Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory

2002-12-18 Thread Moloko Monyepao
I will also like a copy Mark! -Original Message- From: Mark Post [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 2002 12 18 01:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory Are you sure about that? If I try to access the first URL, it just bounces me to the

Re: HOW define another OSA Interface ?

2002-12-18 Thread Jacob Grift
At 12:44 17-12-02 +0100, Seifert, Harald wrote. Harald, Here are definitions that we used to activate an OSA-Gbit, OSA-Feth as well as a Hypersockets connection: 1) Update /etc/chandev.conf Noauto;qeth0,0x0400,0x0401,0x0402;addparms,0x10,0x0400,0x402,portname:GBPORT1

Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory

2002-12-18 Thread Bellussi Giorgio
Mark, I'll be happy to host this one, too. Please send a copy to me offline and I'll upload it immediatly. Mark Post wrote: The book itself is not in the cache at Google, but I and a number of other people have copies (I know it was one of the more popular downloads). But, I did come

Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory... unmasked

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Ross
My first post on this subject didn't make it through moderation... You can get a copy from IBM, on their Taiwanese website (the Redbook IS in English!) - go to: http://www2.tw.ibm.com/cgi-bin/db2www/techdoc/index.d2w/report You'll see it listed about four items up from the bottom. Click on it,

Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Ross
It's slow. Go to the second URL, looks for the redbook title (left side near bottom), click on it, eventually a little 'download' window (in Chinese) pops up, and the download starts automatically. Eventually. Let me know how it goes. Mike http://www.corestore.org Are you sure about that? If

Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Ross
Fortunately it's still available from IBM Taiwan, who it seems aren't singing from quite the same hymnsheet as the folks in the USA :) http://www2.tw.ibm.com/cgi-bin/db2www/techdoc/check.d2w/report?No=194 See also http://www2.tw.ibm.com/cgi-bin/db2www/techdoc/index.d2w/report Grab it before the

Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory

2002-12-18 Thread Nestor Acosta
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Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory... unmasked

2002-12-18 Thread Froberg, David C
The availablilty, then disappearance, then pending availability of the UNIX Tools Toys web page brings to mind a few thoughts I keep having about open source and USS. 1) I really appreaciated the website and redbook because it helped me greatly to get a handle on porting tools to USS.

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

2002-12-18 Thread Maciej Ksiezycki
Use yast2. It's a perfect tool for tasks like this. Maciek -- Maciej Ksiezycki Systems Programmer Unizeto Sp. z o.o. http://www.unizeto.pl Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Harald, It was kind of hard to tell because of all the MIME quoting, but it looks as though your first line

AW: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory

2002-12-18 Thread Seifert, Harald
I would like a copy also. Thanks. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nestor Acosta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Dezember 2002 14:15 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory I would like a copy also Thank. BEGIN:VCARD

Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory

2002-12-18 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
Mark, put this book to http://www.linuxvm.org/. So, they'll stop bother you :) WBR, Sergey

Loss of space in formated Filesystem

2002-12-18 Thread Evandro Tadeu S Vargas
Hi Folks, Anyone have a table of comparison between Filesystems (Ext2, JFS, ReiserFs, etc) and loss of space in formated filesystems ? TIA Evandro Vargas - IBM Brasil

Odd TraceRoute To Linux/390 Guests via VM TCPIP

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Coffin
(Crossposted on VMESA-L and Linux-VM) Hi Folks, I'm in the process of implementing gigabit ethernet for a client and am very curious about something. I have a TCPIP stack on VM (VM/ESA 2.4.0) with a dedicated gigabit card at IP address 152.225.118.46. I have a Linux/390 guest virtual machine

Re: sna-linux

2002-12-18 Thread Nick Jinda
Please try to send email to group mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NJ __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: sna-linux Author: markkp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at Internet Date:12/18/02 1:51 AM Which also seems to come up

LVM problem

2002-12-18 Thread Thomas Emde
Hi, I use SuSE Linux/390 7 (2.2.16, quite old I know). I had two 3390 disks put together in a volume group and several logical volumes running. I added a third 3390 disk to the linux (VM minidisk and added to parmfile, ran silo etc). During reboot vgscan reports that no volume groups can be found

Re: Linux on the Mainframe BOF at LinuxWorld, NYC, Jan *23*, 2003

2002-12-18 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Montgomery, Are you sure on the January 30th date? LinuxWorld runs January 21-24 in NYC. You are right - the date should be January 23rd. Thanks for the catch. -Mike MacIsaac, IBM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (845) 433-7061

Re: Odd TraceRoute To Linux/390 Guests via VM TCPIP

2002-12-18 Thread Rob Schwartz
Hey Michael, Am I missing something here... What is 152.225.118.49 Rob Robert C Schwartz Technical Services Boscovs Department Stores LLC 610-929-7387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Michael Coffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18,

Re: Odd TraceRoute To Linux/390 Guests via VM TCPIP

2002-12-18 Thread Coffin Michael C
Arrggh - I have guests at both .49 and .50, I evidently included the trace to .49 (same results). Strike .50 in my note and replace it with .49 (sorry for the confusion). Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room 6527 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C.

Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory... light shed

2002-12-18 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Hi list, I speak for myself and not for IBM. I should be working on CUPS and Samba printing, but this thread has created an itch I just have to scratch. I'll shed some light on the conspiracy theory, though you won't find a smoking gun :)) I proposed the redbook Open Source Software for OS/390

Problem with Redhat OSA/QDIO recognition

2002-12-18 Thread Ken Maxtutis
Hi, I am experiencing a problem when installing RedHat Linux 7.2 in VM. I am trying to initialize a GigEthernet OSA card. I followed all procedures as far as linking the IBM OCO modules with the RedHat distribution. Also, all microcode and VM maintenance should be up to date. A few months ago

Re: Odd TraceRoute To Linux/390 Guests via VM TCPIP

2002-12-18 Thread Rob Schwartz
Can you ping from VM to .49? What's the status of the VCTC device? Can you ping from the .49 Linux machine to .46? Robert C Schwartz Technical Services Boscovs Department Stores LLC 610-929-7387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Coffin Michael C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: sna-linux

2002-12-18 Thread David Boyes
Weird. Resolves from here...I wonder if it's a routing issue. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Odd TraceRoute To Linux/390 Guests via VM TCPIP

2002-12-18 Thread Coffin Michael C
Hi Rob, Yes, pinging works fine to/from the guests. In fact all IP traffic to/from the guests works fine - but traceroute shows this timeout at .46 (the VM TCPIP server). I'd just like to understand why it times out and clear it up if possible. I'm not sure what you mean by the status of the

Re: Odd TraceRoute To Linux/390 Guests via VM TCPIP

2002-12-18 Thread Romney White
Michael: Run the test with TRACE IPUP IPDOWN ICMP enabled. It looks as though the packet is being dropped by VM TCP/IP. The trace will show what is going on. Romney On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:45:19 -0500 Coffin Michael C said: Hi Rob, Yes, pinging works fine to/from the guests. In fact all IP

Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory... light shed

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Ross
Thanks for the good news Mike! I speak for myself and not for IBM. I should be working on CUPS and Samba printing, but this thread has created an itch I just have to scratch. I'll shed some light on the conspiracy theory, though you won't find a smoking gun :)) Snip a bunch of good news In

Re: Odd TraceRoute To Linux/390 Guests via VM TCPIP

2002-12-18 Thread Coffin Michael C
Hi Romney, I ran a trace which is too big to include here, but I'm seeing Passed Route F and DontRoute F in the trace, here's a snip: DTCPDO065I DispatchDatagram: Dest 152.225.118.49, protocol 17 dispatch mode 0, P assed Route F, DontRoute F DTCPDO066I DispatchDatagram releases LastRouteEntry

Installing RedHat Linux

2002-12-18 Thread James Melin
I've just started installing 2.4.7 of Redhat, and I've answered the network typ (escon etc,) with ETH0. It then is asking me for a device and port pair thing like escon0,0x600,0x601 etc. I know it should be eth0,0x???,0x??? but the install instructions I found on the CD are quite thin How

Re: Odd TraceRoute To Linux/390 Guests via VM TCPIP

2002-12-18 Thread Romney White
Michael: This looks fine. What we're interested in finding in the trace output is the reception and handling of the packet that TRACERTE sends to the VM system (the one that times out). Romney On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:19:34 -0500 Coffin Michael C said: Hi Romney, I ran a trace which is too big

Re: Odd TraceRoute To Linux/390 Guests via VM TCPIP

2002-12-18 Thread Coffin Michael C
Hi Romney, That's just it, I don't see anything in the VM TCPIP trace that suggests a timeout (at least no verbage that clearly says timed out or anything like that). Is there a keyword I can use to scan for that would indicate a timeout? Maybe it's there and I'm just not seeing it (the trace

Re: Odd TraceRoute To Linux/390 Guests via VM TCPIP

2002-12-18 Thread Romney White
Michael: Well, it's likely that VM dropped the packet. You should look for ICMP packets with a destination address of 152.225.118.46. If you'd like me to look at it, you can send the trace via anonymous FTP to our drop-off site (testcase.boulder.ibm.com/s390/toibm/vm). Transfer the file in

Re: Odd TraceRoute To Linux/390 Guests via VM TCPIP

2002-12-18 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Coffin Michael C wrote: Hi Rob, Yes, pinging works fine to/from the guests. In fact all IP traffic to/from the guests works fine - but traceroute shows this timeout at .46 (the VM TCPIP server). I'd just like to understand why it times out and clear it up if possible.

