Carlos Ordonez - RIP

My good buddy Carlos passed away. Those of you who knew him, no doubt knew what a great guy he was. We will miss him. May he rest in peace. https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/28143502/carlos-a-ordonez/poughkeepsie/new-york/william-g-miller-and-son-funeral-home-inc -- -Mike

Re: Taking some time

Mark, Good luck. I'll never forget that first zLinux redbook - good memories. -Mike Mac On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 10:57 AM Mark Post wrote: > All, > > I'm retiring from SUSE. Today is my last day on the job. I intend to > stay involved with Linux on the mainframe, including this mailing

Re: Permissions of mounted CMS disks after cmsfs-fuse

Thanks bear, that worked. I could argue that ignoring the umask is a bug, but I'd probably get "working as designed", so I won't bother to open a case. -Mike M On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 3:32 PM r.stricklin wrote: > On Jan 8, 2021, at 8:52 AM, MacIsaac, Michael (CORP) wrote: > > > Hello list,

consolez - a new open-source package to view z/VM consoles and run CP commands from a browser

Hello zLinux and zVMers, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwaanza and Festivus for the rest of us! I had some slow time the last few weeks and started a 'skunkworks' project to address a requirement that recently came up. The code just started gelling so I decided to open-source it before this

Re: adding cpus without logoff

Gregory, There is code in zoom that does this. We've been using it for a few years at my organization. See: https://sourceforge.net/projects/system-zoom/ The bulk of the code for this operation is in /usr/local/sbin/zstartclients (which many other operations are symbolic links to) in zoom.tgz.

Re: CP FOR through vmcp?

Hi, Thanks for all the replies. However, what I take away is > vmcp would need enhancements to ... Most of the code I write is driven from Linux, so it can issue CP commands but cannot run CMS commands, thus any REXX EXEC. Have any of the vmcp developers heard this requirement before?

CP FOR through vmcp?

Hello lists, I can use CP FOR to run a command on another user ID and I get back the output in a normal CMS session: for engzs01 cmd q cplevel ENGZS01 : z/VM Version 6 Release 4.0, service level 1802 (64-bit) ENGZS01 : Generated at 03/11/20 13:28:04 EDT ENGZS01 : IPL at 03/11/20

Re: z15 on-board compression

Thanks Christian, Neale and Rob for your replies. Like I said, I'm not a performance expert. Of course all 0's are not good test data. So I use /dev/random and get halfway (logarithmically) to 2**15 and then loop another 2**15 times to get a 1G file. z14: # time dd if=/dev/random of=32K.file

z15 on-board compression

Hello list, I heard about the new DFLTCC instruction on the z15, aka on board compression. I tried a quick experiment to see the difference from a z14. Disclaimer: I am not a performance expert. Here are three commands to create, compress and decompress a 1G file on a z14: # grep Type:

Re: Redbook draft: The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM Z Volume 5: KVM

Hello list, Wow, The Virtualization Cookbook still alive and kicking. Nice work to all involved! I remember working on the first one more than 15 years ago. - Sir Mike the Chef of Books On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 9:42 AM Christian Borntraeger wrote: > There is now a redbook draft for a KVM

Re: Cloud using zlinux

n Sun, 1 Mar, 2020, 4:30 PM Michael MacIsaac, > wrote: > > > Peter, > > > > We use an open source project on > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/system-zoom/ > > > > Contact me off-list if it looks interesting. > > > > -Mike MacIsa

Re: Cloud using zlinux

Peter, We use an open source project on https://sourceforge.net/projects/system-zoom/ Contact me off-list if it looks interesting. -Mike MacIsaac. On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 2:09 AM Peter wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to understand how cloud is configured using zlinux. > > Any manuals or

Re: Theia?

i, it was a very simple install for me. Thanks for everyone's feedback. -Mike On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:47 PM Mark Post wrote: > On 1/8/20 1:25 PM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > > Mark, > > > > Thanks for the suggestion, however, no joy. > > > > I created th

Re: Theia?

