Need info on large samba deployment on linux/z

2003-05-31 Thread Phil Tully
I am being asked if there any very large deplyoments of samba on linux/z Large would be in the area of 15 to 20 terabytes. I currently manage 1.5 Terabytes and would like to expand larger. Any help would be great !!

DASD requirements

2003-05-31 Thread Davis, Larry
I want to set up a set of disks for a LINUX instance, Say RED HAT and I think I want to break down the disks like so 0200IPL DISK (BOOT DISK) 0201/ 0202/USR 0203Source file (RPMS) 0151SWAP on VDISK Is there a reference for sizing these Minidisk's and/or am I do more then

Re: DASD requirements

2003-05-31 Thread Ferguson, Neale
This is what I did for SLES8: /dev/system/root 132M 92M 41M 70% / /dev/dasdb124M 6.3M 16M 29% /boot /dev/system/home 3.0G 33M 3.0G 2% /home /dev/system/opt 384M 97M 288M 26% /opt /dev/system/usr 2.5G 1.4G 1.1G 56% /usr /dev/system/var

Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check

2003-05-31 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 09:05, Michael Short wrote: One of our own gets to preach to the choir. http://search390.com/r/0,,14473,00.htm I listened to this yesterday. It took about an hour, and by-and-large was pretty good stuff. David doesn't talk down to you, he uses little pictures and big

End_request: I/O error

2003-05-31 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Any ideas what could cause this in console log (and /var/log/messages). May 30 11:13:24 linprox kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 5e:01 (dasd), sector 3429792 May 30 11:13:24 linprox kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 5e:01 (dasd), sector 3429768 May 30 11:13:24 linprox kernel:

Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check

2003-05-31 Thread James Melin
Was this webcast made available for 'cold viewing' after the fact? I couldn't get to it as we had a router frell itself beyond description. |-+ | | David Andrews| | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Sent by:

Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check

2003-05-31 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello again from Gregg C Levine Good question. James, could have typed that made-up word, when he meant something else. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Force will be with you...Always. Obi-Wan Kenobi Use the

Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check

2003-05-31 Thread Scott Archer
You don't watch enough FARSCAPE on the SciFi channel... :) At 10:29 AM 5/30/2003, you wrote: What means frell? -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Applications Solutions Team +1.817.255.3225 This message (including any attachments) contains confidential

Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check

2003-05-31 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 11:26, James Melin wrote: Was this webcast made available for 'cold viewing' after the fact? I just tried it, and it works. Didn't have to re-register either, so it probably set a cookie. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check

2003-05-31 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Nope. Only the Star Trek episodes, until they decided to can Farscape, and install it, in place of ST:TOS. Now, I'm avoiding that channel. What does it mean? --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check

2003-05-31 Thread Dave Jones
Thanks, David, for the kind words. Yes, the moderator did not pronounce our name correctly, but that's par for the course:-) I was never able to get RA to work here on my W2K box (it kept telling me I needed the updated version, even after I had downloaded the update, installed it and

Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check

2003-05-31 Thread Lucius, Leland
What means frell? Select the Slang link: http://www.geocities.com/bluemouse20/FarscapeRP/dictionary.html Leland

Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check

2003-05-31 Thread Post, Mark K
When I tried to access it yesterday, and again today, I get prompted for a userid and password for wmcontent05.broadcast.com. Mark Post -Original Message- From: David Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Webcast Today: A

Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check

2003-05-31 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Real Player exists for Linux, but RA, is trying to avoid publicizing its existence. Why didn't you use Media Player? It delivers better streaming video for web based stuff. For audio only like radio stations online, itÂ’s a YMMV world out there. --- Gregg

Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check

2003-05-31 Thread John Ford
- Original Message - From: McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 10:29 AM Subject: Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check What means frell? Same as most unrecognized words starting with f. Verify this and other groovy slang

Re: End_request: I/O error

2003-05-31 Thread Henry . Calzaretta
Daniel, I see the exact same message issued for my /usr RO filesystem. In my case, the minidisk in zVM is RR for the owner and linked RR by all sharing Linux guests. On my system, it seems to be caused by DB2/UDB accessing programs living in /usr, but I have been unable to determine why. I've

Re: End_request: I/O error

2003-05-31 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 30 May 2003 17:29, Daniel Jarboe wrote: May 30 11:13:24 linprox kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 5e:01 (dasd), sector 3429024 The device corresponds to /dev/dasda1 which is dasd=8666(ro) in zipl's parmfile and ro in fstab. It seems to happen with squid activity. I have to

Re: RedHat vs Suse

2003-05-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:06:16PM -0400, Jim Rich wrote: I installed SuSE SLES8 2 weeks ago on our FLEX-ES system, using SAMBA running on the Red Hat base OS, which mostly serves up our IBM manuals. I used the X install method, after first issuing the following command on my SuSE 8.2

Re: RedHat vs Suse

2003-05-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:18:09AM -0700, Jim Sibley wrote: We've had SLES8 running for several months. I tried various installs and the one that finally worked for me was ssh/ftp. As to the VNC install, I can't get it to work with netscape or mozilla on my 8.1 SuSE workstation! Some nonsense

Re: End_request: I/O error

2003-05-31 Thread Rob van der Heij
Any ideas what could cause this in console log (and /var/log/messages). You probably have the mini disk linked R/O now.

