I am doing some tests with V-DISK used for swap space.
Is there advantages of using RESERVED V-DISK for swap space ?
I am using linux formatted V-DISK and it seems to work fine.
An FBA device like V-DISK already has (unlike CKD) already
blocks of equal size so. Al you need to do is 'mkswap' to
At 02:29 03-05-02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It was well worth following up on the Amazon site. Someone out
there has a seriously bizarre sense of humor.
Someone ;-) The average book review is voted about 3 dozen times, where
this says:
5109 of 5226 people found the following
Actually - we are currently at z/VM 4.1 and Suse 2.2.16. z/VM 4.3 and Suse
2.4 are on thier way and we will be installed shortly. Until the new
software arrives we will not have GuestLan support. I was attempting to get
OSPF working on our current versions using an OSA Gigabit card for VM and
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From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Recommended VM Linux Configuration sizing?
Does anyone have any references/pointers for the recommended sizing for VM
Linux images (region, cpus,
How can I tell what patches are already on if any?
Peter
Michael MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject:Re: Samba causes kernel
I'm currently running multiple test images of SuSE 7.0 under VIF, using
the Distributions redbook (section 16.6.8) cloning process, and it
works great. What files would need to be changed to do the same process
under RedHat 7.2? To clone a SuSE image I have been modifying the IP
address and image
In the SRPM for the kernel source, you can check the SPEC file and it will
tell you all the patches applied to the kernel. Carlos :-)
Carlos A. Ordonez
IBM Corporation
Server Consolidation
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I'm currently running multiple test images of SuSE 7.0 under VIF, using
the Distributions redbook (section 16.6.8) cloning process, and it
works great.
Glad to hear it.
What files would need to be changed to do the same process
under RedHat 7.2?
I got this list from a script that someone
How can I tell what patches are already on if any?
Hmm - good question - write it down somewhere and don't lose that paper :))
(that is only slightly sarcastic)
A few more hints:
1) The command uname -a or more specifically uname -v tells you
when the kernel was last rebuilt:
# uname -v
#1
Chet,
I haven't looked closely enough myself, but take a look at the ISP/ASP
Solutions Redbook. I know they covered cloning there in a lot more detail
than we did in the Distributions book.
Mark Post
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From: Chet Norris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 03,
I have to find some answers to these questions for our security
plan (why is that part always harder than the install). This is
for SuSE 2.4.7 kernel.
1. How can I enforce a password to contain at least 1
numeric, 1 alpha, and 1 special character?
I suspect you will need to change
I can hear the boos and hisses already, but this is where something like
SMP/E and SES comes in handy. This reminds me of the bad old days of VM
when the only way to figure out what fixes you had on was to look at the
source code files. Ugh.
Mark Post
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From: Michael
Michael MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I tell what patches are already on if any?
Hmm - good question - write it down somewhere and don't lose
that paper :))
There are two classes of patch to consider. A running Linux kernel
A few more hints:
1) The command uname -a or more
cat /proc/dasd/devices
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Is there anything similar to FSTAB that indicates what s/390
device address
dasda1, dasdb1, dasdc1 etc map to? Since Yast likes to make
swap dasda1
regardless of what you really want, Im sort of at a loss to map my
physicals to my linux
Further, be a bit careful with DHCP relays in this environment. While the
MAC addresses generated by VM are in the 00-04-AC range allocated to IBM,
they aren't guaranteed to be unique (hey, they're generated out of thin
air!) in the network universe. If y'all think that's a Real Problem,
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-03-011-26-NW-SV-SW;
The Samba Team has released Samba 2.2.4.
This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the
version that all production Samba servers should be running
for all current bug-fixes. See the WHATSNEW for a list of
bug
Thanks Neale. I should have remembered that.
Here is a piece of a script we use for cloning RedHat style servers:
cat /mnt/gold/etc/osa.hosts | sed -e s/98.33.98.x/$ipaddr/g \
-e s/li/$host/g /mnt/gold/etc/hosts.new
cat /mnt/gold/etc/sysconfig/osa.network | sed -e s/98.33.98.1/$gateway/g
\
Oh, we do, but in most cases our corrections wind up somewhere in the ozone.
