Re: beta version for Red Hat Linux 7.2 S/390

2002-05-23 Thread Florian La Roche
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:52:27PM -0700, Tim Pepper wrote: > On Tue 21 May at 15:18:35 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: > > > > Please test ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/s390/ and let us know > > about any problems left. Please also note that the latest OCO modules from IBM > >

Re: RPM question

2002-05-23 Thread Florian La Roche
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:34:40PM -0400, Dave Myers wrote: > I tried installing the glibc-common-2.2.4-20.s390.rpm > from the RH 7.2 updates FTP site. > > I get this if I use: rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2.2.4-20.s390.rpm > > error: failed dependencies: > glibc-common = 2.2.4-19a is needed by

Re: RH72 telnet

2002-05-23 Thread Florian La Roche
> >Others can tell you how to allow root to > >telnet in, but I won't, cause I like you. :) > > I hold you in high esteem, also, but if I were to do something to cause > you NOT to like me ... THEN would you tell me :) ? (Remember ... this > is only a 'temporary' thing, right?). BTW, ARE you sa

Antwort: Re: patch problem

2002-05-23 Thread Tim-Chr. Hanschen
Yes, I am logged in as root... the permissions: drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 May 24 07:50 tmp - Tim - "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 23.05.2002 15:35:51 Bitte antworten an Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gesendet von: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL

Re: RH72 telnet

2002-05-23 Thread John Summerfield
> Forst, many thanks to those who responded earlier with all of the > usefull information and URLs that helped me get the install completed to > DASD (finally decided to rob from Notes390 to give to Linux390 and ended > up reusing a mod 9 ... so plenty of room!). > > I have utilized the vast wisdo

Re: What PTF level am I at?

2002-05-23 Thread Robert Reuscher
What if it doesn't show the maintenance level? I received, applied and built a new nucleus today, and after I ipled it still did not give me a maintenance level when I issued the query vmlan command. I'm pretty sure that is applied, I was able to find the symbol HCPLANML and display storage, it sh

Re: sysinfo.o: No such file or directory

2002-05-23 Thread Post, Mark K
You haven't gotten to the scary part yet. That happens when you start explaining things to others! Mark Post -Original Message- From: Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 7:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sysinfo.o: No such fil

Re: RH72 telnet

2002-05-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Paul, Now you're asking the right questions. Yes, create an account that has only normal user privileges. Most distributions have either an "adduser" or "useradd" command to do this. You should read the man page for yours to see what additional command switches you need to specify so that the

Re: sysinfo.o: No such file or directory

2002-05-23 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
I found the problem. Patch linux-2.4.7-s390-3.diff was applied with ?dry-run, which means it was not actually applied. This patch is the one that creates the sysinfo.c. I apologize for jumping the gun. The scary part is this stuff is starting to make sense! Thanks everyone. Peter Peter

Re: RH72 telnet

2002-05-23 Thread paultz
>Telnet login by root is probably not allowed. It's not good security >practice since telnet traffic passes in clear text. Something someone in >your job would know is not a good thing. :) Touche, Mark! But if you had seen me cursing the HMC console using 'echo' to change parm files, you'd s

sysinfo.o: No such file or directory

2002-05-23 Thread Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco
We applied IBM's patch linux-2.4.7-s390-3.diff through linux-2.4.7-s390-7.diff to SuSE's 2.4.7 kernel. All appeared to go well except the "make image" fails with "ld: cannot open sysinfo.o: No such file or directory". A find command cannot find sysinfo.o or sysinfo.c. This problem was introdu

Re: RH72 telnet

2002-05-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Paul, Telnet login by root is probably not allowed. It's not good security practice since telnet traffic passes in clear text. Something someone in your job would know is not a good thing. :) Use OpenSSH instead, and use either TeratermPro with the ttssh SSH add-on, or PuTTY to access your sy

RH72 telnet

2002-05-23 Thread paultz
Forst, many thanks to those who responded earlier with all of the usefull information and URLs that helped me get the install completed to DASD (finally decided to rob from Notes390 to give to Linux390 and ended up reusing a mod 9 ... so plenty of room!). I have utilized the vast wisdom of the li

Re: has anyone seen this?

