Re: Oracle DB Certification on SLES12

2017-05-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hello, Is this what you're looking for? IBM Techdocs Flash: SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server Version 12 available on IBM LinuxONE™ and IBM z Systems® running with Oracle® Database 12c Release 1 http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10877 *Abstract:* This Flash

Re: Oracle 11 not dropping from Queue 3

2012-09-06 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, Maybe this can help you : High Processor Utilization with Linux gettimeofday on IBM System z running Oracle DB http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP102170 Regards On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Walters, Gene P gene.p.walt...@wv.govwrote: We recently upgraded

Re: subversion on SLES 11

2012-08-21 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, It does. If I remember correctly, subversion is located on the SDK DVD. Regards. On Aug 21, 2012 8:48 PM, Michael MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.com wrote: Does SLES 11 SP2 have a subversion RPM? Mike MacIsaac mikemac at-sign us.ibm.com

Re: subversion on SLES 11

2012-08-21 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, On x86_64, it was on the first DVD. I downloaded the iso from this link and it seems that there is only 2 DVD for each platform : http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=NgW3ToaagDQ~ Regards. On Aug 21, 2012 9:06 PM, Michael MacIsaac mike...@us.ibm.com wrote: It's on the SDK. Which

Re: Oracle 10.2 and 11.2 on Sles10

2012-02-01 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, According to this document, Oracle 10.2 is supported under RHEL5, SLES10 and SLES11 : http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/relnotes.102/b25399/toc.htm#CHDFHIEA And for Oracle 11.2, here is the info I found : RHEL4.8, RHEL5.4, SLES10 SP3 and SLES11 SP1 :

Re: Is it possible to upgrade from SLES10 SP4 to SLES11 SP1?

2012-02-01 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, I found this info a few days ago. It might be interesting for you. http://www.novell.com/docrep/2011/01/sles_unattended_upgrade_feature_guide.pdf and http://suse.gansert.net/?p=239 I am looking to test this in a lab environment in the following months. Regards. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at

Re: SSH X connection to z/Linux from Android?

2011-03-31 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi John, I use the free Irssi ConnectBot on my HTC Desire Z (Android 2.2) to connect to Linux machines. Works perfectly despite the small size of the screen. The hardware keyboard of the Desire Z is helping a lot. I never tried X applications, though. Having a portable terminal is nice. Have

Re: Tripwire on zLinux

2010-08-12 Thread Dominic Coulombe
) on a range of systems. The project is based on code originally contributed by Tripwire, Inc. in 2000. The last version I installed on z/Linux was 2.4.1.2, but the latest version available is 2.4.2. Regards, Dominic Coulombe On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:47, Burton, Randy rbur...@bbandt.com wrote

Re: Zfcp device removel HELP!!!

2010-01-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
removing it by typing something like : echo 0 /sys/bus/ccw/drivers/zfcp/0.0.0401/0x500507630f5bbf0a/online Regards, Dominic Coulombe On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 15:34, Lee, Gary D. g...@bsu.edu wrote: I need to remove a problem device so I can try and re-add it and get the system back up at 100%. I

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-02 Thread Dominic Coulombe
it will re-add users, but this script will change back permissions on some system files you might have changed in your hardening process. Regards, Dominic Coulombe -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Universal Binaries on Linux?

2009-10-23 Thread Dominic Coulombe
section for the architecture in use. This allows the application to run natively on any supported architecture, with no negative performance impact (beyond an increase in the storage space taken up by the larger binary). Regards, Dominic Coulombe

Re: SLES10 su only id

2009-10-20 Thread Dominic Coulombe
will then have something like this logged to the /var/log/messages file : Oct 20 11:40:15 MYLINUXHOST sshd[8443]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for myuser123 from 1.2.3.4 port 3686 ssh2 Oct 20 11:40:18 MYLINUXHOST su: (to root) myuser123 on /dev/pts/0 Regards, Dominic Coulombe

Re: How do you . . . . setting up a user to force him to change his password?

