Re: Martin S

2002-06-03 Thread Philip J. Tully
Quite frankly most of us have been in this business long enough to know there is NO perfect system. Each system is suited for different things. I believe we on this list are trying on daily to determine what the best uses of linux on 390/Z hardware are. There will be and have been failures, but

More building kernel 2.4.17

2002-06-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I noticed that the May 2002 stream includes changes for gcc, glibc and binutils. In the dark recesses of my memory I recall that the last time I tried to update these three components my system became inoperable because of a change in the format of the object modules. Probably also

IBM 'Signs Linux Deal with Germany'

2002-06-03 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-06-03-009-26-NW-DP-PB; Germany is on the verge of giving IBM a major public sector computer contract - and dealing a blow to software giant Microsoft in the process. According to the Wall Street Journal, IBM will shortly announce a deal which

Re: make image dies on s390_ksyms.c, do_call_softirq

2002-06-03 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Pat, Had the same problem just after the April 30 code drop. I re-downloaded from Developerworks on May 14, and that problem (as well as a few others) disappeared. I'm up and running on 2.4.17. Thanks for the reply, however, I downloaded again and found that I had the latest versions of the

Sistina's GFS and OpenGFS

2002-06-03 Thread Post, Mark K
As frequently happens, I stumbled over something interesting while following various hyperlinks from Neale's posting about IBM's Linux contract in Germany. It turns out that Sistina Software has made its Global File System (GFS) package non-free software. This apparently happened back in August

Giga Information Group Paper - Performance Benchmarks Across Comp uting Platforms: Proceed With Extreme Caution

2002-06-03 Thread Post, Mark K
My company is a subscriber of the Giga Information Group. One of my co-workers just forwarded me a new paper by David Mastrobattista with the above title. Distribution of the document is restricted to only subscribers, so I can't post it on linuxvm.org, but if you or your company has a

linux based tn3270 client

2002-06-03 Thread Philip J. Tully
Is there a linux/390 based tn3270 client? Shipped with SLES7? Phil Tully

[OT] Sharp Zaurus - Linux PDA

2002-06-03 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Does anyone have any experiences with the Sharp Zaurus 5500 PDA? Anything you can pass on? There are varying reports as to whether the Voyager CF/VGA card can be used to provide connection to VGA devices. The device uses Linux 2.4.x as its operating system on a StrongARM CPU. It has a JVM,

Re: linux based tn3270 client

2002-06-03 Thread Michael Martin
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814/ is the official web page for x3270 On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 13:35, Philip J. Tully wrote: Is there a linux/390 based tn3270 client? Shipped with SLES7? Phil Tully -- - Michael Martin

Re: linux based tn3270 client

2002-06-03 Thread Post, Mark K
Phil, Yes, SuSE ships x3270. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Philip J. Tully [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: linux based tn3270 client Is there a linux/390 based tn3270 client? Shipped with SLES7? Phil Tully

Re: linux based tn3270 client

2002-06-03 Thread Chris Zimmerman
Have you looked at x3270? I use it. It will run as an X app, in a console, or as a curses based app. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814/ Chris Zimmerman Philip J. Tully wrote: Is there a linux/390 based tn3270 client? Shipped with SLES7? Phil Tully

Oracle Intelligent Agent

2002-06-03 Thread Skrivanek, David
I have recently installed Oracle Developer's Edition on SuSE Linux/390. When I try to start the Intelligent Agent, I get the following error. Mon Jun 3 11:59:43 EDT 2002 Certain conflicts were resolved during discovery Please consult

Re: More building kernel 2.4.17

2002-06-03 Thread Rob van der Heij
At 16:21 03-06-02, Dennis Wicks wrote: Anyway, is there any danger of this happening with these changes? You probably refer to moving from Linux-2.2.16 to Linux-2.4. This was painful because the ELF magic number changed along the way and that got you in a catch-22 situation. That's not normally

Re: Oracle I/O and LVM questions

2002-06-03 Thread Coffin Michael C
How the heck do you back up Linux with LVM under VM??? Well, you don't. Would you try to back up a running z/OS system from VM? You'll either need to take down or otherwise quiesce your Linux/390 systems and run DDR's from VM (or that other system, z/OS) or find a native Linux/390 backup

