode): Could this memory growth be caused by maintaining > symlink context? > > It strikes me that if there are a lot of symlinks that there'd need to be > kept a list of where they're pointing so that it could ensure resolution. > > Since I've *NO* knowledge of the internals of T

Re: tivoli storage manager client?

2004-08-19 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I've seen that behavior on a system with a lot of open files (it keeps a > context entry to go back and check later in the run to see if the file > is closed and available), but that doesn't seem to be the case here. Is > this the first backup of that filesystem on this server? Sometimes the > fi

tivoli storage manager client?

2004-08-19 Thread Daniel Jarboe
For those that are using the Tivoli client for file-level backups on linux s/390, can anyone comment on their own experiences with Tivoli client resource requirements? We've recently started backing up a new file-server. As it was hitting its 430,000th file processed, top was reporting memory usa

Re: Slack/390 issue: no login prompt on vm console [Virus checked]

2004-08-18 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I don't get a login prompt. But I do get the "#" sign and can enter > commands. I'm using Hercules, the 390 emulator. This is in /etc/inittab 1:012356:respawn:/program/to/run Is it just /bin/bash now? You might be looking for something like /sbin/sulogin, or /sbin/sulogin -t 30 You can mod

Re: Model 27 dasd

2004-08-17 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Has anyone created an LVM from multiple mod 27's (32,720 cylinders) ? Wasn't any different than 3's or 9's for us. Only thing I can think of is you might want larger logical volumes now that you have larger PVs, so your -s parameter on vgcreate might be larger. http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/lv

Re: VM TCPIP guest router not on GLAN?

2004-07-26 Thread Daniel Jarboe
G'day Vic! > and either VM TCPIP had the wrong IP address (at the Guest > LAN interface) In this case would the ping to the gateway ip address from the outside have succeeded? > or the TCPIP machine was not attached to the Guest LAN. For future reference... how would we reattach it :)? They tr

VM TCPIP guest router not on GLAN?

2004-07-26 Thread Daniel Jarboe
This past weekend we had our DR test, and while my linux guests came up and could talk to each other on the GLAN, none could contact the vm TCPIP router/gateway (or send traffic outside the virtual network). A #CP Q NIC DETAILS from the linux guests showed TX Packets getting discarded, presumably

Re: Network freezes

2004-07-13 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> connections are going down, e.g. all ssh sessions get lost with timeout > etc. A ping doesn't reach the linux. Pings from direct network-neighbours > to the linux fail, too. > (around 20-45 minutes), suddenly the linux answers again. There are no > error-messages in /var/log/messages. Sounds

Re: Linux under VM and Cloning

2004-07-08 Thread Daniel Jarboe
On Thursday, July 08, 2004 10:48 AM Adam Thornton wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 09:41, Daniel Jarboe wrote: > > the real issue was the > > effort that went into applying any updates and keeping the rpm database > > current on each guest. Stability was no problem. > &g

Re: Linux under VM and Cloning

2004-07-08 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> We are going with a lot of Linux Guests under VM. Close to 20 per IFL and > are wondering about the experiences with the basevol/guestvol scenario. > How many People accually use this scenario? How much DASD does this really > save you? Is it worth the time and effort it takes to set this up? Cou

Re: J2EE performance?

2004-06-22 Thread Daniel Jarboe
>- Rapid software development >- Lesser quality code, with less efficient use of resources >- Higher resource demands >- Higher minimum requirements for the application The reason I usually hear: It used to be that your people's resources were inexpensive compared to hardware. Whe

Re: Change IP addr!

2004-06-22 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Hello I am changing the ip addr of the suse server on s390, in redhat I > can change in /etc/sysconfig/network-script.. but... where can i change in > suse 8.. ? You change it in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 (where eth0 is your interface name). Or for overkill use YaST ~ Daniel

Re: Samba -- Drivers not downloading to Windows Client

2004-06-21 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I was successful in getting my Window's printer driver (for an HP 4600) to > upload > to the Samba directory /usr/lib/samba/drivers/3 > I used the Windows client to do this, by following the instructions in > Mike's redpaper..."Cups & Samba" Typically it's /usr/lib/samba/drivers/W32X86/3 What'

Re: Upgrading Samba to 3.0.4 on SLES8

2004-06-07 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> The main reason that I suggest this is because there seems to be a nasty > bug in Samba (s390) whereby TDB files become corrupt under a significant > workload. Samba must be recycled to work around the TDB corruption. This > is being addressed in PMR 68139. There is a workaround to use the smb.co

Re: ftp.suse.com samba3 vanished?

