Re: RH72 telnet

2002-05-24 Thread Florian La Roche
Others can tell you how to allow root to telnet in, but I won't, cause I like you. :) I hold you in high esteem, also, but if I were to do something to cause you NOT to like me ... THEN would you tell me :) ? (Remember ... this is only a 'temporary' thing, right?). BTW, ARE you saying I

Re: RPM question

2002-05-24 Thread Florian La Roche
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:34:40PM -0400, Dave Myers wrote: I tried installing the glibc-common-2.2.4-20.s390.rpm from the RH 7.2 updates FTP site. I get this if I use: rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2.2.4-20.s390.rpm error: failed dependencies: glibc-common = 2.2.4-19a is needed by

Re: beta version for Red Hat Linux 7.2 S/390

2002-05-24 Thread Florian La Roche
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:52:27PM -0700, Tim Pepper wrote: On Tue 21 May at 15:18:35 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: Please test ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/s390/ and let us know about any problems left. Please also note that the latest OCO modules from IBM for the

Re: Successfully installed kernel 2.4.9-37 and LCS worked ok...BUT I get depmod errs

2002-05-24 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
Maybe, try depmod -a ? WBR, Sergey Dave Myers dave.myers@twcTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] able.com cc: Sent by: Linux Subject: Successfully installed kernel on

SuSE 7.0 Installation Telnet Problem

2002-05-24 Thread Massimiliano Belardi
Hello, I'm experienced a new strange problem. I'm just running the first istance on a VM/ESA 2.3, after run LIN EXEC file, I set up network and root password for the installation. After complete the initial configuration, I try to telnet with PuTTY to Linux but after send password I receive NO

Re: What PTF level am I at?

2002-05-24 Thread Sivey,Lonny
Have you tried running VMFINFO from MAINT? You should be able to determine what PTFs are applied on VM similar to what OS/390 or z/OS would show you with SMP/E. Lonny -Original Message- From: Robert Reuscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:08 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: SuSE 7.0 Installation Telnet Problem

2002-05-24 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
Maybe log messages on system console of Linux (under VM 3270 screen) can explain your problem. If no, check MTU size of TCP/IP under Linux and VM, and decrease it. WBR, Sergey Massimiliano BelardiTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux images hang or loop by turns

2002-05-24 Thread Larry Heath
-Jan wrote --- We start to run Linux under z/VM4.2. Two images has been running without any troubles for weeks. But we have very silly problem since yesterday. The 1st. image hangs sudennly. After few minutes (sometimes 1/2 hour) the Linux image continues to run. BUT the 2nd

Dirty pages in mappings are dropped under page pressure

2002-05-24 Thread Jason McMullan
/* Hi again, one of our developers found YET ANOTHER hideous kernel bug in 2.4.17-2-timer - From: Christopher Neufeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, We have located another serious kernel bug in s390, this one apparently

From the dont bother me with facts department....

2002-05-24 Thread David Boyes
To share the fun, here's his response to my call to address his issues from the first article. Note that: 1) He is not confident enough of his results to post them under his own name. 2) He is not interested in obtaining correct information when offered. It's curious that his repeated attempts

Limiting Linux cache storage?

2002-05-24 Thread Jeffrey C Barnard
Is there a way to limit the amount of storage that Linux can use for caching DASD (or block devices)? I do not want to force Linux not to swap but I want to ensure Linux does not swap my application and/or data areas out just to cache DASD ... Regards, Jeff -- Jeffrey C Barnard Barnard

Re: Kernel messages

2002-05-24 Thread David Boyes
kernel: dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdi(94:32),0617@0x1c4:Environmental data present kernel: dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdi(94:32),0617@0x1c4:FORMAT 6 - Overrun on channel C kernel: dasd:/dev/dasdi(94:32),0617@0x1c4:ERP successful kernel: dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdj(94:36),0625@0x1d2:Environmental

Re: More than 3 partitions on CDL disks ...

2002-05-24 Thread Holger Smolinski
Don, The main reason is, we don't want to waste device numbers in order to keep the number of supported devices high. Linux in General can access a maximum of 64k block devices (partitions). If we would (like Intel) allocate 16 device numbers per volume in order to allow for 15 partitions per

Re: has anyone seen this?

