Re: Redhat trying to patent netboot?

2011-10-02 Thread Shawn Wells
On 10/2/11 11:38 PM, David Boyes wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 01:56:03PM -0500, David Boyes wrote: Some patents are to important to let a patent troll or potentially malicious company scoop it up, so Red Hat will acquire those patents and allow the open source community

Re: Redhat trying to patent netboot?

2011-09-30 Thread Shawn Wells
On 9/29/11 3:46 PM, David Boyes wrote: http://www.google.com/patents/about/12_475_436_SYSTEMS_AND_METH ODS_FOR_MANAG.html?id=dgXkEBAJ WTF? I don't think so, there, boys. You guys certainly didn't invent this. http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html Some patents are to important

Re: RPMs on RHEL

2010-12-17 Thread Shawn Wells
On 12/17/2010 08:31 AM, Michael MacIsaac wrote: Does RHEL have the fping and tree RPMs (or commands from another package) on s390x? I don't see them in the Packages/ directory of the install DVD 1, but perhaps they are available elsewhere. Thanks. This link will bring you to the tree download

Re: Linux for System z T-shirts

2010-04-29 Thread Shawn Wells
On 04/29/2010 05:33 PM, Hodge, Robert L wrote: I would be interested, but I was told to use Red Hat, not SuSE. How about a more generic design z/Linux design. +1 ;) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: RHEL 5.4 Kickstart

2010-03-04 Thread Shawn Wells
On 03/04/2010 09:12 PM, Mark Post wrote: On 3/4/2010 at 08:48 PM, Lee Stewartlstewart.dsgr...@attglobal.net wrote: Is anyone doing Kickstart installs on RedHat 5.4? No matter what I tried, it acted as if it wasn't reading the CMS config file (for the install network), much less the kickstart

Re: intro, request for advice ...

2010-01-13 Thread Shawn Wells
On 01/13/2010 09:32 AM, Melancon, Ruddy wrote: I have been in your situatuion before. I would try the Centos for your project since it is very closely related to Red Hat. This way if management were to decide to spring for a supported license you could use Red Hat and be comfortable with

Re: Has anyone looked into a console server

2009-10-08 Thread Shawn Wells
Michael MacIsaac wrote: Hi list, Thanks for all the replies ... I had forgotten about the terminal server paper. That looks like a good approach as it is Linux-centric (not that the z/VM-centric solutions aren't good too). It's also good to hear that the next SLES release will be picking that

Re: Adding dasd to Red Hat, mkinitrd problem

2009-09-10 Thread Shawn Wells
On 09/09/2009 03:29 PM, Sue Sivets wrote: I'm trying to add 2 new mini disks to Redhat 5.3, and I've now reached the point where I'm going nowhere fast. The dasd are online, and mounted, I've updated both fstab and modprobe.conf, and I've renamed the initrd img file according to the RedHat

Re: RHEL 5.4 Released

2009-09-07 Thread Shawn Wells
On 09/06/2009 03:21 PM, עופר ברוך wrote: Can anyone say when cmm-2 will be supported on Redhat? I am currently using cmm-1 and it is just not good enough. Unlikely it ever will be, to be honest. The code was never upstreamed due to several issues (complexity, quality, effects on other

What is CMMA? [was Re: RHEL 5.4 Released]

2009-09-07 Thread Shawn Wells
On 09/07/2009 02:00 PM, Don Williams wrote: A few days ago, our IBM sales support surveyed us, asking if we used CMMA. I had to tell him that I did not even know what it was. He said that it was a memory management process. Being a gray haired z/OS systems programmer, but newbie to z/VM

RHEL 5.4 Released

2009-09-06 Thread Shawn Wells
All - On Tuesday 1-SEPT we released RHEL 5.4, which marks a significant milestone for the System z platform at Red Hat. By enhancing our Engineering process via additional dedicated System z headcount, and by procedural changes, we have been able to backport significant System z hardware

Re: Other OSs instead of RHEL/SUSE for LCDS?

