On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:17:20AM -0500, Alex deVries wrote:
I have a few questions accumulated, although I'm sure there will be
more. I suspect they're in the category of either:
A - this is a really stupid question, or
B - we've already answered this 1,000 times
My questions so far are:
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 01:34, Post, Mark K wrote:
Well, you've already spent more time trying to figure this out than you
would if you just do a re-install. So, why not try to do it right all the
I already frowned upon someone reading channel programs and instruction
streams in octal, but this
On Thursday 05 February 2004 19:03, Alan Cox wrote:
On Iau, 2004-02-05 at 17:47, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Yes, that's a trivial bug which gcc-3.x happen to ignore. The answer to
why the space in front of a comma can be significant is left as an
excercise to the reader. To fix this, apply this
Per our Red Hat engineer, Red Hat will be offering the on demand timer
patch. They have asked me to provide feedback as to what performance
differences I see when it is turned on v. when it is turned off. I;
however, do not have the load yet that would provide good results to
answer that
That varies based on processor. The bigger the processor the smaller
load the timer code puts on it. On a G5 I saw about .3% CPU Utilization
from an idle machine without the patch. On a z800 it drops to about
.1%. On a z900 it is probably negligible. But 100 machines on a z900
without the
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 14:00, Rich Smrcina wrote:
That varies based on processor. The bigger the processor the smaller
load the timer code puts on it. On a G5 I saw about .3% CPU Utilization
from an idle machine without the patch. On a z800 it drops to about
.1%. On a z900 it is probably
On Thursday 05 February 2004 22:14, you wrote:
I have downloaded this but looks like it requires Enterprise
Extender on the OS/390 side.
I was looking at the CICS sockets interface. On the Linux side I can
rig up something in Perl easily. But the CICS side seems to be a big
effort. If anyone
Who has experience with setting up Linux to use hipersockets for data
transfer to z/OS? I am looking at the disk-tape ackup solution that David
Boyes came up with, and I believe that hipersockets would be the best route
to go. Just not sure if we can go there.
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 07:00:53AM -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote:
That varies based on processor. The bigger the processor the smaller
load the timer code puts on it. On a G5 I saw about .3% CPU Utilization
from an idle machine without the patch. On a z800 it drops to about
.1%. On a z900 it
We are about to set up our environment utilizing the Linux-399 environment.
We currently are using Microsoft sql database on windows platforms. We would
like to move off it and onto a Linux sql database. Does anyone have any
experience using a Linux platform sql database other than interfacing
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:09:12AM -0500, Hahne, Ronald wrote:
We are about to set up our environment utilizing the Linux-399 environment.
We currently are using Microsoft sql database on windows platforms. We would
like to move off it and onto a Linux sql database. Does anyone have any
We are running Red Hat 7.2 with the 2.4.21 kernel (with the patches from the June
Stream 2003 applied) and have been able to implement hipersockets with no problems -
in preparation to test David's backup solution.
If I can just get the mvslogin/mvslogout to compile on Linux!! Anyone been able
Recent versions of Postgresql (the last year or two) have matched, if not
exceeded MySQL in terms of speed.
To directly answer the original question, there a probably literally
millions of Linux systems in the world running MySQL, to the point where
LAMP has become a recognizable name in the
On Gwe, 2004-01-30 at 04:16, Post, Mark K wrote:
Also, if I were to get involved with something like that, is there a bk
client for Linux/390? (I'm willing to do something to help get these
blasted patches integrated.)
I would be that Larry will roll a 390 client if someone can give him the
James,
You would set it up just like you would a Guest LAN using virtual
HiperSockets. Look at http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/guestlan.html and
ignore the Guest LAN pieces.
Any 2.4 kernel should support this.
Mark Post
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL
Harold,
I got them to compile with no problem on an Intel Linux system. What
problems are you having?
Mark Post
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Kubannek, Harold
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:26 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
On Gwe, 2004-02-06 at 15:25, Post, Mark K wrote:
Recent versions of Postgresql (the last year or two) have matched, if not
exceeded MySQL in terms of speed.
