Re: Pros and Cons to sharing /usr

2004-01-27 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 24 January 2004 22:54, Eric Sammons wrote: That still does not seem to address the configuration / binary mismatch that may occur between /usr and /etc.  Each guest clearly has to have its own /etc and /var so it is entirely possible to have a binary mismatch with the configuration

Re: Windows? Blue Screen?

2004-01-27 Thread Ryan Ware
I don't know what OS the rover uses, but are you implying that Linux tolerates bad ram any better? -Original Message- From: Ranga Nathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 7:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows? Blue Screen? News: Spirit's Troubled

Re: Windows? Blue Screen?

2004-01-27 Thread David Goodenough
With the bad-ram patches (which I think only work on ix86 but might now work on other architectures), yes it can. This patch (which has been around for a while but I do not think ever made it into the formal kernel) allows bits of real memory to be ignored and never used, rather in the same was

Re: Windows? Blue Screen?

2004-01-27 Thread Phil Payne
I don't know what OS the rover uses, but are you implying that Linux tolerates bad ram any better? It seems to be full RAM, rather than bad RAM. But NASA may have a fix: http://www.indolink.com/displayArticleS.php?id=012604075500 Mission controllers have started loading a script on the rover

Re: looking for down load site for: Java JRE 1.3.0 Linux S390

2004-01-27 Thread Richard Troth
Anyone gotten Kaffe built on Linux/390? -- R;

Re: Windows? Blue Screen?

2004-01-27 Thread David Goodenough
Certainly for the i386 it can, whether this has ever been ported to other platforms I have no idea. I have to say that because it is not in the regular kernel I have never used it, but this is what it is supposed to do. I suppose that the reason that it has not made it into the regular kernel is

Re: Pros and Cons to sharing /usr

2004-01-27 Thread Eric Sammons
So if I am reading your email correctly, for the duration of an major update I would first basically update my master (as it is rw for everything). Then each guest allocate a /usr filesystem that is throw away. Mount that /usr as rw during the cloned guests updates. After the updates I can

Linux POC

2004-01-27 Thread Davis, Larry
We are interested in doing a Linux on z-series POC and we currently have a z-800 0A1 with 1 IFL and 8GB of storage. I have split the Storage almost down the middle, With Linux getting 3096MB of Central and 768MB of Expanded Storage. Can this group give any recommendations for a configuration and

Re: Weird OSA issue...anyone else???

2004-01-27 Thread Franco Mignogna
Leland reported the following error when querying OSA card via OSA/SF . IOAK881E Image D UA 15 had an OSA OAT reject code of E00A According IBM doc : E00A An IP address was received by the OSA port that duplicates an IP address being used by another IP connection in the IP network. Change

Re: Linux POC

2004-01-27 Thread Rich Smrcina
Apache by itself is quite lean and could run comfortably in a 64MB virtual machine (maybe less). If there is anything else (like PHP or MySQL), that will add to the storage requirements. Jetty, being a servlet engine might be wildcard (as WebSphere virtual machines typically are). I might start

Re: Linux POC

2004-01-27 Thread Adam Thornton
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:41:04AM -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote: Jetty, being a servlet engine might be wildcard (as WebSphere virtual machines typically are). I might start with 512MB machines and monitor it from there. Start smaller, say at 192MB or 256MB, and increase it as necessary. Give

Re: Linux POC

2004-01-27 Thread Rich Smrcina
If you're going that low, Jetty must be a whole lot less memory hungry than WebSphere. On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 09:51, Adam Thornton wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:41:04AM -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote: Jetty, being a servlet engine might be wildcard (as WebSphere virtual machines typically

Re: Linux POC

2004-01-27 Thread Post, Mark K
Larry, You don't mention whether this will be an LPAR install, or if you will be using z/VM. If you will be running in LPAR, that expanded storage is _not_ going to be directly usable by Linux. If you use the xpram device driver to create swap volumes, it can be used in that way, but not

Re: looking for down load site for: Java JRE 1.3.0 Linux S390

2004-01-27 Thread Post, Mark K
I was trying a long time ago, but didn't get very far. Our MIA friend Ross Patterson was helping me, but I got sidetracked onto other things. I might get a lot further today if I have another go at it. Have you been trying lately? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Linux POC

2004-01-27 Thread Adam Thornton
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:05:53AM -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote: If you're going that low, Jetty must be a whole lot less memory hungry than WebSphere. WebSphere itself only (only!) uses about 60MB. I guess that Jetty is much lighter weight than *that*. Space above that is what your Java

Latest Email worm has SCO-facing payload

2004-01-27 Thread Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission
http://www.theregister.com/content/56/35127.html __ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review,

Re: Latest Email worm has SCO-facing payload

2004-01-27 Thread Ryan Ware
We're stopping about 2 per minute now. I guess the web is being slowed down due to the bandwidth suckage. If the rate I'm seeing them at is an indicator of the number of machines, I'd say SCO will go dark again. -Original Message- From: Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission

Re: Windows? Blue Screen?

