Re: hw addr

2003-10-15 Thread Marian Gasparovic
Thank to kind people on this list I know the VM part of my question. Could anybody help with Linux part ? Why do I get hw address of zeros ? Thank you Marian --- Marian Gasparovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And qdio says upon loading qdio : Was not able to determine general characteristics of

Re: Can I really install SLES8 into 360MB MDISK if I choose MINI MUM GRAPHICAL SYSTEM ????

2003-10-15 Thread Lucius, Leland
snip One approach would be to install the Minimum Graphical System; this takes approximately 360 MB of an ext3 filesystem using SLES8. You could then add additional minidisks to your guest as required. unsnip I tried installing SLES8 into a 1.1GB MDISK yesterday and got message:

Re: Can I really install SLES8 into 360MB MDISK if I choose MINIMUM GRAPHICAL SYSTEM ????

2003-10-15 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
15.10.2003 06:22:08 Dave Myers wrote: And...the SOFTWARE selection window is blank...and does not allow me to trim down my software selection to fit into my 1.1.GBor choose minimum graphical system. Can anyone shed some light? It looks like another problem. Search in the list's

Re: hw addr

2003-10-15 Thread David Boyes
Guest LAN interfaces do not have MAC addresses, thus there's nothing to put in there. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marian Gasparovic Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 3:15 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: hw addr

2003-10-15 Thread Marian Gasparovic
Then why there are ones in redbook I have followed ? And how does it handle dhcp then ? Marian --- David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guest LAN interfaces do not have MAC addresses, thus there's nothing to put in there. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates -Original

Re: hw addr

2003-10-15 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 10/15/2003 at 12:14 MST, Marian Gasparovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank to kind people on this list I know the VM part of my question. Could anybody help with Linux part ? Why do I get hw address of zeros ? What kind of processor are you running on? Alan Altmark Sr. Software

Re: hw addr

2003-10-15 Thread David Boyes
Then why there are ones in redbook I have followed ? And how does it handle dhcp then ? Are your GLANs type OSA or hipersocket?

Re: hw addr

2003-10-15 Thread Marian Gasparovic
qdio guestlan --- David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then why there are ones in redbook I have followed ? And how does it handle dhcp then ? Are your GLANs type OSA or hipersocket? __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search

Re: hw addr

2003-10-15 Thread Marian Gasparovic
Some kind of zSeries, it runs in 64 bit mode. (not ours, so I cannot find out) --- Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, 10/15/2003 at 12:14 MST, Marian Gasparovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank to kind people on this list I know the VM part of my question. Could anybody

Re: hw addr

2003-10-15 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 10/15/2003 at 08:24 MST, Marian Gasparovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some kind of zSeries, it runs in 64 bit mode. (not ours, so I cannot find out) I think you have one or both of these problems: 1. a hardware problem wherein Linux cannot extract information it is looking for from

Satisfying application graphical requirements at minimal expense

2003-10-15 Thread Rich Smrcina
A site has a report writer application that requires an XServer. They have deployed a intel based XServer for some initial testing, but do not want to be dependant on an external server for this application. They were told that using Xvfb on Linux would solve their problem. Is there any better

Re: Satisfying application graphical requirements at minimal expe nse

2003-10-15 Thread Post, Mark K
Rich, On Red Hat systems, it would be something like XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-16.EL.s390.rpm or XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm I'm not at all sure that SUSE shipped a copy of that package. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15,

Re: Satisfying application graphical requirements at minimal expe nse

2003-10-15 Thread Rich Smrcina
This is for SLES8. I found it on supplemental disk 1 in a package called xextra. Thanks. On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 12:18, Post, Mark K wrote: Rich, On Red Hat systems, it would be something like XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-16.EL.s390.rpm or XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm I'm not at all sure that SUSE

sharing linux with windows

2003-10-15 Thread Noll, Ralph
How would i go about sharing a windows directory,drive, etc to my Linux machine i have Samba setup on the Linux side.. i can share and see from windows the information on the Linux box... now how do i share windows so i can get to it from Linux??? thanks Ralph