2009-10-13 Thread Dominic Coulombe
username Regards, Dominic Coulombe -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: SUSE Documentation

2009-05-06 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles11/ http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles10/ http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles9/ Also : http://linuxvm.org/ http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/portals/systemz This should be a good starting point. Regards, Dominic Coulombe On Wed, May 6

Re: Install or Rescue a SLES10 system from FTP, using LAYER2 and VLAN

2009-04-23 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 16:29, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Are you sure you're on a trunk port and are you sure that the physical switch is configured to use VLAN 999 as the *native* VLAN ID? According to the QUERY VSWITCH command I made, yes. I'll have to chat with the team

Re: Install or Rescue a SLES10 system from FTP, using LAYER2 and VLAN

2009-04-23 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi all, Thanks to everyone for their input. We will use that technique. Have a nice day. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 21:16, d...@sys1.vsoft-software.com wrote: Yes, that's proably the best approach and certainly a common one.build yourself a 1 DASD rescue system with whatever tools and

Install or Rescue a SLES10 system from FTP, using LAYER2 and VLAN

2009-04-22 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi all, Is it possible to IPL an installation or rescue system from FTP using a LAYER2 qeth device and VLAN ? Is it possible to specify on which VLAN I want to connect in the SLES10 PARM file ? Some background info : The default VLAN and native VLAN on this vswitch is 0999, which is not what

Re: Install or Rescue a SLES10 system from FTP, using LAYER2 and VLAN

2009-04-22 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 16:50, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: If you're talking about accessing an FTP server to get to the rest of the rescue system and complete things, then your question makes some sense. Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind. Sorry for the confusion. But, since

Re: getting device busy on smbfs mounted area

2009-03-20 Thread Dominic Coulombe
option does not follow symbolic links within D unless the -x or -x l option is also specified. Nor does it search for open files on file system mount points on subdirectories of D unless the -x or -x f option is also specified. [...] Regards, Dominic

Problem with udev - File /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules updated after each boot

2009-01-29 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi List, Yesterday, I applied all available patches on a SLES10-SP2 machine using YaST Online Update. Since I updated, every time I reboot the machine, the file /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules is modified. After 3 reboots, my file contains : SUBSYSTEM==net, ACTION==add,

Re: Problem with udev - File /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules updated after each boot

2009-01-29 Thread Dominic Coulombe
For the record, I updated the kernel once more today : SVLD10C0:~ # uname -a Linux SVLD10C0 2.6.16.60-0.34-default #1 SMP Fri Jan 16 14:59:01 UTC 2009 s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 14:19, Dominic Coulombe dominic.coulo...@gmail.comwrote: SVLD10C0:~ # uname -a Linux

Re: Mingetty version on SLES10

2009-01-22 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, this is not a direct answer to your question, but you can change the /etc/inittab file with that line to automatically log root at the VM console : # Default HMC/3215/3270 console: 1:2345:respawn:*/bin/bash* Regards, Dominic Coulombe 2009/1/22 van Sleeuwen, Berry berry.vansleeu

Re: Relocating /etc/passwd, shadow and group

2008-12-10 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Thanks to everybody that posted suggestions. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Relocating /etc/passwd, shadow and group

2008-12-09 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, * Short story * Is it possible to relocate /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group files ? * Long story * I am building a system based on SLES10-SP2 with a read only root fs. My work is based on the Redpaper REDP-4322-00, Sharing and maintaining Linux under z/VM. Very inspiring work.

Re: Relocating /etc/passwd, shadow and group

2008-12-09 Thread Dominic Coulombe
such as /local/etc (for example). Changing passwords locally requires other files under /etc, so simply sym-linking does not solve all your problems, but a bind mount /etc goes much further. On 12/9/08, Dominic Coulombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, * Short story * Is it possible

Re: Relocating /etc/passwd, shadow and group

2008-12-09 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 17:16, Edmund R. MacKenty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I do things almost this way in some filesystem layouts of my Provisioning Expert product: I put /etc on a writable filesystem and populate it with symlinks to a read-only filesystem. But for certain files,

Re: Keys and Fingerprints

2008-11-20 Thread Dominic Coulombe
/init.d/sshd restart Regards, Dominic Coulombe On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 13:34, Scully, William P [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: During SLES installation we get messages about key generation and key fingerprints and the public/private key pairs. Suppose we're cloning this server, what should I

