Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-28 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Post, Mark K wrote: Leland, If you've ever looked closely, the real rpm files have names like: aaa_base.rpm cpio.rpm gdbm.rpm m4.rpm ps.rpm texinfo.rpm If you replaced those with _identically_ named updates, you'll might be fine, but note that there are other

Re: LCS error at boot time

2003-08-28 Thread Rich Smrcina
This is actually a Bustech Netshuttle, and other Linux machines are up and running on it without incident. In other words the Netshuttle was already initialized. I would concur that it coud be a timing related issue. On Wednesday 27 August 2003 10:12 am, you wrote: When re-booting a normally

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2003-08-28 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
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Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-28 Thread Rob van der Heij
John Summerfield wrote: Probably something someplace is picky about versions. I found that I could replace the k_delft.rpm with a later one without obvious problems. I needed that because the kernel on the CD was so old that it could not use the network interfaces. But it is risky to do so.

Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-28 Thread Lucius, Leland
The check on disk space also uses those other files. AFAIK the tools to create those index files and cross references is not part of the distribution, and the format of the files is proprietary. You may be able to hack it by looking at the files, but you never know if you got all the bits

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2003-08-28 Thread Alexandre Cassen
Hi All, Hi Vic, While browsing threw redbook search index I found that Vic Cross published a new redbook focused on Keepalived/VRRP : IBM Form Number : REDP-3657-00 Title : Linux on IBM zSeries and S/390: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol on VM Guest LANs URL :

Additionnal info on RedPaper REDP-3657-00

2003-08-28 Thread Alexandre Cassen
(sorry for the repost) Hi All, Hi Vic, While browsing threw redbook search index I found that Vic Cross published a new redbook focused on Keepalived/VRRP : IBM Form Number : REDP-3657-00 Title : Linux on IBM zSeries and S/390: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol on VM Guest LANs URL

Re: LCS error at boot time

2003-08-28 Thread David Boyes
This is actually a Bustech Netshuttle, and other Linux machines are up and running on it without incident. In other words the Netshuttle was already initialized. Yes, but each subchannel interface also has some housekeeping to do when it goes active. That's my guess as to where something is

Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-28 Thread David Boyes
we build the system through a bunch of rpm commands to create the basic structure, and then add the rest of the packages with apt4rpm. I'll second this approach. apt is much smarter about getting dependencies right, and it's also a good framework for managing local repositories, so you don't

Re: Gdb on s/390

2003-08-28 Thread Daniel Jarboe
This GDB was configured as s390-redhat-linux... (no debugging symbols found)... [New Thread 1024 (LWP 18236)] /var/log/squid/gdb.in:3: Error in sourced command file: Cannot find user-level thread for LWP 18236: generic error From googling, looks like this might be a glibc bug? The gdb.in has:

Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-28 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, David Boyes wrote: we build the system through a bunch of rpm commands to create the basic structure, and then add the rest of the packages with apt4rpm. I'll second this approach. apt is much smarter about getting dependencies right, and it's also a good framework for

Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-28 Thread Rod Furey
And if the LSB had chosen apt instead of rpm then... oops, sorry, religious discussion. I love apt. Anyone thought of adding in a P2P update method for it? Rod

2003-08-28 Recommended Linux code drop to developerWorks

2003-08-28 Thread Gerhard Hiller
Please see the What's New page at: http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/whatsnew.shtml for a change summary of the 2003-08-28 additions and changes to the Linux for zSeries and S/390 developerWorks-pages. June 2003 stream: o kernel 2.4.21: - kernel patch with

Open Article: MySQL on Wall Street

2003-08-28 Thread Post, Mark K
For those who were asking questions about MySQL recently, this is an article that talks about NYFIX using it in a high volume mission critical application. http://www.open-mag.com/936339824.shtml Mark Post

Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2003-08-28 at 14:49, Rod Furey wrote: And if the LSB had chosen apt instead of rpm then... oops, sorry, religious discussion. I think you are confused. Apt is a network package management tool, rpm and dpkg are file formats. LSB describes a subset of the rpm package format and not

funky I/O change after adding CHPIDs

2003-08-28 Thread Wilson, Eric
All; Let me appoligize in advance; I'm a UNIX / Linux Admin, so I may not have the big iron terminology correct. Can anyone help us understand an interesting, yet seemingly bizarre and unexpected change in I/O throughput? Any insight in the Mainframe's I/O subsystem interaction with Linux

Re: zSeries performance heavily dependent on working set size

2003-08-28 Thread Mike Lovins
Could someone help me out? we are in the process of purchasing a zSeries and plan on running Linux. I recieved this email about performance problems on the zSeries due to working set size, what is the working set size? and on what size Zseries are having the problem? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: zSeries performance heavily dependent on working set size

2003-08-28 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Mike Lovins wrote: Could someone help me out? we are in the process of purchasing a zSeries and plan on running Linux. I recieved this email about performance problems on the zSeries due to working set size, what is the working set size? and on what size Zseries are

