Re: SCO Attacks Open Source License

2003-11-04 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 09:07, Adam Thornton wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:51, Beinert, William wrote: Unfortunately, that opinion is shared by many US citizens -Original Message- From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Some of us don't give a hair from a rat's behind

Re: Main Frame Sys Prog

2003-11-04 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 15:50, Clifford Jackson wrote: Hello All: I am a main frame sys prog. and I just got an assignment to build a web server that will support web hosting. I have a machine running windows 2000 advance server and I am planning to install APACHE web server, tell me if I am

Re: Open Source Serves SCO its own Medicine

2003-08-26 Thread Steven A. Adams
Someone should tell SCO that Neurosis and Paranoia are MY diseases (but I'll sell them a binary runtime use license so they can stay legally neurotic). On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 08:13, Lionel Dyck wrote: http://www.internetweek.com/ITServices/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=13100927 SCO's Own Evidence

Re: Microsoft beats the blaster

2003-08-18 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 06:44, John Summerfield wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Ryan Ware wrote: Microsoft has used Akamai for eons for downloads of all sorts. I find it amusing that people think that Microsoft would have an issue with using a linux server for something. I guess this

Re: Stripping trailing blanks?

2003-08-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 08:34, Dave O'Neill wrote: Nope, chomp() will only delete a single trailing \n. For those who like to count rivets, what it really does is removes a trailing string exactly matching the current value of the input record separator as defined by the $/ variable -- which

Re: IBM and 600 jobs

2003-08-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 12:30, Alan Cox wrote: For a lot of jobs people are an awful lot better than robots. I'm seeing a shortage of programming robots for example. Software is bound to go this way - its like farming - labour intensive, more skilled than people think. Unlike farming its really

Re: IBM and 600 jobs

2003-08-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 05:02, Alan Cox wrote: There are also a lot more young people in countries like Brazil, and a much more go do it attitude as opposes to go sue it. But Alan, that's what confuses me the most. Corporate US is nuts about inflicting pain on software (some) pirates and

Re: IBM and 600 jobs

2003-08-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 16:37, John Summerfield wrote: Why would any other country honour US patent laws? US patents are for the US, not other countries. This attitude so many Americans have that what's good for the US is good for every else really cheeses others off. Each country has its own

Re: IBM and 600 jobs

2003-08-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 17:16, John Summerfield wrote: Not your laws so much as the expectation that _everything_ American - laws, business interests, culture, Macdonalds ... is right for everyone. Take Iraq for example. How relevant is US copyright law to Iraqis? Guess who's writing Iraq

Re: A Very Serious Virus Alert

2003-08-14 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 20:27, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:05:16PM -0400, Loren Charnley, Jr. wrote: I think that I have received this message enough, 3 times, in less than an hour. Please stop! Additionally, even one message would have nothing to do with Linux/390,

Re: Device to device copy within a running linux

2003-06-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:29, John Summerfield wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, James Melin wrote: snipping away What I would look to do is to create a second runnable system, so I could boot a different disk (or a tape) and mount the system to be operated on either ro or rw, depending on what's

Re: Microsoft: Linux is a threat

2003-06-06 Thread Steven A. Adams
Linux's weakness, however, was the lack of a central body investing in its development in areas such as engineering, manageability, compatibility and security, Ballmer said. Someone should explain to Mr. Balmer that this weakness is kicking his butt. Especially considering that with all of the

Re: More on SCO and Linux

2003-06-06 Thread Steven A. Adams
This is most interesting. Here's a rather funny question that's been kicking around in my pointy head for a couple of weeks: If SCO doesn't own the rights to Unix, as Novell claims, than what was it that Microsoft purchased from SCO? On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 13:15, Ken Dreger wrote: Very

Re: More on SCO and Linux

2003-06-06 Thread Steven A. Adams
I understand that this was the intent but from the looks of it they ended up with beach-front property in Idaho. On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 14:15, Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission wrote: A proxy in the war against Linux. -Original Message- From: Steven A. Adams [SMTP:[EMAIL

Re: Microsoft: Linux is a threat

2003-06-06 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 14:19, Rod Furey wrote: Does that mean that folks in this group are just an illusion? Of course it does - didn't you know that all the answers here are generated automatically by a pipe written by Rob, fed over a network link from Alan via an interface written by Neil?