Only one writer that I know of has ever written about any of the input
they've received, and that was just recently.
Mark Post
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From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May
perhaps one of us, or the group in general should pen a polite editorial
correction and submit them when these stories go off the trolley.
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I can hear the boos and hisses already, but this is where something like
SMP/E and SES comes in handy. This reminds me of the bad old days of VM
when the only way to figure out what fixes you had on was to look at the
source code files. Ugh.
Mark Post
Try rpm -q --changelog
That
Michael MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I tell what patches are already on if any?
Hmm - good question - write it down somewhere and don't lose
that paper :))
There are two classes of patch to consider. A runing Linux kernel
generally consists of several parts:
1) The
Apropos of Craig Kittendorf's question about snort and other IDS software, a
colleague of mine coincidentally just sent this list of URLs around. They
looked like they'd be of interest to this list, so here they are.
Yet another company offering commercial support for SNORT.
James Melin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there anything similar to FSTAB that indicates what s/390
device address
dasda1, dasdb1, dasdc1 etc map to?
Yup. Similar to /etc/fstab, the kernel-boot parmline specifies
what devices to use and in what order. You can see the current
parmline in
At 17:17 03-05-02, Chet Norris wrote:
Mark, the ISP/ASP takes the real world approach, determining which
files need to be changed will depend on the distribution and the
packages installed. Very accurate information, but where do I start?
As it outlines: install two systems similar to what you
I installed OpenOffice.org 1.0 last night and tried a few
compatibility tests. It opened all of my word, excel
and PowerPoint files. Likewise, I created several
dummy files with the program and was able to open them
with the MS Office programs. While I didn't get super
fancy in what I did
cat /proc/dasd/devices gives you that information.
And DEVFS in Linux 2.4 makes it even more visible since you
get the virtual address in your device names.
Rob
James,
cat /proc/dasd/devices gives you that information.
Mark Post
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From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 10:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Correlating device numbers to dasd devices under linux
Is there anything similar to
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Tim Full wrote:
I am interested in running Tomcat 3.3 on z/Linux and was wondering if anyone
has already done the port?
There is no real need to port since Tomcat is written in Java.
What do you need :
- Apache : comes with probably all distributions
- A Java JDK :
Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can hear the boos and hisses already,
Not from me!
but this is where
something like
SMP/E and SES comes in handy.
I often liken RPM to SMP/E when explaining to my OS/390 colleagues
how things work in Linux.
If y'all think that's a
Real Problem, and
not just an academic oddity, let us know and we'll take it under
advisement. (For extra credit: Devise an algorithm which constructs
world-unique virtual MAC addresses. Answers will be graded based on
originality and legibility.)
QD method
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 05:16:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Adding patches to rpm is easy - but then I have no knowledge of SMP/E so
its possible the things you want to do are different to the ones I want to
do. RPM patching is source level stuff, what kind of things are you
considering for a
is mostly correct. Unfortunately, it breaks down right when they
need it most: USERMODs. No OS/390 sysprog in their right mind would
modify the system software after installation without registering the
change in SMP/E as a USERMOD, but doing this with RPM is even harder
than coding a
If you need high security and have money, check out www.onesecure.com .
Craig Kittendorf
Systems Programmer
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From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 11:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Intrusion Detection
I am trying to install Red Hat Linux 7.2 in an LPAR of S/390. I am using an
OSA Express card but it is defined as OSE. I am getting the error no lcs
module found SIOCSIFADDR: No such device, etc I am not sure I am
entering the correct information for the question Please enter any
Oh, we do, but in most cases our corrections wind up somewhere in the ozone.
Only one writer that I know of has ever written about any of the input
they've received, and that was just recently.