Re: Adding DASD

2008-10-02 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hello, I never used Slack 390, but on SLES, I usually run mkinitrd to rebuild the initial ramdisk image (cd /boot prior to run the command), then I run the zipl command. On older SLES version, I used to edit by hand the content of the /etc/zipl.conf file to list all of my devices. I hope this

Re: Piping dd to tar/bzip/etc for in stream compression

2008-09-24 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, You could try this : dd if=/dev/dasdXX | gzip - ./backup.gz from the gzip manpage : If no files are specified, or if a file name is -, the standard input is compressed to the standard output. Regards, Dominic Coulombe On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:33, James Melin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote

Re: PVCREATE Problem

2006-10-20 Thread Dominic Coulombe
IIRC, there is a maximum of 3 partition on a single DASD. On 10/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they imply/presume 4 partitions per disk, that would be 256. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: PuTTY Question

2006-10-12 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, PuTTY is able to work perfectly with Linux on the Z, but there is some parameters to set. My settings are : In Terminal, check Use background color to erase screen. This will allow you a pretty drawing of ncurses applications like YaST and mc. This is a must, otherwise the background will

Re: PuTTY Question

2006-10-12 Thread Dominic Coulombe
I did not change the language settings in YaST, using English US. In PuTTY, my Translation tab contains : ISO-8859-1: 1998 (Latin-1, West Europe) Use Unicode line drawing code points In Linux, my $LANG is : en_US On 10/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am also using

Re: PuTTY Question

2006-10-12 Thread Dominic Coulombe
You need to save the session. On the main page, you input a session name in the Saved Sessions field, then push the Save button. To load this session, double-click on the session in the list or select it, then press the Load button, then click OK. I prefer to launch PuTTY from the command line

Re: PuTTY Question

2006-10-12 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Every sessions saved in PuTTY are saved into the Windows Registry. (Don't remember the exact location - on a Mac right now) You can backup the registry branch, try a little and if it does not fit your needs, just rollback. It is also a good way to move your session settings from one computer to

Re: Server Time Protocol support for zSeries

2006-10-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi John, it is possible to use XNTP to sync the clock of the Linux boxes, but the VM clock will not be updated, if I'm right. On 10/11/06, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why couldn't the Linux systems under z/VM use XNTP to set their clock to the z/OS value? z/OS 1.7 can run an

Re: from a local linux discussion group: Hans Reiser arrested for murdering his wife.

2006-10-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Yes, it is. On 10/11/06, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the guy that developed the Reisner file system for Linux? DJ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Oracle 10g on SuSE 9

2006-10-06 Thread Dominic Coulombe
If I remember correctly, Oracle now supports 9i on SLES9. On 10/6/06, Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oracle 9.2i was never brought forward to SLES9 though. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: zLinux User Passwords on console

2006-09-28 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi Brandon. I have some comments on your last post. I hope this could help in any way. [...] My average Unix SA's around me expect to be able to use vi, and most of them have no clue what to do without it. sed is a powerful tool for rescuing in a TN3270. As for manually doing the

Re: Service Pack Display

2006-09-20 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, Try the SPident command. Regards. On 9/20/06, Massimiliano Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hy guys, how is possible to get the service pack level from my zLinux system? Usually I get a kernel level issuing uname -a but I cannot see witch service pack is related to it. Is there

Re: Service Pack Display

2006-09-20 Thread Dominic Coulombe
PROTECTED] wrote: I do not have an spident command (command not found) on SLES 8. Lea Stahr Sr. System Administrator Linux/Unix Team 630-753-5445 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dominic Coulombe Sent: Wednesday, September

Re: Service Pack Display

2006-09-20 Thread Dominic Coulombe
In that case, run SPident - (yes, 4 v) and try to understand which packages were not updated correctly. You need only to have one conflicting package to receive a not up-to-date status. On 9/20/06, Mark D Pace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try the SPident command. This may or may not give

Re: Service Pack Display

2006-09-20 Thread Dominic Coulombe
As I mentionned earlier, you might want to run SPident - to check which packages were not correctly updated, then run the update manually (rpm -Fvh myfile.rpm). You should be able to work your way around with this. On 9/20/06, LJ Mace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried the command and

Re: Service Pack Display

2006-09-20 Thread Dominic Coulombe
You should log on to the Novell site and download the patch manually. From there, upgrade by using rpm -Fvh yourfile.rpm . On 20-Sep-2006, at 16:11, Ifurung, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One problem I have now is, Yast/YOU does not offer the patch that is supposed to resolve the not uptodate

Re: Methods to move DVD software to zLinux?

