Re: Assigning/Tracking Host names

2007-05-02 Thread Michael MacIsaac
I find it interesting that nobody so far mentioned RFC1178 (Choosing a name for your computer): ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1178.txt. There are several excellent ideas in that document. Wow! Thanks. Been looking for that. That is a good reference, I agree. I could add one

boot error

2007-05-02 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Morning, Anyone ever come across this error at boot time. Before the boot I formatted and added 53 3390 packs and when I tried to update the /etc/modprobe.conf file, but the / file system was full. So I could not update that. Did the reboot thinking that oh well the disks will just

Re: Fw: Strange file type cannot be moved with scp or ftp

2007-05-02 Thread Bill Dodge
Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote: Bill Dodge wrote: Thanks to all - still have a lot to learn about this new operating system. I guess someday it will be as automatic as VM and VSE but it is a struggle sometimes. Bill, you're doing something strange. For some

Re: Fw: Strange file type cannot be moved with scp or ftp

2007-05-02 Thread Bill Dodge
Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote: Bill, you're doing something strange. For some reasons, replies to your messages are set to go to you whereas they should be going to the list. We'd like you to stick around, but perhaps you could examine your settings. That was a

wget and NTLM

2007-05-02 Thread Romanowski, John (OFT)
Mark, I have SLES8 with GNU wget 1.8.2 and SLES9 with GNU wget 1.9.1 Do you know if either of those supports NTLM authentication? The SLES 9 wget man page says wget uses the basic authentication scheme; it doesn't mention NTLM auth. Re: curl to mirror patches? Mark Post Fri, 27 Apr 2007

Re: Assigning/Tracking Host names

2007-05-02 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 5/2/07, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You still have to write some rexx/xedit code to issue the commands to read/write the tags and data, just like for using the names file. One advantage to using DIRMAINT as your database is that it is already a shareable database not a private one.

Re: Assigning/Tracking Host names

2007-05-02 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
I want to thank everyone for their contributions to this discussion. For now I'm going to be using the low tech solution of an excel worksheet but will be hosting it in a Lotus Notes Teamroom which provides locking to prevent multiple individuals from updating it at the same time. I've setup

Re: Assigning/Tracking Host names

2007-05-02 Thread David Boyes
Seems to me it is sane to have the IP address resolve to all a host's names and aliases. True. Conversely, it also makes sense to have each interface have a unique name as well, eg foo-eth0, foo-eth1, etc. There are often cases where it's very useful to be able to reference a specific interface

Re: FTP on the mainframe

2007-05-02 Thread Eddie Chen
I believe 37 and 437. all the tables can be loaded into the source and can be read in as well. I ftp the data back to z/OS as well Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] ibm.com To Sent

Re: FTP on the mainframe

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 05/02/2007 at 01:36 AST, Eddie Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe 37 and 437. all the tables can be loaded into the source and can be read in as well. I ftp the data back to z/OS as well If your PCs are running DOS, 437 is ok. Use 819 for Unix/AIX. 1252 for

boot error

2007-05-02 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Morning, Anyone ever come across this error at boot time. Before the boot I formatted and added 53 3390 packs and when I tried to update the /etc/modprobe.conf file, but the / file system was full. So I could not update that. Did the reboot thinking that oh well the disks

Re: EMC Clariion and DMX dasd - no support for zseries

2007-05-02 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
We just shook our EMC reps to get the RPQ in place for this. I questioned why they were so far behind supporting FC links from the mainframe as a standard feature and that they were waiting for customer demand. My point was if they didn't support it now I should just go to a vendor that had the

Re: EMC Clariion and DMX dasd - no support for zseries

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 05/02/2007 at 11:49 CST, Jerry Whitteridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We just shook our EMC reps to get the RPQ in place for this. I questioned why they were so far behind supporting FC links from the mainframe as a standard feature and that they were waiting for customer demand.

Re: EMC Clariion and DMX dasd - no support for zseries

2007-05-02 Thread Marcy Cortes
And if Ann's is 4 years old, it should be fully depreciated ;) --- there's an opportunity there for those guys with a DS* Marcy (happily on the DS8300 ) This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the

Re: EMC Clariion and DMX dasd - no support for zseries

2007-05-02 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
Already made that point ! The knocks on the door are becoming deafening and more frequent (from both sides). Jerry Whitteridge Safeway Inc 925 951 4184 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007

New HOWTO: BMRtool for file-level Bare Metal Restore of SLES 9 zSeries

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Post
John Romanowski has contributed an interesting HOWTO and script for doing bare metal restores of a Linux system running on z/VM. Thanks to John for doing the write up and sharing his work on the script with all of us. http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/ Mark Post

Re: EMC Clariion and DMX dasd - no support for zseries

2007-05-02 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
I have word from EMC that the DMX (Symmetrix) is supported (look in the ESM for FCP over Ficon) and no RPQ is required. I'm trying to get clarification on the Clarion. I would push your EMC reps on this as we have escalated fairly high -- you might be able to get different response now. Jerry

Re: boot error

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Post
On Wed, May 2, 2007 at 1:18 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Morning, Anyone ever come across this error at boot time. Yes, lots of people have gotten that error, for lots of different reasons. Before the boot I formatted and added 53 3390

Re: Fw: Strange file type cannot be moved with scp or ftp

2007-05-02 Thread John Summerfield
I noticed that the replies were coming directly to me and not the list. I don't have that proble with VSE-L, IBMMAIN, or IBMVM so they must override the supplied reply to. I need to remember to fix the reply lto on LINUX-390. My apologies to the list it should be corrected now.

Re: wget and NTLM

2007-05-02 Thread Mark Post
On Wed, May 2, 2007 at 6:51 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rick Troth -snip- usage lately, I am disappointed that WGET seems to be languishing. Development of wget is hardly languishing. After the release of 1.10.2, the intent of the primary developer was to, nearly, rewrite the whole

Re: wget and NTLM

2007-05-02 Thread Rick Troth
Development of wget is hardly languishing. After the release of 1.10.2, the intent of the primary developer was to, nearly, rewrite the whole code base. Over the years, things had become somewhat ummm ad hoc. The last I checked late 2006, he was still actively working on things. Thanks

Hillgang Meeting

2007-05-02 Thread Neale Ferguson
The next meeting of Hillgang will be May 23 at CA's office in Herndon VA. The agenda is at http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/hill0507.pdf and includes directions to the venue. Neale Ferguson -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: Assigning/Tracking Host names

2007-05-02 Thread Rick Troth
You will find that having VMIDs not matching hostnames is just a pain. True, they can be matched using other means. But it will annoy you and once instantiated it will NEVER go away. On the contrary. It is the users wanting hostnames 8 characters who are grateful that the hostname and

Re: Assigning/Tracking Host names

2007-05-02 Thread Stricklin, Raymond J
On the contrary. It is the users wanting hostnames 8 characters who are grateful that the hostname and VM username need not match. The RFC which Grega mentioned says otherwise. But at this point, we're arguing matters of taste. The RFC was drafted in 1990, at a time when only the