2002-05-23 Thread Tim Pepper
On Tue 21 May at 08:52:44 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: > > this one had LINUX inside the fish! I had to look twice to convince myself! > w/ shark fin on top of the fish... :) Us zealots are coming for you. Was it a honda civic? Might've been me or one of my friends. --

Successfully installed kernel 2.4.9-37 and LCS worked ok...BUT I get depmod errs

2002-05-23 Thread Dave Myers
I successfully upgraded to kernel 2.4.9-37 today, ran the zipl, then rebooted. Wow...I actually have a system with lcs working!!! But...why do I get these errors and how do I eliminate them from the log?? I'm assuming that the lcs is now part of the 2.4.9-37 kernel? and that's why it is working d

Re: beta version for Red Hat Linux 7.2 S/390

2002-05-23 Thread Tim Pepper
On Tue 21 May at 15:18:35 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: > > Please test ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/s390/ and let us know > about any problems left. Please also note that the latest OCO modules from IBM > for the Red Hat Linux kernel 2.4.9-37 contain a special "ocord.img" wh

Re: TurboLinux install IPL tape issues

2002-05-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Greg, If I'm reading your CPU model correctly, this is a G3 machine? If so, you might have to wait a while for the first messages to start showing up. Also, double check whether the tape is SL or NL, as Hank suggested. If you look closely at his JCL, you'll note he writes out multiple sets of t

Re: Difference between kernel-tape** and kernel-BOOTtape** ??

2002-05-23 Thread Post, Mark K
The BOOTtape one is to be used during the installation process when not running under VM. The other one is to be used when booting from DASD, when not running under VM. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Dave Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 4:24 PM To: [EMA

Re: #3 from Linuxworld

2002-05-23 Thread Jon R. Doyle
Anybody that has valid complaints should send them over to the Editor of the publication. I have found that to be effective in the past. While it is no crime to be opinionated, objectivity in the press is something that is the basis for reviews. However, the American press suffers from this all o

Difference between kernel-tape** and kernel-BOOTtape** ??

2002-05-23 Thread Dave Myers
The kernel-tape-2.4.9-37.s390.rpm reads: Summary : The Linux Kernel compiled for booting from tape The kernel-BOOTtape-2.4.9-37.s390.rpm reads: This package includes a kernel that has appropriate configuration options enabled for booting from tape. What is the difference between these t

Re: RPM question

2002-05-23 Thread John Summerfield
> I tried installing the glibc-common-2.2.4-20.s390.rpm > from the RH 7.2 updates FTP site. > > I get this if I use: rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2.2.4-20.s390.rpm > > error: failed dependencies: > glibc-common = 2.2.4-19a is needed by glibc-2.2.4-19a > > > AndI get this if I use: rpm -ivh

Re: #3 from Linuxworld

2002-05-23 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
... and last I hope! The really aggravating thing is that the guy quite obviously doesn't know what he is talking/writing about. In spite of the feedback he received he still has an obvious "Don't bother me with facts. My mind is made up!" attitute. Good riddance! "Jon R

Re: #3 from Linuxworld

2002-05-23 Thread Post, Mark K
I see Rudy couldn't resist flogging a dead horse. He put that silly SETI@home comparison in there anyway. Oh well. Maybe he'd be interested in how badly an old 4381 compares to a Intel 80486-33 system I have at home. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Jon R. Doyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

#3 from Linuxworld

2002-05-23 Thread Jon R. Doyle
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Re: TurboLinux install IPL tape issues

2002-05-23 Thread Hank Calzaretta
Greg, I'm using Turbo; this is the JCL I use to create the IPL tape. Are you sure you are writing the 1st file of an NL tape? Hank Calzaretta //WCS0791X JOB (0),'TURBO-LINUX',CLASS=J,MSGCLASS=R, // NOTIFY=&SYSUID,REGION=9M //TOTAPE PROC LBL=NOSUCH,FILE=NOSUCH.FILE //IEBGNR EXEC PGM=IEBGE

