Re: Is anybody out there

Ding Ding Ding No more calls, folks, we have a winner! On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 17:12, paultz wrote: Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home? Come on now. I hear you're feeling down. I can ease your pain, Get you on your feet again. Relax. I need

Re: Is anybody out there

Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home?

Re: A Very Serious Virus Alert

Naturally, this only effects Windows operating systems! Linux and MAC are not effected. Whew! You had me worried there for a bit I thought this had to do with an OS I actually use ;-) Paul

Re: Yahoo News Article: Linux OK'd for Use on... and z/VM

IBM's premier virtualization technology, z/VM, in the upcoming year. z/VM helps enable mainframe customers to run tens to even hundreds of instances of the Linux operating system on a single IBM zSeries server. Tens or hundreds? Small potatoes next to Test Plans Charlie and Omega. ;-) Paul

The SCO plot thickens .... IBM countersues

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-5060965.html

DISA recommends compliance with Linux standard

http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/23035-1.html Paul

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

Have you noticed that most cars look like they were designed by the same guy? I think he's the same guy who designs all the sneakers, too. I thought my Chuck Converse's were starting to look an awfull lot like Nikes! ;-) pct

Torvalds: What, me worry?

For those who didn't see this ZDNet interview. http://netscape.com.com/2100-1104_2-1023778.html

Re: CTC Connection Question Again

Have you enabled telnet in /etc/securetty? Paul = I finally got my CTC connection to connect. At least Linux says it is. = I'll list all of my pertinent information. Now, when I try to Telnet into = my Linux1 Lpar, I get the following message

Re: CTC Connection Question Again

Eric, As Mark has pointed out, it appears you have a connectivity issue, not a telnet blocked by securetty. Once you have the connection complete, if you get locked out by securetty you do not need to worry about an editor at that point. You can always just rename securetty to something else so

Re: CTC Connection Question Again

Eric, I'm going on memory here, so it could be a slight typo. At least that is my recollection from my RH7.2 install. Regards, Paul Paul, Like I said, there is no securetty in the etc directory. Is securetty the = way you actually spell

Re: webmin question

Ralph, Have you tried resetting the password with changepass? ../changepass.pl /etc/webmin root newpassword Paul installed webmin.. can connect with root i changed root password cannot connect.. it there a config file for webmin???

Re: Interesting perspective

Sorry, Bob ... guess I did a reply to sender vs. the list. But now I have this image (having noted your SunTrust signature block) that I can't shake, of a cinnamon roll calling out to David, singing Don't you want me baaby, Don't you want me oohhh? Paul Richards.Bob wrote:

Re: Install of JAVA2 SDK

Steve, If this is the same flavor I installed, as I recall there are a couple of directories you need to add to your PATH. Try looking for and adding /opt/IBMJava2-s390-131/bin and /opt/IBMJava2-s390-131/jre/bin. It is documented in /javadocs/README.SDK.HTML. Regards, Paul

Re: SuSE Linux - TOC

Hi Doug, As you said, Samba will do file/print serving just fine. Here's a who's-doing-what list from IBM that will give you a taste of other software that's available for various things: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/solutions/s390da/linuxproduct.html As to backups, you can use

Thanks for the ssh suggestions

Many thanks to all who responded on my questions with ssh. I hope to make time next week to go back and do some re-checking on all of the things that were mentioned. On using Protocol 1, it is only because I have two slightly different flavors, and Protocol 1 worked where 2 would not. Don't

Microsoft shows Linux some respect

Did you all see this? Looks like the MS spin doctors finally figured out that the Linux is an anti-capitalistic cancer approach wasn't going to work! http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-981552.html

ssh success and yet another question

Thanks to all for setting me straight on ssh. As several people pointed out, don't assign a passphrase to the host keys! I guess that falls under the category of RTFMP! So I deleted all of my keys, and recreated them with an empty passphrase. I still couldn't get to the z/OS boxes from Linux,

ssh_dss_verify: signature incorrect

Finally got the binaries working for z/OS 1.2 USS sorta. I can go into OMVS shell under TSO, do an ssh into the same system, and get logged right in, no problems. If I try to ssh (from the same OMVS shell) to my RH7.2 Linux system, I get: ssh_dss_verify: signature incorrect key_verify

Re: Doc for basic SENDMAIL configuring

Do you want a doc or a tool? I use Webmin. Otherwise, www.sendmail.org. Paul From: Ann Smith Subject: Doc for basic SENDMAIL configuring Can someone point me at some doc on configuring basic sendmail on Suse

