Re: Linux and OSA/e Ethernet Questions

2004-02-29 Thread Alex deVries
consider looking into VSWITCH if you're running this on VM 4.4. It'll let you configure an OSA and let VM handle the failover. I thought that Vic Cross's http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpaperAbstracts/redp3719.html?Open was very well written. - Alex -- Alex deVries Consulting for Linux

Re: Can't mount nfs

2004-02-20 Thread Alex deVries
on this list have proved their brilliance in the past. Can you do it again? Where can I look for the discrepancy? The Definition of a gentleman is a man who can play the banjo -- and don't! -Mark Twain Gordon Wolfe, Ph. D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company -- Alex deVries

Re: Just stirring the pot

2004-02-19 Thread Alex deVries
* random yo-yo can learn enough REXX to be useful from that book. Too late now, but if only things had been different -- db -- Alex deVries Principal Architect, One Fish Two

Re: Just stirring the pot

2004-02-19 Thread Alex deVries
to build up an list of keys in another variable, which isn't trivial if your keys have spaces or commas or other seperators in them. Grr. - Alex -- Alex deVries Principal Architect, One Fish Two

Re: Just stirring the pot

2004-02-19 Thread Alex deVries
Ranga Nathan wrote: Just one featurethose who have tinkered with regex (it is even called Perl5 style regular expressions) would know what can be accomplished in Perl. So much so I used it to create a tool to convert any text to XML. Perl allows you to mix OO and non-OO, unlike Java. If you

Re: RPM question

2004-02-18 Thread Alex deVries
the configure/make method, how do I tell RPM that the package is installed so that it will know about it? Thanks. -- Alex deVries Principal Architect, One Fish Two

Re: Re-IPing and renaming hostname

2004-02-09 Thread Alex deVries
/sysconfig/network - /etc/hosts Depending on how you use your network profiles, you might consider instead modifying /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/{network|hosts} I think the tool 'redhat-config-network' will do the same. - Alex -- Alex deVries Principal Architect, One Fish Two

Re: Some basic Debian-s390 questions

2004-02-06 Thread Alex deVries
Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:17:20AM -0500, Alex deVries wrote: 1. Problem installing When I went through the Debian installer, I got to a step labelled something like 'Install Kernel and Modules', which didn't. The installer segfaulted, and there was no kernel at all

Re: compile failures for the 2.4.21 and 2.4.23 kernels

2004-02-05 Thread Alex deVries
What distro are you using? My suggestion for building somewhat more involved packages is first to try to get them to build without RPM, and then work on packaging. It's much easier to fix and resume building outside of rpmbuild. - Alex Michael Lambert wrote: Yes, I ran into this. You're using

Re: compile failures for the 2.4.21 and 2.4.23 kernels

2004-02-05 Thread Alex deVries
Debian does indeed have a lot of goodness. If I were interested in asking some relatively basic Debian-s390 questions (like: how do I update my s390-tools so that fdasd actually works?), would this be the right place? Or should I ask them on the debian-s390 list? - Alex Adam Thornton wrote: On

Re: Accessing OS/390data from Linux LPAR.

2004-02-05 Thread Alex deVries
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Some basic Debian-s390 questions

2004-02-05 Thread Alex deVries
-- Alex deVries Principal Architect, One Fish Two

Re: Does Linux support NFS

2004-02-03 Thread Alex deVries
Yes, Linux supports NFS v2, v3 and now v4. It also supports CIFS (for Windows file sharing) and NCP and a few others. Unlike many operating systems, Linux was built to fit into an environment filled with other operating systems, so NFS support has existed almost from the start. - Alex Fulton,

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 qeth.o - unresolved symdol show_trace

2004-02-02 Thread Alex deVries
How about: #if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_S390) || defined (CONFIG_ARCH_S390X) .. #endif ? (note the ||, not |) - Alex Post, Mark K wrote: Well, it turns out this won't work as written (even if I fix the syntax error in the #if statement.) :( There's so much I don't understand about kernels it's not

Re: SLES Installation: extended passive mode?

2004-01-22 Thread Alex deVries
How about just using scp? It's much simpler. e.g. on your ia32 Linux system, run: scp file-to-transfer root@ip-address-of-instance:/tmp - Alex Nick Laflamme wrote: Post, Mark K wrote: No suggestions, yet, but a question. Are there any sort of firewalls or proxies between you and the FTP

Re: IP address puzzle

2004-01-20 Thread Alex deVries
Hank, Could it be that your HTTP traffic is being passed through a web proxy that has the correct DNS entry cached? - Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a GBit Ethernet OSA port (qeth0) dedicated to an zLinux server (SLES7) under zVM. The IP address configured for this device is

More on Fedora...

2004-01-06 Thread Alex deVries
The one thing I find a little disappointing of late is that there's no distribution that is: a) RPM-based b) for s390 c) kept up to date d) free as in beer I can get three out of four of those (Debian (bcd) , SLES8 (abc) and RHAS3 (abc)), but not all four. Fedora would hit all four if it were

Re: More on Fedora...