Re: sharing linux with windows

2003-10-15 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Noll, Ralph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sharing linux with windows How would i go about sharing a windows directory,drive, etc to my Linux machine i have Samba setup on the Linux

Re: sharing linux with windows

2003-10-15 Thread Rich Smrcina
You should be able to mount a Windows share onto the Linux file system. Take a look at the mount command with the '-t smb' option (mount may not require -t smb, but that's where the smb option will be on the man page). On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 13:26, Noll, Ralph wrote: How would i go about sharing

Re: sharing linux with windows

2003-10-15 Thread Post, Mark K
According to the Samba folks, the preferred method these days is something more like this: mount -t smbfs //systemname/sharename /mountpoint \ -o username=userid,workgroup=domainorworkgroupname Mark Post -Original Message- From: McKown, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: sharing linux with windows

2003-10-15 Thread McKown, John
Shows how long it's been since I've done it. My Windows machine has a single 10Gb hard drive on it. I keep all my data files and many applications on my two Linux systems (soon to be one - the old one is dying and I am going to move its HD's to my new P4 system). -- John McKown Senior Systems

Re: Ring Around The Guest Lan

2003-10-15 Thread Ann Smith
Thanks Ken. IBM responded back on this pmr. Lvl 2 suggested that the SRM values be changed to allow the Linux guests to remain in Q1(runnable,dispatchable). Using Set SRM STORBUF 300 250 200 the SRM STORBUF were changed to: IABIAS : INTENSITY=90%; DURATION=2 LDUBUF : Q1=100% Q2=75% Q3=60%

z/VM 4.4 guestlan problems

2003-10-15 Thread Michael Lambert
Hello, again, It seems like many people on this list are having network issues. I thought that I would do my part to add to the confusion. We are running 20 Red Hat 7.2 systems with a patched vanilla kernel on a single hipersockets guestlan. We recently migrated all of our linux images from z/VM

sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and more .....

2003-10-15 Thread Terry Spaulding
Does anyone have sample REXX execs they are willing to share that auto IPL a Linux guest, issue Linux userid/password to login, and then issue Linux commands to the Linux guest. Commands would be to start or enable Linux middleware ie: DB2 UDB, TAM, LDAP, WebSeal, WebSphere Application Server. I

Re: sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and more .....

2003-10-15 Thread McKown, John
What is wrong with XAUTOLOG? From an authorized user, that will logon the virtual machine. You can have it run CMS, if you need. The CMS PROFILE EXEC can then do whatever (such as initialize VDISK space for Linux SWAP). The last thing the PROFILE EXEC does is QUEUE IPL where is the

Re: sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and more .....

2003-10-15 Thread David Boyes
You should do this with init scripts run by Linux, not external logins. You may want to combine this approach with some simple REXX coding to check startup order, etc, but the bulk will need to be done in the Linux world. Look in /etc/init.d. You'll find everything you need in that directory. Be

Re: sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and mo re .....

2003-10-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
David wrote: Better yet, come to the next Hillgang meeting and see my presentation on Linux initialization and runlevels. Would you be able to share that with those who can't travel 3000 miles to see you :). Marcy Cortes

Re: z/VM 4.4 guestlan problems

2003-10-15 Thread Post, Mark K
There are definitely some problems in this area, but I'm not sure how to isolate them. The folks that run the LCDS seem to think it is with the qeth/qdio Linux/390 drivers. I see symptoms very similar to what you're seeing. Random, moderately frequent network freezes that clear themselves

Re: sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and mo re .....

2003-10-15 Thread Post, Mark K
Prior Hillgang presentations have been contributed for posting to linuxvm.org. Perhaps this will be one of them. :) Mark Post -Original Message- From: Marcy Cortes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 4:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sample REXX execs

Re: sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and mo re .....

2003-10-15 Thread David Boyes
Would you be able to share that with those who can't travel 3000 miles to see you :). Marcy Cortes But Marcy...we had this party planned for you, and the audience with George II, and the flowers, and the welcoming banquet... and everythingand all for nothing*sniff sniff*...8-) I'll

Re: sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and mo re .....