2006-09-12 Thread Dominic Coulombe
If you don't want to install a Linux box, you can consider Live distribution, like knoppix or Ubuntu. Just boot from the CD and enjoy. On 9/12/06, Hall, Ken (GTI) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DVD's should be able to convert to ISO files. I've gotten DVD ISO images of Fedora that mount just like

Re: Mac Pro

2006-08-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Yes, at this time bootcamp only gives you drivers and a lossless partition tool to install Windows XP SP2. Nothing more. But it's still beta software. I never tried MOL, but it seems stable. On 8/10/06, John Summerfied [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I've checked, bootcamp's a lot less than I

Re: Mac Pro

2006-08-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On 8/11/06, Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that Macs are Intel based (duel 3 GH processors)... I wonder if Partition Magic will now support the Mac file system? Partition Magic, along with Boot Magic, is what I use to support multiple OSs on my PCs. The main problem with this is

Re: How to find what's been writing to a partition?

2006-08-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On 8/11/06, Romanowski, John (OFT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any other strategies to find what's writing to the partition? I would use Tripwire for this. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: How to find what's been writing to a partition?

2006-08-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
There is a directory in / called tmp on which you mount the /tmp filesystem. If you unmount /tmp, there will still be a /tmp, but probably containing no files. So the find command will output /tmp even with the -xdev option, but not its contents. I think that every time something is written to

Re: Mac Pro

2006-08-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
I'm happy to hear this. On 8/11/06, Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The HFS+ driver has always been well-working and stable for writing, and the HFS driver is since it got a major rewrite shortly after the HFS+ driver was introduced.

Re: How to find what's been writing to a partition?

2006-08-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
I would think so. On 8/11/06, Romanowski, John (OFT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the update I/O's for /tmp's timestamp are to my /tmp filesystem? Not to the / partition's /tmp mountpoint? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Re: question on changing ip/route addrs

2006-08-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
You could backup and edit the configuration files in /etc/sysconfig/network/ and disconnect from the SSH session. Then you could connect via a TN3270 screen, swap the files, them restart the network with rcnetwork restart. Your TN3270 session will not be killed. On 8/11/06, Macioce, Larry

Re: Mac Pro

2006-08-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Well, Darwin does support HFS+... I might be wrong on this... On 11-Aug-2006, at 18:55, John Summerfied wrote: Dominic Coulombe wrote: On 8/11/06, Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that Macs are Intel based (duel 3 GH processors)... I wonder if Partition Magic will now support

Re: snmp process monitoring....

2006-08-10 Thread Dominic Coulombe
To be more precise : You may leave the list at any time by sending a SIGNOFF LINUX-390 command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 8/10/06, Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's on the bottom of every message. -- For

Re: Mac Pro

2006-08-10 Thread Dominic Coulombe
You will have to wait a few weeks for this, because the machine was launched this week. I bet apple would take a week or two for the shipping of the first machines. VMWare will be launching something for the intel macs soon. Maybe something similar to the free VMWare Server product? Should be

Re: Mac Pro

2006-08-10 Thread Dominic Coulombe
I don't think that the Mac OS X will install under Xen. I would really like to hear about this, but it will not happen unless Apple helps the Xen people to make it work. Mac OS X cannot be installed on any custom made Intel machine, only on apple hardware. I mean, legally and with an

Re: Mac Pro

2006-08-10 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Anyways, you could always dual-boot Mac OS X and Linux and then put virtual Linux guests under Xen. Or install VMWare Server and put Windows guests under the Linux. That way you have access to both worlds. Mac OS X is a nice toy! By the way, I would be very happy to have a Mac Pro... On