2004-05-28 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Went to see if there were any samba3 package updates for s390 today and > found the following link no longer valid: > > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/gd/samba3 > > Anyone happen to know if that's officially gone or just maybe moved to > another location on their site? I don't know what became of

Re: Hipersockets defined to VM guest - not showing up in examination of /proc/chandev

2004-05-26 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Even if I have not defined them to the linux guest itself, if they've > been dedicated to the VM guest ID, a cat of /proc/chandev should show > me the devices right? Yes, they should. In use and chandev reg will be no. Are they not there? Do they show up in /proc/subchannels? ~ Daniel -

Re: Hipersockets defined to VM guest - not showing up in examination of /proc/chandev

2004-05-26 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Even if I have not defined them to the linux guest itself, if they've been > dedicated to the VM guest ID, a cat of /proc/chandev should show me the > devices right? /proc/subchannels? ~ Daniel --- This message i

Re: Initial LPAR install zSeries

2004-05-26 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Has anyone done a LPAR install on zSeries and then migrated to a zVM > infrastructure ?, any ideas on this ?. Yes, we started this way. Migration was painless. > I would look at the LPAR install just so that we get a head start on the > project , the zVM is part of the IBM bundle that will com

Re: ld-linux.so.2

2004-05-25 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> linuxdev:/home/hrive # rpm -iv gcc_old.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > ld-linux.so.2 is needed by gcc_old-2.95.3-92 > > Can you help us resolve this? Where can we find ld-linux.so.2. It is not > on the Operating System CD's. Where did you get this rpm? The gcc_old provided with SP3

Re: Adding a new DASD

2004-05-19 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> -add the line : MDISK 0204 3390 0001 3338 VMLX05 MR ALL SOME FEW > into my Linux CMS user's USER DIRECT definition. > > - Format the device using cpfmtxa z/VM utility. > > - CMS format 204 c > > - IPL my Linux system. > > - check the devices: > > cat /proc/dasd/devices Does it show up in /proc

Re: password for root on Gentoo for S/390

2004-05-17 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I'm working with the Stage 3 install which is a pre-generated system. > I tried to do a "passwd root newpasswd" after performing a "chroot > /mnt/gentoo". I suspect this changes the password on the driving system. > I made sure I changed root's password to the same one I'm using on the > drivi

Re: password for root on Gentoo for S/390

2004-05-17 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> > OK, what's the password for root when installing Gentoo for S/390 > > from the Stage3 file? > > I think it was "" for the x86 stage3 live cd... try that. Or random/not-set? Can you not set your own with passwd at the console...? ~ Daniel --

Re: password for root on Gentoo for S/390

2004-05-17 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> OK, what's the password for root when installing Gentoo for S/390 from the > Stage3 file? I think it was "" for the x86 stage3 live cd... try that. ~ Daniel --- This message is the property of Time Inc. or i

Re: SAMBA V2 - Can I join a Windows ADS Domain which is in mixed mode??

2004-05-07 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Question: > Can Samba V2.2.8a join an Active Directory domain (which is running > in mixed mode) > as a domain member... and does WINBINDD work in that environment? Yes, Samba 2.2 is basically a NT-type client. If NT clients can participate in the AD, so can Samba 2.2. > But winbind doesn't w

OT, but a familiar face

2004-05-06 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Hope people don't mind the OT post, but in rationalizing, it's pretty easy to connect the dots from Jay Maynard to Hercules to Linux s/390... http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume/ ~ Daniel --- This message

Re: IBM Plans to Build Servers That Act Like Mainframes

2004-04-28 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> See: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/28/technology/28blue.html > > (Free subscription required) For privacy-paranoid, a lot of news sites (like NYTimes) do not require subscription info if your HTTP_REFERER is from google.com. If your client doesn't support changing this you can always search fo

Re: DASD Errors due to R/O

2004-04-28 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Thanks. The document I am using to build this environment says that if I > do that then I will not be able to access the R/W DASD even from the ID i > used to build them since all systems will not see the DASD as R/O. If > there a way around that? Your R/W guest should not update the dasd that o

Re: Samba process runaway

2004-04-27 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> out of control and eating up CPU, meanwhile, customers access to the samba > shares dies. When it happens, there appears to be wy too many samba > processes spawned, yet only one of them is going bezerk according to > "top". The parent smbd forks one smbd for each connection. So each clien

VM linux console and "@" symbol

2004-04-15 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Any idea how to get the "@" symbol to work when using the VM console for linux. It doesn't matter if I use x3270 on linux or a windows-based 3270 client, @ always seems to be treated as a backspace. Command: echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes echo 134 Command: echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes echo 123

Re: vsftpd troubles

2004-04-07 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I am trying to diagnose a problem with vsftpd on sles8 (31 bit). Certain > windows clients seems to hang for a long time before getting started. Also > they cannot rename/delete files. Other clients work OK. > Has anyone experienced this Windows client like "%windir%\system32\ftp.exe" or window

Re: Sharing root mdisk with SLES 8.0

2004-04-02 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> And finally, the pain involved isnt so great, we just installed a linux > vm, compiled and installed the packages that we need (postgres 7.4, apache > 1.3.29, perl 5.8, etc), then copied the non-standard directories (etc, Do the "extra" software packages not included in the base get compiled/ins

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-04-02 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> > for i in `rpm -qa`; do rpm -V $i; done |grep missing > rpm: only one major mode may be specified Those are backticks around rpm -qa (on my keyboard, upper left, shared by ~). ~ Daniel --- This message is the proper