2003-10-15 Thread Lionel Dyck
Here are two exec's that I used while we were testing linux under z/vm. These are not elegant nor are they the best way to do things but they worked for me during our testing period. Startup exec: /* rexx */ xautolog mlnxd001 synch xautolog mlnxd004 synch xautolog mlnxd007 synch xautolog

Re: z/VM 4.4 guestlan problems

2003-10-15 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 10/15/2003 at 04:51 AST, Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are definitely some problems in this area, but I'm not sure how to isolate them. The folks that run the LCDS seem to think it is with the qeth/qdio Linux/390 drivers. I see symptoms very similar to what you're

Re: sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and mo re .....

2003-10-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
George is about the last person I'd travel cross country to see! Yeah, webcast - that's the ticket! Marcy (in San Francisco where 80% voted no on the recall...) -Original Message- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 14:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: z/VM 4.4 guestlan problems

2003-10-15 Thread Post, Mark K
I know that at least mine is on a V-disk (don't tell Richard! :), so that's not a part the problem I'm seeing. From what Richard said, they've been seeing this on lots of systems, and they've been working with Boeblingen trying to figure it out. Hopefully they will, because it's extremely

Re: sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and more .....

2003-10-15 Thread Terry Spaulding
Is it possible to autostart or create an init script that runs automatically at Linux boot up and starts all of these middleware services ? If I could do this without having to do a root logon to start the middleware services that would be ideal. The object here is to automate as much as

Doc for setting up OSA-Express QDIO?

2003-10-15 Thread Dennis Wicks
Don't you just hate it when you can't find the info you know you have saved ... somewhere? Well, that is where I am at! What is the manual that docs how to setup configure QDIO for L/390? Many TIA! Dennis -- Dennis G. Wicks Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications

Re: sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and mo re .....

2003-10-15 Thread Marcy Cortes
We're not allowed to put pw's in execs or files so on SLES 7 we used the bootshell.cc program (search the archives) and for SLES8 we just do a 'cp signal linuxid shutdown' and that does the trick. Marcy Cortes Wells Fargo Services Company -Original Message- From: Lionel Dyck

Re: Doc for setting up OSA-Express QDIO?

2003-10-15 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 10/15/2003 at 05:00 EST, Dennis Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the manual that docs how to setup configure QDIO for L/390? You want the Linux for zSeries and S/390 Device Drivers and Installation Commands. To find, go to developerworks and select the stream you are

Re: sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and more .....

2003-10-15 Thread David Boyes
If I could do this without having to do a root logon to start the middleware services that would be ideal. Since init is effectivly uid 0 while starting the system up, the scripts in /etc/init.d *are* run as root. Scripts in /etc/init.d are how every other system resource gets started -- user

Re: z/VM 4.4 guestlan problems

2003-10-15 Thread Michael Lambert
I would say that the problem almost definitely lies in the realm of the qeth and qdio drivers. As I mentioned before, starting the newtwork after removing the qeth and qdio modules did initially clear my problems up. Simply restarting the network wasn't sufficient, the modules had to be removed.

Re: z/VM 4.4 guestlan problems

2003-10-15 Thread Post, Mark K
The problem I see is intermittent. I can go a while without seeing it, and then it might be very frequent, then go away again. In all cases, in between instances, network response is normal. The LCDS runs z/VM 4.3, not 4.4, so I would say that is not a factor. Mark Post -Original

Re: z/VM 4.4 guestlan problems

2003-10-15 Thread Lucius, Leland
tlan problems I know that at least mine is on a V-disk (don't tell Richard! :), so that's not a part the problem I'm seeing. From what Richard said, they've been seeing this on lots of systems, and they've been working with Boeblingen trying to figure it out. Hopefully they will,

Re: sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and more .....

2003-10-15 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Terry Spaulding wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 17:42:59 -0400 From: Terry Spaulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sample REXX execs to start Linux instances and more . Is it possible to autostart