Re: Mac Pro

2006-08-10 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Yes, I forgot this one! Microsoft announced that they drop the Virtual PC product, so there is place for Parallels, VMWare and who knows, may be Apple will integrate virtualization in Mac OS X... On 8/10/06, Jay Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, as I mentioned before, use Parallels

Re: Mac Pro

2006-08-10 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Yes, but who knows where Apple will push their bootcamp software... Virtualization is so popular these days that it is not impossible for Apple to integrate it in their next major release. At least, a lot of people would like them to do that! Bootcamp is a major effort they did to let the user

Re: Adding a minidisk to a running linux guest

2006-08-07 Thread Dominic Coulombe
It is possible to attach the minidisk via the CP LINK command. In Linux, you need to set online the newly added device. SLES8 : echo add device ABCD /proc/dasd/devices SLES9 : chccwdev -e ABCD Then you are able to read/write to the device according to your need. If you want the device to be

Using lastb and /var/log/btmp on SLES8

2006-08-04 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi list, I've been able to activate the bad login logs located in /var/log/btmp in SLES9, but I am still struggling to activate it in SLES8. Unfortunately, this seems not to be working out of the box. In SLES9, I had to create this file under /var/log : -rw--- 1 root utmp 800

Re: Linux initial RAM disk (initrd) overview

2006-08-03 Thread Dominic Coulombe
This technique was also used some time ago by some funny developers to use the SMS (sudden motion sensor) in some of the latest G4 and now Intel macs... As an example, they implemented a feature to switch virtual desktop by knocking the side of the screen. But I don't see myself going into the

Re: Logging server ? (was Re: Small Mail Transport Agent)

2006-08-03 Thread Dominic Coulombe
I personally like to send my logs to the standard local log file and I also forward them to a remote syslog machine. I use this as a backup in case of the syslog machine being down. Of course I have to destroy local logs after some time, but I like the safety net it gives me. As you say, a

Re: XFS and LVM

2006-08-02 Thread Dominic Coulombe
According to the LVM howto, there is a patch you can apply to the Kernel to grow (not shrink) the size of a mounted ext3 fs, but I would not use it in production systems unless it's stable. On 8/2/06, Yu Safin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/06, Neale Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is

Re: Ports

2006-08-01 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hello Marcy, You should install and run SuSEfirewall. It is a quick way to do this. If possible, it would be even easier to configure the service to only listen to localhost. Unfortunately, not all services will easily allow this. You can configure SuSEfirewall from YaST or from the

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-29 Thread Dominic Coulombe
/var should not be shared, as there are a lot of critical files in there, see /var/lock . The sharing thing is more complicated that I tought... On 28-Jul-2006, at 23:19, John Summerfield wrote: /var might be okay, for example, but I don't know that it's defined to be so.

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-28 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Thank you for the info, I will read the paper for sure. On 7/28/06, Michael MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dominic, Does it makes sense ? Have you heard/read Gordon Wolfe's Managing a Penguin Farm on the VM Prairie? See http://linuxvm.org/present/ and it looks like there are 4 copies

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-27 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi Tim, What you want to do is feasible, but require good planning. For an example, you can share RO the /usr filesystem. When you apply a patch on the main system which owns the disk in RW, your other machines ARE NOT aware of the changes until you re-mount the filesystem on each Linux

Re: SLES 10 LVM problem

2006-07-27 Thread Dominic Coulombe
You won't get a lot of messages from YaST. It would be easier to debug to use these commands : pvcreate for initializing the PV - disks (once formatted and partitionned) vgcreate for creating the VG lvcreate for creating the LV mkfs for formatting the LV See the man page or the LVM howto (

Re: Small Mail Transport Agent

2006-07-27 Thread Dominic Coulombe
For that purpose, I use postfix listening only on the localhost. It was pretty simple to configure. On 7/27/06, Jon Brock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions? Or am I heading in the wrong direction entirely?