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-04-01 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> It's funny, this is the one I use to clone, and I just went > to another instance, found it and copied it back. > > Once tar was there, it worked great. > > I really appreciate your help Glad you are back in business now, though the missing binary IS disconcerting. You should probably take inve

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> It looks like that messages is generated around line 837 in the mkinird, > before your change. Ugh, my find had wrapped back to the beginning without me realizing. Okay, on line 844 tar -C $root_dir -cf - $x 2>/dev/null | tar -C $tmp_mnt -xpf - 2>/dev/null you're getting a rc 127. It's as if

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
>> At line at 1061 which is: >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=$tmp_initrd_small bs=1k count=$img_size 2>/dev/null >> >> Can you remove the "2>/dev/null" portion of that, run mkinitrd again and >> see if you get any "No space left on device" errors? > > I did as you suggested, but I don't get any additional

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> creating initrd "/boot/initrd" for kernel "/boot/kernel/image" > (version 2.4.21-83-default) (s390) > > dasd_mod: failed to add module "/lib/modules/2.4.21-83- > default/kernel/drivers/s3 > 90/block/dasd_mod.o" > initrd too small > > Run zipl now to update the IPL record! > > how do I make it big

Re: Quagga Installation Questions

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I am ready to do the "rpm ?bb quagga-0.96.4.spec". There was a method to > redirect the output to the terminal and to a file so I can review it. It > was a redirection command and for the life of me, I cannot get my syntax > correct. Can someone provide me the syntax? Something like "rpm -bb qua

Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e: 01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize on e

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> Yes, I checked the zipl.conf and then ran zipl. Does your zipl.conf have a line like "ramdisk=/boot/initrd" ? If not, you should probably add it (run mkinitrd if you haven't), and then run zipl again. > > Loading module dasd_mod dasd=$dasd ... > > insmod: dasd_mod: no module by that name found

SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize on eckd - revisited)

2004-03-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I just put on SuSE SP3. When I IPL'd, it gives me these messages: > > Loading module dasd_mod dasd=$dasd ... > insmod: dasd_mod: no module by that name found > Loading module dasd_eckd_mod ... > insmod: dasd_eckd_mod: no module by that name found > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k b

Re: Quagga Installation Questions

2004-03-30 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I am seeing a build requirement for package tetex. This is not part > of the SuSe SLES8 distribution. I have been unable to determine if > tetex is really necessary or not. Should I install tetex as well? > Any ideas and opinions are welcomed. Thanks. There are te... and ...tex type packages ava

Re: chandev_initdevice detected duplicate devicename eth0

2004-03-30 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> > The one that doesn't work: > > noauto;qeth0,0x0710,0x0711,0x0712;add_parms,0x10,0x0710,0x0712,portname: > > VMGLAN > > noauto;qeth0,0x073c,0x073d,0x073e;add_parms,0x10,0x073c,0x073e,portname: > > VMGLAN > > Looks like a typo ;) The second one should be "qeth1". D'oh, thank you! > > If you use

chandev_initdevice detected duplicate devicename eth0

2004-03-30 Thread Daniel Jarboe
I'm trying to be able to toggle an additional IP address between two guests (qdio GLAN, VM's TCPIP is the router). VM 4.3, SLES 8 SP3 guests. Our VM guy added the additional three devices required for QDIO on one guest, and then a different three on another. I could have one of the guests listen

Re: Samba Print Config Problem - "Insufficient access rights to connect"

2004-03-24 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> I am getting this error on a new Samba (SLES8) printer config... > (first time we're trying samba at this account) What version of Samba? > When trying to connect to the linux574 printer > "You do not sufficient access rights to your machine to connect to the > selected printer" Maybe one of t

Re: Format disk and mount FS : lost space

2004-03-18 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Carsten Otte wrote: > Daniel wrote: > >The larger the number of cyls for the device, the worse the > ratio gets :(. > > That's not true: CDL uses track0 and track1 for internal purposes, the > rest (number of 4k blocks that fit on a track multiplied with amount of > tracks) is available for partiti

Re: Problems with CUPS/SAMBA config (print drivers)

2004-03-17 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Hi Dave, > 1. I ran the "cupsaddsmb" command and I see that it created > InfoPrint_1125.PPD, which looks right for my Infoprint 1125 printer. What's in /var/lib/samba/drivers/, /var/lib/samba/drivers/W32X86/, and /var/lib/samba/drivers/W32X86/2 or /var/lib/samba/drivers/W32X86/3? >

Re: Format disk and mount FS : lost space

2004-03-17 Thread Daniel Jarboe
> We have formated a mini disk of 285 Cylinders with : > > dasdfmt -b 4096 -n 0104 > > dev2:/mnt# less /proc/dasd/devices > 0104(ECKD) at ( 94: 16) is dasde : active at blocksize: 4096, 51300 > blocks, 200 MB Going over the numbers, the overhead from dasdfmt is startling. At 849,960 byte

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