Re: Job Scheduling for Linux/390

2002-04-04 Thread Joe Poole
I'm waiting for delivery of a beta copy of Allen Systems Group Zeke agent for Linux/390. We use the Zeke product on the OS/390 side to schedule jobs through JES, and some procedures on remote Unix boxes in each of our stores. We wanted a Linux agent - they are about to deliver. Currently, we

Re: Trying to build a new initrd, getting EXT2-fs: Magic mismatc h,

2002-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
Rob, The compressed size is ~3MB. I have a ramdisk_size=32768 entry in my parmfile. The initrd that works is considerably larger than the one that does not. The ext2 magic number seems to be correct as it matches what is in the working initrd: od -tx -N 2048 newinitrd 000

Re: FUN: linux movies from ibm (fwd)

2002-04-04 Thread Robert Matthews
And now the songs . . . IBM hits the No. 3 slot: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/specials/2002/it-anthems/ - Original Message - From: Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:41 PM Subject: Re: FUN: linux movies from ibm (fwd) Or an even shorter

Re: php, suse sles 2.4.7 and s390

2002-04-04 Thread Patterson, Ross
Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's fine, but if you're going to do that, use the SRPM from the distribution creator. In addition to all the good things Mark mentions, you'll also avoid one of the Dark Sides of Linux: accidental patch-regression. Each distribution vendor adds

ThinkBlue 7.1a installation problem

2002-04-04 Thread James Peddycord
Hi, I'm trying to install ThinkBlue 7.1a in a virtual Linux instance under z/VM 4.2 and am running into problems. Here is the background. My coworker downloaded the ISO and created a CD from ISO #1 using xcd-roaster on a RedHat7.1 Linux system. I created a 1000 cylinder minidisk on an existing

Re: FUN: linux movies from ibm (fwd)

2002-04-04 Thread Dougie G Lawson
And now the songs . . . IBM hits the No. 3 slot: If anyone wants it, I've got the IBMSONG.bas (Q-basic) program that displays the words of Ever Onward with the bouncing ball (so you can follow along). I've also got the *.WAV and *.MID versions hiding on a hard disk somewhere. Regards, Dougie

Re: your mail

2002-04-04 Thread Stephen Dennis
Two setups: - Hercules setups: SuSE 7.0 GA (ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/s390/suse-us-s390) - http://www.zSeriesPenguins.ihost.com with the SuSE option. In both cases, the compiler comes with the distribution. Stephen Dennis From: Ulrich Weigand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday,

FW: Great Photo for a Redbook cover....

2002-04-04 Thread Dunbar, Maggie
Great photo for a technical manual http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ Maggie

Re: Guest Lan

2002-04-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
One other note, if you are using Suse, be sure and get the fix from them or you'll be banging your head on the desk when your perfectly configured connection never connects. Marcy Cortes Wells Fargo Services Co -Original Message- Subject: Re: Guest Lan There's a Setting up a

Re: ThinkBlue 7.1a installation problem

2002-04-04 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; Sounds like the same problem I had a while back. Most likely a transfer has been done that changed cr/lf to lf or vice versa and the files are now not valid tar, gz, rpm, etc files. Try doing your last ftp in binary mode and see if that fixes the problem. If not you may as well go

Re: Job Scheduling for Linux/390

2002-04-04 Thread Re, Vincent
If you have one of the CA scheduling products, (CA-7, CA-Scheduler, CA-Jobtrac on z/OS, or Unicenter or Autosys on distributed systems), then we have a universal scheduling agent for Linux/390 that operates in conjunction with any of these scheduling products. It does all of the things you

Re: php, suse sles 2.4.7 and s390

2002-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
Sorry, but I have to disagree. Even if you absolutely must have the latest version for some reason, you are still better off to go the RPM route. Take the .spec file from your current version, and tweak it as necessary for the new version. This means that _you_ must figure out any new

Re: Adding partition to existing server

2002-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
I'm afraid I don't understand the question. Do you mean you want to add an additional DASD volume to an existing Linux/390 system? Or do you mean that you have an existing volume under a 2.4 kernel in cdl format with less than three partitions defined, and you want to add a second or third

Re: ESCON CTCs for a RH 7.2 LPAR install

2002-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
The symptom is that things don't work. The uppercase parameter is used by the Red Hat installation script to do its thing. The lowercase parameter is what gets passed to the kernel for its use. You don't _have_ to specify the uppercase version, but you'll get prompted by the install script for

Re: How to update critical files?

2002-04-04 Thread Rob van der Heij
Good, so we can make the double rename atomic. But that still leaves the question how I can tell that the work I did on the new file is on disk by the time directory with the renamed files is on disk? Dirty buffers are not written out in the same order they got dirty, right? Given a continuous

Re: Trying to build a new initrd, getting EXT2-fs: Magic mismatch,v ery weird ! error

2002-04-04 Thread Julia Karastoianova
Hi Mark, This is my instructions howto create initrd. NOTE: if your initrd is _not_ the same size as in kernel image you have to patch and compile kernel with size of your initrd How to create ram disk: 1. Create your own dir: ìúúúmkdir -p /work/RAM 2. Go to work from your dir: ìúúúcd

Re: How to update critical files?