2004-01-27 Thread Jim Sibley
News: Spirit's Troubled Memory First Mars rover went into cycle of reboots after memory failure. The NASA spokeswoman last night said that the solution was to delete a lot of old files, so it sounds more like any auxiliary disc got full, not a RAM problem. Back in the '60's these were called

Re: Windows? Blue Screen?

2004-01-27 Thread Chris Cox
Jim Sibley wrote: News: Spirit's Troubled Memory First Mars rover went into cycle of reboots after memory failure. The NASA spokeswoman last night said that the solution was to delete a lot of old files, so it sounds more like any auxiliary disc got full, not a RAM problem. Back in the '60's

Re: Windows? Blue Screen?

2004-01-27 Thread Peter Vander Woude
reading the story online today, it sounded like they were using flash memory to store files and this appears to be full. Peter I. Vander Woude Sr. Mainframe Engineer Harris Teeter, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/27/2004 12:26:02 PM News: Spirit's Troubled Memory First Mars rover went into

Re: Linux POC

2004-01-27 Thread Davis, Larry
I am Sorry, Yes this will be a z/VM 4.4 install in an IFL LPAR. Larry Davis -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux POC Larry, You don't mention whether this will be an LPAR

Re: Windows? Blue Screen?

2004-01-27 Thread Ranga Nathan
Wow. My flippant comment brought forth some useful information! It is not bad being silly after all :-) Yes we will never know what happened. Situations are always 'managed'. Peter Vander Woude [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/27/2004 09:29 AM Please respond

Linux desktop

2004-01-27 Thread Noll, Ralph
Ok i have my linux desktop up and running... can get to window's folders, linux folders,,,all ok there thanks everyone for your help.. now i forgot about printing... how do i setup, get to a netowrk printer (windows of course) or my oke desktop's printer.. thanks Ralph

Re: Linux desktop

2004-01-27 Thread Post, Mark K
http://linuxvm.org/Present/SHARE101/S9325mma.pdf Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Noll, Ralph Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux desktop Ok i have my linux desktop up and running... can

Re: Linux desktop

2004-01-27 Thread David Boyes
CUPS makes this pretty easy. Here's one way: 1) Install a fairly recent (at least 1.1.9) version of CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) on your Linux box and make sure you have a PPD file for your printer. PPD files describe the capabilities of the printer in a nice compact way, and most printer

Re: Linux desktop

2004-01-27 Thread Richard Troth
Ralph ... On my SuSE/KDE desktop, it's in SuSE work menu Administration YaST2 modules Hardware Printer where locally attached printers are presented first. I get two windows

ColdFusion MX

2004-01-27 Thread Ron Greve
I noticed that The Software Developer for Linux on zSeries web page just added a link to Macromedia Coldfusion MX. http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/zseries/ Our management has asked us to check into the Zseries capability Does anyone have any feedback on this product?

Re: Linux desktop

2004-01-27 Thread Joe Poole
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 14:44, you wrote: CUPS makes this pretty easy. ...and CUPS also lets you register any printers you have defined on InfoPrint Server, if you have z/OS and the feature. For those products that don't use CUPS, a simple lpr -P (prtname) works, too.

SuSE Linux achieves CAPP/EAL3+ on eServers

2004-01-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
IBM and Novell's SUSE LINUX business unit have announced the achievement of new levels of security and operations certification for SUSE that will further enable the adoption of Linux by governments, as well as the Department of Defense for critical command-and-control operations. SUSE LINUX

Re: SuSE Linux achieves CAPP/EAL3+ on eServers

2004-01-27 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
This came in yesterday under our Maintenance agreement. You need a maintenance code to download the RPM. Title: Optional package to convert to EAL3+ certified system http://sdb.suse.de/en/psdb/html/5e43d0905ffbbf40e12ee5695e44c495.html

Re: ColdFusion MX

2004-01-27 Thread Post, Mark K
Hmmm. Given that it's only been available for 27 days, I would be surprised if there were a whole lot of people out there using it already. Still, this is interesting. A number of people in the past have asked about the availability of ColdFusion on Linux/390. Mark Post -Original

SLES 8 and LVM

2004-01-27 Thread Betsie Spann
Hi, Anyone using SuSE SLES 8 and LVM? Is the maximum number of logical volumes still 256? The version is 1.0.5-34. Can't find any other rpms for LVM. Betsie