Re: ssh_dss_verify: signature incorrect

keys not checking out correctly. Mark Post -Original Message- From: paultz Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 3:33 PM Subject: ssh_dss_verify: signature incorrect Finally got the binaries working for z/OS 1.2 USS sorta. I can go into OMVS shell under TSO, do an ssh into the same

Re: ssh_dss_verify: signature incorrect

: ssh_dss_verify: signature incorrect In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, paultz wrote: Finally got the binaries working for z/OS 1.2 USS sorta. I can go into OMVS shell under TSO, do an ssh into the same system, and get logged right in, no problems. If I try to ssh (from the same

Re: ssh_dss_verify: signature incorrect

: ssh_dss_verify: signature incorrect On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, paultz wrote: Finally got the binaries working for z/OS 1.2 USS sorta. I can go into OMVS shell under TSO, do an ssh into the same system, and get logged right in, no problems. If I try to ssh (from the same OMVS shell) to my RH7.2 Linux

Fear the Penguin

Of course we already knew this: Linux Headed for the Data Center Don't look now, says a new report from the Goldman Sachs Group, but the upstart Linux operating system is definitely headed for the data center. The Goldman report, entitled Fear the Penguin, indicates that as Linux continues to

Re: IPL device number

Ken, Mark has it posted: http://linuxvm.org/patches/S390/iplvol.sh Here's another chance for me, though, to thank Mark for the great job he does of organizing all of this stuff at linuxvm.org. In thanking Mark for writing the script ( I had been the one who originally asked how this could be

Re: iplvol Script

Mark, I love it when I can cross things off of the 'to do' list before I even get started. Thanks for the script! http://linuxvm.org/patches/S390/iplvol.sh Paul === Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:16:29 -0500 From: Post, Mark K

Re: 3270 emulation packages

Pat, x3270 will run under Weirdmind. Regards, Paul == Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:34:02 -0500 From: Abruzzese, Pat Subject: 3270 emulation packages I need a 3270 emulation package that is web based. Anyone currently using

Cloning users from one system to another

If I have a RH7.2 user environment setup on system A, and I create a brand new system B, can I clone the defined users from system A to system B? If so, which files would need to be copied? Thanks, Paul

Re: Cloning users from one system to another

Thanks Ken, Daniel and Mark. This sounds easy ... I'll give it a try. Paul

Re: ssh from z/OS === Linux

Hi Mark. Yes, I checked for security violations nada. Thanks, Paul === Hi Paul, have you checked for RACF msgs in the zOS syslog? Ciao Mark -Original Message- Sent: 27 December 2002 21:33 Subject: ssh from z/OS

ssh from z/OS === Linux

I got the binaries from http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/redbook/index.html I installed it to my z/OS 1.2 system, go into OMVS and issue a: 'ssh linux.RH72.system ps -ef' and it returns 'initgroups: USER123: EDC5157I An internal error has occurred.' References to EDC515 say

Re: HOWTO define a network printer to Linux S/390 ?

Has anyone done similiar things or knows a HOWTO ? Any suggestions appreciated. Harald, There are some excellent 'howto's at NASPA, by Adam Thorton: http://www.naspa.com/PDF/2001/0101%20PDF/T0101007.pdf http://www.naspa.com/PDF/2001/0201%20PDF/T0102007.pdf Helped me a ton when I was playing

Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory

Mark, Surely IBM had a sign up that said Excuse us while we remodel to improve your Open Source Software Experience? I can't imagine IBM would do away with something that is designed to make ourt lives easier, now would they? ;-) Paul

Re: Linux/390 and z/VM interactions

Jim, Yes, quiesce your Linux prior to doing your DFDSS backup of your CDL DASD. As to SSH, I assume you are referencing the SG245944 Redbook, chapter 25? I know it's out there, I just haven't gotten to it yet. I'm trying to find some free time to do similar automated tasks via SSH. I'll be

Re: Updated site....for Ken Dreger

LOVE the Help Desk Nightmare! I hear this same sort of story from people two or three times a year Don't worry, we'll preserve your hard drive. .. sure. Paul

Re: Backup Dasd

Yes. I believe you have to have CDL format for DFDSS to work. Paul === Is possible to take a backup from IPL DASD unit of Linux SuSe into a 349= 0 tape by DFDSS ?. I mean, by putting for a while Dasd unit in another Lpar to get de backup. This

Re: IPL device number

From: Rob van der Heij Subject: Re: IPL device number In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 20:03 09-12-02 -0500, paultz wrote: Is there a single command or file somewhere in RH7.2 that will reveal the device name/number from which the RH7.2 LPAR was IPLed? The subchannel address

