SWAPGEN EXEC - doesn't like things in the stack

2008-04-10 Thread Scott Rohling
:-) Scott Rohling System z Linux and VM Specialist IBM Systems and Technology Group Lab Services -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: What distribution and why?

2008-04-10 Thread Scott Rohling
it's package manager (yum in RH5) and the ease with which you can create package repositories. SuSE/RH also put config files in slightly different places - so it reduces the learning curve if they stick to the distro they use on other platforms. Scott Rohling System z Linux and VM Specialist IBM

Re: FW: Could use some help tuning a POC

2008-04-11 Thread Scott Rohling
How about your z/VM levels (5.1, 5.3?) -- 5.3 contained some good performance enhancements that have been immediately obvious to some of my customers. Also - Linux -- what Linux distro and what level? Scott Rohling On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linux Guest recovery at Sungard not going well

2008-04-11 Thread Scott Rohling
Issue: zipl -x(it may be uppercase X - don't have a way to check right now) -- this eliminates the menu and boots the default right away. Scott Rohling On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With SLES10, I had the following menu: 1

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

2008-04-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Are you coupling e200 to an osa? What does 'vmcp q nic' show (or #CP Q NIC at the VM console) .. ? Scott On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Kelly F. Hickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, no responses? -- Kelly F. Hickel Senior Product Architect MQSoftware, Inc. 952-345-8677 Office

Re: A question about efforts to replace z/VM CMS users with Linux VMs...

2008-04-17 Thread Scott Rohling
on some CMS disk - but this seems kludgy. I'm sure there are lots more ideas out there about how to use Linux rather than CMS for 'service machines' as we used to call them.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Grasso, M. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, I would

zOS sysprog - you're kidding me - zVM requires a real tape drive?? Did I wake up in 1999?

2008-04-17 Thread Scott Rohling
to tape on this platform? Any input, positive approaches, words of wisdom, or simple ideas are welcome here.. Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: zOS sysprog - you're kidding me - zVM requires a real tape drive?? Did I wake up in 1999?

2008-04-17 Thread Scott Rohling
oops - I'm realizing this should rightly go to ibm-vm but am new to posting - I'll try and figure it out.. It 'is' pertinent to this discussion group though - so maybe I'll just let it stand. Up to the following fray.. On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Cloned system mounts file systems read-only

2008-04-18 Thread Scott Rohling
You're not showing how you either ATTACHed or LINKed to the 186/187 -- you need to DETACH them. (vmcp det 186-187). Just putting them offline with chccwdev doesn't do it.. (unless your 'logout' is a LOGOFF -- if so, then I'm stumped) Hope that helps - Scott On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:15 AM,

Re: Monitoring zVM CPU usage with automated alerts

2008-04-21 Thread Scott Rohling
Don't have any manuals handy -- but PERFKIT has alert levels and a way to utilize an exit to do notification (need some way to send email/alert from zVM).. I believe Omegamon XE can monitor zVM... but not sure offhand how records are fed thru TEPS/TEMS. Scott Rohling On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8

Re: Renaming dasd references

2008-04-21 Thread Scott Rohling
--- zipl on SUSE) and then things should show up as you want them to.. I also thought I'd heard of a way to specify the dasd device rather than relying on the order of the DASD statement -- maybe someone else has more details? Scott Rohling On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Jerry Whitteridge

Re: Adding DASD, but unable to automount

2008-04-23 Thread Scott Rohling
Did you put a filesystem on it to mount? mkfs.ext3 or something ? From what you're showing my guess would be you didn't create the filesystem.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Quillen, Channon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SLES9 64-bit with all the latest updates. I'm able

Re: question regarding VGs

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Rohling
The tools you listed make no changes to the disks and you should use them to do find out what disks belong to what VG.. Scott Rohling On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Felipe Bannwart Perina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Is there any utilitary I can use to check a disk and find out what

Re: VM Accounting data in linux

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Rohling
- not sure this is what you're after.. Scott Rohling On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:38 AM, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone begun using linux tools (awk, rrdtool, MySQL, etc) to manipulate, store, report the data in the VM accounting cards? I haven't had to report on VM's