Mark, Thanks for the suggestion, however, no joy. I created the .curlrc file with no change. yarn is a node.js script - don't see any wget in it, but ... -Mike Mac On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:38 PM Mark Post wrote: > On 1/7/20 1:23 PM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > > Hmm, h

Re: Theia?

icate chain". info If you think this is a bug, please open a bug report with the information provided in "/root/theia/yarn-error.log". Any ideas? Thanks -Mike Mac On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:45 AM Michael MacIsaac wrote: > Herald, > > Thanks for a quick reply. I'll giv

Re: Theia?

Pdc-hUPEoam3bq_3CljVCA..=http%3a%2f%2fwww.icu-it.nl%2f> > I KvK 32135776 > > ________ > Van: Linux on 390 Port namens Michael MacIsaac < > mike99...@gmail.com> > Verzonden: maandag 6 januari 2020 12:25 > Aan: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Onderwer

Theia?

Hello list, Has anyone tried porting Eclipse Theia to zLinux? Looks like a cool browser-driven Interactive Development Environment (IDE). SSH and vi seem so 2010's :)) Thanks. -- -Mike MacIsaac -- For LINUX-390

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

Alan, Yes, OK, many shops prefer 'build' over 'clone'. Chapter 2 of http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248303.html?Open shows how to use kickstart for RHEL. Our shop still does clones because we have to use golden images hardened by another team. -Mike M On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:19

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

st doc. I'm trying to install ClefOS and > manage it as cleanly as possible. > > R; > > > Rob Hamilton > Infrastructure Engineer > Chemical Abstracts Service > > > -----Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Michael > MacIsaac > Se

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

to do cloning alone ? > > Jake > > On Wed, 11 Dec, 2019, 7:28 PM Michael MacIsaac, > wrote: > > > Jake, > > > > Which cookbook are you using? > > > > -Mike M > > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:20 AM Jake Anderson > > > wrot

Re: zLINUX end user provisioning

Jake, Which cookbook are you using? -Mike M On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:20 AM Jake Anderson wrote: > Hello > > I am pretty new to zLINUX provisioning. > > I have used cookbook to build Linux and if functional. > > From the provisioning part untill which chapter of cookbook i can follow ? >

Re: Why Linux Developers Should Reconsider IBM Mainframes - Linux.com

Shoulda been 's390z'. IIRC it was decided less than a year before the mainframe got rebranded to 'z'. -Mike On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 12:48 PM Rick Troth wrote: > On 10/14/19 8:03 AM, James Tison wrote: > > ... > > 390x (z/Architecture) was introduced almost immediately after s390 came > on

Computer progress

Hello list, Somewhat off topic, but ... 50 years ago we put men on the moon using a computer with one CPU, 4KB of RAM and 70KB of ROM. This morning I search for some VMs and see a subtotal: Total number of guests found: 6 Total CPUs defined: 56 Total memory defined: 404 GB Thank you

Re: Full root file system

n: (650) 964-8867 > Main: (877) 964-8867 > r...@velocitysoftware.com <mailto:r...@velocitysoftware.com> > > > > On Aug 28, 2019, at 8:43 AM, Michael MacIsaac > wrote: > > > > Hello list, > > > > We had a SLES12 root file system get full. The system wou

Re: Full root file system

7 > > Main: (877) 964-8867 > > r...@velocitysoftware.com <mailto:r...@velocitysoftware.com> > > > > > > > On Aug 28, 2019, at 8:43 AM, Michael MacIsaac > > wrote: > > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > We had a SLES12 root file system get ful

Full root file system

Hello list, We had a SLES12 root file system get full. The system would not boot, nor was there an error message "file system full". Rather, we got many error messages on the console like: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU 0-...: (15658428 ticks this GP)

[no subject]

Hello list, We patched many zLinux SLES servers and found that chmem and lsmem moved. Here's an unpatched system: # *which chcpu chmem lsmem lscpu* /sbin/chcpu * /usr/sbin/chmem /usr/sbin/lsmem* /usr/bin/lscpu Here's a patched system - lsmem and chmem moved to /usr/bin # *which chcpu

Re: Cron does not restart after reboots

Mike, is systemV chkconfig deprecated in favor of systemD? How about trying: # systemctl enable crond # reboot ... # systemctl status crond -Mike M On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 8:54 AM Mike Riggs wrote: > Having a strange occurrence where the service 'cron' fails to startup > following normal

Re: SLES 15 - no help?

