Re: Linux, VSWITCH, and??

2011-04-07 Thread Justin Payne
Do you mean your conf file, and not parm? I've always used the following in my parms: NETTYPE=qeth Never used CHANDEV myself. I used SUBCHANNELS: SUBCHANNELS=0.0.0600,0.0.0601,0.0.0602 On 04/07/2011 02:25 PM, Hughes, Jim wrote: Here is our NICDEF statement in our Linux machine. NICDEF BC0

Re: Linux, VSWITCH, and??

2011-04-07 Thread Justin Payne
Jim, Here you go: DASD=100-101,200 HOSTNAME=z06.z900.redhat.com NETTYPE=qeth IPADDR=192.168.5.56 SUBCHANNELS=0.0.0600,0.0.0601,0.0.0602 NETWORK=192.168.5.0 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 SEARCHDNS=z900.redhat.com:rdu.redhat.com BROADCAST=192.168.5.255 GATEWAY=192.168.5.254 DNS=172.16.52.28:10.11.255.27

Re: Linux, VSWITCH, and??

2011-04-07 Thread Justin Payne
Jim, Sorry about the previous email. I must clarify that we always use a parm file and a conf file. Here is my parm file: ramdisk_size=4 root=/dev/ram0 ro ip=off CMSDASD=191 CMSCONFFILE=GSS6.conf vnc And here is my GSS6.conf file: DASD=100-102 HOSTNAME=z06.z900.redhat.com NETTYPE=qeth

Re: Error during IPL after adding space

2010-12-17 Thread Justin Payne
On 12/17/2010 12:31 AM, SrinivasG wrote: I am getting error during IPL of Linux Image after adding space from zVM. Steps followed to add space from zVM. Add volumes to zVM: 1) Login to zVM as maint 2) Attach the new DASD volume using att 0310 * 3) Format the device using

Re: Error during IPL after adding space

2010-12-17 Thread Justin Payne
On 12/17/2010 12:31 AM, SrinivasG wrote: I am getting error during IPL of Linux Image after adding space from zVM. Steps followed to add space from zVM. Add volumes to zVM: 1) Login to zVM as maint 2) Attach the new DASD volume using att 0310 * 3) Format the device using

Re: Kernel panic - not syncing error on Red Hat Linux

2010-12-07 Thread Justin Payne
On 12/07/2010 02:08 PM, Joell Chockley wrote: Has anyone had any experience with the following error in Red Hat Linux? Kernel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes error and system is frozen and has to be hard rebooted. cat /etc/redhat-release output is: Red Hat

Re: Problem downloading RHEL6

2010-11-18 Thread Justin Payne
What method are you using to download the ISO? At 1.6GB, it's definitely not completing. Do you get any errors during or after the download? I also hate to ask such a simple question, but is there enough free space in the download target? On 11/18/2010 04:53 PM, Bern VK2KAD wrote: Has anyone

Re: Red Hat network modules

2010-06-22 Thread Justin Payne
Thang, I may not be of much help, but this looks similar to the following. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530579 Justin On 06/22/2010 10:39 AM, Thang Pham wrote: qeth, qdio and ccwgroup modules are loaded. I tried to debug the problem by going into shell on the 3270 session and

Re: Red Hat network modules

2010-06-22 Thread Justin Payne
Thang, Can you provide an ordered list of your module loading sequence? Justin On 06/22/2010 10:39 AM, Thang Pham wrote: qeth, qdio and ccwgroup modules are loaded. I tried to debug the problem by going into shell on the 3270 session and issuing lsmod: Module Size Used by

Re: Red Hat network modules

2010-06-22 Thread Justin Payne
Looks like it was loaded from his lsmod output in the last post. Good question though, i'm checking to see if the order matters with regard to ipv6. I see that qeth requires it. Justin On 06/22/2010 02:13 PM, Mark Post wrote: Is the ipv6 module included in the initrd? Mark Post

Re: Red Hat network modules

2010-06-22 Thread Justin Payne
Not sure if it matters, but any reason you have qeth in there twice? On 06/22/2010 02:17 PM, Thang Pham wrote: The module loading order is: crypto_api xfrm_nalgo ipv6 qeth fscache sunrpc lockd nfs_acl nfs ccwgroup qdio qeth Thang 2455 South Road

Re: Red Hat network modules

2010-06-22 Thread Justin Payne
Hi Thang, I assume you are trying to bring up eth0. If so, can you try adding netdev=eth0 to your kernel boot parameters? Don't for get to run zipl after updating editing zipl.conf. I would also encourage you to open a support case with Red Hat if you can do so. Thanks, Justin Payne On 06

Re: RHEL5.4 install based on cookbook

2010-04-28 Thread Justin Payne
Not sure if you're installing 5.2 or 5.4, but there was this bug dealing with the amount of storage and cpu assigned to a guest. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506898 On 04/28/2010 02:45 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: I'm following along in the cookbook on 7.1.5 Stage 1 of the