TurboLinux install IPL tape issues

2002-05-23 Thread Greg Evans
I have been trying to install TurboLinux 6.5 on our 9762-R35 box with no success. I made the IPL tape using the free distribution following the documentation to the letter. I wrote the 3 datasets LINUX390.IMAGE.TXT, LINUX390.PARM.LINE and LINUX390.INITRD.TXT to a 3480 cartridge. As far as I can t

Re: Sherwin-Williams Chooses a Big Blue Shade of Linux

2002-05-23 Thread paultz
I guess they didn't know (or more likely care) about "Blue Away" ;-) http://www.esj.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=205

Sherwin-Williams Chooses a Big Blue Shade of Linux

2002-05-23 Thread Dunbar, Maggie
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famuluscom/businesswire05-23-040157.asp?sym=IBM "CLEVELAND, May 23 - Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) today announced it has chosen IBM to provide the store technology infrastructure for the company's more than 2,500

RPM question

2002-05-23 Thread Dave Myers
I tried installing the glibc-common-2.2.4-20.s390.rpm from the RH 7.2 updates FTP site. I get this if I use: rpm -Uvh glibc-common-2.2.4-20.s390.rpm error: failed dependencies: glibc-common = 2.2.4-19a is needed by glibc-2.2.4-19a AndI get this if I use: rpm -ivh glibc-common-2.2

Re: beta version for Red Hat Linux 7.2 S/390

2002-05-23 Thread Florian La Roche
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 10:22:50AM -0400, Post, Mark K wrote: > Florian, > > Thanks for the response. One area is still unanswered, though. How is this > update going to be stored on the FTP server? What directories will it be > in? The same ones as the original GA version, or somewhere else?

Re: binfmt-0000

2002-05-23 Thread Hank Calzaretta
Mark, You guys are awesome! You were right. Most of the executables in the /java/bin directory on the WAS installation CD have zero length! I've got 2 copies of the CD with the same problem. Boy, talk about effective compression ;o) !! Thanks for your help, Hank -Original Message- F

Re: binfmt-0000

2002-05-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Hank, The binfmt- message means you have a zero-length file somewhere that someone/thing is trying to execute as a command/program. To help figure out what that is, you could try doing an "strace -f -F javacommand" to see if you can narrow it down. Mark Post -Original Message- From

Re: binfmt-0000

2002-05-23 Thread Hank Calzaretta
Rich, Yes, I'm running as root. Java is not yet installed on this machine. It gets installed with WAS. To issue the "java -version" I made a copy of the install.sh, which sets up CLASSPATH etc to point to the CD, and changed the java invocation therein. I don't get anything back, except for t

Re: binfmt-0000

2002-05-23 Thread Rich Smrcina
Go to the directory where java is installed and try 'java -version' outside of a shell script. You don't need a CLASSPATH for this. On Thursday 23 May 2002 09:48 am, you wrote: > Rich, > > Yes, I'm running as root. Java is not yet installed on this machine. It > gets installed with WAS. To is

Re: rhsetup options

2002-05-23 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
Motorola gave up :) WBR, Sergey Reesing Gregory-O10511 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: rhsetup options Sent by: Linux on 390 Port

Re: rhsetup options

2002-05-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Paul, Resist that impulse. "Everything" is far too much to fit, and far more than you'll have an opportunity to play with for a very long time. Go for the "server" install and you'll be fine. Basically, all the Linux/390 installs do the same thing. They format your DASD with 4096 byte blocks.

binfmt-0000

2002-05-23 Thread Hank Calzaretta
I'm installing WAS 4.0.2 on a SuSE 2.2.16 system and the WAS install script is getting the following message on a java invocation: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt- Has anyone ever seen this before? Other folks have asked the question on various discussion threads on the Web, bu

Re: binfmt-0000

2002-05-23 Thread Rich Smrcina
Are you installing as root? I think that is required. Can you check the java version (java -version) and get a response back? On Thursday 23 May 2002 09:16 am, you wrote: > I'm installing WAS 4.0.2 on a SuSE 2.2.16 system and the WAS install script > is getting the following message on a java i

Re: compress?