FTP - Painful lesson

2002-12-18 Thread Mark . Pace
If you have an anonymous FTP server be sure that your the lost+found directory in /pub has attributes set to 700. There is an exploit that allows evil hackers to create their own directories as an anonymous user. Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake

Re: Yet Another IBM Conspiracy Theory

2002-12-18 Thread Mark Post
Sergey, I really can't do that without asking permission of the site's host/sponsor, Velocity Software. And, while Barton and his team have been really great to me and the mailing list over the years, I don't see that this is particularly related to Linux/390, so I wasn't going to ask. In the

Debian cant find OSA adapter files

2002-12-18 Thread Crowley, Glen L
I have installed Debian woody with the IBM OCO QETH and QDIO modules for 2.4.17. Installation went fine and able to telnet in and to do install. Upon booting from dasd the first time, I get the following error: Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Configuring network interfaces:

Re: Problem with Redhat OSA/QDIO recognition

2002-12-18 Thread Mark Post
Ken, There might be more information in the kernel ring buffer. Do a dmesg command (if there's one on the initrd) and post the output from that (the relevant parts should be at the end). Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ken

Re: Debian cant find OSA adapter files

2002-12-18 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Should be portname: , not portname= ... From recent traffic on this list, that and add_parms seem to be commonly mistyped. ~ Daniel -Original Message- From: Crowley, Glen L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian

Re: Debian cant find OSA adapter files

2002-12-18 Thread Mark Post
What is in /etc/modules.conf? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Crowley, Glen L Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian cant find OSA adapter files I have installed Debian woody with the

Re: Debian cant find OSA adapter files

2002-12-18 Thread Crowley, Glen L
cat /etc/modules.conf ### This file is automatically generated by update-modules # # Please do not edit this file directly. If you want to change or add # anything please take a look at the files in /etc/modutils and read # the manpage for update-modules. # ### update-modules: start processing

Re: Debian cant find OSA adapter files

2002-12-18 Thread Crowley, Glen L
I missed typed it in the email, during the install I used portname:OSA1 Glen -Original Message- From: Daniel Jarboe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian cant find OSA adapter files Should be portname: , not

Re: Debian cant find OSA adapter files

2002-12-18 Thread Mark Post
Well, there are two entries in there for eth0. I'm not sure which one wins, the first or last. I would verify which module name you have, either qeth.o or qeth-2.4.17-s390-3.o in /lib/modules, and delete the other one. Run depmod -a just for no good reason, and try it again. Also, just as I

Updates to linuxvm.org

2002-12-18 Thread Mark Post
I've been making a little progress on getting updates made. I'm still about 3 months behind, though. I'm up to September 18th, and will be trying to make more updates over the next few weeks. Mark Post

Re: Installing RedHat Linux

2002-12-18 Thread Mark Post
James, Is this a qeth/qdio card, or an LCS card? For qeth/qdio, the port numbers are the device numbers, and have to start on an even boundary. For LCS, you have to specify both the device number and the actual port. For more help, try the Device Drivers and Installation Commands manual at

Re: Updates to linuxvm.org

2002-12-18 Thread Rich Smrcina
Lucky for you Christmas is coming up... :) On Wednesday 18 December 2002 02:01 pm, you wrote: I've been making a little progress on getting updates made. I'm still about 3 months behind, though. I'm up to September 18th, and will be trying to make more updates over the next few weeks.

Re: Installing RedHat Linux

2002-12-18 Thread James Melin
Um, I don't know how to answer that question except that the OTHER port on it worked with suse 7.0 and auto :) The car itself is an OSA ENTR card running with both ethernet ports as ethernet I have my Suse 7.0 in port 0, and this one plugged into port 1. The chipid is 34, devices 830-83F.