REXEC hang

2002-06-03 Thread Rich Smrcina
I am trying to set up REXEC to run on a Linux for S/390 machine. I'll stipulate to all of the commentary about security... It seems that any client that tries to connect is getting hung. I tried from Linux on Intel and Windows NT, they both just sit after entering the password. In the

Re: Oracle I/O and LVM questions

2002-06-03 Thread Robert J Brenneman
Then we started to load Oracle tables and started to get a few I/O errors. Could you post the actual errors? I can't read the IO subsystem error messages but there are others on this list who can. My question is, has anyone else seen this and is there an explanation? The Compatible Disk

Re: Oracle I/O and LVM questions

2002-06-03 Thread Coffin Michael C
Hi Kevin, If you want a simple (and free) scheduler for VM I'll be happy to send you a little REXX EXEC that will do what you need. You'll need the WAKEUP MODULE which formerly was a part of the separately licensed CMS Utilities Feature (CUF), but if you are running z/VM 4 I understand it is

Re: REXEC hang

2002-06-03 Thread Rich Smrcina
Argghhh... OK. I seem to have solved my own problem. Actually Jeff Barnard solved it for me this morning, but after he gave me the solution I switched the machine I was testing on and completely forgot to implement his solution on the new machine... duh! The solution was to add the host

Re: REXEC hang

2002-06-03 Thread Rob Schwartz
- Original Message - From: Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 5:35 PM Subject: Re: REXEC hang Argghhh... OK. I seem to have solved my own problem. Actually Jeff Barnard solved it for me this morning, but after he gave me the solution I

Re: REXEC hang

2002-06-03 Thread Post, Mark K
Rich, Try running inetd with the -d debug option and see what, if any, information comes out. Or, since the process that is failing is not really inetd, I wonder if putting something (possibly silly) like strace -f -F /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rexecd in /etc/inetd.conf would generate anything

Re: REXEC hang

2002-06-03 Thread Rob Schwartz
I ran into the same thing recently. I have entries in my /etc/hosts file for a number of clients(X , Y and Z). This now works!!! You suggested that DNS would have worked fine too.I have my Linux machine pointing to a WINS/DNS server on NT. I can resolve the host names for machines X, Y

Re: IBM 'Signs Linux Deal with Germany'

2002-06-03 Thread Phil Payne
The lead-in at Linux Today is kind of bizarre, because the link to the complete story is not to the Wall Street Journal, but BBC News at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_2023000/2023127.stm. The article also talks as thought the announcement has already been made (which is

Re: REXEC hang

2002-06-03 Thread Post, Mark K
Rob, When you do the reverse lookup, i.e., nslookup 123.45.67.89 for X, Y, and Z, do you get the hostname back? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Rob Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 6:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: REXEC hang I ran into the

Re: REXEC hang

2002-06-03 Thread Vic Cross
On 04.06.2002 at 08:05:14, Rob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can resolve the host names for machines X, Y and Z but still needed to add X, Y and Z to /etc/hosts. DNS should definitely work (I *never* modify /etc/hosts for anything but the machine's own address). Remember that TCP

Re: Giga Information Group Paper - Performance Benchmarks Across Comp uting Platforms: Proceed With Extreme Caution

2002-06-03 Thread Phil Payne
The abstract of the paper on Giga's public section states Proceed with extreme caution when evaluating performance benchmarks that span different computing platforms. We highly recommend clients monitor production workloads and use their own real-world data whenever possible to gain the

Updates to the linuxvm.org web site

2002-06-03 Thread Post, Mark K
The site is updated to, but not through, May 31st. Mark Post

Re: REXEC hang

2002-06-03 Thread Rich Smrcina
DNS entries worked fine for me, once I got the inetd.conf syntax worked out, my VSE machines (which have DNS entries, not host entries) worked fine. All of the inetd.conf entries explicitly use the syntax: service : address with spaces around the colon characters. So I had to specify:

Re: Oracle I/O and LVM questions

2002-06-03 Thread Mark Darvodelsky
#2 How the heck do you back up Linux with LVM under VM??? All my tape devices are allocated to Z/OS and since there really isn't any scheduler or tape mgmt system on VM, I would like to run the backups from Z/OS. Hi Kevin, The ability to do this very thing is a critical success factor for our