Sometimes an image is downloaded incorrectly. CD Recorder says it is a
bad image. So, I delete it and download it again (takes the same
amount
of time for the download). CD Recorder again doesn't like it. There
is
nothing I seem to be able to do considering that image.
But, if I go to another
Tom Duerbusch wrote:
O man...
They left out regina! How can I operate without Rexx!
Simple - you download the latest Regina release and
compile it. Then you can use my pi... oh, no, wait... it's
not ready yet :-)
Rod
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Bill Bitner said:
... many things ...
I'd completely ignore this post. It's obviously a forgery and
can't possibly be from who it's supposed to be. After all,
it doesn't have the words it depends in it.
Rod (cough,cough, it's Friday, cough, cough)
We are looking forward to do a better implementation with the new
kbuild
system that allows to set kernel
parameters at IPL time via parm, to have to kernel autosave itself
into
an NSS, and to (sic)
Does all this mean that we'll be able to go
IPL 201 PARM saveseg=suse80nn
or not? Or is that what
Rob said:
Probably the implementation should keep a replica of the essential
attributes to make sure you can do things without a network or LDAP
server. So I think that means not only a client but also a server...
this is getting fun.
And to think I had a VM LDAP server 3rd(*) on my list of things
In most cases, that would not have been done. The upload would have
been
non-binary for the HTML files.
Which is why I said:
Plain text files on the other hand... if I had access to CMS
Pipelines or it's MVS equivalent, I'd run them through an
xlate stage and use the tcp stages to send them off
'Scuse me, I'm confused.
If these binary files were created on an ASCII thinking box
and those files were uploaded to MVS without any translation
then you don't want to translate them to/from ASCII EBCDIC
as you don't care.
An example would better illustrate the thinking here...
Example, I create
2.) a minimum selection of
software packages with SLES8 ( for e.g. a web- or FTP server?)
A quick perusal of the SUSE website shows that
you seem to have a choice of Apache, Apache or Apache
in SLES8. Or anything that you decide to try and build and
install yourself which SUSE chose not to.
FTP
For a rough and ready figure of how big your filesystems
should be, you can go back to your minimal system and
issue a du against them, e.g. du -h /usr which will
at the end of it all give you a Mb size for what the
system thinks is contained in /usr. You can then back
calculate this to whatever
As Mark said, there are products that will do this on certain
flavours of *nix. However they have their own, erm,
peculiarities. The one that we used at my last job insisted
on using it's own version of the pam modules to keep
everything under control. I wasn't very happy about this
but the
I'd agree with Alan - it's heavily dependent on what
the users are doing. At one of my sites there were 7
people who looked after the internal office system.
However that system usually had more than 5,000
people using it simultaneos... sumil... at the same time.
We looked after every aspect of
Dave Jones has the same problem.
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I've got two Linux systems (A B) and I've got some RxSock
programs that run between them. I'm slightly confused.
Could someone with a better understanding of this
stuff confirm or deny the things below please? Thanks.
(Ignore the coding style, it's the concepts that're important.)
A
However, I could not
recommend ext2 as a filesystem because it is too
easily damanaged (sic)
How so?
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Thank you Joachim.
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And since 2401 is the default port, in principle you
don't need it anyway, which reduces the CVSROOT to
:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/src
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And one can always use Pipeserv...
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They have different release tracks for different products:
Home/Professional
Desktop
SLES
SLSS
The thing is, I can't find a reference on the site. I have a
reference in one of my Linux mags, but I can't find an
equivalent on the site. Would one of the SuSE/SUSE
people care to give us a clue? Ta
I sent a note to the SUSE webmaster about this and it turns out the
US site note quite up to date (but will be very soon). Go to
http://www.suse.de/en for the 9.1 press release.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I was referring to the roadmap
which I can't find on the site (neither of them as it
If your remote dB responds to DRDA requests then you can use that
to issue queries directly from DB2/VM.
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I agree with Rob (gee, just like the good ol' days:-) The ClamAV
list is full of people who quote posts in their entirety for a one line
response that's usually top posted (sigh).
The reason given, that it's considered SPAM by someone who
can't get off the list, is really not good enough. They
I've any experience in it.
Anyone interested, contact me off list.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled rants and raves.
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Yes, I apologise - I phrased this very badly. Apologies to the list.
Sigh... not my best day today...
