Re: OT: Laptop running Linux?

2004-02-23 Thread David Boyes
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:35:03AM -0600, Tom Duerbusch wrote: > For example, the G40 uses software in your running operating system to > tell you your battery life. Or at least it seems to. But the big deal > is with Linux, my laptop overheats. On the XP side, there is a power > management app

Re: OT: Laptop running Linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Ranga Nathan
Things like network card (wireless even more) , winmodem (needs to be disabled for modem connection), USB devices, CDROM can delay installation. If you are prepared to run Linux as a guest under Windows, VMWare ($$) bridges the LAN between Windows and Linux. "Terrence W. Zellers" <[EMAIL PROT

SUSE SLES8: no login prompt at 3270

2004-02-23 Thread David Kreuter
Client on way out the door today showed me a linux SuSE SLES8 system. There is no login prompt at the 3270, putty/ssh works from out in the network. I have seen that this was a problem in SuSE7 under certain circumstances. Anyone seen or experienced anything similar? Any fixes in SLES8? Thanks,

Re: invalid ICMP type 11 record

2004-02-23 Thread Fargusson.Alan
According to RFC792 the type 11 record is a "Time Exceeded Message" record. This can be a time to live exceeded, or a fragment reassembly time exceeded. My guess would be the first. This message is generated by your router. You may be specifying the wrong IP for your default gateway, or some

Re: invalid ICMP type 11 record

2004-02-23 Thread Betsie Spann
Each of my systems that report the message only give their own IP addr. In fact, the first message comes when booting up and after the Binding to the NIS domain message. Is this just a nuisance message then? Should I suspress it in /etc/sysctl.conf? Betsie - Original Message - From: "Alan

Re: invalid ICMP type 11 record

2004-02-23 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2004-02-23 at 23:12, Betsie Spann wrote: > Someone kindly responded to my first question on what might be causing the invalid > ICMP type 11 records. He suggested that it may be a bad netmask. I have checked > and rechecked my /etc/sysconfig/network and > /etc/sysconfig/network-script

Re: overwrite user direct c from a linux guest

2004-02-23 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 02/23/2004 at 02:35 CST, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps what is really desired is for IBM to port the DIRECTXA program to > run under Linux? Of far more interest (to me, anyway) is to integrate VM enterprise-wide open, standards-based system management technologies.

Re: overwrite user direct c from a linux guest

2004-02-23 Thread Alan Altmark
On Monday, 02/23/2004 at 03:41 EST, Bruce Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ref: Your note of Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:36:03 -0600 (attached) > > Well, there's always hcp send directxa user direct > (with proper privs or SET SECUSER in effect.) All of these async mechanisms do not provide ret

invalid ICMP type 11 record

2004-02-23 Thread Betsie Spann
Someone kindly responded to my first question on what might be causing the invalid ICMP type 11 records. He suggested that it may be a bad netmask. I have checked and rechecked my /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 files and cannot find a problem. Any other

Re: RHEL3 for s390x gcc 2.95 compatibility libraries

2004-02-23 Thread Florian La Roche
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:07:41PM -0800, Betsie Spann wrote: > I can find compat-db-4.0.14-5.s390x.rpm > compat-libstdc++-7.2-2.95.3.77.s390x.rpm compat-libstdc++ is needed often as compat lib and it is actually part of the gcc source code. > compat-pwdb-0.62-3.s390x.rpm > but nothing called c

Re: RHEL3 for s390x gcc 2.95 compatibility libraries

2004-02-23 Thread Betsie Spann
I can find compat-db-4.0.14-5.s390x.rpm compat-libstdc++-7.2-2.95.3.77.s390x.rpm compat-pwdb-0.62-3.s390x.rpm but nothing called compat-gcc Betsie - Original Message - From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 1:47 PM Subject: Re: RHEL3 f

Re: RHEL3 for s390x gcc 2.95 compatibility libraries

2004-02-23 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2004-02-23 at 19:53, Betsie Spann wrote: > RedHat has said that Rh 3.0 has gcc 2.95 compatibility libraries. I can't find > them. Anyone know what they are called? > Betsie I'm not directly familiar with RHEL3 S/390 but the general naming policy is compat-[something].