To directly answer the original question, there a probably literally
millions of Linux systems in the world running MySQL, to the point
Alan,
Unless Larry is doing something silly or low-level in his code, it should
just compile, don't you think? He can either get an LCDS instance to do the
work, or I can create an account for him on one of mine. If you could ask
him to contact me, I would appreciate it. He would probably
Mark,
on the make I get the following output :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mvs-client]# make
cc -c -I. gfsawsha.c
gfsawsha.c: In function `getsite_1':
gfsawsha.c:641: warning: passing arg 3 of pointer to function from incompatible
pointer type
gfsawsha.c:641: warning: passing arg 4 of pointer to function
Is there a #include errno.h missing from gfsawlin.c perhaps?
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gfsawlin.o(.text+0x74): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `errno'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [mvslogin] Error 1
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:17:20AM -0500, Alex deVries wrote:
1. Problem installing
When I went through the Debian installer, I got to a step labelled
something like 'Install Kernel and Modules', which didn't. The
installer segfaulted, and there was no kernel at all in
From the left field:
if one can call Rexx from CICS one has TSO Pipelines
then it's trivial to write a pipe to do it
Disclaimers:
1 it's Friday
2 I know nothing about CICS
Rod
sorry. you can't use that. sco property.
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From: Ferguson, Neale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hipersockets - What Kernal level is required to s
upport/use?
Is there a #include errno.h
Most likely. That's a change that crept in with later versions of
gcc/glibc, so I'm not surprised that IBM hasn't updated their code yet.
I've run into it with a number of packages I've compiled myself.
Mark Post
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Making the following changes in gfsawlin.c and gfsawlou.c allowed the 'make' to work.
CHANGING :
#ifdef MVS /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
#pragma comment(copyright,GFSCWLOUHDZ11TC )
#pragma options(RENT)
#pragma strings(readonly)
#pragma csect(CODE,GFSCWLOU)
Does that apply to Linux in LPAR mode?
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Yes.
Mark Post
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
James Melin
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:02 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hipersockets - What Kernal level is required to
support/use?
Does that apply to Linux in LPAR mode?
I would say so.
Mark Post
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Kubannek, Harold
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:28 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hipersockets - What Kernal level is required to s
upport/use?
Making the following
Thanks Mark, Neale, mvslogin and mvslogout seem to be working as advertised, now.
James, sorry to have side tracked the thread.
Thanks
--Harold
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From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 09:35
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
Anyone installed this on Linux? I downloaded 90 trial version.Looking at
the README, it says.. (see below). Notice the last line. It seems I should
reboot after this. I never had to do anything like this on any Linux
unless it was a kernel change. Is this OK? What am I getting myself into?
5.2
On Friday 06 February 2004 16:23, Alan Cox wrote:
On Gwe, 2004-01-30 at 04:16, Post, Mark K wrote:
I would be that Larry will roll a 390 client if someone can give him the
right bits (or explain hercules 8)). The big difference really is that
IBM release tested patches to recent releases,
No problem. It saves me from having the same thing happen. It's all good.
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On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:52:42AM -0500, Alex deVries wrote:
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
You probably also get a message saying to run apt-get update, which is the
solution to that problem. Those messages mean that you have certain
sources
specified in /etc/apt/sources.list, but haven't
TO :
#include errno.h ADDED
#ifdef MVS /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
#pragma comment(copyright,GFSCWLOUHDZ11TC )
#pragma options(RENT)
#pragma strings(readonly)
#pragma csect(CODE,GFSCWLOU)
#include rpc.h
/*#include errno.h */
Perhaps, but I'm less worried about the new features just incorporated, than
I am about the fact that I'm still applying the same patches to 2.4.23 and
2.4.24 that I was on 2.4.7. Giant waste of a lot of people's time. And,
who's to say we won't have a similar problem with 2.6?
As we all know,
During the installation of RHEL3 under z/VM 4.4 I am able to get through
the language and define my nfs server etc. . . It seems though when the
install attempts to load the DASD configuration it fails. I am presented
with the box that tells me No Hard Drives were found. I can then select
Did you check /etc/modules.conf? RHEL3 uses
/etc/modules.conf instead of /etc/zip.conf to list you
volumes. You also have to do a mkinitrd after updating
/etc/modules.conf
mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-($uname -r).img $(uname
-r)
If you use a different /boot/initrd-xxx name, then you
also have to
Eric;
I think I had a similar problem. Our solution was to partition and format the
DASD from the VMGuest console session, before you ssh in and start the anaconda
installer.
It would be something like:
dasdfmt -b 4096 -f /dev/dasda
then:
fdasd -a /dev/dasda
Hope that helps.
Cheers;
E!
