Re: mvsdasd

2011-11-10 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
? We should perhaps try that :) Unlike FTP, you can tune NFS to improve your throughput. Here's some info about doing that: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s05.html That applies to Linux. Not sure how tunable the z/OS side is. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software

Re: ssh tunnel NFS mounting

2011-10-21 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
by NFS. The primary port is 2049, but there's other ports used by the portmap service, the lock daemon and so on. Here's a link to a solution that might work for you: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red-hat-fedora-linux/170280-solved-nfs-mount- via-ssh-tunnel.html - MacK. - Edmund R

Re: Ubuntu on z?

2011-09-08 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
. Using Kbuntu Desktop for my primary user system too. I uses SuSE and RedHat at work, of course, but it will be good to have another distro in the mix. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-26 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
value but totally missed that BOOTPROTO did too! I guess I'm half-blind or something. Glad you got it working, Saurabh. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web

Re: Websphere and its presence on a running Linux system

2011-08-25 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
10241.8.0 is a valid network given that netmask. If the default route and NETWORK addresses are correct, then your NETMASK should probably be 255.255.255.0. Try that. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 09:32:06 am you wrote: Does it necessary to code network parameter in this. Yes. The scripts need the NETWORK parameter to set things up properly. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
address to me. But there's no addr keyword for the ifconfig command, so I think you should use the broadcast keyword instead. Try this: ifconfig eth0 10.241.1.193 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.241.1.255 up Be sure to use that 255.255.255.0 netmask. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:34:57 am you wrote: On 8/25/2011 at 09:45 AM, Edmund R. MacKenty ed.macke...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: Yes. The scripts need the NETWORK parameter to set things up properly. Actually, not. You're better off leaving that out. Oops! I've always thought

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
errors generated while you do the service network restart appear in there. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: NFS Mount

2011-08-04 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
) on the command line. It is thus looking in /etc/fstab to see if it can find out just what it is you want to mount on /mnt. Removing that second -o will make it interpret the IP:path argument as the device to be mounted. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275

Re: NFS Mount

2011-08-04 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
OK. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: Showing a process running in BG

2011-08-01 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
the fg and bg built-in commands to move jobs between the foreground and background. There can be only one foreground job, but as many background jobs as you want. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel

Re: cleaning up /tmp

2011-03-11 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
, such as lp, which don't really have the concept of a session after which cleanup should occur. If you're going with a UID-based scheme, I'd limit it to UIDs greater than or equal to UID_MIN, as defined in /etc/login.defs. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software

Re: cleaning up /tmp

2011-03-11 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
for cleaning it up and it comes out of my quota. I'll bet no one else does that. :-) - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: BASH question - may even be advanced - pipe stdout to 2 or more processes.

2011-02-09 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
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Re: BASH question - may even be advanced - pipe stdout to 2 or more processes.

2011-02-09 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
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Re: A Mix of LDAP and non-LDAP Users

2011-01-11 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
. This will speed things up again for you. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: SLES 11 SP 1 - Ncurses version of YaST

2011-01-06 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
$DISPLAY to see if it is set or not. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: SLES 11 SP 1 - Ncurses version of YaST

2011-01-06 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
; and the screen number is 0 meaning the first screen within that pseudo-display. If you really want more info on this, do man X and read the DISPLAY NAMES section. But you've probably heard enough. :-) Well, I'm out of ideas on this one. Sorry! - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software

Re: A little more script help

2010-12-23 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
of the third column, along with the most recent times the min and max occurred. Just a simple example of how to process record like this in awk. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m

Re: Documentation: DocBook vs. Lyx vs. LaTex vs. texinfo?

2010-12-20 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
, there's little difference between the two except for the DOCTYPE and document element in your top-level file and XML allows the short form of content-less elements (ie. foo/). - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272

Re: Can't create ctcmpc groups

2010-11-05 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
changes to it. It's essentially a user-space interface to certain kernel-space data structures. If you use CP to link a new device to a Linux guest, you'll see sysfs entries for that device appear as the Linux driver detects the new hardware. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software

Re: Silly quesiton on PuTTY

2010-11-04 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
about indentation. A simple way to find out: od -c test.rxx If you see any \t sequences in the output, then you know the TABs are in the source code. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel

Re: Silly quesiton on PuTTY

2010-11-04 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
, they are no doubt delimited by double-quotes. Perhaps THE treats the two kinds of quotes differently? At any rate, you now know the source of the TABs. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m

Re: Linux Shared DASD

2010-10-21 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
table, you've just trashed things badly. So use NFS, because there's only one Linux guest caching that filesystem. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street - Newton, MA 02466-2272 - USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web

Re: Anyone have 2 NICs on SLES11 SP1 working ?

