Re: How do I pull the SP2 updates down with YUM?

2008-06-10 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
From the YUP log I see the following Illegal date format error which starts the errors off. I do not think this has any relation to authorization problems but then I do not claim to be an expert on the internal tickings of YUP. Marcy, we are running yup-232-2.2 and you said you are running

Re: Software for managing Linux images

2008-06-10 Thread Shawn Wells
Doug Bulbeck wrote: Hi Everybody, After being away from Linux on z/VM for a couple of years, our company is going to look at implementing this once again! The first question that I have is, what sort of products are available for managing the Linux images? This should include things like

New automated form for Red Hat evaluation downloads

2008-06-10 Thread Brad Hinson
From https://www.redhat.com/apps/download/ (redhat.com -- download link at top), there's now a link for a free 180-day evaluation of RHEL on z. The best part is that the form is automated, so you'll get access to the download immediately instead of waiting for someone to get back to you. -Brad

Re: Software for managing Linux images

2008-06-10 Thread Lionel B Dyck
One excellent product is from Rocket Software called Provisioning Expert for Linux. It handles the z/vm guest creation, cloning, patch rollout and rollback, and more. It is still a version 1 product but is developing rapidly and works. It does not manage across lpars (yet) and has some other areas

Provisioning now supported through RHN Satellite Server

2008-06-10 Thread Brad Hinson
The following packages were released on RHN last week: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/channels/packages.pxt?cid=7948 rhn-kickstart-2.0.10-15.el5.noarch rhn-kickstart-common-2.0.10-15.el5.noarch These allow provisioning of VM guests (or LPARs) via kickstart through the Satellite WebUI.

Re: Software for managing Linux images

2008-06-10 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:14 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lionel B Dyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One excellent product is from Rocket Software called Provisioning Expert for Linux. Since Rocket acquired Mainstar, Provisioning Expert is now marketed under Mainstar's name, not Rocket.

Disabled Wait State Code

2008-06-10 Thread Shedlock, George
I am attempting to being up a z/Linux SUSE SLES 10 SP1 starter system for the first time. I am receiving: Booting default (ipl)... HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A 0102 Can anyone tell me what this code means or which FM to look at? George Shedlock Jr AEGON Information

Re: Disabled Wait State Code

2008-06-10 Thread Brad Hinson
That's the error you get when you IPL a disk with no boot record. Did the DDR/copy complete successfully? Are you sure you're IPLing the correct disk of the starter system? -Brad On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 12:48 -0500, Shedlock, George wrote: I am attempting to being up a z/Linux SUSE SLES 10 SP1

Re: Disabled Wait State Code

2008-06-10 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shedlock, George Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:48 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Disabled Wait State Code I am attempting to being up a z/Linux SUSE SLES 10 SP1 starter system for the

Re: Disabled Wait State Code

2008-06-10 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:48 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shedlock, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attempting to being up a z/Linux SUSE SLES 10 SP1 starter system for the first time. I am receiving: Booting default (ipl)... HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A

Re: Disabled Wait State Code

2008-06-10 Thread Shedlock, George
Thanks for the response. I will upload and re-create the 150 disk again. Perhaps I missed something. George Shedlock Jr AEGON Information Technology AEGON USA 502-560-3541 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Tuesday, June

Re: Disabled Wait State Code

2008-06-10 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:18 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shedlock, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response. I will upload and re-create the 150 disk again. Perhaps I missed something. Make sure you check the md5 checksum on your workstation (or where ever you

Re: Disabled Wait State Code

2008-06-10 Thread Shedlock, George
Note to all: This wait code can also be from specifying too little storage (in my case 16M). ;) After changing it to 512m, the IPL proceeds *MUCH* more smoothly. Thanks to all. George Shedlock Jr AEGON Information Technology AEGON USA 502-560-3541 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390

Re: How do I pull the SP2 updates down with YUM?

2008-06-10 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:30 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the YUP log I see the following Illegal date format error which starts the errors off. I do not think this has any relation to authorization problems but then I do

linux error during IPL requesting root password

2008-06-10 Thread Felipe Bannwart Perina
Hello all! Whenever one of our linux system crashes during IPL, I get this message: fsck failed for at least one filesystem (not /). Please repair manually and reboot. The root file system is is already mounted read-write. Attention: Only CONTROL-D will reboot the system in this

Re: linux error during IPL requesting root password

2008-06-10 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:38 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Felipe Bannwart Perina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all! Whenever one of our linux system crashes during IPL, I get this message: fsck failed for at least one filesystem (not /). Please repair manually and reboot. The

Re: linux error during IPL requesting root password

2008-06-10 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Felipe Bannwart Perina Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 1:39 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: linux error during IPL requesting root password Hello all! Whenever one of our linux system

I need a source for a good quantity of the foam Tux penguins

2008-06-10 Thread James Melin
Hi gang. Odd question. Figured there's enough silliness in here someone would know. If anyone has any idea where I can get them for around a dollar each or less, I would love to know. I need approximately 50, perhaps 75 of them. Disclaimer: Information in this message or an attachment may

Re: I need a source for a good quantity of the foam Tux penguins

2008-06-10 Thread Stewart Thomas J
If you have some skills on your hands or maybe a girl scout troop looking for some badges and some time to volunteer, you could roll your own: http://www.free-penguin.org/ __ Tom Stewart Infrastructure Analyst John Deere - z/OS Support Services em: [EMAIL

Re: I need a source for a good quantity of the foam Tux penguins

2008-06-10 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Melin Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:07 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: I need a source for a good quantity of the foam Tux penguins Hi gang. Odd question. Figured there's enough