IPL device number

Is there a single command or file somewhere in RH7.2 that will reveal the device name/number from which the RH7.2 LPAR was IPLed? Thanks, Paul

Local listee (Lionel Dyck) makes good

http://www.esj.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=345

Re: Another distribution question

Or is this another black-eye for the mainframe(like Unix System Services was from a pure UNIX perspective) where it's not quite ready for prime-time, and is just different enough that there are not enough apps available yet. I think Linux is progressing much faster than USS did in its infancy.

rshd not executable

I am running RH7.2. In the messages, at boot, I get the following messages: xinetd[679]: Server /usr/sbin/in.rexecd is not executable [line=13] xinetd[679]: Server /usr/sbin/in.rshd is not executable [line=14] I have the rsh-0.17-10 and rsh-server-0.17.5 packages installed. Needles to say, rsh

Re: rshd not executable

the programs from being executed (disable=yes) or something like that. Having said that, you _really_ don't want to enable rsh or rexec. SSH is the preferred, secure, method. Mark Post -Original Message- From: paultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:paultz%20%5Bmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%5D

Re: Expanded Storage Question

If I had a 'green with envy' emoticon, I'd use it here. But since I'm stuck in the past, tell me why you don't configure a 64 bit machine running a 64 bit OS as all real storage? I thought expanded was to be a thing of the past? But as I said, z boxes are just a day dream for me. Paul

Re: Lotus Notes on Linux

Steve, You may not have to wait that long. Look at Jim Elliott's post, on this db, from Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:58:35. Regards, Paul = From: Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mark.post;eds.com Subject: Re: Lotus Notes

Re: Bastille for RH 7.2 on L/390

A. Ordonez IBM Corporation Server Consolidation |-+--- | | paultz | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | | | | Sent by: Linux | | | on 390 Port

Re: Bastille for RH 7.2 on L/390

for themselves! Carlos A. Ordonez IBM Corporation Server Consolidation |-+--- | | paultz | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | | | | Sent by: Linux | | | on 390

Re: Bastille for RH 7.2 on L/390

of each proposed action! - they are very informative). Carlos :-) Saying goes: Great minds think alike - I say: Great minds think for themselves! Carlos A. Ordonez IBM Corporation Server Consolidation |-+--- | | paultz

Re: Redhat and IBM Roadshow

They will be goingcross country in a Winnebago, giving presentations and demos on Redhat and the xSeries machines. With a Winnebago, they probably have room for a pSeries, iSeries AND zSeries ... why stop at the xSeries? ;-) pct

Bastille for RH 7.2 on L/390

Does anyone have Bastille working on RH 7.2? Is there an s390 RPM flavor? Thanks, Paul

Re: Red Hat 7.2 upgrade

Many thanks to Mark, Daniel, John and Alan. Looks like all I needed (other than the original kernel eratta) was the modutils update. I was fortunate this was a small chain to chase, in that this system is not connected to the net, and therefore I can not do the easy tricks such as up2date :-(

Re: Computerworld Article: Wall St. Leans Toward Linux

Is this a broken link, or do I have a (very antiquated) browser issue? Thanks, Paul =From: Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Computerworld Article: Wall St. Leans Toward Linux With a handful of key Wall Street brokerage firms

Re: Computerworld Article: Wall St. Leans Toward Linux

Ooops! I normally catch that ... thanks, Mark! Paul =Neither. From: Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Computerworld Article: Wall St. Leans Toward Linux Neither. It's listserv line-wrap. The last bit of that URL

Red Hat 7.2 upgrade

I am trying to upgrade an RH7.2 from 2.4.9-17 to 2.4.9-38. This is on an internal system with no connectivity to the internet. When I try installing kernel-2.4.9-38.s390.rpm, I get a modutils = 2.4.13 is needed by kernel-2.4.9-38. Do I just need the new modutils to upgrade, or will I need the

Re: Red Hat 7.2 upgrade

the only complaint RPM gave you, then for the kernel, all you will need is the new modutils. Now, what complaints you get when you go to install modutils are another matter. :) Mark Post -Original Message- From: paultz [mailto:paultz;ucia.gov] Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 5:09 PM

Re: Outage

This is the first outage I can remember since I started hanging out here. What was your 'uptime' looking like before this? Paul

Re: NO CONSOLE MSGS when IPLing an OFFLINDR-restored system

I am making the (possibly incorrect) assumption that you have ensured that the LPAR has only necessary devices online, and in particular no 3174s or like (as per previous posts). Good luck, Vic Cross hmmm..yes I do have other devices accessible to this lpar (like 3174s), but that's

