Re: SLES9 Boot hangs for about 10 minutes then continues

2005-03-04 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 08:36, Dave Myers wrote: Also, is there any way to tell SLES9 NOT to auto-sense all devices. The install was extremely slow because of this and also whenever I change any network settings using YAST, it takes about 10min for it to go out and find network devices. Try:

Re: x3270 cut'n'paste?

2005-02-25 Thread Kohrs, Steven
Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V works for me with x3270 v3.2.20 running on a Linux x86 workstation. On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 11:35, McKown, John wrote: Is there a way to do a cut and paste using x3270 on Linux? Sorry if this is a bit off-topic since I am running x3270 on Intel, not zSeries. Has anybody considered

Re: Need to configure cloned machines from command line via 3270 emulation

2005-02-23 Thread Kohrs, Steven
1. IPL the clone, letting it come up with a duplicate IP address. 2. Log in via x3270 session. 3. /etc/init.d/network stop 4. ed /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-hsi0 5. ed /etc/sysconfig/network/routes 6. /etc/init.d/network start 7. ssh into clone 8. yast2 - Network/Advanced - Host name and DNS 9.

Re: Putty users

2005-02-09 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:28, Fargusson.Alan wrote: Just one caution: you should have a current backup of you system before you import into the registry. If something goes wrong with the import there is a high probability you will have to re-install Windows. Just out of curiosity, how many

Re: Putty users

2005-02-09 Thread Kohrs, Steven
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kohrs, Steven Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:49 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Putty users On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:28, Fargusson.Alan wrote: Just one caution: you should have a current backup of you system before you import into the registry

Re: Any caveats moving root filesystem to LVM?

2005-01-21 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 11:12, Ranga Nathan wrote: I had problems moving root file system to LVM. It has to be done with a lot of care. However, if you move /home /var /local /opt etc to LVM, then there is much less reason for moving root fs to LVM. That is what I did. We run SLES9. I used Yast

Limiting Java RSS

2005-01-11 Thread Kohrs, Steven
I'm curious if others are experiencing WebSphere 5.1 JVMs growing quite a bit larger than their defined heap sizes, under SLES 8 SP3. I'm somewhat familiar with the differences between Java native memory and a JVM's heap, but currently the Resident Set Size (RSS) is 1.2GB for a JVM with a 768MB

Re: LVM woes in SLES 9

2004-12-13 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 00:30, Ranga Nathan wrote: I tried to do LVM via Yast many times but have not been successful. After reboot the volume group and logical volumes disappeared. Thanks to VM I re-cloned the guest and have recreated the vol group, this time from command line. But with a POR

Autoinstall / YOU server combo

2004-12-06 Thread Kohrs, Steven
Cross-posted to suse-autoinstall maillist: Hello, I am trying to setup an Autoinstall installation repository that can also double as a YaST Online Update server. What is the best practice to follow for creating the repository? Copy all the CDs into the same directory or keep each CD separate?

Re: IBM IHS apache based HTTP server - Verbose trace?

2004-12-03 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 10:56, James Melin wrote: Does anyone here know how to make the IBM IHS 2.0 wbe server for linux do the equivalent of a '-VV' trace on the z/os HTTP server? If you set LogLevel debug in httpd.conf, is the output still to vague? I've had some success performing a 'strace'

Re: Which Suse 9.0 CD?

2004-11-30 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 13:55, Tom Duerbusch wrote: Damn. Been downloading the wrong ones for the last hourG. At least you *can* download anything. I've been trying to download new copies of SLES 8 isos from http://sdb.suse.de/download/s390/update/SuSE-SLES/8/images and keep receiving errors

Re: Which Suse 9.0 CD?