2009-07-21 Thread Shawn Wells
On 07/21/2009 03:12 AM, Jason Crons wrote: MY first REAL post here, hope its still active list. This is from an email that i just sent to IBM about their LCDS thingy. And then later found out how to get on these so called 'forums' but rather lists. Hey IBM, First I'd like to say, if this is

Re: Administration on RedHat

2009-07-16 Thread Shawn Wells
On 07/16/2009 10:00 AM, van Sleeuwen, Berry wrote: Hello listers, For a test we have installed a RHEL 5.3. In a SLES we have yast for several administration tasks. Does a similar application exist on RedHat? There are the system-config-* commands for such things, most do require X11. We've

Oracle 10g R2 on RHEL 4.5 on System z Performance

2009-07-07 Thread Shawn Wells
This paper - Describes the setup of an environment using the Oracle 10g R2 database on RHEL 4.5 on IBM System z - Compares the performance of importing data into the database on the new IBM System z10 and legacy IBM System z9 This project emerged from a customer considering to

Oracle Linux Test (OLT) Kit

2009-07-05 Thread Shawn Wells
This looks handy. Has anyone used it? I'd be particularly interested in hearing results from the workload simulators detail about the hardware used. Thought I'd see what the communal experiences are before I start playing with it. snip Oracle Linux Tests are designed to verify Linux kernel

Re: RHEL 5.4 Beta is out in the wild

2009-07-05 Thread Shawn Wells
On 07/05/2009 03:59 AM, Andrew Avramenko wrote: Shawn, Have Red Hat any plans to extend kernel with features which are already in SLES11 such as dynamic extending of memory in the RHEL 5 branch or we should wait for RHEL 6 for that? Certain ones, 100% based upon customer (or potential

Re: RHEL 5.4 Beta is out in the wild

2009-07-05 Thread Shawn Wells
On 07/05/2009 08:05 PM, Shawn Wells wrote: On 07/05/2009 03:59 AM, Andrew Avramenko wrote: Shawn, Have Red Hat any plans to extend kernel with features which are already in SLES11 such as dynamic extending of memory in the RHEL 5 branch or we should wait for RHEL 6 for that? Certain ones

RHEL 5.4 Beta is out in the wild

2009-07-01 Thread Shawn Wells
RHEL 5.4 public beta is live on RHN, announcement is attached. With NSS available in the beta, I would *love* to hear any feedback. The beta allows customers, partners, and other interested parties to provide technical feedback on the next version of RHEL. The beta ends August 31st. Of

Re: EPEL-like repos for z/Linux

2009-06-24 Thread Shawn Wells
On 06/23/2009 12:32 PM, Mark Post wrote: On 6/23/2009 at 2:02 AM, Kenneth Holterkenneho@gmail.com wrote: -snip- From the replies I got I was under the impression that EPEL-like repos for z/Linux allready exists - not necessarily z/Linux packages within EPEL, but perhaps a repo similar

Re: EPEL-like repos for z/Linux

2009-06-24 Thread Shawn Wells
On 06/23/2009 12:32 PM, Mark Post wrote: On 6/23/2009 at 2:02 AM, Kenneth Holterkenneho@gmail.com wrote: -snip- From the replies I got I was under the impression that EPEL-like repos for z/Linux allready exists - not necessarily z/Linux packages within EPEL, but perhaps a repo similar

Re: To kick or to clone ... that is the question

2009-06-10 Thread Shawn Wells
/attachment.cgi?id=294599action=diff -- Shawn Wells Global System z Platform Manager Cell: (+1) 443-534-0130 (GMT -5) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu

Re: To kick or to clone ... that is the question

2009-06-10 Thread Shawn Wells
DASD to install Linux on and having issues. You can use the 'zerombr' to clear out pre-existing partition information. Especially useful on new disks, since the partition table on them is bogus (if one is present) -- Shawn Wells Global System z Platform Manager Cell: (+1) 443-534-0130 (GMT -5

Re: CAVMEN Meeting on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - Agenda Update

2009-06-08 Thread Shawn Wells
-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Shawn Wells Global System z Platform Alliances Manager Cell: (+1) 443-534-0130 (GMT -5) EMail: s...@redhat.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Redhat - OSA 3 - Four-port exploitation