2010-08-24 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
if we've done that on SP1, though. Havn't ever seen them interferring with each other. What sort of NIC is this? Hipersocket? VSWITCH? Do you perhaps have them using the same virtual device numbers? I would imagine that would break things pretty badly. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty

Re: Shared root and shutdown

2010-08-12 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
this, but this pivot_root approach is near and dear to me because implementing it solved a lot of problems for us. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: CRON

2010-08-05 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
be 00,15,30,45 * * * * /home/marpace/bin/scanftp.rxx /dev/null 2 /home/marpace/scanftp.err That look correct? Yup. That will do the trick. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web

Re: CRON

2010-08-05 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
isn't going to generate any interesting output, but just want to log any errors, do this: */15 * * * * myscript 21 /dev/null | logger -t myjob That pipes the error stream into logger, but re-directs the output stream to the null device. Hope this helps! - MacK. - Edmund R

Re: Files on disk

2010-07-22 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
if it compressed it down to 200MB on the server because of all the blocks of zeros in it. Has anyone investigated that problem? - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web

Re: Files on disk

2010-07-21 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
they are in a kind of record-oriented format, where the position in the file is the record key. That's why you need to use last(1) and faillog(8) to look at those files: they are not plain text files the way /var/log/messages is. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket

Re: Files on disk

2010-07-21 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
intelligently: when they copy a sparse file, they do not write out blocks of all zeros. Instead, they seek past such empty blocks to avoid writing to them, thus creating a sparse output file. That's how a proper Linux file copy is done. The cp command also does that. - MacK. - Edmund R

Re: Files on disk

2010-07-21 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
it up, I doubt it would be making a file sparse again upon restore just because some blocks contain all zeros. I'd look for some configuration option that makes it aware of sparse files. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466

Re: SCO's case is DEAD! Novell wins!

2010-06-11 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
... 2... 1... - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: Open Office 3.2 on SLES 11 for s390x

2010-06-08 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
/feed/52385 http://www.schnarff.com/blog/?p=17 http://commandline.org.uk/command-line/dealing-with-word-documents-at-the-command-line/ - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com

Re: tar extract - code conversion.

2010-06-03 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
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Re: tar extract - code conversion.

2010-06-03 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Thursday 03 June 2010 17:04, Larry Ploetz wrote: On 6/3/10 8:51 AM, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote: ConvertDirTree() { find $1 -type f | while read file; do tmp=$file.ic$$ if iconv -f $2 -t $3 $file $tmp \ chown --reference=$file $tmp \ chmod --reference=$file

Re: DB2 Connect keeps the guest active

2010-05-10 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
. To do that, comment out the line in /etc/inittab that refers to it. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: zLinux entropy

2010-05-03 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
the random numbers from the crypto cards. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: zLinux entropy

2010-05-03 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
in /proc/misc. With those values, you can then do: mknod /dev/hw_random c [major] [minor] to create the device node you need. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com

Re: Waiting for device

2010-01-15 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
readlink(1) instead of ls for this sort of thing, but unfortunately the powers that be placed readlink in /usr/bin, which is often not available at boot-time. So we're stuck with ls. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272

Re: SLES 10 SP2 upgrade to SLES 10 SP3 error

2010-01-06 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
. On a production system, it would be best to bring it down to single-user mode first. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: locking dir for LVM and /etc/lvm/lvm.conf

2010-01-06 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
else will be running an LVM tool, so you don't really need the locks, right? - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: x86 to z CPU comparison for calculating IFLs needed

2010-01-04 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Monday 04 January 2010 16:46, Stewart Thomas J wrote: /proc/sys/kernel/HZ must be a SLES thing, don't see that on RHEL. Red Hat folks have ideas on where to find the equivalent? That would be /proc/sys/kernel/hz_timer - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software

Re: z/OS ftp server / Linux client - lowercasing Linux file name on MGET.