Re: SLES 8 and LVM

2004-01-27 Thread Little, Chris
Please, can I have enough DASD to need 256 volumes? and yes, I believe the limit with LVM1 is 256. -Original Message- From: Betsie Spann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SLES 8 and LVM Hi, Anyone using SuSE SLES 8

Re: SLES 8 and LVM

2004-01-27 Thread Betsie Spann
It's not necessarily 256 DASD but 256 logical volumes on your volume group. Betsie - Original Message - From: Little, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:29 PM Subject: Re: SLES 8 and LVM Please, can I have enough DASD to need 256 volumes?

Re: SLES 8 and LVM

2004-01-27 Thread Little, Chris
let me rephrase . . . enought dasd for 256 logical volumes :) -Original Message- From: Betsie Spann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLES 8 and LVM It's not necessarily 256 DASD but 256 logical volumes on your

Re: SLES 8 and LVM

2004-01-27 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Little, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLES 8 and LVM let me rephrase . . . enought dasd for 256 logical volumes :) OK, Get z/VM. Slice 1 3390-3 (3339 cylinders) into 256

Re: SLES 8 and LVM

2004-01-27 Thread Betsie Spann
Thanks everyone. The LVM limitation is real and I'll have to adjust what I'm doing. Betsie - Original Message - From: McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:45 PM Subject: Re: SLES 8 and LVM -Original Message- From: Little,

Re: Weird OSA issue...anyone else???

2004-01-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 01/27/2004 at 03:50 CET, Franco Mignogna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: E00A An IP address was received by the OSA port that duplicates an IP address being used by another IP connection in the IP network. Change one of the IP addresses in the network. So it looks as an IP address

Re: Weird OSA issue...anyone else???

2004-01-27 Thread Adam Thornton
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 05:08:11PM -0500, Alan Altmark wrote: I'm pretty sure that Linux doesn't do IP takeover. The VIPA is registered in the OSA filters, but the OSA won't respond to ARPs. And then what Linux believes--in terms of what addresses are configured on the interface--and what the

Re: SLES 8 and LVM

2004-01-27 Thread Post, Mark K
Betsie, Is the limitation 256 logical volumes, or 256 logical volumes per physical volume group? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Betsie Spann Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SLES 8 and LVM

Re: SLES 8 and LVM

2004-01-27 Thread Betsie Spann
The limitation is 256 logical volumes across all volume groups. Betsie - Original Message - From: Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:22 PM Subject: Re: SLES 8 and LVM Betsie, Is the limitation 256 logical volumes, or 256 logical

Re: SLES 8 and LVM

2004-01-27 Thread Little, Chris
wise guy, eh? -Original Message- From: McKown, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLES 8 and LVM -Original Message- From: Little, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004

BFP

2004-01-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
There's something fundamental that I don't understand about Binary Floating Point. I wrote a simple program: TEST START USING TEST,R12 STM R14,R12,12(R13) LRR15,R12 LHI R1,X'FC0' LD1,A TCDB 1,0(1) SLR 15,15 BR14 A

Re: Windows? Blue Screen?

2004-01-27 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2004-01-27 at 22:20, Gregg C Levine wrote: Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine I agree. What I posted last night, which you've all by now probably have read, and enjoyed, is practically what the news reported last night. Which is why I posted it, since the message from the fellow who

Re: BFP

2004-01-27 Thread Ray Mullins
Looking at z/POP, there's a note that if the AFP-register-control bit (bit 45 of CR0) is zero, you'll get a data exception - but the z/POP says that you should always get a 2 in byte 2 of the FPC on data exceptions. Could be something CMS-y - have you tried it on z/OS? Best regards, Ray (ex-SAG)

Re: BFP

2004-01-27 Thread Graeme St. Clair
I don't have access to VM any more, but there will almost certainly be a CMS SET variant that will flip the offending bit behind the scenes. Remember CMS is just another virtual operating system (albeit one with clout!) and BFP is new and not necessarily required by each and every CMS user. Come

Re: SuSE Linux achieves CAPP/EAL3+ on eServers

2004-01-27 Thread Alan Altmark
By the way, the same press release which announced the new SUSE LINUX certifications also included the following: In addition to Linux, IBM plans to obtain Common Criteria certification of z/VM, its premier virtualization technology, in 2004. It is anticipated that z/VM will be certified to

Re: BFP

2004-01-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Thanks to all who responded. I needed to turn bit 13 in CR0 on to enable the additional floating point registers (i.e. FP1,3,5,7,9-15).