Tim, > Linux is not UNIX Agreed. Linux is a kernel. GNU/Linux is UNIX (oh, wait, Gnu's *NOT* UNIX. :)) -Mike On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 1:01 AM Timothy Sipples wrote: > Michael MacIsaac wrote: > >I get my hands on a minimal SLES 15 for the first time. > >I try to edi

Re: SLES 15 - no help?

a fairly useful system out of 'minimal'? We are trying to get to a minimal system that has basic function like editing files and getting help, then adding SaaS later. Thanks. -Mike On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 1:17 PM Mark Post wrote: > On 6/9/19 7:47 AM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > > Hi, >

Re: Are you "man" enough?

on a USDA system > installation was to not install any 'man' pages... Wow what a > nightmare... > > Call me for more silly suggestions... > > Regards, > > Paul > > On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 07:47:27 -0400 > > F

Re: SLES 15 - no help?

always complained the > minimal was too much. The container stuff likely focus them. It may be too > minimal for manual sysadmin work. I think it lacks sudo as well. > And I hate they put ifconfig cs in nettools-very-much-deprecated in some > other repository. > > Rob > > On Sun

SLES 15 - no help?

Hi, I get my hands on a minimal SLES 15 for the first time. I try to edit a file: # *vi foo* -bash: vi: command not found # *vim foo* -bash: vim: command not found HUH? A UNIX with no vi? NEVER seen that before. So I install it: # *zypper install -y vim* ... Now I need to check a flag:

Re: dasd_configure in SLES 12 SP4

Mark, Thanks for a thorough reply. We have been warned :)) -Mike M On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 1:43 PM Mark Post wrote: > On 5/31/19 6:47 AM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > > Why? Doing so will break scripts we have ... > > Because they require maintenance, cause bug reports (

Re: dasd_configure in SLES 12 SP4

Mark, > The wrappers will be removed at some point in the future. Why? Doing so will break scripts we have ... -Mike On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 5:06 PM Mark Post wrote: > On 5/30/19 4:54 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: > > Should I just be using that chzdev command now? > > Yes. Starting with

Re: Redhat zlinux error with CCW

Jake, LNXADMIN is a virtual machine designed to run CMS. It's main purpose is to populate it's 192 minidisk to become the 191 disk - read/only to all Linux virtual machines. It seems like you're trying to boot a Linux on LNXADMIN. -Mike MacIsaac On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 5:56 AM Jake

Re: Lnxadmin overlap

ISK 0100 3390 0001 10016 5535 MR LNX4VM LNX4VM LNX4VM > > MDISK 0100 3390 0001 9496 5535 MR LNX4VM LNX4VM LNX4VM > > Jake > > On Tue 2 Oct, 2018, 5:05 PM Michael MacIsaac, wrote: > > > Jake, > > > > Can you copy the output of DISKMAP showing the overlaps please? &g

Re: Lnxadmin overlap

, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:51 AM Jake Anderson wrote: > Hi Mike > > It shows overlap for both 100 and 101. > > > > On Tue 2 Oct, 2018, 3:05 PM Michael MacIsaac, wrote: > > > Jake, > > > > There are some overlaps in the user directory IBM ships. Are the > ov

Re: Lnxadmin overlap

Jake, There are some overlaps in the user directory IBM ships. Are the overlaps with the LNXADMIN 100 or 101 disks? Please post them here. Thanks. -Mike On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 6:49 AM Jake Anderson wrote: > Hi > > I am using cookbook to build RHEL. > > I am trying to add LNXADMIN with

Re: Issue cloning RHEL server

rc.sysinit: line 670: 1152 Bus error touch > /.autofsck &>/dev/null > DCVML99 : > EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): __ext4_ext_check_block: bad header/extent in > inode #5136: invalid magic - magic 0, entries 0, max 0(0), depth 0(0) > init: rc main process (1158) kill

Re: Issue cloning RHEL server

Paul, Can you post the contents of the clone script? Is it based on the code starting on p. 528? When you say " corrupts one or more of the copy's file systems", can you be more specific? Thanks. -Mike On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 1:08 PM Feller, Paul wrote: > One of my team members is