2004-11-30 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:25, Marcy Cortes wrote: I just tried using your link and it worked for me after putting my SuSE portal id and password. Are you able to log on to portal.suse.com Yes, I can download individual patches just fine. It's those darn .iso images...I don't know what you

Re: Linux Performance Issue

2004-11-17 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:24, Tom Duerbusch wrote: But after the product is installed, then bring down KDE! I think a year or so ago, DB2/UDB required a gui screen for the install (just to ask one question). What am I missing here? I run X applications (DB2 installs, GSKit iKeyman,

Re: SuSe Support

2004-11-16 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 22:48, PatrickOBrien obrien wrote: Are you all getting Suse Support from IBM or Suse? We chose to utilize IBM for SuSe support with the thought process being we could make one call, for say an application issue, and if the problem ended up being an OS issue, the PMR could

Tcpdump on Linux-390: The Second Coming

2004-11-11 Thread Kohrs, Steven
I need to revive a thread from late August of this year (http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.48926). Rob, you stated: I just checked that the tcpdump that comes with SuSE SLES8 works out-of-the-box for qeth. There is no wrapper thing included, so I believe this was indeed modified to

Do 64-bit Linux guests eliminate VM 2GB swapping?

2004-11-03 Thread Kohrs, Steven
I searched the archives and found an excellent thread (Probly a stoopid ?, but what's better...31-bit or 64-bit? http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.39247 ) which pointed out several items to consider when moving to 64-bit Linux guests, but I couldn't find anything on how VM handles the

What causes VM to lock pages into memory?

2004-11-01 Thread Kohrs, Steven
Through the Perf. Kit for VM, screen 22. User Paging Activity and Storage Utilization, we're seeing that our Web servers are requesting a large number of pages to be locked in their private address spaces. What is the cause of this behavior? Is it a bad thing? We had a total z/VM melt down last

Re: How to restrict memory/CPU for certain users

2004-10-27 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 17:40, Ranga Nathan wrote: Also, will this problem be under control in z/VM environment? We run SLES 8 in an LPAR now. We run SLES 8 under z/VM and experience this same issue. I'm curious to see the solution. Steve Kohrs

Re: Recommended Reading for Head Start on z/VM

2004-10-12 Thread Kohrs, Steven
Part 5: VM/CMS of The Operating Systems Handbook gave me all the knowledge I needed to get SuSE SLES 8 up and running on z/VM guests. http://www.snee.com/bob/opsys.html Plus the entire book is available in .PDF files for free! Thanks Bob! Steve Kohrs On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 06:08, Peter E.

Samba destroys qeth driver

2004-10-12 Thread Kohrs, Steven
We've been fighting an extremely annoying issue where heavy Samba usage causes a loss of network connectivity through an OSA card. Sometimes the problem will correct itself, like after 12 hours yesterday, and sometimes we'll have to manually reload the qeth module. Linux system logs contain

Samba destroys qeth driver II

2004-10-12 Thread Kohrs, Steven
According to Device Drivers and Installation Commands - October 7, 2004 (http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/docu/lx24jun03dd04.pdf) PORT_NAME Must be specified for each OSA-Express CHPID in QDIO mode. Identifies the port for sharing by other operating system

Re: SAMBA install of SLES9

2004-09-29 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 20:53, Gillis, Mark D wrote: I am trying to install SLES9 from directories on a Windows machine that is part of a Windows domain. The first part of the install proceeds without problems up until it's time to select packages to install in yast. At that point I'm getting the

Java Profiler for 31-bit s/390 Linux?

2004-09-22 Thread Kohrs, Steven
We're trying to narrow down the cause of a WebSphere Application which consumes 33% of 3 IFLs. What are some recommendations for accomplishing this? I've reviewed the Performance Inspector (http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/pi/) documentation, but was dismayed to read that half the tools

Re: iPlanet

2004-08-31 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:34, David Boyes wrote: Same scenario exists. The iPlanet directory server isn't all that great, either. At this point, OpenLDAP is just about as function-rich, and has better line-mode tools. We see an exodus off that beastie as well. So, how does OpenLDAP compare

Re: iPlanet

2004-08-31 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:57, Post, Mark K wrote: If I'm not mistaken, that is built on top of OpenLDAP, similar to the way IBM HTTP Server is built on top of Apache. I thought IBM Directory Server (IDS) was a front-end for a read optimized DB2. We use it, but I'd like to not use it based

Re: Dynamic I/O Configuration and removing eth1

2004-08-20 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 17:58, Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco wrote: I assume this is cause by eth1 still being defined. How do I delete eth1? In /etc/modules.conf: alias eth1off Then remove|rename /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1.