Re: Monday for RHEL 5

2010-04-26 Thread Justin Payne
Looks like some disks (dasd or fcp) aren't being seen. What was the reason for the reboot today? Were any disks recently added? -Justin On 04/26/2010 09:00 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: There was a normal shutdown of RHEL 5 on Friday, but today: Waiting for driver initialization. Scanning

Re: RHEL 5.4 install

2010-02-23 Thread Justin Payne
On 02/23/2010 11:25 AM, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: The file exists (using a FTP client): C:\ftp localhost Connected to ftpserver.xx.com. 220 Microsoft FTP Service Ideas, suggestions, anything? Can you reproduce the issue from a Linux based ftp server? Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.

Re: RHEL 5.4 install

2010-02-23 Thread Justin Payne
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.comwrote: I will try this tomorrow and reply with the results. Thanks, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Justin Payne Sent: Tuesday

Re: Linux file system cache

2010-02-11 Thread Justin Payne
On 02/11/2010 11:12 AM, Patrick Spinler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christian Paro wrote: Also, note this line from the RedHat doc: *Note that this setting will only stay in effect until the next time the machine is booted. If you wish this setting to be permanent,

Re: Rhel 5.4 install problems

2010-01-28 Thread Justin Payne
Tim, This is a known issue and can be followed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506898 Justin On 01/27/2010 03:51 PM, Moeur Tim C wrote: Such weirdness! I just had a chance to add a second CPU to the VM guest and try this again. The results are good. Though I cannot

Re: Rhel 5.4 install problems

2010-01-28 Thread Justin Payne
Scott, Without saying too much until the errata is released, it was/is a kernel issue. I will check around today and see if it will be ok for me to post the technical comments from the bug here. Justin On 01/28/2010 10:39 AM, Scott Rohling wrote: I don't have a RH login or anything, so can't

Re: Rhel 5.4 install problems

2010-01-28 Thread Justin Payne
Here are the technical (not in tremendous detail I admit) notes from bugzilla 506898: When installing to a z/VM guest or LPAR that is configured with 1 CPU and/or less than 2 GB storage (memory), the installer will prompt for the network configuration, regardless of whether these parameters

Re: Backup procedure for Linux

2009-12-17 Thread Justin Payne
rsync and tar have worked for me. I prefer rsync these days. On 12/17/2009 01:38 PM, Stephen Frazier wrote: Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote: Are you asking how to make the script launch automatically when the minidisk attach event occurs? or ?? No, what I am asking is what should I put in the

Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread Justin Payne
On 11/29/2009 05:57 PM, Mike Myers wrote: Justin: OK, I got vnc installed and it's sort of working. I say sort of since it gives me a window, but the window doesn't offer much more than what I got when I used ssh to access the zlinux system. The window contains a normal prompt and lets me enter

Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread Justin Payne
Mike, Since Tom brought it up, here is the link to the Virtualization Cookbook for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247492.html?Open You may also want to keep the following handy, lots of useful information.

Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-30 Thread Justin Payne
immediately find one entitled z/VM and Linux operations for zOS System Programmers from your second llnk and it may be another good reference. Thanks again. Mike Justin Payne wrote: Mike, Since Tom brought it up, here is the link to the Virtualization Cookbook for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. http

Re: Getting Started with zLinux

2009-11-28 Thread Justin Payne
On 11/27/2009 10:54 AM, Mike Myers wrote: Hi all: I have recently gotten RedHat's zLinux installed and running under Hercules, and a trying to gain some experience with it prior to attempting to install it in an LPAR on a client's system. I'm looking for some information on how to get started.

Re: error in DNS address on Redhat system

2009-10-02 Thread Justin Payne
On 10/02/2009 12:38 PM, Raymond Higgs wrote: Linux on 390 PortLINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 10/01/2009 07:51:25 PM: Scott Rohlingscott.rohl...@gmail.com Sent by: Linux on 390 PortLINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU 10/01/2009 07:51 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 PortLINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU To

Re: Moving a Samba directory

2009-09-09 Thread Justin Payne
LVM, the second rsync will be quite quick at syncing only the changes so downtime will be minimal. It would be best to plan a brief outage of the samba service to complete the task you have outlined. Justin Payne On 09/09/2009 12:53 PM, Tom Duerbusch wrote: I think I know the answer to this one

Re: qeth ipv6 dependency

2009-08-27 Thread Justin Payne
Was an alternative solution to this ever found? On 07/02/2007 02:47 AM, Ursula Braun1 wrote: Brad, since qeth supports layer3 devices, it is difficult to make qeth independent of ipv6. The best solution would be a kernel rebuild without ipv6 configured. There exists the SLES9 solution solving