Re: Learn something new every day

2008-06-05 Thread Scott Rohling
Sounds just like RH kickstart :-) Sent from my iPhone On Jun 5, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did about SLES10 SP2 (and perhaps prior) for System z. It turns out that if you have a properly crafted AutoYaST install file (autoinst.xml), and your kernel parmfile

Re: Vexxing Rexx

2008-06-12 Thread Scott Rohling
.. LISTFILE is the 'command line' method and what you want to use if you're automating and wanting to grab command output. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Ian S. Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: listfile and filelist are two different commands. One writes a text list, the other

Re: Vexxing Rexx

2008-06-12 Thread Scott Rohling
(alloc noheader worked. So I guess it wasnt' vexxing rexx. Or even a tripe pipe. :) MA On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LISTFILE is the command to use - as John Hanley said - with the DATE or ALLOC option. FLIST puts you into XEDIT -- you're taking

Re: Error while connecting to DB2 Connect from z/Linux over HiperSockets

2008-06-13 Thread Scott Rohling
If I'm looking at the right error codes, 113 would indicate 'Destination host unreachable'.. Are all of these DB2 connections going to the same host? Is that 158 address in the msg the server? Is the routing for the hipersocket correct? Any indications in messages.log or the db2 logs? Not

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-06-16 Thread Scott Rohling
Yep - it's me :-) Just sent you an email off-list .. thanks for getting back in touch! On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Shawn Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't happen to be the same Scott Rohling from IBM that helped out at Fort Meade, MD awhile back are you? Believe you came out

Re: Error while connecting to DB2 Connect from z/Linux over HiperSockets

2008-06-16 Thread Scott Rohling
Recent responders: Just FYI - the originator of this thread indicated it's been solved. Details on solution were sketchy :-) But not sure any more speculation is going to head anywhere ... Terry - any more details from you on what the user was(n't) doing would help.. I assumed you meant

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-06-17 Thread Scott Rohling
Thought about what you're after and would suggest this instead: - Use PIPEDDR to write to a file and FTP this file to your Linux server (or use use TSM and make your remote Linux server a TSM server and backup - perhaps using cmsfs on a local Linux guest to read the minidisk(s) where you store

Re: DDR'ing 3390 DASD To Remote Location

2008-06-17 Thread Scott Rohling
Sorry - I reread your post and realize you're using Linux on the DR side and want to do restores to DASD it has access to. Is the Linux server on the DR side an s390 server? Scott On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought about what you're after and would

Re: Linux guest on a diet

2008-06-20 Thread Scott Rohling
You could start looking at 'read only' or 'shared' root and other filesystems.. the idea revolves around having guests LINK a master copy of Linux root file system or other filesystem in RO. Then bind mounting that with RW areas for config files, logs, etc.. Potentially a huge amount of DASD

Re: IHS and SSI

2008-06-30 Thread Scott Rohling
Can you show how /inc/header.htm are referred to in /home/index.shtml ? Scott On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Mauro Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone! I am migrating a website currently running under iPlanet/Sun Solaris to a IHS under RHEL4. The migration was almost successfull,

Re: Question DASD on CLIENT from Start system instructions

2008-07-02 Thread Scott Rohling
If you use an LVM for root .. I find it's a 'good' thing to have a separate non-LVM for /boot. Seems like RH defaults to partitioning a single minidisk with /boot in dasda1, swap in dasda2, and root LVM on dasda3. (Or maybe that's just how the kickstart file I was using did things?).. Anyway

Re: Costing Model for Linux-390

2008-07-02 Thread Scott Rohling
In terms of charge back - there seems to be 2 major ways of doing things: - actual (set rates for CPU hour, DASD, etc as actually measured) - projected (set rates based on projected use w/regular review) I'm going to avoid discussing how you come up with what the rates are -- but would suggest

Re: DNS Entries

2008-07-02 Thread Scott Rohling
Have you checked with whoever controls your DNS to see if they added LINUX60 for some reason? Scott On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, really dumb question. What would make a DNS server automagically add an entry into its list? I'm getting

Re: Systems management - quick survey?