Re: I need a source for a good quantity of the foam Tux penguins

2008-06-10 Thread Ken Porowski
http://www.logostore-globalid.us/ProductDetail.aspx?did=4807pid=12949 IBM branded @ $2.45 each http://bluetrack.com/sittingpenguinstressball.html $ 1.63 each Google for Tux Penguin Stress Toy and variations. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

SLES 10 SP1 and SP2 install defaults of disk by device-ID

2008-06-10 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hi, We have some SLES 10 SP1 and SP2 systems which were installed using the default of identifying disks by device ID. This weekend our raised floor took a power hit so all LPARs and disk arrays crashed. Most Linux systems came back fine, but a few SLES 10 SP1 and SP2 systems that identified

Re: I need a source for a good quantity of the foam Tux penguins

2008-06-10 Thread John Campbell
One thing I've had a bit of a quixotic search for has been the Peace, Love, Linux flag I saw some years ago. Now that I have a sail boat, I'd like a nice flag like this for my backstay rather than the far more passe (to my eye) pirate or even the Buccaneers logo. Heck, even just Tux on a big

Re: I need a source for a good quantity of the foam Tux penguins

2008-06-10 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:40 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing I've had a bit of a quixotic search for has been the Peace, Love, Linux flag I saw some years ago. Now that I have a sail boat, I'd like a nice flag like this for my backstay

Re: SLES 10 SP1 and SP2 install defaults of disk by device-ID

2008-06-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
It's a bad choice of defaults on z. It coming out of the HW. My guess is your box had some changes made to it, internally perhaps, or you are on a different volume. All minidisks on the same VM volume will have the same by-id, from what I can tell. Makes cloning problematic too I suspect. And

Re: SLES 10 SP1 and SP2 install defaults of disk by device-ID

2008-06-10 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:09 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- What strikes me as surprising is that it seems the disks by-id could not be found after a power hit (I have no idea where to find the value ccw-IBM.7500030375.010b.22 in the

Re: SLES 10 SP1 and SP2 install defaults of disk by device-ID

2008-06-10 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:11 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a bad choice of defaults on z. -snip- I like device path personally. The numbers look just like the numbers you have to enter on the chccwdev command. If I am successful, that default

Re: SLES 10 SP1 and SP2 install defaults of disk by device-ID

2008-06-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
Yay! We wish you success! Mike, from the release notes: http://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/s390x/SUSE-SLES/10/RELEASE-NOTE S.en.html Using Disks in z/VM If SLES 10 is installed on disks in z/VM, which reside on the same physical disk, the created access path (/dev/disk/by-id/) is not

Re: SLES 10 SP1 and SP2 install defaults of disk by device-ID

2008-06-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 06/10/2008 at 05:15 EDT, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The uid comes from the storage device itself. From one of my z/VM guests: # cat /sys/bus/ccw/devices/0.0.0150/uid IBM.7500026069.1014.16 It is supposed to be unique to the hardware device itself, based on serial

Re: I need a source for a good quantity of the foam Tux penguins

2008-06-10 Thread Alan Cox
Too expensive at $2.99 each, but here: http://www.kleargear.com/2102.html Keychain with Tux statue on it: $1.99 each at http://www.kleargear.com/2013.html If you want 75 you can probably negotiate far better deals, especially from a small provider. There ought to be a rule against paying RRP

Re: SLES 10 SP1 and SP2 install defaults of disk by device-ID

2008-06-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
And if you really want to use UID, you should install the recently available VM64273 and follow the instructions in the sles10 sp2 release notes. (although, still, I think a bad idea :) on z -- maybe a really good idea on a peecee perhaps). Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or

Re: How do I pull the SP2 updates down with YUM?

2008-06-10 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
Thanks for your patience, Mark, I enter the command and got exactly what you expected. Resolving nu.novell.com... 72.246.210.34 Connecting to nu.novell.com|72.246.210.34|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized Reusing existing connection to nu.novell.com:443.

Re: How do I pull the SP2 updates down with YUM?

2008-06-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
I get not authorized as well when pulling with that wget command and my NCC id. It does work, however with the credentials from my /etc/sysconfig/yup (YUP_ID and YUP_PASS) - those were the mirror credentials from ncc for my SLES 10 product in there. Marcy This message may contain confidential

Re: How do I pull the SP2 updates down with YUM?

2008-06-10 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:29 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I am still confused. I do not understand why I am not authorized. I am registered for SLES10. I am fine with SLES10-SP1. How do I authorized for SLES10-SP2?

Re: linux error during IPL requesting root password

2008-06-10 Thread John Summerfield
Felipe Bannwart Perina wrote: Hello all! Whenever one of our linux system crashes during IPL, I get this message: fsck failed for at least one filesystem (not /). Please repair manually and reboot. The root file system is is already mounted read-write. Attention: Only CONTROL-D will reboot

Re: linux error during IPL requesting root password

2008-06-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
Felipe Bannwart Perina wrote: Hello all! Whenever one of our linux system crashes during IPL, I get this message: fsck failed for at least one filesystem (not /). Please repair manually and reboot. The root file system is is already mounted read-write. Does this happen often? I'd be

Re: How do I pull the SP2 updates down with YUM?

2008-06-10 Thread Mark Post
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:46 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get not authorized as well when pulling with that wget command and my NCC id. It does work, however with the credentials from my /etc/sysconfig/yup (YUP_ID and YUP_PASS) - those were the