Re: yum-autoupdate on RHEL

2009-07-29 Thread Justin Payne
Comments in line. John Summerfield wrote: Michael Grundy wrote: I've discovered this on RHEL5-clone on another platform. Looking at a RHEL 5.3 system, I don't see a yum-auto update. There is yum-updatesd, which can be controlled in the normal fashion: # chkconfig --list yum-updatesd

Re: Administration on RedHat

2009-07-28 Thread Justin Payne
which requires X. Or do it myself with help of yum. Regards, Berry. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Justin Payne Sent: maandag 27 juli 2009 21:45 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Administration on RedHat While limited

Re: yum-autoupdate on RHEL

2009-07-28 Thread Justin Payne
The yum-updatesd daemon only checks for available updates and notifies you via email, syslog or dbus. It will not update a system. Red Hat does not ship (nor has shipped) any package called yum-autoupdate. -Justin Payne On 07/28/2009 07:12 AM, Michael Grundy wrote: I've discovered

Re: Administration on RedHat

2009-07-27 Thread Justin Payne
those are not an option in this case. While limited at the moment, there is the setup utility provided by the setuptool rpm. It combines all the tui based tools in one location and does not require X. -Justin Payne Thanks to all who responded. Regards, berry. -Original Message- From

Re: Administration on RedHat

2009-07-16 Thread Justin Payne
is not hard on RHEL with the createrepo command which is supplied by the createrepo.noarch package. -Justin Payne Amelia Nilsson schreef: As far as I know there's nothing like YaST in RedHat, but you have the system-config-* commands that you might want to check out. They're not covering everything

Re: Kjournal questions

2008-10-07 Thread Justin Payne
, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 Justin Payne, RHCE Senior Technical Support Engineer Red Hat, Inc. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: Kjournal questions

2008-10-07 Thread Justin Payne
instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 Justin Payne, RHCE Senior Technical Support Engineer Red Hat, Inc. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: Resize fs while mounted?

2008-05-06 Thread Justin Payne
Everything you listed looks fine to me. In my experience, extending logical volumes usually goes well (regardless of distro). I have only seen things go wrong from folks attempting to shrink their file systems. ~Justin Ayer, Paul W wrote: Ok so this time I documented ever step I took to test

Re: FW: any help installing 4.4 for s390 (or s390x) on Z9-BC?

2008-04-14 Thread Justin Payne
While there is no version 5 of Centos, you may or may not have luck trying to boot the Centos 4.6 installer. (along with what Brad Hinson recommended) ~Justin Kelly F. Hickel wrote: -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent:

Re: CentOS 4.4 kernel panic on boot s390x

2008-04-14 Thread Justin Payne
Kelly F. Hickel wrote: So, I've got this zlinux LPAR on a z9BC, and it's been running CentOS 4.4 for a year or so, and recently it failed to reboot after an IPL. It lists all the dasd, then says Activating logical volumes then panics with Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!.

Re: CentOS 4.4 kernel panic on boot s390x

2008-04-14 Thread Justin Payne
Looks like I was slow on the draw. Brad++ Brad Hinson wrote: When inside the rescue environment, run 'lvm'. This is an LVM shell with all the commands you need (pvcreate, vgscan, etc). At the very least, you can run: lvm vgscan vgchange -a y to activate the LVM. The vgscan creates the

Re: CentOS 4.4 kernel panic on boot s390x

2008-04-14 Thread Justin Payne
Do you see lvm in /usr/sbin? ~Justin Kelly F. Hickel wrote: Brad, I don't have any of those commands. What I've done is to to a load from CDRom on the HMC and point it at a downloaded mirror of the s390x centos repo. Is there some other rescue mode that is more useful than what I

Re: DASD error on zlinux ipl

2008-04-01 Thread Justin Payne
/modprobe.conf dmesg from the rescue environment may also be helpful. You stated something in your first post about adding dasd to extend this logical volume, do you know exactly what steps were taken to do so, and did it ever work properly? ~Justin Payne Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: RHEL 5 LPAR install

2008-03-03 Thread Justin Payne
only, but the RHEL 5.1 installer prompts you for layer2/layer3 mode. It may be worth testing the RHEL 5.1 installer, then trying to bring up eth0 in both modes. ~Justin Payne Ceruti, Gerard G wrote: Hi Justin I do not get an error a such, after entering all the info required

Re: RHEL 5 LPAR install

2008-02-29 Thread Justin Payne
I assume you are able to get a shell in the installer. If so, the install log is located in /tmp/anaconda.log and can be opened with vi. ~Justin Payne Ceruti, Gerard G wrote: Thanks Dave But dmesg: command not found Regards Gerard Ceruti may the 'z' be with you -Original Message

Re: RHEL 5 LPAR install

2008-02-29 Thread Justin Payne
? ~Justin Payne -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Payne Sent: 29 February 2008 06:35 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: RHEL 5 LPAR install I assume you are able to get a shell in the installer. If so, the install log is located