2008-07-07 Thread Scott Rohling
I agree with Alan - the list is much broader.. I've updated below what I've seen my customers using, using Alan's list. Not sure if this is what you want, Michael - but FWIW: Scott On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, 07/07/2008 at 04:08 EDT,

Re: dvd download

2008-07-09 Thread Scott Rohling
Try wget on Linux.. If you're on Windows -- well, I use Cygwin and have wget on there.. For files this big, straight browser downloads don't seem to do well. wget allows you do recontinue a broken xfer (wget -c).. I have terrible luck with very large files with just about anything but wget

Re: Yast install. What did I specify wrong? Mount error code -3003

2008-07-09 Thread Scott Rohling
* Create root partition /dev/dasdb1 (2.2 GB) with unknown * Create root partition /dev/dasdc1 (2.2 GB) with unknown This part bothers me (as well as the unknown) -- it's like it created 2 root partitions - 1 on dasdb1 and 1 on dasdc1.It seems like your mount points are messed

Re: Yast install. What did I specify wrong? Mount error code -3003

2008-07-10 Thread Scott Rohling
through Yast DASD activate and partition screens What is the simplest steps to get it to work? But having given yast enough to properly complete? Thank you very much Paul -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent

Re: Debian (was Reiser)

2008-07-15 Thread Scott Rohling
RedHat uses rpm files for package management - debian uses deb files. There are lots of package managers but the dpkg command is much like the rpm command. You can also use apt-get - which is somewhat like yum. To me, the package management is the most obvious difference - I'm sure there are

Re: New to zLinux... Backup solutions...

2008-07-17 Thread Scott Rohling
A bit disconcerting that a backup was taken but the restore process isn't known. At the simplest level, you can DDR the DASD for VM/Linux to tape or DASD.. then use DDR to restore it. For Linux - the guest should be logged off if you want to ensure the backup will result in a working system when

Re: How to increase swap V-disk sizes

2008-07-29 Thread Scott Rohling
storage (from 512M down to 128M). But according to the tomcat logs the out of memory problem is back. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:36 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: How

Re: How to increase swap V-disk sizes

2008-07-29 Thread Scott Rohling
more knowledge of Linux memory management and what conditions are going to result in an out of memory w/o hitting swap... Scott On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: What about free -m -- does it show swapped being used? I've only used swapon -s to see what

Re: Root filesystem

2008-08-13 Thread Scott Rohling
. Then - make your system unbootable (put an error in your /etc/fstab or zipl.conf or something) .. and then try and recover it with both an LVM and non-LVM root. These are the kinds of pros and cons you have to weigh yourself.. Scott Rohling

Re: Root filesystem

2008-08-14 Thread Scott Rohling
happen because root fills up.. and being able to dynamically add space without bringing down Linux can be an easy fix until the cause of the unexpected file writing can be determined. Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: 3270 console confusion

2008-08-14 Thread Scott Rohling
randomly choosing a running server to do recovery on another. (though of course I've done this when necessary!) Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:41 PM, RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other bad thing about

Re: Root filesystem

2008-08-14 Thread Scott Rohling
probably easier to yank a disk away from a guest than it is to yank a hard drive out of an x86 server :-) Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Ryan McCain [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: My point of view is that there is only one reason to put / in an LVM: easier expansion if needed. Some

Re: Root filesystem

2008-08-14 Thread Scott Rohling
dirs (/usr, /var, etc) under a single VG with seperate LVs. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: The answer is: it depends. I usually try to put /usr, /opt, /var, and /tmp on separate filesystems. One big HOWEVER is that I know that my users

Re: Root filesystem

2008-08-14 Thread Scott Rohling
to use the word 'never' myself. Constantly bites me in the ass when I have to deal with other people's worlds.. ;-) Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/13/2008 at 9:47 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Root filesystem

2008-08-15 Thread Scott Rohling
a magnitude more complicated (but certainly doable with things like REXECD on VM, vmcp to link the disks, etc). But still - that would be nifty too :-) Interesting idea... Scott Rohling On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/15/2008 at 12:58 AM, in message