2002-05-24 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; According to the info I have found the VAX 11/780 was released in 1977. That would make this the 25th anniversary. A typo perhaps? Dennis Henry Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .edu

Re: RH72 telnet

2002-05-24 Thread daniel . jarboe
Hey, thanks for this link! Looks like the easiest way for windows boxes to run an X-server. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use OpenSSH instead, and use either TeratermPro with the ttssh SSH add-on, or PuTTY to access your system. Life should be so easy that I had these choices to chose from. I

Re: Successfully installed kernel 2.4.9-37 and LCS worked ok...BUT I get dep...

2002-05-24 Thread Dave Myers
Mark, Thanks for feedback!! Here's the results of suggested commands. LCS Used count is 1so does that mean the LCS driver is still a loadable module? If so, why is my LCS working, even though I'm getting Unresolved symbols?? Thanks, Dave lsmod Size Used lcs

Re: has anyone seen this?

2002-05-24 Thread David Boyes
According to the info I have found the VAX 11/780 was released in 1977. That would make this the 25th anniversary. A typo perhaps? Duh. 25 is right...guess I'm sitting too close to the MicroVAX in the corner. The orbiting mind control lasers are getting to me. Or old age. Or something.

Re: has anyone seen this?

2002-05-24 Thread Jay Maynard
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:05:49AM -0400, David Boyes wrote: (BTW, last friday was the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Vax. 20 years later, and if you're using a Vax, you're not playing with a full DEC...8-)). Interestingly enough, DEC recognized this when coming up with the

Re: From the dont bother me with facts department....

2002-05-24 Thread Terrence W. Zellers
On Fri, 24 May 2002, David Boyes wrote: Note also that the original LinuxWorld article has been heavily modified to remove the more inflammatory comments, particularly the claims against the IBMers. I have a copy of the original article; it's much different than the one that is publically

Re: RH72 telnet

2002-05-24 Thread Alan Cox
Use OpenSSH instead, and use either TeratermPro with the ttssh SSH add-on, or PuTTY to access your system. Life should be so easy that I had these choices to chose from. I have Reflections, and none of the connection methods you listed are available (nor could I install add-ons if I could

Re: Limiting Linux cache storage?

2002-05-24 Thread Holger Smolinski
Jeff, Linux won't swap out recently used pages in order to cache DASD. Best Regards Holger Smolinski -- Dr. Holger Smolinski, Tech. Planning (Storage I/O) for Linux on zSeries IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH,Schönaicher Str. 220, 71032 Böblingen FAX: +49-7031-16-3456, Tel.

Re: has anyone seen this?

2002-05-24 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine In that case David, then we are both to blame, because I missed that one. However for a good read, on another company's response to those guys, try Soul of a new machine. It describes in extreme detail the company's efforts to upstage that system. And they darn near

Re: has anyone seen this?

2002-05-24 Thread John Campbell
According to the info I have found the VAX 11/780 was released in 1977. That would make this the 25th anniversary. A typo perhaps? Duh. 25 is right...guess I'm sitting too close to the MicroVAX in the corner. The orbiting mind control lasers are getting to me. Or old age. Or something.

Re: RPM question

2002-05-24 Thread Philipp Knirsch
Dave Myers wrote: In a message dated 5/24/2002 12:50:49 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For updating only glibc, you can do rpm -Fvh glibc*.rpm nscd*.rpm and it should also work fine. Florian, Why the nscd*.rpm I updated glibc yesterday and it did not call

Re: Automatically Logging On root After IPL

2002-05-24 Thread Hall, Ken (ECSS)
SuSE SLES7 came with a highly modified version of mingetty that wouldn't accept the patch as it was. (It looks like someone added several features without changing the version number.) I've refitted the changes and created a new patch that seems to work properly with the version of mingetty

Re: has anyone seen this?

2002-05-24 Thread Alan Cox
According to the info I have found the VAX 11/780 was released in 1977. That would make this the 25th anniversary. A typo perhaps? I think it makes the joke five years old 8) (BTW, last friday was the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Vax. 20 years later, and if you're using a

Re: linux images hang or loop by turns

2002-05-24 Thread Jim Elliott
We start to run Linux under z/VM4.2. Two images has been running without any troubles for weeks. But we have very silly problem since yesterday. The 1st. image hangs sudennly. After few minutes (sometimes 1/2 hour) the Linux image continues to run. BUT the 2nd image hangs now! IT'S CRYZY.

