Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:14:24 -0500 Ferguson, Neale said: >Like I said, it looked like something "The Onion" could have produced. Just >because it says Sun doesn't mean it was (besides it's getting close to April >1). Frankly, I wish they'd concentrate on Micro$oft rather than trying to >split the

Re: can I boot Linux off either cdl or ldl formatted disks?

2002-03-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
My understanding: ldl & cdl: Cyl 0 Head 0 Track 2: IPL record ldl & cdl: Cyl 0 Head 0 Track 3: Label cdl: Cyl 0 Head 0 Tracks 4-5: DSCBs to make it look like one through four data sets

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Like I said, it looked like something "The Onion" could have produced. Just because it says Sun doesn't mean it was (besides it's getting close to April 1). Frankly, I wish they'd concentrate on Micro$oft rather than trying to split the *nix vote. > -Original Message- > Did you try your

Re: Berkeley DB 4.0.1 Config Error

2002-03-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Try this for a spinlock. It's similar to something I coded when I ported Postgresql a couple of years ago. (Have we been doing this for > 2 years already?) 31 bit: static inline int TAS(int *lock) { int _res; __asm__ __volatile(" lghi1,1\n" " lg 2,%0\n"

How can I use hipersocket on RH's s390x?

2002-03-15 Thread Jae-hwa Park
Hi, there. I'm trying to install the latest RH's s390x on my z900. And I'm going to use virtual hipersocket between VM TCPIP and other Linux guests. I applied several PTFs that required for hipersocket on z/VM 4.2. And I downloaded qdio/qeth(8) oco modules from developerworks site. But RH's ker

Re: can I boot Linux off either cdl or ldl formatted disks?

2002-03-15 Thread Robert J Brenneman
>Hope you folks dont mind simple questions ;-) As they said in school, there are no stupid questions. If you want to know, there are probably at least 10 others that do too. >Can I ipl a Linux image off either a cdl or ldl format disk? You Bet. >could somebody point me to a good explanation o

Re: Accessing CMS devices

2002-03-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
> > > To ease migration it would be quite useful to be able to access > > another CMS user's minidisk or its virtual reader from a machine > > running Linux. I that possible? Can the CMS virtual machine write, the > > Linux one read from the same mindisk? > >Rick Troth wrote a CMS minidisk driver

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread John Summerfield
> Can anyone do the necessary dig/nslookup to see who really > is behind this site: "http://www.bigbluesmoke.com";. > Did you try your web browser? The home page tells you! -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Craig Vernon
I'd call it OUCH (Ordinary Unilateral Cynical Humour) because it hurts so bad! Regards, Craig +61-2-9354-7283 tel +61-2-9354-7797 fax Craig Vernon B.App.Sc. LL.B. IBM Support Centre FB41 55 Coonara Ave West Pennant Hills 2125 Sydney NSW Australia Visit us at http://www.ibm.com/services/au/its "

Re: trying to us OSA/E Gig with

2002-03-15 Thread Carlos Ordonez
Steve, in the z800 Technical Introduction Redbook there is a chapter on Linux that describes how to install SuSE 2.4.7 and QDIO. There is a bug (syntax error) in the installation which doesn't add the portname correctly. Here are some of the steps necessary: OSA Express Fast Ethernet in QDIO mode

Re: Berkeley DB 4.0.1 Config Error

2002-03-15 Thread Rengasamy, Samy
I did get lot more information on this from Sleepycat support team: ** The problem is that Berkeley DB does not include assembly language mutexes for the s390 architecture, and Linux POSIX 1003.1 pthread mutexes aren't suffic

Re: can I boot Linux off either cdl or ldl formatted disks?

2002-03-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
>One nit. Instead of saying "Access to the disks from another OS should be >restricted to time when Linux is down," it would be more appropriate to say >"Access to the disks from another OS should be restricted to when those >disks are unmounted from the Linux system." Depending on what disk we'

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Thomas David Rivers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Can anyone do the necessary dig/nslookup to see who really > is behind this site: "http://www.bigbluesmoke.com";. > Here's the answers from here - first an nslookup, then a dig -x. - Dave Rivers - [dignus.com]$ nslookup www.bigbluesmoke.com Server:

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Douglas C Ponte
They certainly aren't trying to hide it... that "IBM tetris" game is pretty lame too ;) I guess that I'm not sure what to expect from SUN these days...they call it "ITCH"? Anyone have a backscratcher? :) Doug Ponte z/VM, CP I/O Development and Service zSeries, IBM - Endicott, NY USA