Re: Root filesystem

2008-08-15 Thread Scott Rohling
: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:11 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Root filesystem If you're talking about a VG that has free space and a script smart enough to add the free space and do the resize, etc

Re: Root filesystem

2008-08-15 Thread Scott Rohling
See lvreduce .. also vgreduce (but you can only remove unused physical volumes which ain't always easy). If you do a 'man lvreduce' it will caution you that you need to resize the filesystem before you resize the LV.. pay attention to that :-) Scott Rohling On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:24 AM

Re: Root filesystem

2008-08-18 Thread Scott Rohling
that - no matter what kind of agents are running, I often implement my own check/alert system (simple scripts) for problem machines or ones I'm really keeping a close eye on. So - not suggesting they are mutually exclusive :-) Scott Rohling On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Call for SHARE Presentations for linuxvm.org

2008-08-19 Thread Scott Rohling
Um - his email and phone number are in his post -- probably easier to use that to reach him? :-) Scott Rohling On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Shawn, This is Terry! Can you give me a call I have a question with an issue

Re: Differece in RED Hat and Suse

2008-08-27 Thread Scott Rohling
SA's will know what's happening underneath the covers and be able to transition to whatever front end is put in place. IMHO. Scott Rohling On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:32 PM, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad Hinson wrote: John Summerfield wrote: Mark Post wrote: like YaST

Re: Two Different YaST2 Control Center displays

2008-08-27 Thread Scott Rohling
) It's probably much more complicated than that - ignorance really is bliss... Scott Rohling On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's impossible to get rid of some of these things too. Sound drivers, wireless, usb, pci utils, other things pre-req these type

Re: WHat are people doing

2008-09-18 Thread Scott Rohling
.. but FWIW -- Scott Rohling On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Are you seeing a fair number of shops running Oracle on Linux on Z and if so have the results been favorable? The question comes about because My management is hearing

Re: Timestamp a command?

2008-09-23 Thread Scott Rohling
reports that have timestamps, etc... Scott Rohling On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Tom Duerbusch [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I would like an easy way to prefix the results of a command with the timestamp. The command: vmstat 10 8640 vmstat.out I start this up at 5 PM, so I can see if some process

Re: question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread Scott Rohling
Isn't that what you want to see? The resolution of all the aliases and the final result? That's what I'd want to see - sanity check to make sure the aliases are resolving...And in this case it looks like SHUTL2 is resolving but CMSDOWN is not.. Scott Rohling (resending -- for some reason

Re: question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread Scott Rohling
issue commands. Make sense? Scott Rohling On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:22 AM, LJ Mace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when I sudo SHUTL2 I get: sudo: SHUTL2: command not found Mace --- On Thu, 9/25/08, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread Scott Rohling
To further explain -- you would normally use an alias in sudoers to point to a list of commands ... Cmnd_Alias OPCMDS = /opt/scripts/cmsshutdown.sh, /sbin/shutdown -h now, /sbin/shutdown -r now Then use that allias throughout the sudoers file: oper1 ALL=OPCMDS Scott Rohling On Thu, Sep

Sharing data between z/OS and Linux on z/Series

2008-09-26 Thread Scott Rohling
Haifa website).. Outside of network mounts -- is anyone aware of something that allows either z/OS to read Linux filesystems directly, or vice-a-versa? (ECKD or FCP/SAN) Thanks for any suggestions! Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390

Where did ext2online go?

2008-09-26 Thread Scott Rohling
the error msg.. sorry). So - does anyone know if resize2fs should work with a mounted filesystem? And is it truly the replacement for ext2online? Thanks!! Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Sharing data between z/OS and Linux on z/Series

2008-09-26 Thread Scott Rohling
Thanks David and Dave! I've passed this on .. appreciate the response .. Scott Rohling On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Scott, there's an open source project called MVSDASD that provides a read only Linux device driver to flat files stored on MVS DASD

Re: Perftk fun

2008-09-28 Thread Scott Rohling
Also - check your SYSTEM NETID file -- If you don't have one, that could be the problem..I was recently on a system that looked like it had similar issues - there was no SYSTEM NETID file - so I created on on the A disk (cpuid VMPRODA VMPRODA) and that got it going.. Scott Rohling On Sun

