Congrats and good luck on your new job Mike...
I have again started a new job, moving on from Innovation Data Processing
to ADP.
At Innovation, helping to roll out the FDRPASVM product that allows you
to
migrate running Linux and z/VM systems to new DASD regardless of
manufacturer was a
Thanks David and Marcy for your responses.
More research required.
David Boyes responded:.
Last time I checked, all the Sybase drivers had Intel only components,
so I suspect neither will work.
Regards,
Terry L. Spaulding
spa...@us.ibm.com
Question to the List.
Has anyone setup WebSphere on Linux System z to access Sybase DB running
another platform using one of these drivers:
jConnect 5.5 EBF 11656 which has an end of life date of 12/2009 on the
Sybase website
or
Sybase driver 6.0 EBF 12723 (type 4).
Just looking to find out
John Wrote:
Where I work (a small shop, by any standards), we have several printers.
Some talk ipp, some have sockets on port 9100 and (maybe) some do lpd.
Whatever the printers do, we set up a Linux server to print to them.
Linux just finds them on the printer server. Recently, OS X does too,
David responded:
Then you specify a lpd URI in CUPS from the CUPS server, not from the
clients. You want the server to do the actual I/O to the printer, not
the clients. The clients should need to speak only IPP. Your device URI
in CUPS for the printer should look something like this:
David replied:
The printers do not have to support IPP at all. That's why you define the
printers to the *CUPS server* as LPR printers, not have the clients bypass
the CUPS server and talk to the printers directly, which (unless I'm
missing
something entirely) is what the setup you're describing
I have the CUPS printing working from windows desktops and Linux guest to
the printers when using IPP.
I have a few printers that do not support IPP and require LPR/LPD.
I have done the following in setting up LPR/LPD with CUPS on Linux System
z.
We are using zVM 5.3 and SuSE SLES10 SP2.
Dave responded:
Then you specify a lpd URI in CUPS from the CUPS server, not from the
the clients. The clients should need to speak only IPP. Your device URI
in CUPS for the printer should look something like this:
lpd://hostname/raw
Replace hostname with the actual hostname of the printer.
It
David replied:
If your Windows clients are Win2000 or later, you don't have to use LPD at
all -- Microsoft actually bought a clue and put IPP support into Windows
natively. When you define the printer on the Windows client, select
Internet
Printing, and when prompted for the URI for the printer
List,
I am working with SAMBA/CUPS for printing on SLES10 SP2 for the first time.
I have CUPS enabled and can print from the Linux guest to the printer as
LPD or IPP.
For now all I want to do is simple printing from Linux to the Printer which
is working and printing from Windows desktop to the
From David Boyes:
Works very well, if a bit CPU intensive. You may want to substitute GPG
(GNU Privacy Guard) as GPG is available on more platforms (PGP is
limited by some closed source libraries that aren't available on some of
the exotica, like s390x).
Thanks David and all for the info on
I have not worked with this product and no real knowledge of PGP, 'Pretty
Good Privacy', that I am told comes with some Linux distributions.
Any comments on installing, configuring, and use of this product in
general ?
TIA
Regards,
Terry L. Spaulding
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Terry Spaulding
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:41 AM
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Subject: May 08, 2008 NEUVM meeting
Next meeting of NEUVM:
05/08
I am trying to setup SLES10 to prevent direct login as root on the 3270
console for a SLES10 Linux guest.
I have disabled that in /etc/ssh/sshd_config with no problem for ssh
sessions.
Something must be different on SLES10 compared to SLES9.
I checked the /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager which has
My mistake here.
I am not preventing direct root login on the 3270 console.
Any ID you enter on the 3270 console including root allows for no password
or incorrect password.
I am thinking I must have something not set correctly in one of the
/etc/pam.d files ?
Any thoughts ?
TIA
Thanks David ..
David replied:
No problem. I am just not familiar with pcnfsd2. The source files I
find
are I386 or I586.
the file I downloaded: linux_pcnfsd2-1.6-578.src.rpm
That's the source code. That should build w/o problem.
I know very little about pcnfsd2. Has anyone tried to compile pcnfsd2 on
SLES9 and got it to work ?
I am told this is an NFS authentication daemon for windows clients to
authenticate and do NFS mounts from Linux NFS server.