Re: RPM question

2002-05-24 Thread Florian La Roche
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:39:21AM -0400, Dave Myers wrote: In a message dated 5/24/2002 12:50:49 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For updating only glibc, you can do rpm -Fvh glibc*.rpm nscd*.rpm and it should also work fine. Florian, Why the nscd*.rpm I

Re: Successfully installed kernel 2.4.9-37 and LCS worked ok...BU T I get dep...

2002-05-24 Thread Post, Mark K
Ok, You're definitely using the lcs.o module, and it's been compiled for a different version of the kernel than you're running. I don't know why it's working. Perhaps there's a _second_ lcs.o somewhere in /lib/modules that is loading instead? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Dave

Re: linux images hang or loop by turns

2002-05-24 Thread Carsten Otte
Hi Jan! Your problem reads indeed a little bit strange. Could you please discribe your setup in more detail? I'd like to know which Linux distribution you run, what network devices the images use and whether they share dasds. Please CC: me directly to ensure that I do not skip over your mail by

Article on Migrating to Linux

2002-05-24 Thread Lionel Dyck
I just found this site and they include an interesting article on the benefits of migrating: Site: http://www.cioview.com Article: http://www.cioview.com/news/index_White_Papers.htm This site appears to offer an interesting roi calculator (for a fee) as well. A free preview is at

Re: Automatically Logging On root After IPL

2002-05-24 Thread Post, Mark K
Ken, Send it to me so I can put it on the patches page on linuxvm.org. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Hall, Ken (ECSS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Automatically Logging On root After IPL SuSE SLES7 came with a

Re: Successfully installed kernel 2.4.9-37 and LCS worked ok...BU T I get dep...

2002-05-24 Thread Dave Myers
Mark, I took the lcs.o qeth.o and qdio.o modules out of /lib/modules/ibm and those msgs went away. The RH init must look in that dir for additional loadables ?? The 2.4.9-37 lcs mod is being loaded out of /lib/modules/2.4.9-37tape/kernel/net/lcs.o I guess. The

Re: sysinfo.o: No such file or directory

2002-05-24 Thread John Summerfield
I found the problem. Patch linux-2.4.7-s390-3.diff was applied with=20 ?dry-run, which means it was not actually applied. This patch is the one=20 that creates the sysinfo.c. I apologize for jumping the gun. The scary part is this stuff is starting=20 to make sense! Time you got your cap

Re: RH72 telnet

2002-05-24 Thread John Summerfield
I hold you in high esteem, also, but if I were to do something to cause you NOT to like me ... THEN would you tell me :) ? (Remember ... this is only a 'temporary' thing, right?). BTW, ARE you saying I could create user accounts that could telnet in? You could create user accounts,

Re: RPM question

2002-05-24 Thread John Summerfield
In a message dated 5/24/2002 9:48:08 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Dave. nscd is part of the glibc and provides a name service cache. Here the head output of a simple man nscd: Phil, Thanks for the reply! So...does that mean I don't install the

Re: RPM question

2002-05-24 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:39:21AM -0400, Dave Myers wrote: In a message dated 5/24/2002 12:50:49 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For updating only glibc, you can do rpm -Fvh glibc*.rpm nscd*.rpm and i t should also work fine. Florian, Why the

Animosity from the press

2002-05-24 Thread Lionel Dyck
Seems that the linuxworld author of the mainframe articles is none too happy with those on this listserv. http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0522.mainframelinux.sidebar2.html All I can say is I am disappointed that the editors would publish his rant and as I assume he is still

Re: Linux console

2002-05-24 Thread Craig Vernon
Peter, yes there is. I use a product called Webmin (checkout http://www.webmin.com/). This will give you web access to your linux system. Even though there is the capability to telnet/SSH to login it is not necessary as there is a command shell interface where you can execute commands, however

Re: Animosity from the press

2002-05-24 Thread Post, Mark K
Lionel, Yes, he is still subscribed, but he might have his account set to nomail. I myself find it interesting that he tries to portray all of us as wild-eyed members of a cult, but doesn't acknowledge that at least one of us (me!) told him that we _already know_ S/390 processors are slow

Re: Linux console

2002-05-24 Thread Rob van der Heij
At 16:22 24-05-02, Peter Rothman wrote: Is there a way (maybe some kind of web access) to give someone access to the linux console without telling them to logon to the userid running Linux? I'm not sure what you try to avoid and achieve. There is LOGONBY to control access to a managed list of