Re: Perftk fun

2008-09-28 Thread Scott Rohling
Have you got something (like MONWRITE) collecting the records? You may not see any data until the next interval (5 minutes? - depends on what your sampling rate is).. Scott Rohling On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Pat Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Created a SYSTEM NETID FILE on the a-disk

Re: Perftk fun

2008-09-28 Thread Scott Rohling
Ok - hmm - what's your FCONRMT SYSTEMS file look like? Scott Rohling On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Pat Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FCXAUT410 message comes every 5 minutes, on the button: +01 11:32:00 FCXAUT410A Unauth. SF SERVER request by PERFSVM at VMPRODA +03 11:37:00

Gigabit interface on Linux?

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
-- everything works fine except the reported speed... Any ideas? Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http

Re: Gigabit interface on Linux?

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Any ideas on how we can verify what the speed really is? Since they are seeing this number - there is now doubt in the air :-) Scott Rohling p.s. ethtool eth0 return 'No data available' On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/2008 at 12:02 PM

Re: Gigabit interface on Linux?

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Right -- that was step 2 -- I was hoping there was some Redhat command that could tell us (one that works on s390x distros) ... Thanks, Barton -- we'll see what we can find out thru our own measurements.. Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Barton Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Gigabit interface on Linux?

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Thanks, Bruce -- we did that and confirmed it's set to gigabit.. but there seems to be concern from the Linux folks as mii-tools is reporting 100mbs and ethtool is not reporting anything... Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Bruce Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'd need to get

Unusual amount of overhead on large volume group

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
about how much space it takes to manage this? Any input welcome! Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http

Re: Gigabit interface on Linux?

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
the same vswitch could flow much faster than a gigabit, but data flowing out the physical port is limited by the connection on that port. The virtual NIC is only indirectly related to the physical port. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Bruce -- we

Re: Gigabit interface on Linux?

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Thanks! That's very helpful to show this customer... appreciate you passing that on! Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Hall, Ken (GTS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We actually opened an issue with IBM over this. Here's what I got back: Action Taken...: The ethtool utility

Re: Unusual amount of overhead on large volume group

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Thanks, Mark -- I forgot all about -m 0 when doing the mkfs.ext3 -- and using tune2fs -m0 got us back to 897G! Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/2008 at 12:49 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Gigabit interface on Linux?

2008-09-29 Thread Scott Rohling
to explain what they are seeing and why... Thanks again for all the great responses! Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Bruce -- we did that and confirmed it's set to gigabit.. but there seems to be concern from the Linux folks as mii

Re: ZFS or LVM2 on Debian?

2008-10-06 Thread Scott Rohling
incremental type backups using rsync. But since you're using TSM, you may already have an incremental solution.. fwiw. Scott Rohling On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Eric. Form your description of the intended usage of the DASD space, I would think

Re: Lx86

2008-10-16 Thread Scott Rohling
Ok - I'm intrigued - you're running QEMU under Linux under z/VM? (and then some x86 OS under that?) Scott Rohling On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:47 AM, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can partially do this now with QEMU. We're working on some extensions to improve the usability

Re: Lx86

2008-10-22 Thread Scott Rohling
Why not use LVM with one large minidisk and use logical volumes to 'partition'? That way you can use a single partition on the minidisk(s) and divide it up as you like on Linux... Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Steve Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron and I have been

Re: Lx86

2008-10-22 Thread Scott Rohling
to it - then dump the old (smaller) are. Once you reach a full pack minidisk -- you've got nowhere to go without LVM anyway. Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that was how we were thinking to approch it since fdisk / hard partition style slicing is so

Re: Daylight Savings Time adjustment

2008-10-27 Thread Scott Rohling
Have you got the latest 'tzdata' package? You may want to get that and install it .. (I'm assuming Slackware uses it ... not familiar with Slack) Scott Rohling On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Jones, Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Over the weekend, my Slack/390 system fell back an hour

Re: problems when running mksles9root.sh for SP4

2008-10-28 Thread Scott Rohling
I'm wondering if it's being run as root? Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2008, at 8:35 AM, Michael MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But losetup -a comes up empty handed. Hmm, you were showing at least /dev/loop0 being used earlier. Try making 6 mount points and mounting the 6 ISO images