Re: vsftpd - anonymous user - what directory does it default to?

2004-08-13 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 11:18, James Melin wrote: I'm trying to set up an anonymous FTP server for internal use for stuff like putty, vncviewer, etc to be gotten but I cannot find in the vsftpd.conf file where the default directory space is. Looks like it uses the FTP user's home directory.

Re: SLES9?

2004-08-04 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 14:55, James Melin wrote: I would think that if you have a customer contract with them you should be able to get SLES9 . I am going to look into that. Does anyone know if IBM is/has/will be soonly, certifying the WAS 5.1 environment on SLES9? WebSphere 5.1 doesn't

Re: For the security weenies

2004-08-02 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 11:29, Ferguson, Neale wrote: Paper: Achieving CAPP/EAL3+ Security Certification for Linux See: http://www-124.ibm.com/linux/presentations/ols2004/sec-cert-OLS_04.pdf I tried 'securing' a server by following the recommendations associated with this paper. Basically, it

Re: Crypto cards

2004-07-29 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:30, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: We finally have our PCICA crypto cards in and working on our z800 with z/VM 4.4. SuSE SLES8 even shows they are there and ready to use with the z90crypt.o module loaded. Now I can start to set up OpenSSL and Apache to use them. Be

Re: Red Hat AS 3.0

2004-07-28 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 07:43, Graham Owen wrote: Did you manage to see a performance benefit from the Red Hat NPTL? By the time we worked though some nuances specific to RHEL 3 (MQ and WAS installation), our 30-day trial expired. While this effort was going on, upper management signed

Re: Red Hat AS 3.0

2004-07-28 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 12:00, Ferguson, Neale wrote: SLES9 should have NPTL. Unfortunately, WebSphere 5.1 is incompatible with the 2.6 kernel of SLES 9. Now we're waiting for the WebSphere 6 release. We're crossing our fingers that WebSphere 6 will also have 64-bit support. If that's the

Re: Red Hat AS 3.0

2004-07-27 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 14:42, Biggs, Eric J [ITS] wrote: For anyone that is using Red Hat AS 3.0 for zSeries, can you provide feedback (positive or negative) about your experience with the product? We installed RHEL 3.0 to test a claim* that WebSphere ran twice as fast under that distro.

GPFS

2004-07-23 Thread Kohrs, Steven
Has anyone implemented IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) on Linux guests running under VM? We're looking for a way to keep Web content synced between multiple Web servers. We've tried sharing a common volume, but due to Mini-Disk Caching (just a guess), changes are not seen by the guests

Re: Deleting files in a directory more than 5 days old

2004-07-22 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 09:53, James Melin wrote: I am wondering what string of commands are necessary to delete all files in a directory that were created more than 5 days previously. I know it's gonna be a compound command and/or script but I'm not sure what exectly to code. Anyone have

Re: Domino 6.5 performance a little disappointing on zLinux

2004-07-19 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 12:06, James Melin wrote: using z/linux and WebSphere in a tuned environment using all of the available performance tweaks of that environment. This is repeatable. Care to share those tweaks? -- For

Re: ksoftirqd_CPU0 causes cpu% to jump to 99%

2004-07-07 Thread Kohrs, Steven
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 09:00, Seader, Cameron wrote: Greetings, Has anyone seen this happen? I am running SUSE SLES8 with SP3 and kernel 2.4.21-231. I have received all the current updates for the kernel and packages installed. Just seems that this process is running away. It has been like

ksoftirqd crashing guests

2004-06-25 Thread Kohrs, Steven
Does anyone have a remedy for a ksoftirqd process that consumes so much CPU that it crashes the guest? I found a post in the archives, from November 2002, that looked promising, but I verified we're using the latest qeth driver. Some troubleshooting guide mentioned using /proc/interrupts to find