Sample bash script to get user directory entries faster

Hi lists, I just uploaded two files - smcli and finduserdirentry. smcli is a compliled wrapper around SMAPI originating from IBM. It is called in the bash script finduserdirentry. See: https://sourceforge.net/projects/system-zoom/files We have a process to cycle through our managed guests and

ulimit -u value

Hello list, I wrote a recursive function to log messages to one file from different systems. Something like: if on local system; then log to local file else log back to calling system But I had a bug where the local system thought it was remote so the else clause was executed on

Re: From read-only-root to containers

t; I've been tinkering with using GitHub for blogging, and that's why the > above site. But that's a whole nutha story. > > -- R; <>< > > > On 05/25/2018 06:11 PM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > > Hello lists, > > > > I stumbled onto the first "Read-only root&

From read-only-root to containers

Hello lists, I stumbled onto the first "Read-only root" paper that the guys from Nationwide basically wrote. While on the Redbooks website, I was surprised to be asked if I wanted to chat about it. I said yes, and tried to be respectful. Below is the chat text, which in the Turing Test, I would

Re: /proc/sysinfo on other architectures?

ers care about (myself, I still think it's cool when I see that the serial number in the "tree" under CEC, does in fact match the number on the door of the physical CEC :)) -Mike MacIsaac On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 5:53 PM, Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: > On 26.03.2018 2

Re: /proc/sysinfo on other architectures?

│ └── Linux:admin32.example.com └── IntelServer:serialNum └── VMware:someID └── virtualMachine:someID └── Linux:hostname.example.com Thanks. -Mike On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: > On 26.03.2018 16:45, Michael MacIsaac wrote

Re: /proc/sysinfo on other architectures?

Lintel. -Mike M On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Dan Horák <dho...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:20:18 -0400 > Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Christian, > > > > Thanks, that helps. I also found "dmidecode" after

Re: /proc/sysinfo on other architectures?

Christian, Thanks, that helps. I also found "dmidecode" after searching for "systemd-detect-virt". I'll look into them... -Mike M On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 9:52 AM, Christian Borntraeger < borntrae...@de.ibm.com> wrote: > On 03/26/2018 03:38 PM, Michael MacIsaac

Re: /proc/sysinfo on other architectures?

e parts of the STSI instruction to > unpriviledged code. > This is very z-specific. > > On 03/26/2018 02:38 PM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Is /proc/sysinfo a zLinux thing only? > > > > I got on a Lintel VMWare virtual machine and was surprised

/proc/sysinfo on other architectures?

Hello list, Is /proc/sysinfo a zLinux thing only? I got on a Lintel VMWare virtual machine and was surprised to not see that file. If it's not part of Lintel, how do they query their hipervisor hierarchy? Thanks. -- -Mike MacIsaac

Re: RHEL and HMC load from FTP

If you FTP to the server manually with the same credentials and do a: > cd /software/RHEL > dir What do you see? -Mike M On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 6:48 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, munif sadek wrote: > > > Now when I am trying to use -RECOVERY -> Load

Re: SLES 12 upgrade fails

Victor, Does the virtual machine have at least 1G of memory? -Mike On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Victor Echavarry < victor.echava...@evertecinc.com> wrote: > We are planning a upgrade of all our z/Linux guest from SLES 11 SP4 to > SLES 12 SP3. When executing the upgrade we receive the

Re: Largest Linux cluster ever?

OK, that's funny! Nice. -Mike On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Rick Ralston wrote: > https://www.cmg.org/publications/measureit/2006-2/ > mit28/measureit-issue-4-02-cmg-antarctica-by-richard-s-ralston/ > > > Richard Ralston > Enterprise Server Capacity Planner |

Re: Extended LVM - want to make sure changes are ready for next boot

Dave, > What does dasd_configure do, and is it too late now to run that command to harden changes?? I believe it sets up udev rules. It's a shell script so you can read for yourself: # file `which dasd_configure` /sbin/dasd_configure: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable -Mike M On

Re: SMACLIENT

Mike, Is that virtual machine authorized to SMAPI and was SMAPI recycled? Do you have smaclient.conf set? # cat /etc/smaclient.conf smhost="IUCV" -Mike On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 1:48 PM, Michael Weiner wrote: > Hello all > > I have configured SMAPI and setup

Re: Web UI testing on zLinux?