Re: Microsoft Loses City of Munich Deal to Linux

2003-05-31 Thread Albert Schwar
On Wed, 28 May 2003 10:53:51 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: MUNICH (Reuters) - The city of Munich said on Wednesday that it would switch 14,000 computers from Microsoft's Windows operating system to rival Linux Today Christine Reich (SPD, city councilor) announced that Munich has made a fundamental

Java Configs

2003-05-31 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
I'm getting an error message that I need a config file in SLES8's /etc/java. The README file gives examples of how to build the file, but no information on what to name the file. Any one have any knowlege on how to build and/or name the file in /etc/java for use with IBMJava2-s390-14? Great

Re: RedHat vs Suse

2003-05-31 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Sorry it has taken me a while to get back with my retorts. I had to wait until after lunch to be able to digest all the great info you sent. My personal thinking is that M*S dropped support Win95 long years ago, it's no excuse however, but I can't find Win95 anywere near. I assume it should be

Re: RedHat vs Suse

2003-05-31 Thread Adam Thornton
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 16:02, Tom Duerbusch wrote: I agree, but sometimes just not doable. Acquiring a laptop from a client for Linux, adds to the perceived cost of Linux. If I buy one (my laptop is dedicated to OS/2), then the client wonders if they can support Linux without my laptop. So,

Time Sync

2003-05-31 Thread Steven A. Adams
This might be a little off topic so feel free to let me know if it is. Our z/800 is about 90 seconds off of time with the rest of the network and this is starting to cause some havoc with an application that we are currently developing. I have been told that getting the mainframe to sync up is

YOU under SLES8

2003-05-31 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I'm trying to use the online update feature of Yast under Suse 8. First time though, ok. It wants me to download the recommended update for YOU (patch 5185). I do that, and Yast does its thing. I get fully out of Yast and back in. When I try to go to Software:Online Update:Package update

Re: Time Sync

2003-05-31 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2003-05-30 at 22:40, Steven A. Adams wrote: This might be a little off topic so feel free to let me know if it is. Our z/800 is about 90 seconds off of time with the rest of the network and this is starting to cause some havoc with an application that we are currently developing. I

Re: Webcast Today: A 'Linux on the mainframe' reality check

2003-05-31 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 30 May 2003 23:56, you wrote: And you're correct; it's a bit embarrassing to have to use Windows to watch a webcast on Linux. Hopefully that will change soon (at least in Munich) I don't have a Windows box. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS:

Re: Time Sync

2003-05-31 Thread Vic Cross
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Steven A. Adams wrote: I am being told that there is not a way to use ntpd under one of my Linux guests to set the clock and propagate these settings through VM to the CTC. We have a bunch of Linux guests doing time sync over Guest LAN directly to an NTP server out on the

Re: Time Sync

2003-05-31 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 14:10, Alan Cox wrote: On Gwe, 2003-05-30 at 22:40, Steven A. Adams wrote: This might be a little off topic so feel free to let me know if it is. Our z/800 is about 90 seconds off of time with the rest of the network and this is starting to cause some havoc with an

Re: Time Sync

2003-05-31 Thread Steven A. Adams
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 15:31, Vic Cross wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2003, Steven A. Adams wrote: I am being told that there is not a way to use ntpd under one of my Linux guests to set the clock and propagate these settings through VM to the CTC. We have a bunch of Linux guests doing time sync

Re: Time Sync

2003-05-31 Thread Post, Mark K
The only thing that I'm aware of is the Coupling Facility. I don't believe z/VM is able to use one of them (but recent versions may have changed that). Mark Post -Original Message- From: Steven A. Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 6:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time Sync

2003-05-31 Thread Steven A. Adams
Thanks for the reply Mark, Please excuse my ignorance, you can tell me I'm crazy if you like but do you think there a possibility that we could use an ntp child on the support element laptops and achieve time sync? Of course that would mean that we would have to connect the laptops to the network,

Re: Time Sync

2003-05-31 Thread Michael Morgan
All of our S/390 systems (Linux/390, VM z/OS) get the time from an external time source..ie the IBM 9037 sysplex timer. We manually set the time in the sysplex timer (about once a year :)) We don't care how accurate the time is, so we've never looked into having the sysplex timer get it's time

Re: YOU under SLES8

2003-05-31 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I applied the Yast updates and was able to run the Online Update without a problem. -Original Message- I'm trying to use the online update feature of Yast under Suse 8. First time though, ok. It wants me to download the recommended update for YOU (patch 5185). I do that, and Yast does