Re: problems when running mksles9root.sh for SP4

2008-10-28 Thread Scott Rohling
after you do the manual mounts?Is the DVD still showing up? Also - have you already tried rebooting? Scott Rohling On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Bernard Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if it's being run as root? Yes, the script is run by root. The information contained

Re: Install problem with SLES 10 on Vswitch

2008-11-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Could you remind me of the post? It isn't ringing a bell... :-( Scott On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read your post on a vswitch problem posted Apr. of 2007. I had difficulties getting the vswitch working, and installing with it, but got it accomplished.

Re: Backing up z/VM Linux volumes from z/OS

2008-12-16 Thread Scott Rohling
finally decided labelling, formatting with CPFMTXA (or ICKDSF) was fine and nothing special was needed.. The trick was getting z/OS to essentially ignore the VTOC and do a physical backup.. Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390

Re: Adding dasd to LVM

2009-01-12 Thread Scott Rohling
Given /dev/dasdx to be added to lv1 on vg1: pvcreate /dev/dasdx1 vgextend vg1 /dev/dasdx1 vgdisplay vg1 (and note the free space) lvextend -L +xxG /dev/vg1/lv1 It used to be ext2online to extend the filesystem after adding space to the lv.. but resize2fs may do it online now as well.. Scott

Re: SWAPGEN and PROFILE EXEC's

2009-01-15 Thread Scott Rohling
to it (using the punch for example). So I prefer that flexibility.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@velocity-software.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: I want to use the SWAPGEN exec

Re: SWAPGEN and PROFILE EXEC's

2009-01-15 Thread Scott Rohling
That works too - but the down side is little individual PROFILE execs with duplicated logic across them. I know disk space is cheap -- but I look at every individual, unique EXEC as something that must be maintained and worried about... So I tend to lean towards control files and common code

Re: Security question and using scp

2009-01-18 Thread Scott Rohling
on different criteria (names, ips, groups, customers, etc) - all run from 'support' on the central server. I'm not sure whether the above violates any security rules - it would depend on the security policies in place.. Scott Rohling On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Michael MacIsaac mike

Re: Installing a new Guest from the Starter System

2009-01-21 Thread Scott Rohling
Because he started the install over and it created a new ssh key -- at least I'm assuming? Scott On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Adam Thornton athorn...@sinenomine.netwrote: On Jan 21, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Ray Waters wrote: I have the Starter System built (NOVSTART) and can logon to it via

Re: Installing a new Guest from the Starter System

2009-01-21 Thread Scott Rohling
No - but he's past that point (using putty) and is using ssh on the linux guest.. ;-) Scott On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 1/21/2009 at 11:05 AM, Adam Thornton athorn...@sinenomine.net wrote: -snip- sed -i -e '4d' /root/.ssh/known_hosts would

Re: Z/Linux CKD DASD migration from one DASD Subsystem to another

2009-01-21 Thread Scott Rohling
It all depends -- maybe you can give some more detail about what you're migrating from/to - whether it will be done under z/VM - whether the same DASD types will be used. In general - the answer is DDR .. use it to copy volumes of the same device type/size.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Jan 21, 2009

Re: zPRO (tm) Product Announcement

2009-01-21 Thread Scott Rohling
Gonna qualify that at all, Barton? What's too slow to be 'really' useful? SMAPI in general or certain functions? And since when did usefulness necessarily have anything to do with speed? ;-) Scott On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Barton Robinson bar...@vm1.velocity-software.com wrote:

Re: zPRO (tm) Product Announcement

2009-01-21 Thread Scott Rohling
, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 1/21/2009 at 3:52 PM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: -snip- And since when did usefulness necessarily have anything to do with speed? Umm, remember The business value of sub-second response time? While

Re: Security question and using scp

2009-01-22 Thread Scott Rohling
Auditors like to think they know who did things. If I connect to your system using ssh, how do you know it's me? All you know is that someone connected using a public key you've approved. That 'someone' who connected has the private key that pairs with the public key... that's supposed to

