Re: Another Linux swapping question

2007-10-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 10/23/07, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, my colleague Rob v.d. Heij beat me to the punch line, but this was where I was headedhaving more than one JVM inside a Linux guest is, imho, asking for trouble. Is there a reason you need to have multiple JVMs running at the same time?

Oracle RAC

2007-10-23 Thread Robert Flynn
Has anyone tried setting up an Oracle RAC installation? It is documented in the new Oracle/zLinux Redbook, just wondering what experiences anyone had. Thanks, RF -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Restarting DB2 and WAS with crontab

2007-10-23 Thread LJ Mace
We are Suse9,Z/VM 5.2 shop. I'm having a small problem and am wondering if someone can help me out. I've written / integrated some scripts to bring down DB2,WAS,CM, then backup/zip the files up ,and restart the systems. All the scripts work fine separately and together if I'm am logged on as

Re: Oracle RAC

2007-10-23 Thread Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone tried setting up an Oracle RAC installation? It is documented in the new Oracle/zLinux Redbook, just wondering what experiences anyone had. Thanks, RF Robert: I had a customer do this early this year, more for testing than anything else. It works quite well with one note: Use an

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2007-10-23 Thread Jim Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Leon Buitendag [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux Streams (LiS) Hi, I am planning on installing Communicaton server for Linux, however I according to the documentation I need to install LiS first, however this is where I run into problems: Leon: The CommServer for Linux developers

Re: Restarting DB2 and WAS with crontab

2007-10-23 Thread Edmund R. MacKenty
On Tuesday 23 October 2007 09:44, LJ Mace wrote: We are Suse9,Z/VM 5.2 shop. I'm having a small problem and am wondering if someone can help me out. I've written / integrated some scripts to bring down DB2,WAS,CM, then backup/zip the files up ,and restart the systems. All the scripts work fine

Is anyone connecting to a Hitachi SAN-box with FCP NPiV?

2007-10-23 Thread Collinson.Shannon
We wanted to connect to our SAN-box using FCP NPiV for either open-systems server storage (using TSM) or to implement the new GDPS function of DR-mirroring the open-systems storage. However, the IBM representative we talked to said that they couldn't support us if we ran into any problems (either

Re: Restarting DB2 and WAS with crontab

2007-10-23 Thread Daryl Hoffman
We are currently running scripts through /etc/init.d/rcX, which, I realize, is something different, but we also run as wasadmin using a stored userID and password. Here is the script we use, although ultimately simple, it works. Not sure what the CM product is. We have DB2 and WAS on separate

Re: Is anyone connecting to a Hitachi SAN-box with FCP NPiV?

2007-10-23 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
We're getting ready to try it with EMC DMX. IBM has been very supportive, but we have a contract with them. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Collinson.Shannon Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:22 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Re: Is anyone connecting to a Hitachi SAN-box with FCP NPiV?

2007-10-23 Thread Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
We are using EMC DMX and EMC Clariion for SAN. SLES9 and SLES10- no issues. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Collinson.Shannon Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:22 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Is anyone connecting to a Hitachi

Re: Oracle RAC

2007-10-23 Thread David Boyes
Has anyone tried setting up an Oracle RAC installation? It is documented in the new Oracle/zLinux Redbook, just wondering what experiences anyone had. Thanks, RF Works as documented, or as well as RAC ever does. For it to be any use for survivability, you really need to do it in a CSE

Re: CUPS -- was Re: Philosophical: Linux vs. AIX

2007-10-23 Thread John Summerfield
Patrick Spinler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Summerfield wrote: I can understand that if you're running Ghostscript, then you're in for some trouble. No ghostscript, thank heavens. We just provide a dumb queuing service, and send whatever the app produces

Re: CUPS -- was Re: Philosophical: Linux vs. AIX

2007-10-23 Thread John Summerfield
David Boyes wrote: There's no harm to installing both CUPS server and client code on each host. If you never define a printer on the host, the server is quiet and this is what Apple does, and it's why I have CUPS on my Powerbook G4. It's also probably the reason Apple bought CUPS. --

Re: Philosophical: Linux vs. AIX

2007-10-23 Thread John Summerfield
David Boyes wrote: We use LPRng instead of CUPS because of CUPS' chattyness. We have literally thousands of printers defined (over 7000) and the printcap defining these printers is installed on over 100 servers. CUPS would overrun our network. CUPS is a great design for a desktop client and

Re: Philosophical: Linux vs. AIX real unixes

2007-10-23 Thread John Summerfield
Adam Thornton wrote: Carey Tyler Schug wrote: Don't smoke your cigar yet. At least on Ubuntu, which is derived from Debian, ps --forest only shows the tree back as far as the last shell, which comes AFTER the script, so it doesn't show the script process. Mine shows me back as far as the

Re: Linux Streams (LiS)

2007-10-23 Thread John Summerfield
Leon Buitendag wrote: Hi, I am planning on installing Communicaton server for Linux, however I according to the documentation I need to install LiS first, however this is where I run into problems: I currently have SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with SP1 installed. I have downloaded

SAN NAS

2007-10-23 Thread John Summerfield
People here have shown forbearance before, so I'll test my luck again;-) I know both provide disk storage on a network, and one's higher-performance than the other, but When is a Tb of storage a NAS and when is it a SAN? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SAN NAS

2007-10-23 Thread Fargusson.Alan
A NAS acts like a file server. It contains its own filesystem and usually connects to a LAN, not a dedicated network. Often a NAS communicates to the client using SMB, and NFS. Many of the lower cost NAS are just a Windows system that does not let you log into it. A SAN does not have a

Re: SAN NAS

2007-10-23 Thread Adam Thornton
On Oct 23, 2007, at 6:12 PM, John Summerfield wrote: People here have shown forbearance before, so I'll test my luck again;-) I know both provide disk storage on a network, and one's higher-performance than the other, but When is a Tb of storage a NAS and when is it a SAN? The

Re: SAN NAS

2007-10-23 Thread David Boyes
Connectivity method and transport protocols. NAS are attached via data networking technologies such as IP or other data network transport protocols, usually employing standard networking equipment used for ordinary networking transports. Usually gig Ethernet over fiber or copper with dedicated