Re: SCO owns Unix

2003-06-06 Thread Steven A. Adams
It appears that there is still no evidence to back this claim up. On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 14:36, Lionel Dyck wrote: New claims by SCO claim they *do* own Unix http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,81887,00.html?nas=PM-81887

Re: Microsoft: Linux is a threat

2003-06-06 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 15:43, John Summerfield wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 04:17, you wrote: Someone should explain to Mr. Balmer that this weakness is kicking his butt. Especially considering that with all of the money that Microsoft has to invest they still can't seem to produce a

Re: Microsoft: Linux is a threat

2003-06-06 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 17:12, John Summerfield wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 07:02, you wrote: John, It really wasn't intended to be quite so serious. But since you mention it, I am not convinced that they do understand. I'm sure that we have all seen the interviews with x-MS'ers that speak to

Re: Time Sync

2003-06-03 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 15:35, Richard Troth wrote: I note that the zSeries clock is (800, 900, even 9672s) is awfully accurate compared to even the newest PCs. (Have not compared it to Sun or HP mid-range hardware.) I'm talking about watching the drift file NTPD maintains. It goes below 1.000

Re: Time Sync

2003-06-02 Thread Steven A. Adams
Thanks folks, It looks like the sysplex timer offers more than just time and, in at least a few valued opinions, the time that it keeps is probably more accurate than I could get from an ntp solution. Thanks again, we'll look into the used market and see if there is something out there that might

Re: Time Sync

2003-06-01 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 16:34, Michael Morgan wrote: All of our S/390 systems (Linux/390, VM z/OS) get the time from an external time source..ie the IBM 9037 sysplex timer. We manually set the time in the sysplex timer (about once a year :)) We don't care how accurate the time is, so we've

Time Sync

2003-05-31 Thread Steven A. Adams
This might be a little off topic so feel free to let me know if it is. Our z/800 is about 90 seconds off of time with the rest of the network and this is starting to cause some havoc with an application that we are currently developing. I have been told that getting the mainframe to sync up is

Re: Time Sync

2003-05-31 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 14:10, Alan Cox wrote: On Gwe, 2003-05-30 at 22:40, Steven A. Adams wrote: This might be a little off topic so feel free to let me know if it is. Our z/800 is about 90 seconds off of time with the rest of the network and this is starting to cause some havoc

Re: Time Sync

2003-05-31 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 15:31, Vic Cross wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2003, Steven A. Adams wrote: I am being told that there is not a way to use ntpd under one of my Linux guests to set the clock and propagate these settings through VM to the CTC. We have a bunch of Linux guests doing time sync

Re: Time Sync

2003-05-31 Thread Steven A. Adams
of them (but recent versions may have changed that). Mark Post -Original Message- From: Steven A. Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 6:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Time Sync -snip- Thanks Alan, I am very familiar with ntp. My question

Re: spam-filtering (was: OT: SPAM From Protech Consulting)

2003-04-12 Thread Steven A. Adams
not stating that your comments about spamcop are wrong, only that I don't see that from spamcop (yet). I am, however, watching my logs for this event because of the disclaimer that spamcop posts. -- Steven A. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No Subject

2003-04-04 Thread Steven A. Adams
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Re: .bashrc

2003-03-19 Thread Steven A. Adams
will create a .profile for root. Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 850.219.5184 Fax: 850.219.5050 http://www.mainline.com -- Steven A. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .bashrc

2003-03-19 Thread Steven A. Adams
products on UNIX as well as Linux, and any script we write will only be running on Linux? I frequently code my scripts that way because I want them to be treated as bash scripts and not sh scripts. Mark -- Steven A. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .bashrc

2003-03-18 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 14:03, Mark D Pace wrote: When I want to change environment variables for a user I put them in .bashrc in there home directory. I wanted to change root's environment variables but I did not find a .bashrc in /root. So I created a .bashrc and put in my export commands.

Re: OT - My New System Arrived

2003-03-18 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 19:30, Mark Post wrote: Ok, it's not too often I get to gloat about anything, so I'm taking the opportunity as it's presented itself... :) From dmesg: -snip- CPU3: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz stepping 07 Total of 4 processors activated (22321.56 BogoMIPS). -snip-

LPRng Seg Faulting

2003-03-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
Has anyone done a successful source compile of LPRng on SLES7 with gcc3.2? What was the secret? I was able to manually patch config.sub and config.guess and the make went through happy, no errors or warnings. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Steve

Re: LPRng Seg Faulting

2003-03-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 14:46, Post, Mark K wrote: Your questions are a little confusing. The title talks about segmentation faults, but you ask about successful compiles. Sorry Mark, to clarify: 1. The linux guest has been updated with gcc3.2 and glibc2.5. 2. Many products have been compiled

Re: LPRng Seg Faulting

2003-03-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 15:26, Post, Mark K wrote: I've done it, but not on a SLES7 system. It was a SuSE 7.0 system. I started downloading SRPM files from the SuSE 8.1 distribution and compiling them. (talk about a _lot_ of compiles!) I just tested it, and I was able to print a file using

Re: LPRng Seg Faulting

2003-03-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 15:56, Lucius, Leland wrote: Hi Steven, Just curious...did you recompile libc as well? Leland FYI: I've gotten it to work under SLES7... tux:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release SuSE SLES-7 (s390x) VERSION = 7.2 tux:~ # gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.2.1 Copyright (C) 2002

Re: Interesting perspective

2003-03-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 19:32, John Summerfield wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Steve Gentry wrote: Further . . . Once a fix is made to the code, the patched version of the OS can be swapped into place . . . without taking down the system I've been a sys.prog. for about 20 years, 15 of

Re: Interesting perspective

2003-03-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 20:06, John Summerfield wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Steven A. Adams wrote: I think ComPaqard calls this Hymilaya (used to be Tandem). Did Tandem use Linux? I'm sure I went to a Tandem Non-stop presentation late 70s, early 80s. No offense intended here but Tandem

Re: routing hipersocket guest LANs without a separate guest LAN subne t - impossible?