2002-05-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Tim, The SuSE distribution has a compress package: cd1/suse/a1/compress.rpm You can see what is in all the Linux/390 distributions by going to http://linuxvm.org/Info/packages.html Mark Post -Original Message- From: Tim-Chr. Hanschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23,

Re: rhsetup options

2002-05-23 Thread Reesing Gregory-O10511
Please remove me from the mailing list -Original Message- From: paultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 7:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rhsetup options I finally got the RH7.2 downloads completed (I hope), and today I will start my install (LPAR mode). I h

Re: rhsetup options

2002-05-23 Thread daniel . jarboe
Hey Paul, if you haven't yet, check out "Red Hat Linux 7.2: The Official Red Hat Linux for S/390 Installation Guide" available at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/ in a few formats. Sections 1.9-1.10.1 talk about requirements and according to that it looks like an everythin

Re: beta version for Red Hat Linux 7.2 S/390

2002-05-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Florian, Thanks for the response. One area is still unanswered, though. How is this update going to be stored on the FTP server? What directories will it be in? The same ones as the original GA version, or somewhere else? I ask because I'd like to be able to very clearly explain to anyone wh

Re: rhsetup options

2002-05-23 Thread Philipp Knirsch
paultz wrote: > I finally got the RH7.2 downloads completed (I hope), and today I will > start my install (LPAR mode). I have the tape system IPLed, telneted in > and started rhsetup. On the installation menu, one of the panels asks > what type of installation you want to perform. My first impu

Re: fstab and error disk

2002-05-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Sergey, >From "man 8 fstab": The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems

rhsetup options

2002-05-23 Thread paultz
I finally got the RH7.2 downloads completed (I hope), and today I will start my install (LPAR mode). I have the tape system IPLed, telneted in and started rhsetup. On the installation menu, one of the panels asks what type of installation you want to perform. My first impulse is "install everyt

Re: patch problem

2002-05-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Tim, Are you doing this as root? What are the permissions on the /tmp directory? ls -la /tmp Mark Post -Original Message- From: Tim-Chr. Hanschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: patch problem Hi, I tried to patch kernel

Re: compress?

2002-05-23 Thread daniel . jarboe
on my RH system: # rpm -qf /usr/bin/compress ncompress-4.2.4-24 # rpm -ql ncompress /usr/bin/compress /usr/bin/uncompress /usr/share/doc/ncompress-4.2.4 /usr/share/doc/ncompress-4.2.4/LZW.INFO /usr/share/doc/ncompress-4.2.4/README /usr/share/man/man1/compress.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/uncompress.1.

compress?

2002-05-23 Thread Tim-Chr. Hanschen
Hi, a collegue of mine called my today, because he was looking for compress on SuSE L390 Well, I told him to use gzip, but the problem is, that he has a lot of scripts which use compress and he don't want to change all scripts, because they are for other unix-systems as well. My solution wa

Re: Runlevel3 start up problems

2002-05-23 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
About Apache. Look at: /etc/rc.config.d/apache.rc.config # # timeout during server startup (seconds) # after this time, the start script decides wether the httpd process started without error # increase it if you use mod_ssl and your certificate is passphrase protected # HTTPD_START_TIMEOUT=40

fstab and error disk

2002-05-23 Thread Sergey Korzhevsky
Hello, All. If one disk from fstab can't be mount (power failure or something like it) Linux won't boot to normal operations. But maybe this disk realy don't need for system. Can I say to Linux, if you can't mount this disk, skeep it. Or I don't have to define such disks in fstab? WBR, Sergey

Re: Adding a DASD volume

2002-05-23 Thread Felix Yoyok S. Aditias
Thanks to Rob & Sergey, it's done now regards, Yoyok :)You must add address of this volume to parmfile (dasd=...) :)and run silo. :)Then, reIPL, dasdfmt, mkfs, etc... :) :)WBR, Sergey

Re: mprotect() doesn't not even work...

2002-05-23 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
Hi Neale, > Is this the same bit of logic in 2.4.7: Indeed: diff -urN linux-2.4.7/arch/s390/mm/fault.c linux-2.4.7-s390/arch/s390/mm/fault.c --- linux-2.4.7/arch/s390/mm/fault.c Thu May 23 10:04:50 2002 +++ linux-2.4.7-s390/arch/s390/mm/fault.c Wed May 22 20:13:04 2002 @@ -163,6 +163,8 @@