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Why would you want a CMS tool to access SMAPI when SMAPI is mostly (at
least it seems to be to me) a programmable extension of Dirmaint? Why
not just use Dirmaint, that is what SMAPI does in the end.
If...
...you've ever had to sit there and go fix/document a 4,400 line EXEC2
exec
front-end to
I use x3270 and one thing I found was that if a line in your
keymap file actually has a trailing character e.g. a space,
then the mapping doesn't work.
Info supplied on the grounds of just in case...
Rod
From the left field:
if one can call Rexx from CICS one has TSO Pipelines
then it's trivial to write a pipe to do it
Disclaimers:
1 it's Friday
2 I know nothing about CICS
Rod
Privilege problems on /tmp/mysql.sock maybe?
Rod
Googling around gives various answers including but not limited to:
priv prob on the socket
priv prob on the config file
no passwd in the dB
no grant been issued on something in the dB
Take your pick...
Rod
Between sips of cough syrup, Adam coherently said,
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 23:30, Alikhani wrote:
Hi all
I need a good antivirus for my mailserver ( sendmail) on linux 390 (
2.4.7 SUSE-SMP)
I've had good results with Clam Antivirus. The price is right--it's
free.
http://clamav.sourceforge.net/
A company introduced me an RAV antivirus . Does anybody know about it
and what is it's price.
RAV was bought by Microsoft not so very long ago. You can't get it from
the
original company any more (I just checked the site). You can draw your
own conclusions as to whether it will continue to be
For those who haven't seen it yet...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34597.html
Here's The Register's equivalent:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/34523.html
One wonders what IBM's reaction will be. If only we had
a VM version for these small boxes :-)
Rod
My thanks to those who responded with the info.
For the sake of clarity, I wanted a way to replace
the entire lot. I know the latest version of Samba
will let me do the PDC/BDC stuff, but I didn't
know how to replace the client workstations.
My thanks also to those who contacted me offline,
I beg the indulgence of the list for this question. Please forgive me.
Lots of us have probably seen the situation where an IT department
has Win/NT workstations and a Win/NT server. You go up to any
PC, select the domain, enter your userid and p/w and then login.
You can then logout, go to any
After my last cock-up I said that I wouldn't say anything
else on this list until I'd had a good sleep.
However... in no particular order:
The Plex86 project (now deceased)
Not true: Kevin's resurrected it as a Linux hypervisor over
at Sourceforge whilst the original over at Savannah is
still
And if the LSB had chosen apt instead of rpm then... oops, sorry,
religious discussion.
I love apt. Anyone thought of adding in a P2P update method
for it?
Rod
I think you are confused...
I'm not confused but I am tired and failed to express myself properly.
I'll refrain from trying to express myself until I've had a good
sleep.
(Note to self: do not make fool of self in public list after having
travelled to Brussels and back that day (damn - they'd
(on average) every three lines of code modified
to fix a bug introduces a new bug
Hmmm... when I was last involved in this (1983/4) the
ratio was one bug per ten lines of code. I leave observations
about what this means to others.
Rod
Consider what happens when you reverise the page and
byteINpage loops:
for (byteINpage=0;byteINpage4096;byteINpage++)
for (page=0;pagebytes;page=page+4096)
where you touch a byte in each page before going to
the second byte. The working set becomes terrible.
And so does the performance.
And
What you are seeing is the result of a badly configured
paging subsystem
What happens: Linux touches all it's pages when it boots.
These pages then overtime get paged out. Then you run your
program - and all those pages get paged back in.
Applications with more consistent workings sets would not
Perhaps they could be persuaded to change their name to something
whose pronunciation we all agree on!
Bob Matthews
University of Geneva.
Cough cough - altogether now:
You say potato, I say potato,
You say tomato, I say tomato,
Potato, potato,
Tomato, tomato,
Let's call the whole thing off...
We've got some fairly enthusiastic users here: how much of your data
processing is done on Linux?
For starters, hands up those using a Linux email client?
Oooh, oooh, a survey! Okay, I own up. I used to use KMail PINE but
I've made a strategic shift to Mac OS X for day-to-day client
type work so
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Why not?