We are trying to get windows servers to do NFS mounts of Linux
No problem. I am just not familiar with pcnfsd2. The source files I find
are I386 or I586.
the file I downloaded: linux_pcnfsd2-1.6-578.src.rpm
David replied:
I know very little about pcnfsd2. Has anyone tried to compile pcnfsd2
on
SLES9 and got it to work ?
Works fine, AFAICT. What's the
I thought the two different kernels referred to the two different streams
that are used for updates/patches on the IBM developer website. The 2.6.5
is the older one that is delivered with SLES9
and the 2.6.23 is the newer kernel which is not yet delivered as the GA
kernel version. I am not sure
I have posted this question to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] with no
response yet.
Any assistance on this would be appreciated.
I noticed that when I set the lockd (lockmngr) ports to a specific static
port that the statd (status) port is set to the same port.
Should I also set statd (status) to a
result in the client lock
request going to the statd, or the client status request going to the
lockd.
-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Terry Spaulding
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:56 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: NFS question
David replied:
The two of you are answering different questions. Terry is talking about
clients; you're talking about servers.
Vsftpd works quite nicely with ftps. It also has the advantage of using
OpenSSL, so if you have a crypto engine and the current crypto drivers
in your Linux, it's able to
for FTPS and
SFTP will not suffice.
Terry Spaulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use sftp which works
very well. Command mode, native, and free.
I have also used a GUI package on WIN/XP called WinSCP3. It is free on the
internet and uses sftp. Nice point/click/drag between Win/XP and Linux
Richard wrote:
We were making progress with SAN ... and now we're stuck again. Actually,
SAN itself is working pretty reliably at this point. But I cannot figure
out how to feed a multipath SAN volume into LVM2.
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Warren,
If your looking to use a basic editor that is easier to use then vi try
midnight commander 'mc' on SuSE. It is on the SuSE distro. MC has a basic
editor and other basic utilities available. Very basic screen based editor
not GUI but uses point and click mouse or PF keys. Sort of like MS
I was curious on whether like on zOS, zVM, zVSE best practice of placing
page datasets on low use volumes or give page datasets their own volume is
also done for Linux zSeries by those out there running production instances
where you are running high volume applications, WebSpere, Java based apps,
We are using SAN storage... soon we will be phasing out ECKD dasd for Linux
zSeries.
The question is 'best' practice if you do have to utilize a swap
file/partition should it be on dasd/SAN Lun by itself similar to zOS, zVM,
zVSE or does the majority just place it on the same dasd/SAN Lun volume
I have taken a step back a bit on this project. The boot disc is device
/dev/sda1, main '/' root file system is /dev/sdb1.
Both of these are scsi devices but no multipath-tools service. I created a
third lun for those directories on the '/' filesystem that I need to have
some size control ability
: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Terry Spaulding
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 11:08 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: question on '/' root filesystem as zFCP/multipath-tools/LVM
I am working on SLES9 SP3 s390x under zVM 5.2 trying to migrate from
ECKD
Thanks
I am working on SLES9 SP3 s390x under zVM 5.2 trying to migrate from ECKD
to zFCP/SCSI.
Has anyone setup the '/' root filesystem to be multipath-tools and LVM with
SLES9 SP3 ?
I have setup three SCSI devices. One for /boot, one for the '/' filesystem,
and a third one with individual LVM
Has anyone been able to compile the vsftpd product to enable the TLS for
secured logon and transmission of data ?
We would like to use the VSFTPD product if we could get the TLS support
enabled.
We looked at using the Pure-FTP product which also supports the SSL/TLS but
the data transfer itself
on these links :
ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-2.0.4/README.ssl
ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-2.0.4/INSTALL
http://vsftpd.beasts.org/vsftpd_conf.html
I Hope this will help.
On 6/21/06, Terry Spaulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone been able to compile
.
Mark wrote:
You'll need the OpenSSL and OpenSSL development packages.
Mark Post
-Original Message-
Terry Spaulding
Subject: Re: Secure FTP Server
I do not have the messages in front of me but when we tried to compile
In my case I am using multipath-tools on SLES9 SP3. Is there a .conf for
multipath-tools ?
Terry
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Arty Replied:
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:33:35 -0400 Terry
:
We do LVM with ECKD but I'm not sure if we do Multipathing.