2009-06-01 Thread Shawn Wells
sysfs-attribute “portno” Support is available for OSA-Express3 GbE SX and LX on z10, running in LPAR or z/VM guest (PFT for z/VM APAR VM64277 required!) -- Shawn Wells Global System z Platform Alliances Manager Cell: (+1) 443-534-0130 (GMT -5

Re: Stateless Linux for zSeries

2009-05-14 Thread Shawn Wells
don't always trust, so we enable various clustering technologies. Any words of wisdom? Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution. Different platforms have different implementations against the same goals. Use this as a chance to educate your friend -- Shawn Wells Global System z Platform

Re: Stateless Linux for zSeries

2009-05-14 Thread Shawn Wells
100% upstream in the Linux kernel. -- Shawn Wells Global System z Platform Alliances Manager Cell: (+1) 443-534-0130 (GMT -5) EMail: s...@redhat.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Errors when using IBM RHEL5 EAL4 Common Criteria Kickstart

2009-02-25 Thread Shawn Wells
Hey Guys, I'm trying to use the RHEL5 EAL4 IBM kickstart for s390x, and having issues during the installation. When the process begins I get prompted to validate my installation media source. Regardless of my input (enter, white space, full value) the script only processes the first

Re: Enterprise LDAP authentication

2009-02-17 Thread Shawn Wells
John Summerfield wrote: Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: We have a new client requesting to use the enterprise ldap server (running on a windows box I think). First reading indicates I can run an ldap server on a zlinux machine and point it to the enterprise ldap server for authentication. I

Re: BANK OF NEW ZEALAND REDUCES CARBON FOOTPRINT WITH RED HAT ON THE MAINFRAME

2009-02-09 Thread Shawn Wells
Ceruti, Gerard G wrote: Hi Anyone from Bank of New Zealand or Red Hat on the list who can share the experience ?. http://customers.press.redhat.com/category/geography/apac/ Regards Gerard Ceruti may the 'z' be with you Sure, I'll contact you off list. I do believe the BNZ guys lurk here,

Re: XIP (Execute In Place) for z/Linux running with RedHat 4.6

2009-01-23 Thread Shawn Wells
Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote: Hi I am looking into XIP and I am wondering someone can share their experiences in terms of setting up XIP and actually running with it. Also does RedHat 4.6 support XIP? Thanks, Terry Check out How to use Execute-in-Place Technology with Linux

Re: Filesystems linux under ZVM

2009-01-23 Thread Shawn Wells
John Summerfield wrote: Hugo Luis Vitelli wrote: Excuse David .. if I do not speak well ... the truth is that I have to install a zVM in Suse Linux 5.3 and wanted to consult because they have more experience if I could show the best way to configure the file system, if I install in a disk or

Re: z/VM and Linux on GP engines

2008-12-04 Thread Shawn Wells
+1 Marcy Cortes wrote: We run all of our z9 in CBU with GP engines only. Makes no difference whatsoever to VM or Linux. Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use,

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2008-12-03 Thread Shawn Wells
Come on now, haven't you heard the Mainframe is dead? ;) While I certainly can't speak for entire companies, I'm aware not aware of any such efforts. Stewart Thomas J wrote: Sounds a little like our Red Hat rep who told our Linux guys yesterday that IBM is likely to get rid of z/VM in favor

Re: Add a swap file to a running z/Linux guest

2008-11-26 Thread Shawn Wells
Mauro Souza wrote: Yes, there is... This will create a 128MB swapfile: cd /mnt dd if=/dev/zero of=one.swp bs=1024 count=131072 mkswap -c /mnt/one.swp swapon /mnt/one.swp free -m Note that a swap file must not contain any holes (so, using cp to copy a large file to be used as swap is _not_

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-26 Thread Shawn Wells
Patrick Spinler wrote: For example, when adding more dasd to an image, mkinitrd zipl suffices on sles to insure that the new dasd will be brought online the next time the image is IPL'd. On rhel, similar to the way sles 8 used to work, you have to manually edit /etc/modprobe.conf before

