Re: Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview

Would that be Don Adams as Tennessee Tuxedo? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gregg C Levine Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 5:06 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview Hello! I agree. Or perhaps

Re: Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview

Adam Thornton wrote: On Aug 3, 2006, at 7:25 PM, John Summerfied wrote: Alan Altmark wrote: I'd be happy if it just responded Who's there?. :-) Little old lady Little old lady who? I didn't know you can yodel:-| -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Logging server ? (was Re: Small Mail Transport Agent)

I personally like to send my logs to the standard local log file and I also forward them to a remote syslog machine. I use this as a backup in case of the syslog machine being down. Little known feature of syslog: it will send to multiple machines, particularly easy with syslog-ng. Just log

Re: Logging server ? (was Re: Small Mail Transport Agent)

A better option is a passive logging server where it doesn't have an IP but a promiscuous network interface that will snarf all of the packets going to a bogus syslog server. That way the intruder wouldn't even know the machine existed. And if you're really paranoid you could always have the log

Re: Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview

On Friday, 08/04/2006 at 09:13 AST, Bates, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would that be Don Adams as Tennessee Tuxedo? Well, Chumley (OK, Tennesee, NOW I get it: *chum*ley? For a walrus? That's just sick) Can I declare a moratorium on suggested voices and knock-knock jokes? You all

Re: Ports

John ... Some recent releases of 'nmap' lack that option. (I say recent describing systems which may still be on the 2.4 kernel, so no telling how far back the utilities may be.) But thanks for the tip! -- R, John Summerfied [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Ethernet VSwitch

Make sure you have two virtual nics defined. Hipersockets (hsi0) and Ethernet Vswitch(eth0) are two different transport modes (IP layer and Ethernet layer). If you are trying to switch back and forth from one network to the next using the same nic card, you could run into problems. Tracy

Re: Shared common Directories

John Summerfield wrote: ... _might_ be preferable to share / and mount the volatiles/per-machine stuff over it, but you'd need to have a good hard think about it. This works. Neat idea. Do have a long hard think about it. Z/OS does something like it. -- R,

Re: XFS and LVM

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:09:17AM -0400, Neale Ferguson wrote: Is anyone using XFS on top of LVM disks on zSeries? If so, how does it go? I'm using it for a medium webserver instance (12mil hits/month, static pages), haven't had any issues. The ability to grow the filesystem online is nice and

Re: Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview

Parrummp bump. Welcome to the Pocono Room... Paul Giordano Technical Sales Specialist - Linux zSeries e-business Solutions Technical Sales, Americas (312) 529-1347 (630) 207-9435 (cell) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check http://www.ibm.com/linux for the latest in Linux news and information John

Using lastb and /var/log/btmp on SLES8

Hi list, I've been able to activate the bad login logs located in /var/log/btmp in SLES9, but I am still struggling to activate it in SLES8. Unfortunately, this seems not to be working out of the box. In SLES9, I had to create this file under /var/log : -rw--- 1 root utmp 800

ext3 and BKL

Reiser still makes extensive use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock). In 2.4 ext3 appeared to use it a lot too. What is the state of play with ext3 and BKL in 2.6. Just looking at the source I couldn't find any references to lock_kernel. The locks appear to be local (buffer, ext3_handler ...). I know

Re: ext3 and BKL

- Start Original Message - Sent: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:23:50 -0400 From: Neale Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: ext3 and BKL Reiser still makes extensive use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock). That was true for V3 but not V4. In 2.4 ext3 appeared to use it a

Re: Ports

Richard Troth wrote: John ... Some recent releases of 'nmap' lack that option. (I say recent describing systems which may still be on the 2.4 kernel, so no telling how far back the utilities may be.) But thanks for the tip! -- R, I guess that's one program you could update to a newer

Connecting to zFCP-attached Tape Drives

I'm trying to connect to lash up some zFCP-attached tape drives to SuSE SLES9 servers running under z/VM 5.2. I'm finally to the point where I vary the paths online. For example, gentoo52:/ # echo 1 /sys/bus/ccw/drivers/zfcp/0.0.4d30/online scsi16 : zfcp Aug 4 13:40:08 gentoo52 kernel: scsi16 :