Mark (Mike), OK we will possibly look into OpenQA. Oh, forgot to answer Neale. We are on SLES 12 SP2. -Mike On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 2:19 PM, Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> wrote: > >>> On 2/22/2018 at 08:24 AM, Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Re: Web UI testing on zLinux?

so it may be worth > considering. Are you RH or SUSE? > > On 2/22/18, 1:49 PM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Michael MacIsaac" > <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU on behalf of mike99...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Neale, (Wayne), > > > >I'm not involved very dire

Re: Web UI testing on zLinux?

> What is dragging the effort down? > > On 2/22/18, 8:24 AM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Michael MacIsaac" > <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU on behalf of mike99...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >So we need a browser running on zLinux and many Java components. The > >

Web UI testing on zLinux?

Hello list, We are hoping to get an automated Web UI testing environment set up on zLinux. Many have suggested the open source tool Selenium. We have been able to get it running from a laptop, but would like to get it running from zLinux, so we can "press a button" and run many types of tests

Re: vmcp cannot allocate memory

Hi, I thought of a way to work around this issue. Then I looked at my vmcp wrapper function (below) and it seems I already did (Homer slapping head - D'oh). But I still had the default buffer size for the vmcp command set to 1M. Given the previous comments, I moved that down to 32K in zoom and

Re: Announcing zoom and zuess 3.0

requited, or will it work on zLinux installed in an LPAR? >> What versions of zLinux are supported? >> >> Gadi >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of >> Michael MacIsaac >> Sent: Sund

Re: Announcing zoom and zuess 3.0

--Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Michael MacIsaac > Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2017 2:41 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Announcing zoom and zuess 3.0 > > Hello linux-390 and IBMBM lists, > > zoom (Syst

Re: Announcing zoom and zuess 3.0

the class cluster the zoom servers together. Wouldn't that be cool to come back from SHARE or VM Workshop and say "Yeah, I set up Private Cloud on the mainframe in three hours with open source tools"? Simultaneously, that exercise would help drive out the bugs which are certainly there.

Announcing zoom and zuess 3.0

Hello linux-390 and IBMBM lists, zoom (System z object-oriented management) and zuess (System z user-enabled self-service) are open-source packages that provide "Private Cloud" on IBM mainframe hardware, the z/VM hipervisor and the GNU/Linux operating system - arguably the most solid and mature

vmcp cannot allocate memory

Hello list, We use vmcp extensively to issue CP commands. More and more I'm seeing this error: Error: Could not issue CP command: Cannot allocate memory I always use the --buffer=1M flag to be able to get the largest output. I've bumped up the VM size from 2 to 3 to 4GB, but still see it. We

Re: HTTPS, Apache and crypto hardware

Thanks all for the appends. -Mike MacIsaac On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If I believe the marketing, I should get crypto magical

HTTPS, Apache and crypto hardware

Hi, If I believe the marketing, I should get crypto magically when switching from HTTP to HTTPS using Apache under zLinux, just by buying a z14. Well we don't have any z14s and I'm not sure I believe the hype. Does anyone know of a HOWTO on this? I did write up a "recipe" (26.4 Hardware

Re: Docker question

enShift Origin under Linux on Z see: > > http://download.sinenomine.net/clefos/epel7/Getting_ > Started_with_OpenShift_on_z.pdf > > Neale > > On 8/4/17, 9:32 AM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Michael MacIsaac" < > LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU<mailto:LINUX-390

Docker question

Hello list, I still don't grok Docker. Let's say I want to create a Docker image of a zLinux system. Let's say this system runs Apache and needs a certificate to enable https. Let's say I want to run this image on multiple LPARs. So each system will need a unique host name and thus a unique

Re: KVM's /proc/sysinfo

.nl> > T 088 – 5 234 123 I www.icu-it.nl <http://www.icu-it.nl/> I KvK > 32135776 > > > Op 22 jun. 2017, om 14:37 heeft Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> > het volgende geschreven: > > > > Hello list, > > > > Could someone who h

Re: Crazy idea - a KVM-SMAPI interface?

