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2004-02-26 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
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2004-02-26 Thread Crispin Hugo
Test Crispin Hugo ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office / Systems Programmer, Macro 4 http://www.macro4.com/ Macro 4 plc, The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, RH10 4SS Direct Line: +44 (0)1293 872121 Switchboard: +44 (0) 1293 872000 Fax: +44 (0)

Re: Any looking at CA-ACF2?

2004-02-26 Thread Rozonkiewiecz, Mitchell P
The reference to pam-acf2 is in reference to using PAM to connect to CA-ACF2. The CA branded name of the product is eTrust PAM Client for Linux for zSeries. It supports both eTrust CA-ACF2 and eTrust CA-Top Secret for z/OS and OS/390. The next release of eTrust CA-ACF2 and eTrust CA-Top Secret

Re: Redhat and S390

2004-02-26 Thread Hürlimann Heinz (KTPS 1)
Try: http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/taroon/en/iso/s390/ http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/taroon/en/iso/s390x/ Heinz -Original Message- From: Crispin Hugo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 7:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Redhat and

Re: Redhat and S390

2004-02-26 Thread Crispin Hugo
Unfortunatley the links suggested do not exist any more, thanks anyway. Crispin Hugo Systems Programmer, Macro 4 http://www.macro4.com/ -Original Message- From: Hürlimann Heinz (KTPS 1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 February 2004 10:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: nfs hangs on NetApp NAS device

2004-02-26 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Adam Thornton writes: On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 12:42, McKown, John wrote: If you do not recommend the soft option (at least for R/W), what else is possible? If the NFS server dies or is unavailable for some reason, does that mean that all the client boxes which use it should die as well?

Re: Redhat and S390

2004-02-26 Thread Hürlimann Heinz (KTPS 1)
Hi, if I'm copy and paste these link to my browser I find: MD5SUM 25-Aug-2003 11:00 1k taroon-s390-as-disc1.iso 24-Aug-2003 22:15 123M taroon-s390-disc2.iso20-Aug-2003 22:08 635M taroon-s390-disc3.iso20-Aug-2003 22:12 421M taroon-s390-disc4.iso

Re: Redhat and S390

2004-02-26 Thread Crispin Hugo
If you then click on them , I get The page cannot be displayed I think the links are there but the contents have been deleted or moved. Crispin Hugo Systems Programmer, Macro 4 http://www.macro4.com/ Macro 4 plc, The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, RH10 4SS Direct Line: +44 (0)1293

Re: Redhat and S390

2004-02-26 Thread Hürlimann Heinz (KTPS 1)
Anyway, you can download it by FTP from ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/taroon (if there are not too many connected users). For mirrors, check the mail below from Florian La Roche: - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Announcing Red Hat

RHEL qeth not loading

2004-02-26 Thread Alan Schilla
I have just installed Redhat RHEL3 via FTP. The boot loader activates and uses my QDIO/QETH guest lan just fine but after installing and rebooting I recevie the folloing message: network: Setting network parameters: succeeded ifup: Cannot get driver information: Operation not supported I then

Backup Tool

2004-02-26 Thread Leonardo Rodriguez
Hi There, I'm looking for a tool to make backups. I have SLES8 for S390 installed on a LPAR. The disks are 3390-M3. Is there any instead the dd command? Thanks in advance Leonardo

VM Linux OSA Problems

2004-02-26 Thread valentin.zagar
Hello all! Please help :))) we're running SuSE SLES8 (64 bit, kernel 2.4.21.95) on Z/VM (64 bit, v 4.4). Hardware Z900 2064/102. ip add: eth0: BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100 link/ether 00:02:55:09:75:6f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.15.4.4/16 brd

Re: Basevol/Guestvol

2004-02-26 Thread Scully, William P
Bob, I recently gave a presentation at HillGang which describes a simplified approach for Basevol/Guestvol in the SuSE operating system. If you forward me at William dot Scully at CA doc COM your e-mail address, I'll fire off to you a copy of an HTML document which describes the approach I

Re: Basevol/Guestvol

2004-02-26 Thread Bob
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I saw that presentation material and between that material and the Redbook I have been able to understand and setup everything except for where to put the (mount --bind)'s for the guestvol packs into the rc.d directory structure to have them so that the mounts are done

Re: Use of Dirmaint - RACF Price Comment Revised

2004-02-26 Thread Coffin Michael C
Greetings, In the interest of fairness, I should point out that my comment about RACF for VM being very expensive was based on pricing prior to it becoming a z/VM Feature Code. RACF for VM WAS very expensive, but the current pricing as a z/VM Feature is very reasonable. Having said that, I

Re: z/VM access to EMC (was: Accessing DASD on a Shark from Linux under z/VM)

2004-02-26 Thread David Boyes
I'm curious. One of the benefits touted, and true, about Linux on zSeries vs. some other platform, is the zSeries' strength in I/O. Is this still true with FCP attached SCSI DASD? Why would the zSeries drive SCSI DASD better than Intel or Sun? John McKown Senior Systems Programmer

Re: Any looking at CA-ACF2?