2002-04-04 Thread Malcolm Beattie
Rick Troth writes: Malcolm Beattie said: ln foo foo.bak ... cp foo newfoo ... mv newfoo foo Atomically replaces the directory entry foo: before the command (specifically: before the system call rename that mv does for you), opening foo refers

Re: Suse on 390 install problem

2002-04-04 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Don't use a windows box as your FTP server as it won't support the Rockridge extensions that are needed to access all files on the CD (or CD image). (This is not addressing your original problem but will save your arse down the line. Usually for FTP servers under windows - at least the one's I've

Re: ESCON CTCs for a RH 7.2 LPAR install

2002-04-04 Thread Florian La Roche
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:38:19PM -0500, Dave Myers wrote: In a message dated 4/3/2002 5:53:46 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul, If you're going to be going to the Red Hat 7.2, you need to specify the chandev parameter twice, once as CHANDEV= and once as

Re: ESCON CTCs for a RH 7.2 LPAR install

2002-04-04 Thread Dave Myers
In a message dated 4/3/2002 5:53:46 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul, If you're going to be going to the Red Hat 7.2, you need to specify the chandev parameter twice, once as CHANDEV= and once as chandev= Mark Post huh...I missed this oneis this a definite

Re: Suse on 390 install problem

2002-04-04 Thread Davis, Jeff
Is this 'other system' a linux system? If not, you have other problems. This does not work with a Microsoft FTP server. When I have done it from a linux server, I specify the FTP server using the IP address as follows: 01.02.03.04/home/user/suse/cd1/ where I put the CD contents. Hope this

Re: How to update critical files?

2002-04-04 Thread Alan Cox
But that still leaves the question how I can tell that the work I did on the new file is on disk by the time directory with the renamed files is on disk? Dirty buffers are not written out in the same order they got dirty, right? Given a continuous amount of disk I/O could keep dirty blocks

WebSphere 4

2002-04-04 Thread Steve Guthrie
Has anyone managed to get WebSphere running on Suse 2.2.16? I have everything running but I can't get the IBM HTTP server to talk to WAS 4. DB2 is up and going but no WAS. Help!!! Thanks, Stephen J. Guthrie Regional Sales Manager Mantissa Corporation 2200 Valleydale Road Birmingham, AL 35244

Re: Adding partition to existing server

2002-04-04 Thread Lionel Dyck
I want to add a new partition to an existing linux server under z/vm. I know how to assign it to the server via z/vm but not add it to the linux server. thx btw. I looked on the linuxvm.org and didn't see a howto and looking in the archives wasn't easy.

Re: ThinkBlue 7.1a installation problem

2002-04-04 Thread James Peddycord
I got around the problem by doing an NFS install instead of an FTP install. Thanks! Jim Oliver Paukstadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James Peddycord [EMAIL PROTECTED] ilbronn.decc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suse on 390 install problem

2002-04-04 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
How are the CD's mounted on the other system on the LAN? What path are they there? You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice. -Motto of the Darwin Society Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph.D. (425) 865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company --

Re: FUN: linux movies from ibm (fwd)

2002-04-04 Thread Richard Hitt
Ah, I well remember when I learned Ever Onward, to play it at the HASP Thursday-night sing-along. Quite a nice 6-8 march it is, too! Dick Hitt From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 4 08:08:58 2002 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D06ML016/06/M/IBM(Release 5.0.9a |January

Re: WebSphere 4

2002-04-04 Thread Post, Mark K
Steve, We have an example of getting WebSphere 3.5 AE installed and running on SuSE's 2.2.16 system in the Distributions Redbook. Chapter 25, page 491. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Steve Guthrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 5:43 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: busted DevWorks links??

2002-04-04 Thread Volker Sameske
Volker, For the future, how should broken links be reported? To you directly? Via the mailing list as Rick did? Some other way? Mark Post Mark, please report broken links or other things related to our DeveloperWorks website to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. This should be the fastest way. This

Re: Suse on 390 install problem

2002-04-04 Thread Ken Dreger: Dr. D
Looks like Im going to setup a linux ftp server from all the issues you folks say i will/am having with my windowz/me ftp based system to do the suse redhat install, thanks for all the advice... will keep all posted. ken going to do a : VMWARE with redhat 7.0 for the ftpserver, all under win

GCC file not recognized : file format not recognized

2002-04-04 Thread Graeme Westerman NFU Mutual Insurance Society
We have a single Linux image at present running SuSE Linux 2.2.16 with gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) in an lpar. With the news that Oracle brings 9i to Linux/390 I downloaded the developers version and attempted to install it (this being my first product install !). When it comes to the