What do you mean by Multipathing?
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Terry Spaulding
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:34 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Implementing zFCP
the rpm file on CD1.
What do the multipath-tools buy you?
-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Terry Spaulding
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 7:31 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Implementing zFCP Multipathing on existing SLES9 SP3
I am trying to implement zFCP Multipathing on SLES9 SP3. This is under zVM
5.2.
The Linux guest is an existing Linux using ECKD disk which also has LVM non
multipathing on the ECKD.
I have no problem adding the zFCP with SCSI Lun. The problem is setting the
/etc/lvm/lvm.conf file filter to
Problem solved.
We had the source for YaST pointing to the SP3 and not to the SLES9 s390x
install CDs. Once we changed the source location to the install CDs
we were able to find the make and findutilis-locate and install.
tia .
Regards,
Terry L. Spaulding
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They want to create an FTP service or area where all have access to send
and receive files but in a secure fashion across the organization on Linux
zSeries. I was curious if anyone has setup something like this and what
they used or if there was a commercial package that offered a structured
FTP
I am trying to find a product that is a secured central FTP service where
the FTP server will be
on Linux zSeries and files can be deposited and picked up there.
Looking for more then just sftp but not sure of any other requirements at
this time.
Has anyone found or seen a package that is for a
Mike, I had the same problem applying SP2 to SLES9. It never picked up the
2nd CD.
I had to merge the cd's into one cd and point YaST update to the new merged
file.
After that the Patch Update process worked for SLES9 SP2.
Mark,
I was able to vgrename as you suggested by taking the system to single user
mode.
steps taken: init 1 ß change the run time level to 1 for single user
mode.
umount each lvm filesystem
lvchange –an each LVM file system
vgrename zzz
-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Terry Spaulding
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 2:42 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: LVM: vgrename an active lvm group ??
-snip-
Any thoughts on how I can rename my volume group when
I have been testing TSM bare metal restore of SLES9 s390 by using another
SLES9 s390 and mounting the Linux to be restored volumes on to /mnt and
have successfully restored the SLES9 and booted no problem. The problem I
have is that the Linux I used to recover the failed Linux instance both had
Nilson,
I had the same problem updating an existing SLES9 SP1 31 bit to SP2.
Someone on the list recommended I create a new directory and copy the
contents of CD1 and CD2 into that new directory. Change the source location
for YaST to point to that directory and use the 'Patches Update'
I have an existing SLES9 SP1 and trying to install the SP2 update.
I down loaded the three ISO files from the SuSE Portal. All checked out ok
with MD5SUM.
I then uploaded them to a SLES8 system that we use as a software
repository.
Umounted that filesystem and mounted to the SLES9 that we want to
Do you mean to mount loop back and then copy the contents of CD1 and CD2
into a new subdirectory 'xxx'
and use 'xxx' as the new source location ?
TIA ..
---
Bill replied:
You need to copy the first two CDs into a common
I assume you mean change the source location or is there an actual
registration ?
I did change the source location.
thanks ...
-
David Replied:
Read the README on the SP2 cd. You need to register the SP as an
installation source before
Jim, Linux on zSeries running as a guest supports PAV if the dasd device is
dedicated to Linux. zVM does not provide support for PAV nor for Linux dasd
setup as VM minidisk.
If you are looking for PAV for zVM system volumes or for minidisk
supporting
Linux then you need to provide a requirement
James,
What is your zSeries platform ? Amount of cstor and xstor allocated to the
LPAR ? Number of IFLs in that LPAR ?
zVM version ?
Did you also install the sample apps as part of the WAS install ?
James, I do not have access to a system today but I will get back to this
list on Monday.
I am curious about deploying a new app and need to check something out
here.
James,
Not sure how you installed all of your Portal. If you installed the entire
enchilada on one Linux zSeries then I would expect some extreme overhead.
Recommendation:
1.) If you installed the HTTP sever on the same Portal server from the WAS
Portal CD then deinstall the HTTP server and
.ibm.com/servers/eserver/includes/download/gm130636.pdf) it
looks like you'll have to get the RPM from the SUSE maintenance web site,
portal.suse.com.
Mark Post
-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terry
Spaulding
Sent: Wednesday, October 20
Thanks Guillaume. I will be testkng this in a few days.