2004-02-26 Thread Davis, Larry
And of course VM Secure will also be included in that support, at some point? Larry Davis -Original Message- From: Rozonkiewiecz, Mitchell P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 20:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Any looking at CA-ACF2? The reference to

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-26 Thread David Boyes
I'm confused by the RPC+LE remark. What problems have you encountered? It's a two part problem -- neither is directly the fault of SMAPI, but both contribute to making SMAPI difficult to use in normal, mainstream life. 1) Building an application to use the SMAPI is fairly complicated -- the

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-26 Thread Richard Troth
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Alan Altmark wrote: I'm confused by the RPC+LE remark. What problems have you encountered? We've written many test programs in C on CMS using the SMAPI RPC calls. What David said. But also ... Dr. Boyes presents a good summary. Let me add two important points about

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-26 Thread David Boyes
As David mentioned, a reference C program (with source!) would go a long way towards adoption of SMAPI. In SMAPI's defence, there is a lot of sample code in the docs (which are extensive). Problem is that it's not helpful if you don't have a C compiler and a lot of shops that are using VM

Re: How to start VNC/YAST2 after installation?

2004-02-26 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
I issued the command but cannot connect via the web browser at http://xx.xx.xx.xx:5801/. I received no error messages. Richard Troth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/26/2004 05:39 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to start VNC/YAST2 after installation?

2004-02-26 Thread Richard Troth
I issued the command but cannot connect via the web browser at http://xx.xx.xx.xx:5801/. I received no error messages. Hmmm... I never use that, though it always starts. (And I would just as soon disable it for obvious security reasons.) But that's not helping you. Perhaps adding an -http

Re: z/VM access to EMC (was: Accessing DASD on a Shark from Linux under z/VM)

2004-02-26 Thread Jim Sibley
I'm curious. One of the benefits touted, and true, about Linux on zSeries vs. some other platform, is the zSeries' strength in I/O. Is this still true with FCP attached SCSI DASD? Why would the zSeries drive SCSI DASD better than Intel or Sun? John McKown Senior Systems Programmer

Re: How to start VNC/YAST2 after installation?

2004-02-26 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine Folks, was this the same VNC product that www.realvnc.com had released directly? Or one that was modified from source? Every time I've used VNC, the port that I used was 5900, and added the desktop number, typically 1 for the first, and so on. Granted, I've

Re: How to start VNC/YAST2 after installation?

2004-02-26 Thread Vic Cross
G'day Gregg, On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Gregg C Levine wrote: Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine Folks, was this the same VNC product that www.realvnc.com had released directly? Or one that was modified from source? Every time I've used VNC, the port that I used was 5900, and added the desktop

Re: How to start VNC/YAST2 after installation?

2004-02-26 Thread Vic Cross
Peter, On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco wrote: How can I automate the startup for the VNC server so it comes up whenever I reboot Linux? Check to see if your vncserver package has added an init script to your init.d directory. There may also be a matching config file

Re: nfs hangs on NetApp NAS device

2004-02-26 Thread Cameron, Thomas
-Original Message- From: Betsie Spann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nfs hangs on NetApp NAS device My RH AS 3.0 system frequently hangs with the message nfs: server pafiler not responding It's a NetApp NAS

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-26 Thread David Boyes
On Thursday 26 February 2004 22:42, Alan Altmark wrote: I'm not sure there's a whole lot more I can say. There are two types of customers: Those that want to spend the money to write their own system management tools, and those who would rather buy them. I think that, in the Big Picture,

Re: RPM question

2004-02-26 Thread Cameron, Thomas
-Original Message- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RPM question On Thursday 26 February 2004 22:27, Cameron, Thomas wrote: I found tripwire to be useful in identifying added files when

Re: RPM question

2004-02-26 Thread David Boyes
On Thursday 26 February 2004 22:27, Cameron, Thomas wrote: I found tripwire to be useful in identifying added files when creating or updating complex RPM's. Run it before doing make/make install, and again after, and you get a list of files added and changed. What is wrong with: rpm

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-26 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 02/26/2004 at 09:05 EST, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, I know Alan and Chris Casey read this list. Let's let them perk on it a bit and see what pours forth. I'm not sure there's a whole lot more I can say. There are two types of customers: Those that want to

Re: Redhat and S390

2004-02-26 Thread Cameron, Thomas
Try ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/beta/taroon -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Assistant Vice President Linux Design and Engineering Bank of America (972) 997-9641 The opinions expressed in this message are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer,