Thanks to all who replied. I guess KVM and z/VM are just apples and oranges. -Mike On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Neale Ferguson wrote: > We explored this many years ago and attempted to map libvirt API to SMAPI. > > On 6/22/17, 11:38 PM, "Linux on 390 Port on

KVM's /proc/sysinfo

Hello list, Could someone who has access to a KVM LPAR, please give me sample output from /proc/sysinfo for the hipervisor? This is what I get on a z/VM LPAR: # grep ^VM00 /proc/sysinfo VM00 Name:ENGZS01 VM00 Control Program: z/VM6.4.0 VM00 Adjustment: VM00 CPUs Total:

Crazy idea - a KVM-SMAPI interface?

Hello linux-390 list, I was talking about z/VM, Linux and the SMAPI layer with others who also work with KVM on z as a hipervisor (myself, I have never had the opportunity to try it). Then I had a crazy thought that what might be cool is an interface to SMAPI for KVM. Yes, the verbs and objects

zoom 2-06

Hello listers, I uploaded zoom 2-06 to SourceForge at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/system-zoom/files Here are the line items for this version: -) Updated zsetlifecycle to more completely apply system life cycle -) Function sendWarning() defined in userexits.stubs to send e-mail warning

Re: Linux SMAPI wrappers

frameproject.org/ or Slack channel > https://openmainframeproject.slack.com > > Thank you. > Sincerely, > Emily Kate Hugenbruch > OpenStack Cloud Enablement Engineer - z/VM and Software Engineer - z/VM > IBM Corporation Endicott, NY > Twitter: @ekhugen > IRC: ekhugen

Linux SMAPI wrappers

Hello list, One way to automate operations (aka do Private Cloud) is to use z/VM's SMAPI. There are two ways to call 'SMAPIs' from Linux that I know of: 1) The bash smaclient from Sine Nomine (thanks to Leland, et al) 2) The C compiled smcli originating from IBM (thanks to Chuck, Thang, Emily, et

Re: Lesson learned - do not idly send links to the Maris Listserver

> > On May 4, 2017 14:18, "Michael MacIsaac" <mike99...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Paul, > > > Let me just say that Michael MacIsaac is a VERY smart puppy. > Thanks Flint. But if I'm so smart why am I finding bugs in my code just > about daily??? 樂 >

Re: Lesson learned - do not idly send links to the Maris Listserver

Paul, > Let me just say that Michael MacIsaac is a VERY smart puppy. Thanks Flint. But if I'm so smart why am I finding bugs in my code just about daily??? 樂 -Mike On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Paul Flint <fl...@flint.com> wrote: > Greetings Scott, > > Thanks

Re: Bash loop failing

Thanks to all who replied - I tried most, but not all suggestions The good news is I got the bug fixed. It's pretty clear that 'stdin' was getting 'drained' somewhere down the stack (I'm still now sure where), as John M. suggested. Using another file descriptor instead of stdin (0) worked

Bash loop failing

Hello list, This code has been failing for days and I'm at my wit's end. Maybe someone on this forum can help. I've coded a bash script that is supposed to loop through managed Linux systems. It calls another bash script to get records with 8 fields: local cmd="/usr/local/sbin/zlsexpirations

Re: SHARE Providence

Mark, OK, but when to we 'raise the bar'? I was hoping a one-day (or even a half day) lab could be created to get to a working "Self-service portal" (aka "Private Cloud"). I'd like to say zoom on top of SMAPI on top of a directory manager would be adequate for a 'back-end'. But an open-source

Re: High steal on z/linux guest

Hi Victor, We have used the statement "The hipervisor is busy". Sometimes it works :)) -Mike MacIsaac On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Victor Echavarry Diaz < vechava...@evertecinc.com> wrote: > Alan: > > The Unix group are asking for this. Because they see the steal alert, they > want to

zoom 2.02

Good day IBMVM and linux-390 mailing lists, zoom version 2-02 is available on https://sourceforge.net/projects/system-zoom/ Line items: -) Fairly significant modification to user preferences code -) Added binary smcli and library libzhcp.so as a second SMAPI interface -) Added global variable

Re: Ruby on rails?