Because I would usually expect IBM to keep schtumm about anything
concerning a court case. I was especially fond of the append in one
of the internal forums that ran something akin to:
You are in a room with lots of doors. One of them opens onto
another room.
a rather basic question.. is it possible to use X11 / XF86
windowing on SUSE SLES8?? - the client is WIN NT SSH'ing to z/VM. The
SUSE documentation is not very clear on this
You mean: can I run an app on Linux for zSeries that uses X
to display it's output? Sure. You'd need to set the display
FORTRAN... depending on how old you are, meaning which version you used...
mine was a number of versions of ForTran IV...
comments began with a C in column 1
continued lines had a character in column 6
(aside: it is widely believed that you needed 1,2,3 etc. for the
appropriately
numbered line
Apart from the fact that I gave Gartner up years ago (when they said
that the
mainframe was dead - it's them and the idiot managers who think that the
toy that they have at home can run an enterprise level business who I
blame for
the lack of jobs that I and many other highly skilled sysprogs are
This was discussed on one of the other lists that I follow (the THE list
probably - I've archived the discussion now) quite a while back and was
condemned for any number of reasons but most notably for there not
being a command line and that this was being touted as an
advantage - see the FAQ.
Rod
the first work on Linux for IBM mainframes came from
IBM Boeblingen, Germany
Go read your history books - the working port may have come
out of there first (because they thought they had to race others)
but other people were working on it in other places
(I know - I was working with one of them at
will, but it will take years before you'll be able to buy a 64 bit version
of Redhat loaded on a 64 processor system.
AMD64 version: SuSE Mandrake now, Red Hat real soon now.
Rod (just read the article in Linux Format)
How many processors do they support?
Oooh - I think that they're up to 8 at the moment. Mind you
it's just been released. There's a 64 bit version of the
Linux code though.
http://www.suse.de/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/sles_amd64.html
Rod
This is a kernel compile-time option.
make menuconfig ---
General setup ---
[*] No HZ timer ticks in idle
[*] Idle HZ timer on by default
Erm... does it let you try this trick with any type
of processor? Could I build this into a PowerPC
nucleus for
What about somebody running Linux/Intel under Windows using VMWare? Or
somebody (weird?) running multiple Linux/Intel servers under VMWare/ESX?
A more interesting question is: what do the User Mode Linux patches
do?
(Not being up on the internals of the kernel and not being able
to read the stuff
To be honest, most of the Windows people that I've had to deal with don't
know anything about alternatives and quite frankly, they wouldn't last two
minutes on a more complex system. Sigh... I despair, really, I do...
The margin is narrowing. I work with a lot of sharp Windows folks that
are
Does that mean that folks in this group are just an illusion?
Of course it does - didn't you know that all the answers here are
generated automatically by a pipe written by Rob, fed over a network
link from Alan via an interface written by Neil?
Whew, talk about sleeping through the alarm clock. I
I run Linux on an iMac as well. My research pointed me to using
YellowDog Linux rather than SuSE. Once you read the install instructions
and do the pre-install planning, it works pretty well (including KDE,
GNOME, music etc.) although I strongly suggest that if you're running OS
9 or OS X that you
Getting this back onto topic lifting the page on this that I wrote for
the UK VM Users Group last year, I found uni-SPF and SPF/UX, of which
SPF/UX said they had a linux for S/390 version.
I don't know whether these are any good since I agree with Melinda's
assesment of ISPF. THE has recently
CD based
SuSE Live Eval - as mentioned in Michael's post
DemoLinux - www.demolinux.org
Knoppix - www.knoppix.org
There are various projects around the net that are working on this sort of
thing as well. There are others that you can boot off floppies but these
tend to be fairly small systems
Hi Alan,
Drat. Didn't know it ran DAT ON. Shows you (a) how much out of touch I am
and (b) how much further out of touch you get when you're unemployed.
Thanks Alan - my apologies to the list for being stupid.
Rod
It says:
For customers who run a 10-way z900 system...they're going to
have to pay 20 times the cost of the VM license.
I thought that the license was per box, not per processor, so the above
wouldn't be right?
Feel free to enlighten me on this - I've been out of the VM game for a
couple of
Yeah, yeah, sorry, I put 20 where I meant to put 10 - it's late, I'm
tired...
Rod
- it's a sort of successor to Blackbox.
I use Blackbox on the P100 + 16Mb box. I even used it on a 40Mhz, 386 with
4Mb of RAM. Ah yes, my first Linux installation . . .
Rod Furey (downsized again - sigh)
large computer firm in a cost savings
exercise?
Rod Furey
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