Re: Memory recommendations

2004-01-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 00:26, Doug Clark wrote: I am running SuSE Linux in an LPAR. And according to the SuSE documentation installation using ssh (text mode) recommends 128+ MB of memory be assigned to the LPAR. I have 128 MB of central memory assigned and another 128 MB of expanded memory

VM for x86 project

2004-01-14 Thread José Manuel Canelas
I have just bumped into something that may be of interest to the list. Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/index.html

Blogd dieing after kernel upgrade?

2004-01-14 Thread Daniel Jarboe
Since upgrading to the latest security fix kernel from SuSE, /sbin/blogd dies on boot. From the man pages it looks like it's a SuSE thing for logging to the system console. But, I can still use VM as a console for the guest. Jan 14 02:04:30 linfs1 kernel: Loaded 10177 symbols from

Re: Un reachable network

2004-01-14 Thread Davis, Larry
I also see this when I do a traceroute command traceroute 10.38.135.1 3 sendto: Permission denied traceroute: wrote 10.38.135.1 40 chars, ret=-1 *sendto: Permission denied traceroute: wrote 10.38.135.1 40 chars, ret=-1 *sendto: Permission denied traceroute: wrote 10.38.135.1 40 chars, ret=-1

Re: VM for x86 project

2004-01-14 Thread Froberg, David C
Their paper Xen and the Art of Virtualization specifically mentions VM/370 in page 12. This sounds neat, especially with EMC buying VMware. Love to have a space server to play with this. Dave -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Excerpt from the asset purchase agreement between Novel and SCO

2004-01-14 Thread James Melin
(b) Buyer shall not, and shall not have the authority to, amend, modify or waive any right under or assign any SVRX License without the prior written consent of Seller. In addition, at Seller's sole discretion and direction, Buyer shall amend, supplement, modify or waive any rights under, or shall

Re: Un reachable network

2004-01-14 Thread Post, Mark K
That sounds like an iptables/ipchains firewall issue. Try iptables -F if that gets a command not found error, then ipchains -F Mark Post -Original Message- From: Davis, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Avoid the rush, volunteer early!

2004-01-14 Thread Post, Mark K
Yes, it is for SHARE in Long Beach. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Ranga Nathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 8:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Avoid the rush, volunteer early! Is this for the coming Share conference in Long Beach. We have 3

Re: Relative DASD performance

2004-01-14 Thread David Boyes
See Neale's SCSI presentation on linuxvm.org. There's some performance data in there. Capsule summary: the SCSI stuff is very, very fast. If your hardware supports it, it is a Good Thing, and more forward-looking. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates -Original Message- From:

Re: Un reachable network

2004-01-14 Thread Davis, Larry
Mark you were right the first time and when I entered the command route add -net default eth0 All started working correctly I then got a session going and ran Yast to make sure all the files got updated correctly. Then I cycled the ID and came up without any errors for TCP/IP and/or

mysql

2004-01-14 Thread James Melin
I have a user that wants to use mysql on one of my lpars. I have an issue where root can issue the mysql command from shell and get into the mysql command line interface. When a non-root user tries, I get this: / mysql ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket

Re: VM for x86 project

2004-01-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:25:27AM -0500, Froberg, David C wrote: Their paper Xen and the Art of Virtualization specifically mentions VM/370 in page 12. This sounds neat, especially with EMC buying VMware. Love to have a space server to play with this. I'm pretty sure Xen is mostly

Re: Relative DASD performance

2004-01-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:37:06AM -0500, David Boyes wrote: See Neale's SCSI presentation on linuxvm.org. There's some performance data in there. Capsule summary: the SCSI stuff is very, very fast. If your hardware supports it, it is a Good Thing, and more forward-looking. Neale sent it to

Re: Relative DASD performance

2004-01-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:37:06AM -0500, David Boyes wrote: Capsule summary: the SCSI stuff is very, very fast. If your hardware supports it, it is a Good Thing, and more forward-looking. Aaargh. That last reply was supposed to just go to David. Apologies. Adam

Re: mysql

2004-01-14 Thread Rod Furey
Privilege problems on /tmp/mysql.sock maybe? Rod

pam_mkhomedir.so bug

2004-01-14 Thread Eric Sammons
I believe I see a bug, that was documented for this library in general, in SLES8. I wonder if this bug has been addressed in current releases of pam and if this fixes are available for SLES8? I know the bug was either not introduced into Redhat 7.2 for Z or that it was fixed. I see it only on