Jay, Neale, Excellent! Thanks. -Mike On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: > This is in the EPEL library at > > http://download.sinenomine.net/clefos/epel7/noarch/ > rubygem-rails-4.2.5-2.el > 7.noarch.rpm > > Name: rubygem-rails > Epoch

Ruby on rails?

Does anyone have Ruby on rails running on zLinux? Thanks. -- -Mike MacIsaac -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: Redmine on zLinux?

rary is most certainly available for s390x. > > On 9 March 2017 at 21:52, Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > Has anyone tried to install redmine on zLinux ( see > > http://www.redmine.org/ > > ) > > > > We

Redmine on zLinux?

Hello list, Has anyone tried to install redmine on zLinux ( see http://www.redmine.org/ ) We are getting the error "cannot load file zlib" when trying to install the co-req bundler. Thanks. -- -Mike MacIsaac -- For

Re: High Kernel CPU usage z/vm 6.3 redhat 7.3

Sheldon, A quick 'google' found this hit: http://serverfault.com/questions/385360/mysql-high-sy-kernel-cpu-time -Mike M On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Sheldon Davis wrote: > Hi > > We are in the process installing new z/Linux guests and are experiencing > high

Re: EPEL

Cool! Nice work Neale. -Mike On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: > The EPEL for ClefOS (CentOS) 7 is now available at > http://download.sinenomine.net/clefos/epel7/ > > There are around 13,000 (binary) packages for Linux on z along with their >

zoom 2.01

Hello IBMVM and linux-390 listers and lurkers, I just uploaded zoom 2.01 to SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/system-zoom/files Here are the line items: Version 2-01 - Jan 30, 2017 -) Added command zchexpiration to reset nodes' expiration date -) Changed dates to seconds since 1/1/70

Typescript on zLinux?

Hi, Has the typescript environment been ported to zLinux (superset of JavaScript that 'transpiles' to JavaScript)? I have a SLES 12 SP1 system and got node.js and npm installed, but npm can't seem to find typescript. Thanks. -- -Mike MacIsaac

Re: Having trouble getting started.

Another issue I vaguely remember is the FTP home directory. If the home directory when you ftp is something like /home/ftp/ and your install directory is something like /sles/iso/, then the install files will be looked for in /home/ftp/sles/iso/ where they may not be found. Hope this helps.

Re: XMAS gift Ubuntu ooRexx 4.2 for s390x

Rick, I found Ubuntu was able to convert an RPM to a DEB with the alien command - example in "The zoom Cookbook". -Mike On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Rick Troth wrote: > On 12/24/2016 10:51 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > > I have created a Ubuntu ooRexx 4.2 .deb install file

zoom 2.0

Merry ${yourFavoriteHoliday}, The zoom 2.0 package is now available on SourceForge at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/system-zoom/files It is an open source systems management tool designed specifically for z/VM and Linux on the mainframe. If you have z/VM and mainframe hardware, it should

Re: Root, sudo, su and preserving audit trail

et> wrote: > Remember that some of the audit trail will be in your SYSLOG traffic. > > > On 12/19/2016 09:12 AM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > > We cannot SSH as root in our organization which is good for preserving > > audit trail because all users must use their own

Re: Root, sudo, su and preserving audit trail

-environment, it's mutually exclusive to --login. On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> wrote: > >>> On 12/19/2016 at 09:12 AM, Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We cannot SSH as root in our organi

Re: Root, sudo, su and preserving audit trail

nks, > Steve > > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Michael MacIsaac > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 9:12 AM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Root, sudo, su and preserving audit trail > > Hi, > >

Re: Root, sudo, su and preserving audit trail

Christian, Thanks for the quick reply. That is good input. -Mike On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Christian Ehrhardt < christian.ehrha...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Michael MacIsaac <mike99...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > # en

Root, sudo, su and preserving audit trail

Hi, We cannot SSH as root in our organization which is good for preserving audit trail because all users must use their own credentials. I (but not all users) can then 'su to root', and my login user is preserved in the environment variable SUDO_USER. However, then as root I can 'su to another

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