Kernel errata and Java 1.3.1

I was asked today to install Java on my Linux 7.2 2.4.9-17 system. The first thing I saw on the list was Jim Rich's post on the IBM Java 1.3.1. Following his links, I noted that I would need IBM's 2.4.9-38 OCO RPM's along with the kernel errata. What is 'kernel errata', everything at

Re: Kernel errata and Java 1.3.1

Thanks, Phil. I guess I'll back it up and give it a try you make it sound easy! Thanks again, Paul === Hi Paul. To answer your questions: The rpm you will most likely need is this: kernel-2.4.9-38.s390.rpm and install is as

Re: Dual logging?

Mark, My thanks to you again. After rechecking my 'man syslog', it says 'This is probably not the function you are interested in. That's true: man syslog.conf makes all the difference in the world. A million more thanks, Paul Paul, Well, one apology from me first. I did a man syslog.conf

Re: Dual logging?

Thanks, John. Good tips and advice! Thank you, Paul The logging goes to both places. If the remote host goes down, the traffic to that is lost silently (it's using UDP), but resumes when it comes back up. Logging to other destinations is unaffected. Note that the remote host has to be

Dual logging?

I know you can redirect a log to a log host: can you dual-log to both the log host and the local machine at the same time? If not, what happens if you are using a log host and the host goes down ... does syslog revert back to the local machine /var/log/messages? Thanks, Paul

Re: InfoWorld Article - Lead Windows developer bugged by security

Just two comments of my own, FWIW. I keep in touch with CyberNotes, which is published by the NIPC (National Infrastructure Protection Center). Although much of many debates I have heard on secure OSes (or vulnerabilities therein) can be biased or emotional, NIPC does some excellent reporting

O.K. you anti-capitalists ... STOP using LINUX!!

How's Uncle Bill going to make a buck with all this anti-capitalism going on??? ;-) In a recent speech delivered to the Government Leaders' Conference in Seattle, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates likened the concept of open source to anti-capitalism. alright

Re: Another consolidation

25 Solarises on an IBM large system Anyone know which Sun box type(s) this refers to? Thanks, Paul

Re: Windows costs more - official

Of course, Bill G has claimed that he _invented_ the internet. Well, he's certainly helped drag it down using Outage Express John, No, that's not right, is it? I'm pretty sure it was Al Gore who invented the internet! ;-) Paul

Re: Windows costs more - official

I wonder what the odds of an MS-Linux distribution are? Even if they came up with one --- would you really want it???

Marcelo Tosatti takes over from Alan Cox

Marcelo Tosatti: The future is Linux http://netscape.com.com/2100-1104-943064.html?type=pt

If you don't read anything else all day ...

... you have to see this: the No. 1 skill that IT managers at large enterprises say they'll be looking for: Mainframe management, especially involving Linux on the mainframe http://www.esj.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=108

Re: Kde Gnome on RedHat 7.2 s390 arch

Hi, Max. You probably already found your answer, but if not try 'startkde' or 'gnome-session' from your X window to start up the respective desktops. Regards, Paul Hello, I've just installed Linux RedHat 7.2 on VM image. During installation = i've selected x11 applications and desktop

Re: weirdminds want to know

The font one is missing fonts - so it fell back to others The RENDER extension is used for antialiasing which it will also fall back from. X has a common guaranteed core, and extensions which may not be present. KDE is happy with just the core like all good X apps Thanks, Alan. Although

weirdminds want to know

In a previous posting (some parts below), I complained to Mark Post that I had one of those workstations that I could not install an SSH X server upon (no C: drive access). Alan Cox responded with a post about weirdmind. I have since gotten a copy and taken it for a test drive, and find that it

Re: Missing CGI output with Apache

Daniel and Mark, Thanks for your help on this one. I changed Options from: Options Indexes FollowSymLinks to: Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes and all is well. Thanks! Paul Is the script supposed to be called by Server Side Includes? Default RH 7.2 does not have an Options Includes

Re: Domino for Linux S/390?