Re: mysql

2004-01-14 Thread James Melin
Does not exist. First thing I checked. Not even when root is running the command does that file exist. |-+ | | Rod Furey| | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | n.nl| | | Sent by:

Re: mysql

2004-01-14 Thread Guillaume Morin
Dans un message du 14 jan ` 10:40, James Melin icrivait : Does not exist. First thing I checked. Not even when root is running the command does that file exist. Does root have a ~/.my.cnf file which specifies the name of the socket ? If so, you should specify the socket name on the command

Re: pam_mkhomedir.so bug

2004-01-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:40:05AM -0500, Eric Sammons wrote: When logging in via ssh I get connection closed. This is due to a missing home directory or the inability to create one. I have the following entry in /etc/pam.d/sshd, as I do in Redhat 7.2. session required

Re: mysql

2004-01-14 Thread Rod Furey
Googling around gives various answers including but not limited to: priv prob on the socket priv prob on the config file no passwd in the dB no grant been issued on something in the dB Take your pick... Rod

Re: VM for x86 project

2004-01-14 Thread Richard Troth
I was disappointed, if I read correctly, that Xen required changes to the guest operating system. -- R;

Re: VM for x86 project

2004-01-14 Thread Post, Mark K
Yes, you read right. All this came up back October, under the subject line of XEN. Interesting, following the VMWARE thread. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Richard Troth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VM for

Re: pam_mkhomedir.so bug

2004-01-14 Thread Frank Kirschner
Hi, Eric Sammons: I believe I see a bug, that was documented for this library in general, in SLES8. I wonder if this bug has been addressed in current releases of pam and if this fixes are available for SLES8? I know the bug was either not introduced into Redhat 7.2 for Z or that it was

sudoers file

2004-01-14 Thread Ranga Nathan
I could not locate the 'sudoers' file. Any one has any idea? In my slackware box it was under /etc/sudoers

Re: sudoers file

2004-01-14 Thread Post, Mark K
You asked this same question on the 5th. http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.43256 http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.43262 Mark Post -Original Message- From: Ranga Nathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mysql

2004-01-14 Thread Ranga Nathan
I had the same issue. We had re-IPLed the Linux LPAR and possibly it got shutdown uncleanly. mysqld did not work but safe_mysqld did. I can connect as any user now. My guess is that the mysqld daemon is not up. When it tries to come up it checks its pid fild and sock file. If it is already there,

Re: sudoers file

2004-01-14 Thread Ranga Nathan
Thanks, I must have lost the response somehow. I never had to install sudo. I will go looking for it. Google, here I come! Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/14/2004 09:48 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pam_mkhomedir.so bug

2004-01-14 Thread Eric Sammons
That typo is in my E-mail... Thanks for catching that... Eric Sammons (804)697-3925 FRIT - Unix Systems Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/14/2004 11:50 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Eric Sammons
We are still working on our support contact so I am not sure I can get the quick and dirty from SuSE yet, so I wonder does anyone in this group know the availability status of 2.4.24 for SLES8? Also, anything to watch for or perhaps a readme for fixes, enhancements etc. . . Our security folks

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Adam Thornton
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:16:34PM -0500, Eric Sammons wrote: We are still working on our support contact so I am not sure I can get the quick and dirty from SuSE yet, so I wonder does anyone in this group know the availability status of 2.4.24 for SLES8? Also, anything to watch for or

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Post, Mark K
More than likely, SUSE will _not_ issue a 2.4.24 kernel. What usually happens is that the fix for a particular problem is back-ported to the level they're currently distributed. This avoids problems with ISV software needing to be recertified on a new kernel, etc. SUSE has issued fixes for all

Re: mysql

2004-01-14 Thread James Melin
A ps -A | grep mysqld reveals: 6563 ?00:00:00 safe_mysqld 6594 ?00:00:00 mysqld 6596 ?00:00:02 mysqld 6597 ?00:00:00 mysqld So I appear to have multiple instances of mysqld running AS WELL as safe_mysqld. Ghod only knows what people have been doing to my

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
They issued kernel 2.4.21-94 yesterday. What fix are you looking for? Marcy Cortes Wells Fargo Services Company -Original Message- From: Eric Sammons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

Re: New Linux User

2004-01-14 Thread George Wallace
James Tison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, /dev/dasda (major 94: minor 0) is reserved three partitions on it: /dev/dasda1 (94:1), /dev/dasda2 (94:2), and /dev/dasda3 (94:3). Same scheme for all the other physical DASD --- the minor value that mod 4 returns zero on is the unit itself, the other