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread David Boyes
> Can anyone do the necessary dig/nslookup to see who really > is behind this site: "http://www.bigbluesmoke.com";. Here's the whois data. Given that all the name servers are corporate assets owned by Sun, I would suspect that the owner is a Sun employee. Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names

Re: Apache 1.3 on SuSE 7.0

2002-03-15 Thread Mullen, Patrick
I seem to be using PHP3 already, this snippet from error_log after doing the restart: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) (SuSE/Linux) mod_perl/1.24 PHP/3.0.17-dev > -Original Message- > From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > There was a problem with PHP4 causing Apache to fail during >

Questions on latest RedHat Beta

2002-03-15 Thread Dave Myers
>We have uploaded our current beta to:HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/s390x/";> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/s390x/ >Some of the changes: >- kernel contains:- >GPL lcs driver is now included >- fix for samba problems >- order2-3 patch from IBM >- many bug-fixes

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I wasn't implying Sun were hiding. It's just the style of writing is in the vein of "The Onion" (no reflection on the accuracy or otherwise of the content). I guess I'm not used to reading entertaining stuff coming from the likes of Sun or IBM. I thought it might have been a Sun user group's effor

Building DBD and DBI

2002-03-15 Thread Eddie Chen
I am getting error message when doing the make --- /usr/s390-sus-linux/bin/ld: cannot found -lclntsh -- make realclean -- perl Makefile.PLI --make ... error occure

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Baumgarte, Randy (CORP)
According to the first article, Sun isn't trying to hide anything. IBM schedules meetings Santa Clara, CA - In a stunning response to continued assaults by industry titan IBM, Sun Microsystems today launched a web site. www.bigbluesmoke.com is reported to be the first known use of Internet Techn

Re: Samba Strategy

2002-03-15 Thread Rich Smrcina
Do we get extra credit for guessing which site this is? :) On Friday 15 March 2002 01:23 pm, you wrote: > The following split screen comes from ESAMON at an installation > running a mail program under Linux on s/390. The top half of > the screen shows the Linux cpu loads, what Linux thinks

Re: Apache 1.3 on SuSE 7.0

2002-03-15 Thread Post, Mark K
It's been a while, so the memory is a little vague. I believe that when Apache tried to load the PHP shared library (.so file), it could not because of some error with it, and so the whole startup failed. Recompiling PHP4 seemed to allow the library to be loaded, and everything proceeded normall

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Daniel Casey
Also, there is a link to the site from Sun's BigAdmin site site. Sorry, now that I realize it, I don't know that the netcraft info was very helpful. Whois shows: Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered with many different competing regis

BigBlueSmoke.com

2002-03-15 Thread Dave Jones
whois says: Registrant: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (BIGBLUESMOKE2-DOM) 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 US Domain Name: BIGBLUESMOKE.COM Administrative Contact, Technical Contact: Hostmaster (HO10519-OR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc 901 San Anton

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Mark Price
Domain Name: BIGBLUESMOKE.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com Name Server: NS-OS.SUN.COM Name Server: NS.SUN.COM Name Server: NS.USEC.SUN.COM Name Server: NS-BRM.SUN.COM Name Server

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Oliver Paukstadt
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Ferguson, Neale wrote: > Can anyone do the necessary dig/nslookup to see who really > is behind this site: "http://www.bigbluesmoke.com";. Registrant: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (BIGBLUESMOKE2-DOM) 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 US Domain Name: BIGBLUESMOKE

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:25:42PM -0700, Ferguson, Neale wrote: > Can anyone do the necessary dig/nslookup to see who really > is behind this site: "http://www.bigbluesmoke.com";. > dev-linux:~ $ dig bigbluesmoke.com ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> bigbluesmoke.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrc

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Daniel Casey
www.netcraft.com says: OS Server Last changed IP address Netblock Owner Solaris Netscape-Enterprise/ 4.1 27-Oct- 2001 64.124.140.188 Abovenet Communications, Inc. Solaris Netscape-Enterprise/ 3.6 SP2 18-May- 2001 64.41.222.183 Exodus Communications "Ferguson, Neale"

Samba Strategy

2002-03-15 Thread Barton Robinson
I would like to share some thoughts and research on this. First, at share last week, there were only two numbers presented that I found interesting. Was a websphere presentation by Tom Pajak and Tom Ronksley. The two tasks measured on an INTEL 1.5GHz vs an MP50 were measured wall clock only: 1)

Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Can anyone do the necessary dig/nslookup to see who really is behind this site: "http://www.bigbluesmoke.com";.