2009-12-21 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
is on (default is off), remote computer file names with all letters in upper case are written in the local directory with the letters mapped to lower case. Sounds like what you want. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel

Re: weird(?) idea for an extended symlink functionality

2009-11-17 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
(2.6.16). Even if it were in your kernel, it's unlikely anyone's applications use it. Neither does cat(1), as of yet (coreutils-7.6). That's a pity, because this call could really increase the throughput of processes that just copy data around. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software

Re: weird(?) idea for an extended symlink functionality

2009-11-16 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
more system time. But for these small jobs that system time could be just noise. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: weird(?) idea for an extended symlink functionality

2009-11-13 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
of its utility. I'd like to know what percentage of the I/O time (or CPU cycles) is used by piping files via cat. Anyone have any measurements? - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m

Re: weird(?) idea for an extended symlink functionality

2009-11-13 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
the idea of named pipes because of concern about the I/O overhead? Named pipes are the UNIX-style solution to this problem, but can they match the performance of a concatenated dataset? Is the I/O overhead of pipes significant in this context? - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software

Re: weird(?) idea for an extended symlink functionality

2009-11-13 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
pipe od -c pipe /dev/null) real58m19.154s user56m56.490s sys 0m20.361s Now this is just on a laptop, and a very crude measurement, but it sure looks like there's a bit of overhead in them thar named pipes and cat! - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-03 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
scanner that checks for files with UIDs that are not in /etc/passwd and notifies you, right? So even if you do install some package that has a file owned by games, you'll know about it soon enough. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-03 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 11:16, Jack Woehr wrote: Edmund R. MacKenty wrote: . I don't think the UID/GID can be re-used, as your vendor controls their assignments for system accounts and useradd(8) will not assign UID/GID values below 500 That number-below-which is controlled

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-03 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
of junk installed on this instance. It's supposed to be a server, after all. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-03 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
want to change those. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -- For LINUX

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-03 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
a /var/games: No such file or directory message from some daemon, I would be very surprised. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: emulating a z/OS DDNAME dataset concatenation in Linux

2009-10-02 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
If the program doesn't read from its standard input, but only from a file named on its command line, you can make it read from the standard input like this: cat file1 file2 file3 file4 | myprogram /dev/stdin I hope that helps! - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect

Re: intrusion detection on the zLinux Platform

2009-09-17 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
, there's the venerable TripWire (http://www.tripwire.org/). - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: Lin_tape and IBMtapeutil

2009-06-23 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
onto that tape. You can list as many directories you want on the tar command line. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: How to determine memory size for sles9 64 bit linux guest

2009-05-28 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
also run top(1) and look at the header information. It's all in there. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: crypto on z9 with Sles10s2

2009-05-20 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
used it myself; just looked into it a while back. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: Setting up a FTP server to server Linux Distributions - advice needed

2009-05-20 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
at boot-time. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: server inventory ?

2009-05-15 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
commands as part of the instance creation operation. The application configuration script feature is how you can extend PE's functionality to handle things like this. That would let SMT report on your instances as well. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software

Re: server inventory ?

2009-05-15 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
to get at all that information, which is in XML files anyway so it's pretty open. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: Stateless Linux for zSeries

2009-05-14 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
and replace it. Lots of people on this list have been doing that for years, as have I. shamless-plugThere're products around that will help you implement this (contact me off-list)./shameless-plug So Alan, tell that someone that they're very wrong. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty

Re: Stateless Linux for zSeries

2009-05-14 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
. Mark, do you know if Novell plans to make unionfs (or anything like it) available in SLES anytime soon? Can we nudge them in that direction? - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m

Re: Stateless Linux for zSeries

2009-05-14 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
off the top of my head; I'm not really a kernel hacker so I only kinda-sorta know this stuff. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: Control-D from 3270 ?

2009-05-04 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
character, and when you type that into an interactive shell it will terminate. The exit command does the same thing. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web

Re: Control-D from 3270 ?

2009-05-04 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
in that interactive root shell, you can issue the appropriate fsck commands to fix up your filesystems. You may also need to remount your root filesystem read-write, as another poster suggested. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466

Re: /etc/init.d start/stop scripts for DB2 MQ and Websphere

2009-04-30 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
in my rc script. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -- For LINUX-390

Re: Stopping java based applications

2009-03-31 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
will send the SIGTERM to that process. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: Read-Only Mdisk

2009-03-10 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
that the device is read-only. They both need to know about that. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: Read-Only Mdisk

2009-03-10 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
? Anyone know the minimum necessary action to see changes? You should just never do this. Do not modify DASD while a Linux guest has it mounted read-only. There is no way you can know what parts of that DASD are cached and what is not. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect

Re: Sharing

2009-02-26 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
/etc. So I don't see a problem here. I'm assuming that your /local/etc really does contain only mtab. You did not provide a listing of that directory. Do a ls /local/etc to see what is there. I'll bet it will only list mtab. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket

Re: How to determine which lpar a linux guest is hosted on ?