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Wolfe, Gordon W
Service_pack_3 on SLES8 did upgrade the kernel from 2.4.19 to 2.4.21, so anything is possible. Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. _ Anonymous Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company -- From:

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Little, Chris
there was an update released yesterday. details : Applies to Product(s): SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries Package: k_deflt Release: 20040112 Obsoletes: none Indications This update should be installed. Contraindications This kernel requires

Re: LVM usage between lpars

2004-01-14 Thread Froberg, David C
I really appreciate everyone's feedback on this topic. It was a *big* help in planning out a few things. Dave -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 5:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] LVM usage between

31-bit vs 64-bit and migration implications

2004-01-14 Thread Froberg, David C
Folks, any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated: We currently run SuSE's SLES 8 31-bit. Would like to go 64-bit at some point. Has anyone migrated from SLES 8 31-bit to 64? Was it fairly straight forward or was a lot of recompiling and reinstalling required? Similarly, what is a

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Eric Sammons
It seems that my security department is talking about some privilege escalation vulnerability. I am still trying to get more information. Thanks! Eric Sammons (804)697-3925 FRIT - Unix Systems Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/14/2004 01:29 PM

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Little, Chris
there are several of vulnerabilities that are x86 specific. the one that immediately comes to mind is the one that plagued the debian servers. -Original Message- From: Eric Sammons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-01-14 at 18:17, Adam Thornton wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:16:34PM -0500, Eric Sammons wrote: We are still working on our support contact so I am not sure I can get the quick and dirty from SuSE yet, so I wonder does anyone in this group know the availability status of

Re: VM for x86 project

2004-01-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-01-14 at 17:23, Richard Troth wrote: I was disappointed, if I read correctly, that Xen required changes to the guest operating system. Because Intel didn't design the CPU for virtualisation.

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:03:25PM -0600, Little, Chris wrote: there are several of vulnerabilities that are x86 specific. the one that immediately comes to mind is the one that plagued the debian servers. If you mean CAN-2003-0961, that vulnerability is not i386-specific, though it only

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Little, Chris
thank you. i stand corrected. -Original Message- From: Matt Zimmerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8? On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:03:25PM -0600, Little, Chris wrote: there are

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Eric Sammons
Here is the more exact finding our security group is concerned with: There are 2 recently discovered Linux Kernel vulnerabilities that could result in an attacker gaining elevated privileges on a Linux server. One involves exploiting the kernel function do_mremap()--insufficient bounds checking

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Marcy Cortes
SLES 8 kernel 2.4.21-94 seems to include the mremap problem: |This This update fixes a security vulnerability in the Linux |kernel (CAN-2003-0985) and contains additional fixes and IBM |codedrops. The changes in detail are: | | Security fix | | * Add missing check in mremap (CAN-2003-0985)

Re: Un reachable network

2004-01-14 Thread Davis, Larry
I tried that and this is what I get netstat -nr Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 10.38.135.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U40 0 0 eth0 And I can Ping the Gateway vmlinux:~ # ping -c 3 10.38.135.1

Re: mysql

2004-01-14 Thread Terrence W. Zellers
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 13:26, James Melin wrote: A ps -A | grep mysqld reveals: 6563 ?00:00:00 safe_mysqld 6594 ?00:00:00 mysqld 6596 ?00:00:02 mysqld 6597 ?00:00:00 mysqld I like mysql, but sometimes it can be a pita if the client libs and server gen

Re: Kernel 2.4.24 available for SLES8?

2004-01-14 Thread Minasian, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I believe that 2.4.21-95 has the do_mremap() problem addressed. I have this url from SuSE: http://sdb.suse.de/download/s390x/update/SuSE-SLES/8/rpm/s390x/k_deflt-2.4.2 1-95.s390x.rpm -Original Message- From: Eric Sammons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:58

Setting up an APT Server

2004-01-14 Thread Mark Post
Hopefully one of the more Debian-literate people on the list can point me in the right direction... Every SHARE, we have a double installfest on Friday morning. We take 30 or so Windows systems, and install Debian and then Red Hat on them. Everyone seems to really like the hands-on aspect, but

Re: Setting up an APT Server

2004-01-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 06:36, Mark Post wrote: part of the installation process asks if it should check for updates. It would be nice if we had a local-to-the-lab APT server so that we could let them see what that looks like, without killing the T1 connection. So, can anyone point me to a

Re: Setting up an APT Server

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:36:31AM -0500, Mark Post wrote: Hopefully one of the more Debian-literate people on the list can point me in the right direction... Every SHARE, we have a double installfest on Friday morning. We take 30 or so Windows systems, and install Debian and then Red Hat