Re: ipl tape

2002-03-15 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
Upon further reflection, it may also have been that I did the mknod command before the insmod. I had done the mknod for /dev/ntibm0 and /dev/btibm0 , then shut down and rebooted linux, attached the tape and did the insmod. When I tried to do the mknod again, it said it was already there. "You do

Re: ipl tape

2002-03-15 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
That's exactly what fixed the problem. I just used the "/dev/ntibm0" driver and it worked fine. I also used the /dev/btibm0 device on the same mounted tape on the same drive, and it works, too. Didn't try /dev/rtibm0 or /dev/ntibm1 with a second tape. Here's a quick "how-to" I put together for

Re: Apache 1.3 on SuSE 7.0

2002-03-15 Thread Kern, Thomas
Although I did rebuild PHP4 from the src.rpm, could you please elaborate on a PHP4 problem that causes Apache to fail? /Thomas Kern /(301)903-2211 -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 13:40 There was a problem with PHP4 causing Ap

Re: Problem wit OSA/2 Adapter

2002-03-15 Thread Post, Mark K
Tom, It was nice meeting you at SHARE. I hope you get to come back and bring others from Timken with you. What does your routing table look like when you're attempting the pings? For that matter, what is the IP address of your OSA, and the first router past the OSA card? Post the output from "

Re: building gtk apps ...

2002-03-15 Thread Post, Mark K
Don, $ rpm -qlp glib-devel-1.2.10-5.s390.rpm /usr/bin/glib-config <- It's right there /usr/include/glib-1.2 /usr/include/glib-1.2/glib.h /usr/include/glib-1.2/gmodule.h /usr/lib/glib /usr/lib/glib/include /usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h /usr/lib/libglib.a /usr/lib/libglib.la /usr/l

Re: Apache 1.3 on SuSE 7.0

2002-03-15 Thread Post, Mark K
Patrick, There was a problem with PHP4 causing Apache to fail during startup. If you remove PHP4 and only use PHP3 (or re-compile PHP4 from the source RPM), you should be ok. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Mullen, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:14

Re: can I boot Linux off either cdl or ldl formatted disks?

2002-03-15 Thread Post, Mark K
One nit. Instead of saying "Access to the disks from another OS should be restricted to time when Linux is down," it would be more appropriate to say "Access to the disks from another OS should be restricted to when those disks are unmounted from the Linux system." Depending on what disk we're t

Re: ipl tape

2002-03-15 Thread Post, Mark K
Gordon, What, exactly, fixed the problem? The reason I ask is because I got an offline email pointing out that /dev/rtibm0 and /dev/ntibm0 were both character devices with the same major and minor numbers, and that should _not_ work. Was it just using the "0" suffix and not "1" that made things

Apache 1.3 on SuSE 7.0

2002-03-15 Thread Mullen, Patrick
Can anyone help me with an Apache related issue? Everything looks like it's configured right, but after booting httpd does not start. A "status" command returns "No process" and the httpd error_log file is completely empty. If I do a "restart" command it seems to activate, but I still can't connec

Re: ipl tape

2002-03-15 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
Thanks. This solved my problem. Thanks to all who responded. "You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice." -Motto of the Darwin Society Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph.D. (425) 865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > -- > From: Post,

Evaluation Code for WAS 4.0 on Linux/zSeries

2002-03-15 Thread dave_dicarlo
>Drew Arthur wrote: >We are looking for a Trial copy of WebSphere Application Server 3.5 for >Suse Linux 7.0. IBM has removed it from the ftp and website in favor of >v4.0. If anyone has a trial copy that they would be willing to share, or >knows of a download site where it is readily available p

Re: Samba Strategy

2002-03-15 Thread Alan Cox
> My problem is that there is no place to go for scaling numbers. How many > print queues can I configure under Linux and at what rate can I spool to > them? (There appears to be no answer to this.) Given any disk array, how > much data can I push out through the pipe? (There are some very lim

Problem wit OSA/2 Adapter

2002-03-15 Thread Geyer, Thomas L.
I attended Share last week and I followed the Linux/390 track. I want to thank all of you who presented, all presentations were excellent and very informative. Share was especially "special" since I got to spend time with an old friend, Scott Courtney. Scott you and your talents are missed and it

Re: can I boot Linux off either cdl or ldl formatted disks?