Re: Ficon and Linux in LPAR mode

2004-02-23 Thread Kubannek, Harold
Correct. This change will reduce us to 4 Ficon channels from 16 Escon (resulting in some CHPID changes) but the devices (and addresses) will remain the same. Thanks Adam. --Harold -Original Message- From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 14:04 To:

Re: Ficon and Linux in LPAR mode

2004-02-23 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 13:07, Kubannek, Harold wrote: > From the limited research I have done, it would appear we should be fine (no > maintenance required). I would anticipate no problems; I assume the device addresses are going to stay the same? Adam

Re: overwrite user direct c from a linux guest

2004-02-23 Thread Kern, Thomas
Does the DIRMAINT server respond to SMSG commands? If it does then with proper authorization an "hcp SMSG DIRMAINT DIRECTXA ..." could work without bothering with the SCIFed console. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 > -Original Message- > From: Bruce Hayden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mo

overwrite user direct c from a linux guest

2004-02-23 Thread Bruce Hayden
Ref: Your note of Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:36:03 -0600 (attached) Well, there's always hcp send directxa user direct (with proper privs or SET SECUSER in effect.) Bruce Hayden IBM Global Services - Note follows -- From: Dave Jones <[EMAI

Re: overwrite user direct c from a linux guest

2004-02-23 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 2:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: overwrite user direct c from a linux guest > > > Right, DIRECTXA is a CMS module and expects the SUER DIRECT file to be > on a CMS file system (

Re: overwrite user direct c from a linux guest

2004-02-23 Thread Dave Jones
Right, DIRECTXA is a CMS module and expects the SUER DIRECT file to be on a CMS file system (either minidisk or SFS). Adam Thornton wrote: On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 12:03, Alejandro Leyva Rabinovich wrote: With cpint-1.1.6 its really easy to issue commands to z/vm, so thats not a problem, i would try

Re: RHEL3 for s390x gcc 2.95 compatibility libraries

2004-02-23 Thread Little, Chris
Can you build your own gcc? I realize for an oracle customer, that is a pain . . . but when you have to make do . . . > -Original Message- > From: Betsie Spann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 1:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RHEL3 for s390x gcc 2.95 c

FW: Secure FTP clients for Linux

2004-02-23 Thread Harris, Brad
Hi all, I've searched the archives but haven't found anything. I'm looking for a real live ftp-ssl client (not scp or ssh or any of the port 22 stuff) I need to ftp-ssl client that uses port 990 by default. Any idea where I can find one for linux/390? Thanks - Brad Harris. -Original Mess

RHEL3 for s390x gcc 2.95 compatibility libraries

2004-02-23 Thread Betsie Spann
RedHat has said that Rh 3.0 has gcc 2.95 compatibility libraries. I can't find them. Anyone know what they are called? Betsie

Ficon and Linux in LPAR mode

2004-02-23 Thread Kubannek, Harold
Hi, we are scheduled to move from Escon (attaching our z900 to the ESS (shark) dasd) to Ficon in the next few weeks. We are still "playing" with Linux in a single LPAR (no z/VM involved). We run Redhat 7.2 with the Linux kernel at 2.4.21, with the IBM June 2003 stream applied (patched to linu

Re: overwrite user direct c from a linux guest

2004-02-23 Thread Alejandro Leyva Rabinovich
Excuse me, I have not considered that. On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Adam Thornton wrote: > On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 12:03, Alejandro Leyva Rabinovich wrote: > > With cpint-1.1.6 its really easy to issue commands to z/vm, so thats not a > > problem, i would try nfs to update user direct. > > Well, not a pro

Re: Laptop running Linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Beinert, William
Also look at http://www.linux-laptop.net/ I'm also contemplating getting a Linux laptop...going to develop some free sw as I travel around in my retirement freedom. Bill -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, February 2

Re: overwrite user direct c from a linux guest

2004-02-23 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 12:03, Alejandro Leyva Rabinovich wrote: > With cpint-1.1.6 its really easy to issue commands to z/vm, so thats not a > problem, i would try nfs to update user direct. Well, not a problem except that you can't issue CMS commands, only CP commands, and DIRECTXA is a CMS comman

Re: overwrite user direct c from a linux guest

2004-02-23 Thread Alejandro Leyva Rabinovich
With cpint-1.1.6 its really easy to issue commands to z/vm, so thats not a problem, i would try nfs to update user direct. Thanks On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Friday, 02/20/2004 at 06:54 CST, Alejandro Leyva Rabinovich > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, is there any way to

Re: Use of Dirmaint

2004-02-23 Thread Michael Short
If you have a monolithic USER DIRECT and want to use it with DIRMAINT, just change the name to USER INPUT and put it on DIRMAINT's 1DF disk and then restart DIRMAINT. Upon start up DIRMAINT will convert it to its internal form. Any time later if you need the monolithic form again issue a DIRM BACK

Re: OT: Laptop running Linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Tom Duerbusch
It depends on how much you want to play. I just got a Thinkpad G40. I used Partition Magic to reduce the size of the XP partition and then loaded Suse 9.0 on it. It works. I didn't get much futher then that. But. Unlike my previous Thinkpad 770x, which had certain things done via hardware

Re: Laptop running Linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Daniel Martin
David's got a great point. Again. I've had similarly positive experiences with the Thinkpad/SuSE combination. I'm running an A41 Thinkpad dual-booted with SuSE 8.2 and Windows 2000. I find that I spend most of my time using the Linux persona. Everything works - no fuss, no muss, no bother, eve

Re: Laptop running Linux?