Re: Security question and using scp

2009-01-22 Thread Scott Rohling
'safe' way is to specify what the user can issue - specifying what they 'cannot' issue could be an endless game). Scott On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:19 AM, John Summerfield deb...@herakles.homelinux.org wrote: Scott Rohling wrote: We implemented this within IBM: - created userid 'support

Re: Security question and using scp

2009-01-22 Thread Scott Rohling
Are your support users prevented from this command? sudo /bin/bash Are they? Can't really say since what I described was implemented long ago and may not even be used now.. But - no they weren't - neither were they prevented from 'su -' or the other hundreds of ways you might get access

Re: Security question and using scp

2009-01-22 Thread Scott Rohling
For the record - I didn't write that ;-) On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Larry Ploetz la...@stanford.edu wrote: Scott Rohling wrote: If I must configure bind, maybe I need a text editor. If I can use a text editor maybe I can edit /etc/sudoers That's what sudoedit (not visudoers

Re: Good editor for under the 3270 console interface

2009-01-28 Thread Scott Rohling
When you say 'line editor' - that's exactly what you are forced to use.. for example sed. You won't be able to use a 'fullscreen' editor unless you use an ascii console.. vi/vim/nano are all fullscreen editors. On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.comwrote: I

Re: Good editor for under the 3270 console interface

2009-01-28 Thread Scott Rohling
Wow - thanks Rick - I hadn't played with conmode 3270 or dialing.. thanks for reminding us -- Scott On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Rick Troth r...@casita.net wrote: 'vi' will come up clean on a (dialed) 3270 (or the console if you did a #CP TERM CONMODE 3270 before bringing up Linux).

Re: Linux installation discs or minidisks

2009-01-28 Thread Scott Rohling
Hugo -- Check out: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4322.html?Open This talks about sharing filesystems (read only root) and should provide you some valuable help and ideas.. Scott On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Hugo Luis Vitelli vitel...@ar.ibm.comwrote: Hello list ... Since

Re: Linux installation discs or minidisks

2009-01-28 Thread Scott Rohling
...@ar.ibm.com Phone.: 54 11 4898-4898 int. 3485 Fax 54 11 4898-4700 From: Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 01/28/2009 10:28 PM Subject: Re: Linux installation discs or minidisks Sent by: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Module is unknown when signing on

2009-01-30 Thread Scott Rohling
Maybe a pam module isn't available for authentication? Scott On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.comwrote: On some of my images (SLES 10 SP 2), when I try to logon from the console, I get: Last login: Wed Jan 21 16:20:38 CST 2009 from

Re: Module is unknown when signing on

2009-01-30 Thread Scott Rohling
Specifically - look at /etc/pam.d/login .. Compare them between working and nonworking servers... I'm guessing you'll find a difference in the modules called OR the modules are missing on the non-working servers.. Scott On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl

Re: Module is unknown when signing on

2009-01-30 Thread Scott Rohling
Could it be under /lib64/security instead? I've had that problem before.. If so - update /etc/pam.d/login with the /lib64 -- or create a symlink under /lib Scott On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.comwrote: You're rightIt is only on the Oracle machines.

Re: Module is unknown when signing on

2009-01-30 Thread Scott Rohling
, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.comwrote: Could it be under /lib64/security instead? I've had that problem before.. If so - update /etc/pam.d/login with the /lib64 -- or create a symlink under /lib Scott On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus

Re: Formatting 60 mod9s

2009-02-04 Thread Scott Rohling
Nice - how long are your restore times? I'm assuming better than a dasdfmt takes per volume? Flashcopy of a linux formatted volume is probably the fastest solution, but this might be a good alternative.. Scott On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Mark Wheeler mwheele...@hotmail.com wrote: Bobby,

Re: Migration Off Reiser

2009-02-12 Thread Scott Rohling
Use rsync -- create the ext3 directory (/new) and: rsync -av /old/ /new Be sure and use the trailing / after /old to avoid it creating a /old dir under /new.. There's no way I know of to directly convert a filesystem (other than ext2 to ext3) -- so you'll have to do some type of copy .. the

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