2003-03-16 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 20:02, Bishop, Peter G wrote: Apologies for the wrapped picture. This one should be more legible. +-+++ A +--+ | the world ++ switch+--+ z/VM 4.2 OSD channel | | |

Re: Porting applications

2003-03-15 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 11:28, Scott Archer wrote: If I understand it correctly, we can not run WEBCT binaries on S/390 Linux without recompiling the source on the S/390 hardware. If it's compiled for SPARC or IA than it will not run in an S/390 environment Is this correct? Do we have any other

Re: Honest Perspective

2003-03-06 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 20:57, Rich Smrcina wrote: This is one that is looking to be all over the map. If you have data entry or transactional type workload on WAS, Linux for zSeries is a great fit. Fast, small transactions that do some database activity on the back end and send back a web

Honest Perspective

2003-03-05 Thread Steven A. Adams
Hey All, Here's the request: I'd really like to get some performance perspective from those individuals that have used WAS under linux, AIX and or MVS. We are getting ready to use WAS and would like to get a view on which platform should yield the best performance from those that have used it.

Re: grep question

2003-02-25 Thread Steven A. Adams
The find command works well and if you don't care to see the permission errors and such you might try appending 2/dev/null to the command. Something like: find / -name xxx* -print 2/dev/null In a nutshell your telling STDERR to output to /dev/null. Steve On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 13:30, MACK,

Re: Ethernet speed.

2003-02-20 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 15:43, Steve Bui wrote: Our users complain that connection to our linux lpar is slow, and they want to know our ethernet speed. Our datacom says that our connection speed to the switch is 100Mb, but I can't find any command that display the ethernet connection speed in

Re: URGENT! really low performance. A related question...

2003-02-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 00:08, John Summerfield wrote: Convert your favorite CICS app to the Windows world, connect 25000 concurrent user sessions and watch the clock - then come back and tell us how long the Intel box(ES) stayed alive under that realistic load. It boils down to this, at the

Re: URGENT! really low performance. A related question...

2003-02-17 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 16:33, Adam Thornton wrote: I beg to differ. Unless you mean Crashes of computers running Windows are rarely caused by hardware. My desktop machine *usually* crashes, when it crashes, because of the hardware. Sometimes it's a cooling problem (luckily my system senses

Re: URGENT! really low performance. A related question...

2003-02-16 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 17:32, Mark Darvodelsky wrote: But the question still does not appear to be answered - why does the mainframe have to run at such a low clock speed? Perhaps someone with some hardware knowledge could explain it? Why can't the clock be cranked up to be the same speed as

Re: URGENT! really low performance. A related question...

2003-02-16 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 19:17, Ronald Wells wrote: Thank You Steven 35yrs here and have worked on too many platforms to dismiss any of them for there suited needs--but management has been duped for so long and they have been blinded by there training and have not--most--worked in any other

Re: Lost x3270 Thread

2003-02-12 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 20:40, Peter J. Farley III wrote: Just out of curiosity, what *was* the thread you were looking for and found? It was http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.33367. It did provide some helpful information for is. It gave us enough insight to connect c3270 as a

Re: Lost x3270 Thread

2003-02-11 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 21:25, Peter J. Farley III wrote: Steve, did you mean this thread on tn3270e problems? Actually, I was able to find what I was looking for but I did miss that one. This is right on the lines of what we wanted to do, we are getting a 2074 soon and looking for an emulator

Re: raid question

2003-02-10 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:02, Stephen Frazier wrote: The STK ICEBERG has something they call RAID5+1. I am not sure exactly how it works but they say that you can loose 3 drives before the CE arrives to fix it and still not lose any data. This implies that they are mirroring a pair of RAID5

Lost x3270 Thread

2003-02-10 Thread Steven A. Adams
Can someone please lead me to the list archives? I have lost the recent thread on open source 3270 emulators and would like to review it. Thanks in advance, Steve

Re: Lost x3270 Thread

2003-02-10 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:04, Vic Cross wrote: Steve, head for http://linuxvm.org. Among the links on the left of the page is the pointer to the \'official\' archive at Marist. Other methods exist that are much quicker than this, however, but I do not have details to hand. As for 3270