Then you've done about all you can do from within the guest itself. If this is a frequent occurrence, then you might want to set up a lightweight healthcheck monitor, such as Hobbit, external to your guests. That should be able to give you sufficient warning that a guest is not responding to allow manual intervention that will keep it from being forced off by CP.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ranga Nathan Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 4:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: cpint install problem - what am I doing wrong? Ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device Yes. I have, in all the guests. Post, Mark K wrote: > Do you have "set run on" in the CMS startup exec for your guests? > > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Ranga Nathan > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:29 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: cpint install problem - what am I doing wrong? Ioctl: > Inappropriate ioctl for device > > -snip- > ...there are situations when you have to operate in single user mode > to fix problems. You have to log into the console. The z/VM > environment allows the virtual machine to be stopped when the terminal > session is interrupted - by mistake or due to the network dropping > out. I see this as a weakness in a production situation. Having raised > this issue a few times on this mailing list, I would like to know how > best one can prevent or overcome it. No one is suggesting wanton log > in to a terminal session and carelessly terminating without a > disconnect. Suppose someone pulls the plug on me or my VPN session > disconnects while I am not at my laptop. Any number of situations can > lead to a production guest disappearing. My point is that we need to > identify, understand the threat and find a way to deal with it. If > there is no other way, then we will accept that and work that into the > procedure. From what I understand that is probably the case here. -- __________________ Ranga Nathan Work: 714-442-7591 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