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-24 Thread Shawn Wells
John Summerfield wrote: Shawn Wells wrote: Honestly, this may be more of a sendmail vs postfix issue than SLES vs RHEL. But I am glad the process was easy. Not really. I used to use sendmail (OS/2 and Linux). I now choose to use postfix, though I can take care of sendmail if needs

Making SELinux work (was: Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z)

2008-11-24 Thread Shawn Wells
As promised, an answer to SELinux in a separate thread. On the other hand, something that's been a big adjustment - SELinux in redhat 5. It seems like none of the vendors out there support running under SELinux. For example, for both our monitoring product and backup solution I've had to

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-24 Thread Shawn Wells
Patrick Spinler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shawn Wells wrote: Hi Patrick, I thought I'd take the chance to respond to this, publicly, since I haven't seen any other threads. ... *) Integration to the Z platform The zipl issues were fixed

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-24 Thread Shawn Wells
David Boyes wrote: On 11/24/08 2:10 PM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/24/2008 at 1:14 PM, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- If you do this, please make sure there is a text-only version. Many people don't install X at all on headless servers. Pretty much by

Re: Some observations regarding admining rhel v. sles on Z

2008-11-23 Thread Shawn Wells
Hi Patrick, I thought I'd take the chance to respond to this, publicly, since I haven't seen any other threads. This note has been sent around internally to Red Hat to highlight *customer* feedback. Similar to any other company, the most change occurs when we can point to customers and

Re: sysadm interface for LINX

2008-11-23 Thread Shawn Wells
Patrick Spinler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Campbell wrote: I hope RHEL5 is a big step up, but, on Fedora 8, I still have not found a central command to get into the system administration tools. There still isn't one. I'm pretty much a command liney geek so

Re: sysadm interface for LINX

2008-11-23 Thread Shawn Wells
John Campbell wrote: For Fedora 8, the tools are system-config-SOMETHING. I recall RHEL3 that they were named redhat-config-SOMETHING so I lost some context when I first brought up FC8. # yum list | grep system-config system-config-audit.i386 0.4.8-1.fc9 installed

Re: curiosity: pronouncing sudo

2008-09-26 Thread Shawn Wells
Erik N Johnson wrote: It is an interesting question. The fact o the matter is that Linux is named after Linus Torvalds. The predominant pronounciations of Linux are: 'LINE-ix' and 'LI-nucks', but the name Linus (in Helsinki at any rate) is pronounced 'LEE-noose'. So the 'correct'

Re: Call for SHARE Presentations for linuxvm.org

2008-08-19 Thread Shawn Wells
Mark Post wrote: I've already received copies of presentations from SHARE 111 in San Jose from several people. I appreciate not having to ask. :) For everyone else, here's the request. If you would like to have your z/VM or Linux related presentation(s) on linuxvm.org, please send me a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Receives Department of Defense IPv6 Certification

2008-08-05 Thread Shawn Wells
While at zNTP and T3 I was directly asked about any upcoming RHEL IPv6 certification, and there were some questions about it during sessions. For those parties interested, here is the press release we issued today. Our certification covers Workstation and Server. -Shawn full snip 8/5/08

Re: Message in my Linux guest

2008-07-28 Thread Shawn Wells
Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote: Hi From the output out of my Linux guest can does this look like a MEMORY problem or not enough SWAP problem? I highlighted in RED two of the statements. Since I am rather new at all of this I am not sure what to make of this. Hi Terry, My guess

Re: Systems management - quick survey?

2008-07-08 Thread Shawn Wells
Michael MacIsaac wrote: I tried to categorize what's available today into 4 main areas (I apologize if I your software is not on the list, or if it listed as Dead or dying but is not. I do not also plan to address performance management). Here is the survey: I use RHN Satellite for my

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-06-15 Thread Shawn Wells
You don't happen to be the same Scott Rohling from IBM that helped out at Fort Meade, MD awhile back are you? Believe you came out to work on a project I was at awhile ago, would like to reconnect but lost your business card. -Shawn Scott Rohling wrote: Sounds just like RH kickstart :-)

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