Re: LVM problem

2002-12-18 Thread Mark Post
Thomas, What does your parmfile look like when it works, and what does your parmfile look like when it fails? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas Emde Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

High Availability

2002-12-18 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
What kind of software do people run on Linux/390 for high-availability clustering? We're considering setting up two Linux servers on two different 390/IFL processors as printservers and want to be able to failover to the other processor when one fails or is taken down for service. And of

Re: High Availability

2002-12-18 Thread Dave Jones
Gordon, look into using VM's CSE (Cross System Extensions) technology. It allows for implementing just such a failover technique and it's already included in your VM system. You can easily test your implementation by using two 2nd level VM guests coupled via a (v)CTC adapter. Contact me offline

Can I setup guestlan with zVM and the SUSE LINUX RAM system

2002-12-18 Thread Dave Myers
Is it possible to setup a GUESTLAN between zVM and the SuSE SLES7 RAM SYSTEM (i.e. initial starter system)? Or do I have to use CTC first, then install the SuSE 2.4.7 system and then implement the guestlan between Linux and VM ??? Tia Dave

Re: Can I setup guestlan with zVM and the SUSE LINUX RAM system

2002-12-18 Thread James Johnson
Yes, this can be done. Just define the NIC and couple it to the lan before you IPL. James Johnson Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programmer Voice: 660-543-8065 Central Missouri State University Fax: 660-543-8123 - Original

Re: Can I setup guestlan with zVM and the SUSE LINUX RAM system

2002-12-18 Thread Dave Myers
In a message dated 12/18/2002 3:51:15 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, this can be done. Just define the NIC and couple it to the lan before you IPL. James Johnson Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programmer Voice: 660-543-8065 Central

Re: Can I setup guestlan with zVM and the SUSE LINUX RAM system

2002-12-18 Thread James Johnson
I have done it. I use option 8, HIPERSOCKETS, on the network setup menu. James Johnson Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programmer Voice: 660-543-8065 Central Missouri State University Fax: 660-543-8123 - Original Message

Re: High Availability

2002-12-18 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
Dave, Thanks for the reply. We've actually already looked into using CSE if it happens to go on two VM systems. Other possibilities are vm/linux and rs-6000/linux or intel-linux, or even a Unix system. In other words, one on a VM guest linux and one somewhere else as the failover site. So,

Re: Can I setup guestlan with zVM and the SUSE LINUX RAM system

2002-12-18 Thread Vic Cross
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, James Johnson wrote: I have done it. I use option 8, HIPERSOCKETS, on the network setup menu. Dave, if your z/VM is 4.3 and you are using the so-called QDIO Guest LAN (DEFINE LAN xxx QDIO), you will define your connection to the LAN as if it was an OSA-Express. If your

Re: Debian cant find OSA adapter files

2002-12-18 Thread Vic Cross
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Mark Post wrote: Well, there are two entries in there for eth0. I'm not sure which one wins, the first or last. The first, IIRC. I would verify which module name you have, either qeth.o or qeth-2.4.17-s390-3.o in /lib/modules, and delete the other one. Run depmod -a

Re: High Availability

2002-12-18 Thread Steven Adams
Take a look at http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ That is the open source product of choice since Beowulf, and others, decided to start selling the product. Unfortunately, I don't see an S/390 port for this product so I apologize of being off-topic with this reply. On Wednesday 18 December

Re: High Availability

2002-12-18 Thread David Boyes
Thanks for the reply. We've actually already looked into using CSE if it happens to go on two VM systems. Other possibilities are vm/linux and rs-6000/linux or intel-linux, or even a Unix system. In other words, one on a VM guest linux and one somewhere else as the failover site. So, the

Re: High Availability

2002-12-18 Thread Mark Post
Gordon, Dave and David have given you a lot of information already, but I wanted to at least mention the High Availability using clusters chapter in the Distributions Redbook that Carlos Ordonez wrote. It covers the topic at a readable level and may help you assimilate some of what's been

Re: High Availability

2002-12-18 Thread Mark Post
I don't know about anybody else, but my reaction to this was that it's a great blueprint for a really interesting SHARE session. :) Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:00 PM To:

Antwort: Re: LVM problem

2002-12-18 Thread Thomas Emde
Hi, it looks as follows when it's working: dasd=400,410,440 root=/dev/dasda1 noinitrd ctc=noauto vmhalt=M OPERATOR LINUX DOWN vmpoff=M OPERATOR LINUX DOWN and like this when not: dasd=400,410,440,450 root=/dev/dasda1 noinitrd ctc=noauto vmhalt=M OPERATOR LINUX DOWN vmpoff=M

Re: Can I setup guestlan with zVM and the SUSE LINUX RAM system

2002-12-18 Thread Rob van der Heij
At 17:56 18-12-02 -0500, Dave Myers wrote: I was wondering if the RAM system has the proper qdio qeth drivers for guestlan?? Yes, it does not ;-) The anonymous beta trial (or whatever SuSE defined it) is from Oct 31, 2001 as far as I know. That one does support Hipersockets and has the 'Option