2002-03-15 Thread Rob van der Heij
>Hope you folks dont mind simple questions ;-) Ah, so that must be the reason everyone has these questions ;-) >Can I ipl a Linux image off either a cdl or ldl format disk? Yes. You need run zipl (for the Linux 2.4 distro - zilo, silo for older). It should work with either cdl and ldl format.

Re: can I boot Linux off either cdl or ldl formatted disks?

2002-03-15 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
>Can I ipl a Linux image off either a cdl or ldl format disk? I think, yes # man fdasd -d diskLayout or --disk_layout=diskLayout Formats the device with compatible disk layout or linux disk layout. diskLayout is either cdl for the compatib

Re: trying to us OSA/E Gig with

2002-03-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
What level of kernel did you say you were using? Rather than inflict the list with duplicate data (as I couldn't be bothered looking through the archives) would you forward me the logs, chandev.conf and modules.conf you are using please? > -Original Message- > hello, > >i am still try

Re: trying to us OSA/E Gig with

2002-03-15 Thread Steve Gear Schneider Technical Services
hello, i am still trying to get the OSAE card working. i have attempted all of the suggestions i have received with no succes yet. i can only assume that i am doing something wrong. i was unable to add a new device via YAST. when i try to do the 'add device' it blows me out of the menu. i tr

Samba Strategy

2002-03-15 Thread Chuck Gray
Posting this question to this technical body Chuck Gray IT Architect Seattle Office (206) 587-3091 Fax Number (206) 587-3091 Tie Line 277-3091 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded by Chuck Gray/Beaverton/IBM on 03/15/2002 06:23 AM - Walt Pe

can I boot Linux off either cdl or ldl formatted disks?

2002-03-15 Thread Don Mulvey
Hope you folks dont mind simple questions ;-) Can I ipl a Linux image off either a cdl or ldl format disk? I am going to try this and see if it works but I thought I'd ask and see what I can learn. BTW ... could somebody point me to a good explanation of cdl v/s ldl? Thanks, -Don

AW: Red Hat Linux for zSeries

2002-03-15 Thread Ursula Biskup
Hi David, thanks a lot, your patch did it! At least, up to now I'm unable to crash the kernel again, just by using samba. I think monday morning I'll give it back to the users and so we'll see, if it will pass even this stress test. Have a nice weekend, Uschi -Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-

Re: AW: Red Hat Linux for zSeries

2002-03-15 Thread daniel . jarboe
The patch fixed my problems too. Incidentally, turning off dnotify in samba also got rid of "x.x.x.x sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast" messages I was getting (when icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses is false), where x.x.x.x was a (buggy?) router. Was previously using the same version (2.

Re: building gtk apps ...

2002-03-15 Thread Don Mulvey
Hi Mark, Yea, but there isn't any glib_config script or any header files that this gtk app needs to build. So, I figure that development support isn't really there. -Don -Original Message- Don, When I look at my copy of Red Hat 7.2 for Linux/390, I see -rw-r--r--1 1455

Re: Red Hat Linux for zSeries

2002-03-15 Thread David Sainty
Hi Uschi, On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:32:37PM +0100, Ursula Biskup wrote: > Hello Florian La Roche, > > this is the version we are using: > > > Name: sambaRelocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 2.2.1aVendor: Red Hat, Inc. > Rele

Can't get CPINT: A couple of 404 errors that need resolving.

2002-03-15 Thread Dougie G Lawson
Mark, Neale, I'm getting 404 for http://www.linuxvm.org/penguinvm/ I'm also getting 404 for http://penguinvm.princeton.edu/programs/cpint-1.1.2.tar.gz Is cpint hiding somewhere else? Regards, Dougie Lawson -- ITS Technical Support Enterprise/ASSIST SupportLine for IMS, DB2 & Linux Fax: +44 12

AW: Red Hat Linux for zSeries

2002-03-15 Thread Ursula Biskup
Hello Florian La Roche, this is the version we are using: Name: sambaRelocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.2.1aVendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 5 Build Date: Mon 12 Nov 2001 14:25:14 CET Install

Re: Red Hat Linux for zSeries

2002-03-15 Thread Florian La Roche
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:52:51AM +0100, Ursula Biskup wrote: > > -fix for samba problems > > Does this concern this one: > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58737 > > ?? Hello Ursula Biskup, I have heard that disabling "dnotify" fixes the problems. This can either be

AW: Red Hat Linux for zSeries

2002-03-15 Thread Ursula Biskup
> -fix for samba problems Does this concern this one: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58737 ?? It has been discussed in this list some time ago But the problem with Samba still seems not to be fixed! Or anybody else who has been concerned has come over this problem?