Re: SLES 10 LVM problem

2006-07-27 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On 27-Jul-2006, at 16:25, Nix, Robert P. wrote: Work-around: Start yast as yast , so that it runs in the background, and leaves you with a command prompt. This will only work if using the GUI version of YaST. If using the CLI version (ncurses), just pop up a new terminal window to launch the

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-27 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Another great thing with RO /usr is that you can harden the permissions of some commands and be sure that your stuff stays intact. And you are sure nobody installs their own stuff system-wide. But you don't need to share a /usr to benifit the RO /usr... On 27-Jul-2006, at 16:47, Nix, Robert

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-27 Thread Dominic Coulombe
and know the actual version of maintenance applied to your systems. Does it makes sense ? On 27-Jul-2006, at 19:52, John Summerfied wrote: Dominic Coulombe wrote: For an example, you can share RO the /usr filesystem. When you apply a patch on the main system which owns the disk in RW, your other

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-27 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Is there a reason to use SSH without encryption over telnet? Just wondering. On 27-Jul-2006, at 20:00, John Summerfied wrote: There is a patch to openssh that allows to turn encryption off; I think it's been mentioned in TH's nahant list in the past three months or so.

Re: Missing e2fsadm

2006-07-26 Thread Dominic Coulombe
For those who prefers the command line utilities, there is a good howto : http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ The common tasks section should be read first for people who don't like docs :-) These commands are part of the LVM2 package under SLES. On 7/26/06, Ranga Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, in *theory* you can do live backup of machines with journaled filesystems (at least ext3) without any problem. Linux will repair filesystems from journal after recovering your backups. You need to be sure that there is no activity on the Linux machine, or you might end with corrupted data.

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On 7/24/06, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more time: Unless your Linux systems *are completely down* at the time of backup, full volume dumps from outside the Linux system are more than likely to be useless. Can you explain why is that ? I never experimented such failure after

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On 7/24/06, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stop dreaming. Not even in theory - at least not my theory. Hi, I'm sorry, but we managed to do live backup of our systems without any problem. We restored a lot of backup and all were recoverable without any problem. Even when data

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-24 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On 7/24/06, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've been lucky. That sometimes happens. It's hard to predict what damage occurs when the file system is corrupt. I am not sure you would not even risk your database. My apologies. Maybe I should not have abused your post to

Re: Yast - Installing new package, not on CD

2006-07-24 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi Lee, You can update a single package by entering this command : rpm -Fvh your-file.rpm The F is for freshen, or upgrade if package is newer than the current and do nothing if there is no such package installed on the system. To update a bunch of packages, you can specify multiple package

Re: CentOS DASD format

2006-07-21 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On 7/21/06, Melancon, Ruddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I look in the /dev directory there is no dasda, although in looking in /sys I can find the file that describes the disk drive as well as the file that shows it online. If the device (/dev/dasda) is not in /dev, maybe you need to

Re: Brain dead question

2006-07-21 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On SLES, there is hwinfo that provides a lot of info on the hardware. And there's probably something in /proc for you. On 21-Jul-2006, at 15:48, David Heilman wrote: That's not the correct command in SCO Unix. Told you I was going brain dead this late in the week... What I am trying to

Re: SLES10 GA

2006-07-19 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Maximum single file size are the following : FAT16: 2GiB FAT32: 4GiB NTFS: 16EiB See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits for more of them. On 7/19/06, O'Brien, Dennis L Dennis.L.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FAT32 file system has a limit of either 2GB or 4GB per

Re: SLES10 GA

2006-07-18 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On 7/18/06, Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since they mention wget, it there a direct link anyone has figure out for the download? SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso http://xlfiles.novell.com/prot/0SF2mutIxKc~/SLES-10-IBM%20zSeries-DVD1.iso You still need to login to receive your

Re: SLES10 GA

2006-07-18 Thread Dominic Coulombe
If I'm right, the evaluation period is the time you can download patches from the Novell site. The Linux machine will continue to run / boot past the timeout, but without updates. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: SLES10 GA

2006-07-18 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Of course, you don't want to put an unmaintained server on the net... On 18-Jul-2006, at 17:19, Post, Mark K wrote: Yes, that is correct. But, with all the security updates I've been seeing coming out this year, having maintenance is getting more and more important all the time. Mark Post

Re: Syntax to subscribe

2006-07-17 Thread Dominic Coulombe
http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 On 7/17/06, Mark D Pace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to find the correct syntax to subscribe. I'm trying to help someone get subscribed and I've lost the original email. Thanks. Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline

Re: working examples?