Guillaume Morin responded:
On 11 Aug 13:10, Terry Spaulding wrote:
-A ssh -s 172.xx.xxx.xxx -d 10.x.x.xx -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22
-j ACCEPT
Can I code
I have a group of Linux admins on a subnet exclusive to their group. This
subnet is setup as dhcp so their are no static ip addresses per
workstation. Is it possible to define the policy for a subnet permitting
use of a specific port ?
Static example as follows:
-A ssh -s 172.xx.xxx.xxx -d
I need to look at the support for administration of LDAP user accounts.
What is a good freebee product for LDAP admin if not webmin ?
I see that cpu, gq, and directory_administrator come on the SuSE SLES8
CD's.
Any recommendations ?
TIA
I am looking for a down load site for webmin to run on SuSE SLES8 Intel.
Can anyone point me in the correct direction ?
TIA ..
Regards,
Terry L. Spaulding
IBM Global Services
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For LINUX-390 subscribe
To the list,
I am looking for a couple of good basic editors that are command line or
gui but are free or come with SuSE SLES8 for zSeries ?
Anything but vi or vim that would be good for very infrequent users of an
editor.
TIA.
Regards,
Terry L. Spaulding
IBM Global Services
[EMAIL
I will try THE.
Thanks to all that replied
-
If you are interested in something with a mainframe look and feel,
install THE. It's on the SLES CD and has an XEdit compatibility mode.
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:44, Terry Spaulding
Linux list,
Would like to hear from anyone that has implemented WebSphere Application
Server 5.1 and HTTP server working with Netegrity Sitefinder that is
running on a non Linux platform.
I have found out that Netegrity is not currently available to run on Linux
for S390/zSeries. For WAS
Has anyone come across gui style ETL tools that will make it easy for
porting and mapping data from a flat file or comma delimited file into a
DB2 UDB V8 database running on SuSE Linux for zSeries ?
TIA ...
Regards,
Terry L. Spaulding
IBM Global Services
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux list,
I am looking for a windows based product that will take a group of windows
files (html, gif, sss, ear) and create a tar file on the windows platform
which will be written to a CD and then the Files will be transferred from
the CD to a Linux platform where it will be untarred.
I have
-01-28 at 11:33, Terry Spaulding wrote:
I am looking for a windows based product that will take a group of
windows
files (html, gif, sss, ear) and create a tar file
Cygwin comes to mind.
http://www.cygwin.com
Oscar, I did receive a file from jwilliams : ibmja130-1.3.0-0.s390.rpm
Is yours this same name ?
If not then yes please send me the file directly.
I will be testing both of these Friday.
Oscar wrote:
Can anyone direct me to a down load site for the Java JRE 1.3.0 Linux S390
?
I have gone thru and searched sites with no success for Linux S390
platform.
I need that version for LDAP 3.2.2-1 as Java JRE 1.3.1 does not work.
TIA...
Regards,
Terry L. Spaulding
IBM Global Services
Correct, I need the Java JRE 1.3.0.
---
Mark wrote:
Except all that IBM has available for download is 1.3.1, and 1.4.1. Terry
said he needed 1.3.0.
I am working with LDAP 3.2.2-1. Trying to use the dmt tool in LDAP.
Yes, it is an older LDAP.
I got message saying it did not like the Java JRE 1.3.1. Must be 1.3.0.
Adam wrote:
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Wow. What app do you have that can't handle a
I have LDAP installed with no problems and it is working.
I need to use the directory management tool (dmt) that is part of the LDAP
package and it requires Java JRE 1.3.0.
It looks like the java delivered with LDAP is broken. The resolve is to
download a good Java JRE 1.3.0.
I enter dmt at the
--List --
I just installed SuSE SLES8 31bit on zVM 4.4. I configured Hummingbird to
do an SSH connection. When I try to execute the connection I get the
following error message from Hummingbird:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -display 170.63.129.90:0.0
[1] 2275
linux01:~ # -bash: /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm:
I do not have the links you show on your SLES8 for xterm.
I checked another SLES8 and they are there. This is strange. I am
installing from scratch (5) SLES8's one after the other with all the same
options. The first one does not have the xterm link. The second Linux does.
I am puzzled on why one
Thank you to all the responses on setting up auto logon for SuSE SLES7. It
has been very helpful.