Re: funky I/O change after adding CHPIDs

2003-08-28 Thread Ward, Garry
Question: more CHPIDS to the same underlying physcial disks or to different disks? Adding more CHPIDs provides more serving entities for I/O requests, but if all the I/O requests end up going to exactly the same physical drive, you haven't really done anything. Now, if the drive in question

SuSE SLES8 64-bit z/VM

2003-08-28 Thread John Cassidy
Hello all, does anyone have any installation experience with LVM on the above?. I would be especially interested in the LVM and /boot partition issues. The YaST tool does not yield much information. Thank you and regards, John Cassidy

[Fwd: SuSE SLES8 64-bit z/VM]

2003-08-28 Thread Jim Rich
I allocated one 3390-9 to / and 15 to LVM. All setup was done using YAST2, which is very easy. Here is my system: lczlin5:~ # cat /proc/dasd/devices 0520(ECKD) at ( 94: 0) is dasda : active at blocksize: 4096, 1803060 blocks, 7043 MB 0521(ECKD) at ( 94: 4) is dasdb : active at

Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-28 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
What you're really going to have to do is to install your software from the original rpms, apply all the updates from the service/update rpms, then build your own new rpms. You'll have to look in the .spec files to see what files are really being used. A good source for learning about rpm

Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-28 Thread Jefferson Davis
I found it at this location: http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/ Jefferson Davis VM Support Galileo International IBM Global Services ph: 720.533.3604 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wolfe, Gordon W [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL

Re: SuSE SLES8 64-bit z/VM

2003-08-28 Thread Jim Sibley
John wrote: does anyone have any installation experience with LVM on the above?. I would be especially interested in the LVM and /boot partition issues. LVM works much the same under 64 bit as it does under 31 bit. I've found that recovery of an lvm boot volume can be tricky. The only reason

vdisk swap question

2003-08-28 Thread Marist EDU
We are running SLES7 and trying to initailize swap space that exists on a VDISK. I realize that the space needs to be formated using mkswap everytime the instance is logged off. I added the following two lines to /etc/rc.d/boot.local /sbin/mkswap /dev/dasdd /sbin/swapon /dev/dasdd -p 1 But

Linux and the P/390

2003-08-28 Thread Alex J Burke
Hi, I have a P/390 system, and I run native Debian on it. The issues I have with this config is that nothing appears on the console (defined a 3215 at 0009). Why would this be? My only conclusion is that Debian's kernel has been compiled with HMC support asthe primary console...would be very

Re: vdisk swap question

2003-08-28 Thread Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission
Get SWAPON EXEC from http://www.sinenomine.net/downloads/. You then don't have to worry about doing anything special, it just works. -Original Message- From: Marist EDU [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: vdisk swap

Re: vdisk swap question

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Thornton
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:12, Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission wrote: Get SWAPON EXEC from http://www.sinenomine.net/downloads/. You then don't have to worry about doing anything special, it just works. SWAPGEN EXEC, actually. The major thing it does that you'll like is that the newer

Is anybody out there

2003-08-28 Thread Loren Charnley, Jr.
All, I haven't gotten anything from the since about 9:22 AM EDT. I know that we have been having trouble with e-mail, just wondering if I missed something.. TIA, Loren Charnley, Jr. Tech Support Administrator Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (704) 847-6961 Ext. 2000

Re: zSeries performance heavily dependent on working set size

2003-08-28 Thread Kanter Mauri
You can get at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG246926.html some tips on it . - Original Message - From: John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:24 PM Subject: Re: zSeries performance heavily dependent on working set size

Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-28 Thread John Summerfield
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: What you're really going to have to do is to install your software from the original rpms, apply all the updates from the service/update rpms, then build your own new rpms. You'll have to look in the .spec files to see what files are really being

Re: Is anybody out there

2003-08-28 Thread paultz
Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home?

Re: Merge SuSE updates and original CDs???

2003-08-28 Thread Rod Furey
I think you are confused... I'm not confused but I am tired and failed to express myself properly. I'll refrain from trying to express myself until I've had a good sleep. (Note to self: do not make fool of self in public list after having travelled to Brussels and back that day (damn - they'd

Re: Is anybody out there

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Butler
yes -Original Message- From: paultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 3:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is anybody out there Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home?

Re: Is anybody out there

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Thornton
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 17:12, paultz wrote: Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone home? Come on now. I hear you're feeling down. I can ease your pain, Get you on your feet again. Relax. I need some information first. Just the basic facts. Can you show

Re: Is anybody out there

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Butler
yes,ok -Original Message- From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 3:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is anybody out there On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 17:12, paultz wrote: Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there

Re: Is anybody out there

2003-08-28 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
Read you five-by-five, loud and clear. God is a comedian playing to an audience afraid to laugh. - Voltaire Gordon Wolfe, Ph. D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company -- From: paultz Reply To: Linux on 390 Port Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003