Concerning the original post -- I've used Regina REXX on zLinux and continue to do so on both zSeries and my x86 servers at home. It initially came with the SUSE distro as an addon package when I used (SLES7, 8?) it.
Using REXX (25 years experience is hard to toss out the window) helped me automate on Linux immediately with little learning curve. For example - I recall a nifty program that looked at all your DASD on zLinux and gave a report on how it was being used (virtual address is dasdx, mounted as x, part of LVM x, not used, etc). Being new to Linux this would have taken 10 times longer than it did otherwise (though admittedly, I would have learned a ton along the way). Now I'm familiar with bash, perl, python, php, et al - and tend to use them for simple tasks. But I still run home to Mama Rexx when I'm doing something less than simple. REXX is just too cool to abandon.. Anyway - not sure I did anything here but confirm REXX can and is used on Linux on z. It seems to be missing from the current distros I've looked at for z, though :-( Cowlishaw hero worshiper and fan club member: Scott Rohling p.s. I've used THE - but after being forced to edit where THE isn't available - I've tended to stick with vi/vim for an editor. Now that I know the keystroke contortions, it's not as bad as it once seemed. On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On 8/12/2008 at 12:32 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mauro Souza > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > > > *checkinstall make install* doesn't actually installs anything, only > creates > > the RPM package. > > The version of checkinstall that I've used does install into the "live" > file system, and then creates a package from that. So, you might want to > verify that it does (or does not) do that on a test system before doing it > on a more important system. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