Re: RPM question

2004-02-26 Thread Cameron, Thomas
What is wrong with: rpm -qilp [package].rpm It will tell you every file in the package and where it gets installed. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Assistant Vice President Linux Design and Engineering Bank of America (972) 997-9641 The opinions expressed in this message are mine alone

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-26 Thread David Boyes
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:05:38PM -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: Problem is that it's not helpful if you don't have a C compiler and a lot of shops that are using VM only to support Linux aren't going to license the C/C++ compiler just to write management apps. There are other

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-26 Thread Thomas David Rivers
As David mentioned, a reference C program (with source!) would go a long way towards adoption of SMAPI. In SMAPI's defence, there is a lot of sample code in the docs (which are extensive). Problem is that it's not helpful if you don't have a C compiler and a lot of shops that are using

Re: OT: Laptop running Linux?

2004-02-26 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
I've been running SuSE on Thinkpad 570 and T21 with no real issues. AS for the Cisco I'm using one to write this on Suse 8.2.Check the firmware level of the card. Something in Windows XP (also 2K) updates the firmware and causes the card not to run under Linux. I have to reload to V4.25 to get the

Re: How to start VNC/YAST2 after installation?

2004-02-26 Thread Richard Troth
I have one quick question. During the install I used YAST2 and VNC via a java enabled web browser. I want to use it again for some normal updates but I do not know how to start/enable the VNC server. Can someone provide an old MVS dude some help? Thanks. Connect with some command-line tool.

How to start VNC/YAST2 after installation?

2004-02-26 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
I have finally installed the official version of SuSe Linux 2.4.19. I tested the freebee SuSE Linux 2.4.7 a couple of years ago and it took this long to cut a req and get the paid official copy. The installation has gone much smoother this time around. I am running it on an IBM 9672-R26 LPAR at

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-26 Thread David Boyes
Why would you want a CMS tool to access SMAPI when SMAPI is mostly (at least it seems to be to me) a programmable extension of Dirmaint? Why not just use Dirmaint, that is what SMAPI does in the end. Two main reasons: 1) not everyone uses DIRMAINT for user and system management, and 2) the

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-26 Thread Jason Herne
Why would you want a CMS tool to access SMAPI when SMAPI is mostly (at least it seems to be to me) a programmable extension of Dirmaint? Why not just use Dirmaint, that is what SMAPI does in the end. - Jason Herne On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 19:37, David Boyes wrote: I'm confused by the RPC+LE

Re: Any looking at CA-ACF2?

2004-02-26 Thread David Boyes
The CA branded name of the product is eTrust PAM Client for Linux for zSeries. It supports both eTrust CA-ACF2 and eTrust CA-Top Secret for z/OS and OS/390. The next release of eTrust CA-ACF2 and eTrust CA-Top Secret for z/VM, which is almost in beta, will also support the eTrust PAM

Re: VM Linux OSA Problems

2004-02-26 Thread Betsie Spann
On z/VM 4.4 VM63385 is required. It's an enhancement created after z/VM 4.4 went GA. We saw great response on the Linux guests using the same card as the VM TCP/IP server. Before the ptf went on, the TCP/IP server had lousy response on ping and tracerte. Betsie - Original Message - From:

Re: Hipersockets - What Kernal level is required to s upport/use?

2004-02-26 Thread Kubannek, Harold
IBM have made the workaround below (to get around the mvslogin and mvslogout not compiling problem) part of Info APARs II11447 and II13061. --Harold -Original Message- From: Kubannek, Harold Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 09:41 To: 'Linux on 390 Port' Subject: RE: Hipersockets -

Re: Basevol/Guestvol

2004-02-26 Thread Bob
thank you... On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:31:00 -0500, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They go in /etc/init.d/boot.d. -- Thanks, Bob CNE MCSE trained, but use LINUX, declare your PC a Microsoft free zone YahooIM: bobinmd1 AOLIM: bobifmd ICQ: 111083556

Re: Backup Tool

2004-02-26 Thread David Boyes
Use Amanda. It's on your distribution CDs. You can also use dump, tar, and cpio, but Amanda provides a lot more sophisticated automation. If you have zOS and DFhsm on the box, see my presentation at http://www.sinenomine.net on setting up Amanda and z/OS NFS to avoid having to assign a tape drive

Re: Basevol/Guestvol

2004-02-26 Thread David Boyes
They go in /etc/init.d/boot.d. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Basevol/Guestvol Thanks for the reply. Yes, I

Re: Basevol/Guestvol

2004-02-26 Thread Malcolm Beattie
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:45:53 -0500, Scully, William P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently gave a presentation at HillGang which describes a simplified approach for Basevol/Guestvol in the SuSE operating system. If you forward me at William dot Scully at CA doc COM your e-mail address, I'll