Thanks again...
Regards,
Terry L. Spaulding
IBM Global Services
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To the List,
We have gone thru and disabled certain services on SuSE SLES7 that prevent
services such as inetd, ftp, lpd, remote inetd by renaming S11lpd,
S10rinetd, and S10inetd in the rc3.d directory.
We have implemented Netfilter firewalls to allow only certain ports and
traffic to flow.
Linux List:
Can someone point me to the doc on how to setup SuSE SLES7 to come up and
already be logged on as root user ?
I need to setup SLES7 on zSeries to auto logon.
Thanks
Regards,
Terry L. Spaulding
IBM Global Services
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/inittab ?
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Rob wrote:
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:48, Terry Spaulding wrote:
Linux List:
Can someone point me to the doc on how to setup SuSE SLES7 to come up and
already be logged on as root user ?
Change the sulogin in /etc/inittab
I am having some problems getting SuSE SLES7 Yast2 working when using
Hummingbird V9.0 Xclient SSH sessions.
On SLES8 this is not problem. Everything works out of the box for SLES8 and
Hummingbird.
On SLES7 I am able to SSH to the Linux instance. When I enter yast2 I get
the following:
Do you have to use some special utility to create new init scripts on SLES7
?
I have been creating them using pico. I have a @K01was and a @S23was to
stop and start the Websphere Application Server.
When I created the start script and saved it the K01was script also changed
to look like the
Ken and Dave,
Thanks for the responses. I was pretty much on the same track here once we
realized the links and files in init.d relationship and your responses
confirmed I was heading in the write direction.
I have a couple of very basic start/stop scripts working for WAS V5 on
SLES7. I need to
Dave and Mark, Thanks for putting me straight on the SSH. I was way of
track.
I will look into startx.
Thanks
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Dave wrote:
On SLES7 I am able
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
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
I need to write a script that automates the db2 start, stop, and force
application all.
I have tried writing a script that will do the su to the db instance and
issue a db2stop and then exit.
No luck in getting it correct.
zVM, SuSE SLES7, DB2 UDB V8.
If anyone has examples would you mind
Thanks to Ronald van der Laan, Neale Ferguson, and Rich Smrcina for the
tips and examples.
I have it working now.
Much appreciated.
Regards,
Terry L. Spaulding
IBM Global Services
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Thanks to Guillaume and Matt for responding to my questions. I am sure I
will have more to follow.
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Guillaume wrote:
I don't know SLES7. FWIW, just some precisions about
netfilter/ipchains/iptables.
Netfilter and iptables
I have been looking for info on setting up IPtables on SuSE SLES7 for s390.
It looks like the iptables was either not there or replaced with NetFilter
??
Does anyone have some simple examples of setting this up ?
I have Linux guest on a zVM 4.3 guestlan running LDAP, WebSeal, TAM,
Websphere,
I have SuSE Linux SLES7 S390 with kernel timer patch installed under zVM
4.3. z800. I need to install DB2 UDB V7.2 to support LDAP.
I started the DB2 install with ./db2setup and receive the following error
message immediately.
./db2inst: error while loading shared libraries:
Eric,
Based on the level of LDAP needed to be deployed DB2 V8 is not an option.
The LDAP is part of TAM 3.9. It is only supported on DB2 UDB V7.
In your response I enter a link statement to point the library to what DB2
V7 requires.
I am installing DB2 V7 using the script ./db2setup, what rpm
Eric,
The link did the trick. I entered the link and used ./db2setup and
everything installed no problem.
I was also installing HTTP from WAS V5 with Fixpak 1 on another SuSE SLES7
which worked ok for the install.
When I tried to do ./apachectl start I received the same error as in the
DB2 UDB
Looking for VPN solutions (Server) for Linux on S/390 or Linux Intel.
Clients can be Win95, Win98, Win2000, Win/XP, Linux.
Would be interested in hearing what is being used and what effort was
needed to install and setup ?
Thanks
Regards,
Terry L. Spaulding
IBM Global Services
William,
If the previous OS such as OS/390 had the OSA defined to it the portname
will be specified by OS/390. Change your TCPIP defs for zVM to specify the
original portname from the previous or other OS sharing the adapter. If the
portnames match you can share the OSA adapter. I recently ran
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