The measure of a good journalist in the UK - especially a female one - is to look at
the story
Several white papers are available, too. Check
www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Security-HOWTO.html and
www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/whitpapers/ (several available). These
publications have descriptions of available products, and URLs to the companies.
Kittendorf, Craig wrote:
If you need high
We're a Software company and have many products and many developers.
We'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on ways to manage
many Linux
guests in a development environment.
Options we've considered:
1. Give each development group their own Linux. Possibly a couple of
members of the
We're a Software company and have many products and many developers.
We'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on ways to manage many Linux
guests in a development environment.
Options we've considered:
1. Give each development group their own Linux. Possibly a couple of
members of the group
Rich Blair wrote:
We're a Software company and have many products and many developers.
We'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on ways to manage many Linux
guests in a development environment.
Options we've considered:
1. Give each development group their own Linux. Possibly a couple
Did anyone ever post a link? I couldn't find the article either.
I suggest that you also look at the Oracle Magazine at
www.oracle.com/oraclemagazine/ and read the article titled 'Taking It to
the Top'. It discribes Oracle's transition to a new Operating System
of
Choice. LINUX!!
Can't
Most definitely #1 option. The biggest obstacle for a Unix admin person is
to loose all control of whatever he/she is administrating. Mainframers keep
control of the box and anything that spills into VM, images, performance of
VM, capacity planning, software upgrades of VM, VM's TCPIP stack,
I'll be giving a session on this very topic, addressing Boeing's trial
working solution to these very concerns (plus more), at SHARE in San
Francisco in August. I'll be glad to send you a copy of the paper when I
get it ready (Probably not until a few weeks before the conference) if you
want.
John,
Thank you for sharing that with us.
May the Fourth be with you.
Regards, Dougie.
Actually, didn't you mean:
May the FORTH be with you?
: double dup + ;
: square dup * ;
-soup
(Sorry, I couldn't resist. I did a surprising amount of
time working on a FORTH-based system w/ 4MB of source.
Calling FORTH code in paragraph format
I'm not seeing it here:
http://linuxppc64.org/boxes.shtml
Or here:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/ppc/models.php
But I've got to think it would work since the CPU appears to be:
The RS/6000 Enterprise Server 7026 Model H50 base offering includes a 332
MHz
Been there, done that. Same results.
James Johnson Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems Programmer Voice: 660-543-8065
Central Missouri State University Fax: 660-543-8123
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Do you have a file
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Please try the following:
- lsmod
This shows that cpint has been loaded.
- ksyms -a | grep cp
This has several references to cpint.
- uname -a
2.4.7-SuSE-SMP
Also see http://www.yellowdoglinux.com and http://www.penguinppc.org. When I
researched this for an old RS/6000 we had laying around at my old place of
employment, I found you have to be a Power3 chipset or better.
Good luck!
--
Steven J. Oswald
Systems Consulting Engineer
OzTech Systems
Strictly speaking, true, but many people had it installed on their 2.2
systems. My point was that I'm not aware of whether or not the endian-safe
fixes that went into the official 2.4 tree were retro-fitted into the
non-official patches maintained for the 2.2 kernel. Do you know if this
We're a Software company and have many products and many developers.
We'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on ways to manage
many Linux
guests in a development environment.
Options we've considered:
1. Give each development group their own Linux. Possibly a couple of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Some of your users, I'm sure, need complete control of their Linux
image to make sure they know how real live customers would work with
their product. You have to offer these users this option, or they'll
go behind your back to get this kind of access. Do you really
It's nice to be an AIX geek when questions like this arrive...
...I suddenly feel relevant.
I have a machine sitting in the corner doing nothing but collecting
(well gathering because it is on) dust. Can I run Linux (RedHat, SuSE,
Debian,etc) on it? Do I need IFL or
I'm not seeing it here:
http://linuxppc64.org/boxes.shtml
Or here:
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/ppc/models.php
But I've got to think it would work since the CPU appears to be:
The RS/6000 Enterprise Server 7026 Model H50 base offering includes a 332
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