Matt, This topic comes up from time to time. Although IBM ran a survey sometime back, I never heard whether they had any serious intent to port Domino to L/390. If someone knows what is up IBM's sleeve, I would love to hear their answer. Regards, Paul

Missing CGI output with Apache

I have the RH7.2 Enigma that I recently installed, running Apache-1.3.20-16. I have a perl CGI that provides some uptime HTML output to my INDEX.SHTML home page. I have no errors/access issues according to my logs, yet I see no output from the CGI on the home page. I have been through the

L/390 Oracle9i observations/expectations

I have a customer that runs a 6gb Sybase12 db on a shared E10k. A typical query on table scans is running him ~15 mins. We're thinking that if this is primarily an I/O issue, the L/390 may result in faster throughput. Does anyone have experience with the L/390 Oracle9i that compares/contrasts

Re: newbie questions

Bruce, 1. What is the best distro to use for this purpose? I realize there may be several different good answers to this question, I'm just looking for opinions here. You are correct, opionions vary. But you indicated a preference for rpms? Why not consider the Rh7.2? 2. Where are the

IBM,Landmark take Linux to Oil Industry

Hot off the presses: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/05/24/020524hnibmlinux.xml?0524frpm

Fixing Samba

As Mark pointed out, there is a fix for the problem I am having with Samba from David Sainty. (Hint, it comes from David Sainty of Red Hat, and it was in May or April.) In David's note he says: I would suggest trying my patched samba package set, available at:

More press on UnitedLinux

http://www.esj.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=213

Re: Animosity from the press

In this business we all need to know how to say I don't know and you taught me something as things change too fast to have our feet in concrete. Lionel is right ... I say it all the time. Maybe I don't know, but fortunately the members of this list are more than willing to share their knowledge

rhsetup options

I finally got the RH7.2 downloads completed (I hope), and today I will start my install (LPAR mode). I have the tape system IPLed, telneted in and started rhsetup. On the installation menu, one of the panels asks what type of installation you want to perform. My first impulse is install

Re: Sherwin-Williams Chooses a Big Blue Shade of Linux

I guess they didn't know (or more likely care) about Blue Away ;-) http://www.esj.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=205

RH72 telnet

Forst, many thanks to those who responded earlier with all of the usefull information and URLs that helped me get the install completed to DASD (finally decided to rob from Notes390 to give to Linux390 and ended up reusing a mod 9 ... so plenty of room!). I have utilized the vast wisdom of the

Re: RH72 telnet

Telnet login by root is probably not allowed. It's not good security practice since telnet traffic passes in clear text. Something someone in your job would know is not a good thing. :) Touche, Mark! But if you had seen me cursing the HMC console using 'echo' to change parm files, you'd

Re: ESCON CTC between Linux LPAR and MVS LPAR

Tom, I had similar problems going from RH6.2 to 7.2. I also have the same configuration you are using (ESCON CTC, Linux LPAR, and z/OS 1.2 on the other end). In RH6.2 I would define escon0=, but had no success with that in 7.2. Here is what I did get to work (with a lot of help from Mark and

The mainframe is back ...

... according to ESJ. Of course we already knew this. Enjoy http://www.esj.com/departments/article.asp?EditorialsID=59

Re: sending a message to an OS/390 LPAR?

We'll probably be looking into this first (ftp to a lpar jes2 internal reader). If we ever get VM here, is there a linux - VM - OS/390 method that's better? I would not be surprised ... but that's a question someone with a similar setup would have to answer. Paul

Red Hat tree for 7.2

I want to install RH 7.2, LPAR mode. I am at the the point where I am ready to run rhsetup. Do I need to download ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/s390/* and pick up everything except the SRPMS in order to complete the installation? Thanks, Paul

Re: Red Hat tree for 7.2

You can do that, or if you're a real masochist, you can point the installer to a mirror of the Red Hat FTP server and do the RPM installs over the internet. Be warned, it will take a long time to get all the files either way you do it. Mark Post Thanks for the confirmation, Mark.

Re: sending a message to an OS/390 LPAR?

How about using 'rsh' to send a 'logger' command? Paul

Re: S/390 games pack

Am I showing my age yet? Where have all the anxiety- producing languages for the s/370 gone? No AUTOCODER? ;-) Paul

Re: Disabled wait state with PSW=000A0000 80052EB8

It may be caused if you installed a new kernel. If this is the case, try to ipl cms, and then boot the linux machine. I should have mentioned I am running LPAR mode. I had damage to several files due to not being shut down properly, and ran e2fsck to repair the problems. Think this could have

Archive on Linux server consolidation project

I remember some time back there was an article on a company I believe was called Talia, that implemented an IBM Linux server consolidation solution, but can't for the life of me find anything in my searches. If anyone that has any info on this, I would appreciate it! Thanks, Paul

Re: Archive on Linux server consolidation project

Thanks Rich and Jim. This does the trick.