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:05:22AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
Probably; I would send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No sooner did I speak than 1.2.4 was uploaded to unstable.
--
- mdz
Feature. That's what priority means, after all.
Use this one first, then that one, then all
these.
In SLES7, its a bug because it will not go to lower
priority swap (I found out the hard way). I have not
tested this in SLES8 or RHEL3.
As to different priorities on swap, that doesn't seem
to
As to different priorities on swap, that doesn't seem
to make much practical sense. It would tend to force
all your paging to a single device.
If you have different speed devices, it allows you to set up a hierarchy.
Think solid-state disk, fast 3390 disk, old 3380s as a possible scenario.
You
Ref: Your note of Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:19:22 -0800 (attached)
In SLES7, its a bug because it will not go to lower
priority swap (I found out the hard way). I have not
tested this in SLES8 or RHEL3.
I've never had a problem with SLES 7 using multiple swap devices. In
fact, I set them up with
So you are saying that the entirety of swap at highest priority was filled
and you ran out of swap or what, exactly?
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The default zipl.conf for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS is:
[defaultboot]
default=linux
target=/boot/
[linux]
This problem is getting to be a FAQ...
http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/mkinitrd-notes.html
Mark Post
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Scully, William P
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: zipl.conf for RH
So you are saying that the entirety of swap at
highest priority was filled and you ran out of swap
or what, exactly?
With different priorities, at SLES7, we found that
Linux would go into a loop and lock out all other
tasks after the first swap with highest priority
filled. This was at the RC6
But how do I make the change permanent in RH EL 3.0
AS?
The mkinitrd makes the /etc/modules.conf change
permanent in the /boot/initrd... module.
=
Jim Sibley
RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries
Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso
This problem is getting to be a FAQ...
I had that feeling when I encountered the change in
RHEL3 (RH 7.1/7.2 uses the same technique SuSE). Both
SuSE 8 and RHEL3 now use mkinitrd, but the syntax is
different.
I do need to update the page to allow for using labels
rather than /dev/dasd...; I'm
This may be of interest to this list. Linas Vepstas, who originated
the first Linux on the mainframe project, is now working at IBM. Linas
is part of the Linux on POWER development team.
Jim
The mkinitrd makes the /etc/modules.conf change
permanent in the /boot/initrd... module.
Then running zipl will make it permanent in the boot sector of the IPL
disk.
-Mike MacIsaac, IBM mikemac at us.ibm.com (845) 433-7061
But I don't believe that to be important, since the dasd= parameter isn't
kept in the boot sector. At least, not the one that gets used during IPL.
That is in the initrd.
Mark Post
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Michael MacIsaac
Sent:
The mkinitrd makes the /etc/modules.conf change
permanent in the /boot/initrd... module.
Then running zipl will make it permanent in the boot
sector of the IPL
disk.
If you use the same initrd name, then the zipl may not
be necessary. I think the zipl is only needed if the
/etc/zipl.conf
How nice. I'm glad to hear that. He's certainly shown that he can do that
kind of work!
Mark Post
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim
Elliott
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linas Vepstas at IBM
That's great news! I'm very pleased for him. I had some of the most fun
working on Bigfoot with him and watching things like DAT start working
etc. An effort certainly more than just a footnote in Linux on zSeries.
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This may be of interest to this list. Linas Vepstas,
I had the impression that Linas was a little bitter towards IBM about
Linux/390 development. I am pleased that things have worked out for him, and
that he and IBM have come to terms.
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From: Jim Elliott [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:51 PM
On second thought, perhaps it would be necessary, if the boot sector points
to the disk location of the initrd. Hmmm.
Mark Post
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Michael MacIsaac
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't know much about kernel hacking, but I've always been interested.
We've got hardware and I'm certainly willing learn.
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From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.24 qeth.o
I just did a quick experiment with RHEL3, mkinitrd,
and zipl.
1) I updated /etc/modules.conf, then did the mkinitrd
using the same name for /boot/initrd When I
rebooted, the new dasd were NOT there.
2) I then did a zipl and rebooted. The new dasd was
picked up.
Bottom line - both the
Anyone installed LiS-2.16?
This is a pre-req for IBM Communication Server.
I applied the specified patch and did a 'make'
I many lines of errors like this:
/usr/src/LiS/head/linux-mdep.c: In function `syscall_mknod':
/usr/src/LiS/head/linux-mdep.c:167: error: asm-specifier for variable
`__arg1'
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