Re: /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow - synchronized on multiple images

As Mark said, there are products that will do this on certain flavours of *nix. However they have their own, erm, peculiarities. The one that we used at my last job insisted on using it's own version of the pam modules to keep everything under control. I wasn't very happy about this but the

Re: udev on 2.6.5

On Thursday 22 April 2004 20:29, Jim Sibley wrote: Neale, I guess I don't yet understand sysfs and all that. I have a 3390 device, say 5700, at /dev/dasdb, I would rather use the subchannel address. What would I have to set up to issue the command: mount -t reiserfs

Re: what is the page size reported on the perfomance monitor tool kit

Page size is 4K. Without also seeing what Linux thinks is happening, it would be hard to say if your storage allocation is appropriate. Based on the fact that you're doing no paging at all (during the reporting period), I would say you're likely grossly over allocated. Very few things in Linux

I updated zipl.conf incorrectly :(

Hi, Thanks for all of the responses yesterday in regards to the 26 disks question. We were working on this today, but unfortunately I updated the zipl.conf incorrectly. On the dasd= parameter, I added a comma after the last device range. This should have been a blank. The ZIPL was run, and

Re: I updated zipl.conf incorrectly :(

The question I have is whether the read-only root file system you have is an initrd, or real DASD. I would think it's an initrd. In which case, you should be able to mount your real root file system, chroot to it, and fix zipl.conf. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

New xip2fs Patches

Two new patches for execute-in-place (xip2fs) for Linux 2.6.5 have been placed on the web site. http://linuxvm.org/Patches/ These would go on top of the April 2004 stream patches for Linux 2.6.5: http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/april2004_r ecommended.shtml Mark

Re: I updated zipl.conf incorrectly :(

Ken Vance wrote: Is there a way of overriding the command line and inserting the correct line? Even if we update the original file, we would still be stuck since the zipl command writes it to the boot area. Do we need to bring up the RAM image and rebuild the boot area? You need to run the

Virtual Storage Tuning Whitepaper for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

For all those people that have asked about possible virtual storage tuning knobs for Linux, a couple of Red Hat employees have put together a short whitepaper on the subject that is (perhaps) specific to RHEL3. http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel3_vm.pdf Not being a performance person,

a promising project - project david

This looks interesting - it will be interesting to see if they are more successful than crossover office and wine. http://www.specopslabs.com Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information Technology 25 N.

3 zVM's on same Mainframe Shared DASD

I am going to be installing 3 different zVM's on the same z990 for 3 different sets of engineer departments. Shared DASD. What are the implications of using same VOLID's for 440RES W01 W02 etc. Does zVM detect duplicate VOLSERs (like z/OS) during IPL? I'd prefer to change these VOL ID's and

Re: 3 zVM's on same Mainframe Shared DASD

Note that I'm cross-posting my response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; that's a much better list for this subject than LINUX-390. Dave MYERS wrote: I am going to be installing 3 different zVM's on the same z990 for 3 different sets of engineer departments. Shared DASD. What are the implications of using

Linux and buffers and memory allocation

I know that linux is buffer happy. Exceptionally so. Just got the while VM thing going, and that went smoothly enough. Now I'm trying to tune memory so that linux paging is minimized but VM paging does not increase as a result. I have one guest with 1.3 GB real (for Webspher ND) and it tends to

Re: Virtual Storage Tuning Whitepaper for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Mark, do they have the same kind of thing for 2.6 kenel? I now bdflush and its parameters have been reworked. And some of the other parameters have changed or disappeared as well. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo

New England Users of VM (NEUVM) Spring Meeting - May 18, 2004

Cross-posted on NEUVM-L, VMESA-L and LINUX-390 - feel free to forward as appropriate. Greetings! NEUVM will be holding it's Spring Meeting on May 18, 2004 at Lombardo's in Randolph, Massachusetts. For meeting details and online registration click here: http://www.neuvm.org/meetings.php Once

Re: Virtual Storage Tuning Whitepaper for Red Hat Enterprise Linu x 3

I have no idea. The only reason I knew this existed was because someone mentioned it on the Taroon mailing list. I would suspect they don't have anything ready to publish on 2.6 just yet, but you could try emailing the authors to find out for sure. Mark Post -Original Message- From:

Re: Linux and buffers and memory allocation

James Melin wrote: I have one guest with 1.3 GB real (for Webspher ND) and it tends to page about 90-113 KB when doing a large application deploy but still indicating 150-200 MB free and 500 MB of buffers. I've heard the less is more approach, but has anyone got Websphere Network Deployment