2009-02-19 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
of the LPAR that Linux guest is running in. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

Re: Trouble with script to add ts1120 tape drives

2009-02-17 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
is happening during boot-time, so that you can find out exactly what is going wrong. I'll stop now because this has gotten way too long. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web

Re: Good editor for under the 3270 console interface

2009-01-28 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
editor. The classic line editor is ed. And vi is the visual editor. Why it wasn't called ved, I don't know. :-) - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web

Re: bash question.

2009-01-08 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
sense! :-) - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software 275 Grove Street · Newton, MA 02466-2272 · USA Tel: +1.617.614.4321 Email: m...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: Sles8 boot messages

2008-12-15 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
system. If you compare it to your broken one, you should be able to figure out what has been changed. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA # # /etc/inittab # # Copyright (c) 1996-2002 SuSE

Re: Relocating /etc/passwd, shadow and group

2008-12-09 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
copy them from the read-only filesystem to the writable filesystem when I'm constructing the writable filesystem. That way, each Linux instance has its own writable copy of the files it needs to modify, but they are based on the contents of the shared filesystem. - MacK. - Edmund R

Re: Keys and Fingerprints

2008-11-20 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: XML on zLinux

2008-11-18 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
, and it would be the same for PERL or C XSLT daemons. Hit me up for more details if you want to. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: problems when running mksles9root.sh for SP4

2008-10-28 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
device. Make sure it is unmounted and not needed before you detach it, though. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: problems when running mksles9root.sh for SP4

2008-10-28 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
create the new device nodes you need if you want to avoid a reboot. This little loop will do the trick: n=8; while [ $n -lt 64 ]; do mknod /dev/loop$n b 7 $n; n=$((n+1)); done - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA

Re: problems when running mksles9root.sh for SP4

2008-10-28 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
the max_loop thing. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Daylight Savings Time adjustment

2008-10-27 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
/zoneinfo. That should be available for Slackware by now. If not, you can get the sources for the zoneinfo files here: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA

Re: The correct way to shutdown z/Linux Guest Softly

2008-10-20 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
completed by the time CP logs your guest off. That might finish just fine, but unless your filesystems are sync'd and unmounted before the logoff, you haven't really saved the final state of the system. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA

Re: SSH Null Passphrase (originally Re: ZFS or LVM2 on Debian?)

2008-10-09 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
device is. It's been a while since I used such a device, but seem to I remember they have a variable block size that depended on both the skill of the writer and the quality of their eyesight. :-) ;-) - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA

Re: Timestamp a command?

2008-09-23 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
; done vmstat.out You could use $(date +%F_%T) if you want a sortable timestamp field. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-15 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
will wake at a multiple of five hours after it was IPL'd. So the difference in IPL timing naturally staggers those sntp wakeups out. And for a Linux guy like me, it's easier to integrate into our existing network time infrastructure than syncing to the VM TOD clock. - MacK. - Edmund R

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-11 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
in time. To run it as a daemon, use a command such as: sntp -x -a ntp.example.com /dev/null /dev/null 21 . The undocumented -x option is what makes it run forever. Perhaps this is a better tool than ntpd for the VM environment? - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket

NTP daemon problem (was: Weird application freeze problem)

2008-09-10 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
that would give more accurate information about process wake-ups? It would be nice to be able to profile Linux daemons like this and see which ones play nice in a VM environment, because ntpd sure doesn't! - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-10 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
traffic, but didn't care about wake-ups. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: NTP daemon problem (was: Weird application freeze problem)

2008-09-10 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 12:27, Malcolm Beattie wrote: Edmund R. MacKenty writes: Does anyone know of a Linux tool that would give more accurate information about process wake-ups? It would be nice to be able to profile Linux daemons like this and see which ones play nice in a VM

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-09 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
for that. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX

Re: Weird application freeze problem

2008-09-09 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
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Re: DASD problem

2008-08-22 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
fsck manually: fsck.reiserfs --fix-fixable /dev/dasdd1 That will repair any problems that are easy to fix. If it can't fix everything, have a look at the manpage for other options. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA

Re: Lost putty SSH Session - is there a way to associate the new session back the user/activity of the lost session?

2008-07-22 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
context in about 20 xterms spread over 12 desktops on my laptop. Same idea, but screens kept my context on the server, where it was safer. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA

Re: SFTP versus FTP

2008-07-09 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
the file which was SFTP-ed from Unix to Linux on z/OS (I cannot use the FTP-ed file). Transfer the file in BINARY mode instead of ASCII. Use the bin command in your FTP client to do that. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA

Re: Question DASD on CLIENT from Start system instructions

2008-07-02 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
measure. - MacK. - Edmund R. MacKenty Software Architect Rocket Software, Inc. Newton, MA USA -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX

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