2006-07-14 Thread Dominic Coulombe
According to netcraft ( http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=panasonic.com), Panasonic.com is running on Windows 2000. On 7/14/06, Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe panasonic.com is z/Linux if I remember correctly. Marcy Cortes This message may contain confidential

Re: Question on /sys/devices/qeth

2006-07-12 Thread Dominic Coulombe
The file I was talking about is located in /sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/qeth/0.0.eb00/online . On 7/11/06, Dominic Coulombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi James, /sys is an interface to drivers, like the qeth driver. /sys comes only with 2.6 kernels, like SLES9. As an example, you can echo 1 or 0

Re: starting apache

2006-07-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi, There is a lot of critical stuff in /sbin and /usr/sbin... First, you need to fully harden the Linux installation. The lesser you have packages, the better you are protected against vulnerabilities. I would definitely not let non-admin user run the whole thing on these folders... I'm

Re: starting apache

2006-07-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On 7/11/06, John Summerfied [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob van der Heij wrote: On RHL derivatives, service is the one true way to run the init.d scripts. I don't currently have a SUSE system to check for myself, but I think it does have something. You just have to run rcapache restart to

Re: Question on /sys/devices/qeth

2006-07-11 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi James, /sys is an interface to drivers, like the qeth driver. /sys comes only with 2.6 kernels, like SLES9. As an example, you can echo 1 or 0 to a file in /sys (don't have access to a z/VM Linux machine right now - something like /sys/ drivers/qeth/ccwgroup/... ) to turn online or offline

Re: starting apache

2006-07-10 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi Alan, I would use sudo for this purpose. You can configure this user to execute only selected commands as root. The user only need to provide his own password. Every attemps to run unallowed commands is reported (logged). You can allow the startup/shutdown script to be run by this user,

Re: starting apache

2006-07-10 Thread Dominic Coulombe
What distribution are you using ? sudo is shipped with SLES 8 and 9. Or you can get the source and build it. On 7/10/06, Levy, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find sudo for s390 ? Is there an RPM somewhere ? Alan Levy W: 718-403-8020 C: 347-401-4629 -Original Message-

Re: Suse 8

2006-07-10 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Hi Hugo, SLES8 31 bits : SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries CD images s390 (29-Nov-02) http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=pkawhuQ-dHs~http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=pkawhuQ-dHs%7E SLES8 64 bits : SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM zSeries CD

Re: Suse 8

2006-07-10 Thread Dominic Coulombe
for informational purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation, offer or acceptance of any offer. -Original Message- From: Dominic Coulombe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 July 2006 18:41 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 8 Hi Hugo, SLES8 31 bits : SuSE Linux Enterprise

Re: Suse 8

2006-07-10 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Message- From: Dominic Coulombe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 July 2006 19:58 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Suse 8 Ok, so let's try this : http://support.novell.com/linux/psdb/Archive_ISO.html On 7/10/06, Crispin Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cheers Dominic, But I get

Re: Cannot open root device, Kernel panic

2006-07-06 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Busybox is a marvelous tool for embedded devices. His place is more in a tiny wireless router than in a mainframe! On 6-Jul-2006, at 17:25, John Summerfied wrote: Nix, Robert P. wrote: Actually, you can go through the complete dialog for the install system, creating the network and using

Re: Websphere Information Integrator

2006-07-06 Thread Dominic Coulombe
On 6-Jul-2006, at 17:39, John Summerfied wrote: The behaviour _I_ want is a mount point I can use from the commandline without being root, and maybe an icon on the desktop. You might want to look into sudo. You can select users and let these chosen ones execute specific command as root by

Re: Cannot open root device, Kernel panic

2006-07-05 Thread Dominic Coulombe
Just a simple hint for everybody interested... To rescue a x86 server, you can boot from the installation CD and enter in a rescue console mode. You can do the same with z/VM, but without a CD (you guessed it...) This works with SLES8 and SLES9, but I assume it should work with other

Re: Cannot open root device, Kernel panic

2006-07-05 Thread Dominic Coulombe
First Street SW /( )\ 507-284-0844Rochester, MN 55905 ^^-^^ - In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dominic

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