2004-01-06 Thread Alex deVries
I'm well aware. If I wanted Debian packages, I'd use Debian. If I wanted no packages, I'd use Slackware. - Alex Richard Troth wrote: The distro need not be RPM based to have a working RPM, if that helps. -- R;

Re: wu-ftp install problem on s/390

2003-12-22 Thread Alex deVries
Ranga, Just downloaded wu-ftp 2.6.2 and trying to install on OS/390 SuSE 8. You probably mean SuSE's SLES8 for s390. I had a look at this source (*cringe*) and managed to fix it up so it'll build. Save the attached diff file to something like /tmp/wu-ftpd.diff, then run: tar -xzvf

Re: weird snapshots

2003-11-10 Thread Alex deVries
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Re: Restarting RPM build

2003-09-19 Thread Alex deVries
Ferguson, Neale wrote: Over the past day or so I've been building things like binutils, gcc, and glibc for a 2.6 kernel I've built on s390. One of the problems I encounter is something minor may go wrong with a build using rpm -bb and the only option I have is to fix the problem and start from

Re: chown problems

2003-09-18 Thread Alex deVries
I suppose if you really didn't like this behaviour, you could write your own setuid version of chown. - Alex Little, Chris wrote: yeah. but it is convenient for my HP-UX users and they are now peeved. Another thing to listen to them complain about. -Original Message- From: Adam Thornton

Re: Guest Lans on SLES8

2003-07-11 Thread Alex deVries
Gordon, I'm assuming you have network access between the two systems. This can be proven by pinging one server from the other. You might consider using the 'showmount' command from the client, which will tell you what filesystems can be exported. This is a good way to start debugging failed NFS

Re: Proxy Servers and Linux/390 (Suse 8.1)

2003-07-09 Thread Alex deVries
You should be able to do something like: lynx -pauth=ID:PASSWD --dump http://www.google.com (after setting your HTTP_PROXY environment variable) You can also use wget, with something like: wget --proxy=on --proxy-user=user --proxy-passwd=password\ http://www.google.com These aren't tested

Re: SHARE is a com'n

2003-06-20 Thread Alex deVries
Martha, I'll take any of the following that haven't already been taken: 9205 Tue11:00a Under the Covers: The VM Control Program (CP) - Part 1 of 2 9321 Tue03:00p File Serving Solutions Using Samba 9221 Thu01:30p TRACK

Re: SHARE is a com'n

2003-06-20 Thread Alex deVries
Sorry, that wasn't supposed to go to the whole list. - Alex foot in mouth deVries

Re: Encrypted file systems on Linux - are any mainstream?

2003-03-27 Thread Alex deVries
There's a few ways to do this, I'm sure. One way is to use a loop back device. Use 'losetup /dev/loop0 -e DES /dev/dasda1' to set it up, then create a filesystem on top of /dev/dasda1. That should send you in the right direction for more details... - Alex Michael MacIsaac wrote: Hi list, Is

Newbie Xedit Questions

2003-03-10 Thread Alex deVries
I have two xedit questions. Two. 1. Is there an xedit for Linux? You get bonus points if it is open source. 2. Is there some sort of Xedit for dummies or Xedit for the vi user? Is there a one page cheat sheet? - Alex

Re: SSH key and cloning linux images

2003-03-05 Thread Alex deVries
Here's how it works: The SSH package's startup script, (/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd on Red Hat), runs the following: KEYGEN=/usr/bin/ssh-keygen RSA_KEY=/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key ... if [ ! -s $RSA_KEY ]; then echo -n $Generating SSH2 RSA host key: if $KEYGEN -q -t

Re: Semaphores

2003-02-28 Thread Alex deVries
Scully, William P wrote: Is there a way to change on the fly the semaphores per userid? I understand they are in /proc/kernel/sem. Is it safe to change them while Linux is running? Do you mean ipcrm or ipcs? Look at ipcrm(8) and ipcs(8) for more info. - Alex -- Alex deVries Principal

Re: What to ask RedHat presenters about SuSE on OS/390 vs Redhat?

2002-11-10 Thread Alex deVries
and Sparc port throughout the late 1990s. - Alex -- Alex deVries Principal Architect, Linuxcare Canada, Inc. (613) 562 2759 Linuxcare. Simplifying Server Consolidation.

Re: Determining the 'mass' of a file system tree.

2002-09-17 Thread Alex deVries
James Melin wrote: Is there a good tool to say analyze part of a file system tree and report how much space it is using? Say like /usr/sbin - which is not in it's own file system but part of a larger one. Do you mean like du -s ? - Alex -- Alex deVries Principal Architect, Linuxcare

Re: Linux UID mapping

2002-09-12 Thread Alex deVries
on different systems. Any ideas. (Okay, so that's a third question...) If Paradise Lost had been written by a system administrator, it would have had the sequel 'Paradise Restored from Backup'. Gordon Wolfe, Ph. D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company -- Alex deVries Principal

Re: OT (for the Linux folks): Original VM/370 sales presentation

2002-08-30 Thread Alex deVries
Wow, this is insanely cool. It isn't often I say that about a sales presentation that's older than I am. The Linux community can learn a lot from you guys. I just hope that we're anything like this in twenty years. Now let me see if I can find a Gloria Gaynor 8 track and my rollerskates

Re: but is it right?

2002-08-28 Thread Alex deVries
Rick, Mixing 32- and 64- bit libraries has come up on other architectures of Linux. SuSE's following the convention of other Linux architectures that have both 32 and 64 bit userland running on a 64 bit kernel. I'm told IRIX does this too. So... convention is /lib and /lib64. - Alex Rick

Re: FW: New SHARE Presentations on linuxvm.org

2002-08-26 Thread Alex deVries
Gordon, I was at your presentation at SHARE in SF, and was wondering if you might share with me an electronic copy of your slides. Could you mail me a copy? Many thanks. - Alex Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: I went into SHARE HQ in SF and asked to be put on the mailing list for the proceedings CDs.

Re: PHP 4 module loading problem

2002-07-30 Thread Alex deVries
Make a php page with that calls phpinfo(). It'll show you what modules are loaded. Also, have a look through your Apache log files. It should explain why it isn't loading properly. We have custom PHP modules loaded. - Alex Rengasamy, Samy wrote: Thanks Mark, At least it worked for you.

Re: Performance measurement of Linux in a constrained system

2002-04-24 Thread Alex deVries
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