2004-02-23 Thread David Boyes
> I hope this doesn't upset anybody. But I am considering > getting a Laptop. Of > course, I am only interested in one running Linux/Intel. But > most vendors > are "suggesting" Windows XP. I've only found a couple of Linux laptop > vendors (ASA Computers and EmperorLinux). And their prices are in

Re: OT: Laptop running Linux?

2004-02-23 Thread Terrence W. Zellers
www.linuxlaptops.org. You'll probably be better off doing it yourself. Make sure the hardware is supported under linux (stay away from centrino chipsets until the drivers are out and tested). Have heard good things about Linux on Dell laptops, some but less about HP's. Proba

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-23 Thread David Boyes
Michael Coffin's gone through the technical reasons to like VM:Secure; operationally, VM:Secure is a lot friendlier to humans. VM:Secure has (IMHO) an exceptionally well thought out UI, both for human users and for program integration (line-mode). It's easily possible to delegate directory maintena

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-23 Thread Jason Herne
Is there any way to use Dirmaint with a monolithic directory structure? - Jason Herne On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 16:46, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > Yes, I use it and have been using it for about five years. > > What I like about it is that I can still use xedit & directxa > as I have for year

OT: Laptop running Linux?

2004-02-23 Thread McKown, John
I hope this doesn't upset anybody. But I am considering getting a Laptop. Of course, I am only interested in one running Linux/Intel. But most vendors are "suggesting" Windows XP. I've only found a couple of Linux laptop vendors (ASA Computers and EmperorLinux). And their prices are in the "premium

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Yes, I use it and have been using it for about five years. What I like about it is that I can still use xedit & directxa as I have for years and use DRM for allocating mdisks. The only problem I have with it is that the second & subsequent PF12 (File+map+directxa) won't accept the ful

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-23 Thread David Kreuter
Hi Jason: DIRMAINT provides two valuable functions: 1. automated directory management 2. storage management primatives In combination with DATAMOVE disks can be automatically formatted, files copied on change of size, etc. With gerrymandering of a DATAMOVE exit with some simple controls linux disk

Re: SSH on z/VM

2004-02-23 Thread Richard Troth
The function some of us miss is automation. SSH into and out from z/VM is vital for remote automatic operations. -- R;

Re: SSH on z/VM

2004-02-23 Thread David Boyes
> To me that seems like a giant step backward in capability. You will lose > the 3270 capabilities of the system -- very similar to linemode telnet. Think of it first as a replacement for rexec than as a terminal connection. It makes more sense that way. In this case, the remote execution functio

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-23 Thread Adam Thornton
Has anyone used DRM from the VM Downloads site? Most of what I *really* want in a directory maintenance program is, frankly, not having to manually calculate minidisk extents. Adam

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-23 Thread Kern, Thomas
I have always used DIRMAINT even when we paid for VM/Secure as part of the VM/Center package. We have never been such an active, volatile, complicated site that VM/Secure does better than DIRMAINT. DIRMAINT is cheap enough for my bosses to not want to get rid of yet. It does what little I need it t

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-23 Thread Coffin Michael C
VM:Secure is a Directory Maintenance program just like DIRMAINT. Unlike DIRMAINT, it is also an External Security Manager (ESM). If you use DIRMAINT, you would also need license IBM's RACF for VM (very expensive and VERY unfriendly for VM systems, it's ported from z/OS). DIRMAINT uses IUCV messa

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-23 Thread Jason Herne
What is VM:Secure, what kind of license, and why do you like it over Dirmaint? Thanks. - Jason Herne On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 14:12, Coffin Michael C wrote: > Hi Jason, > > IMHO Dirmaint is, and always has been, a dog! I use VM:Secure, I've > replaced DIRMAINT with VM:secure in more shops than I

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-23 Thread Coffin Michael C
Hi Jason, IMHO Dirmaint is, and always has been, a dog! I use VM:Secure, I've replaced DIRMAINT with VM:secure in more shops than I can count over the past 20 years. :) Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room 6527 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20

Re: Any looking at CA-ACF2?

2004-02-23 Thread Eric Sammons
You still did not address my concerns or address why I would implement CA-ACF2. Here are 6 reasons why I would not use CA-ACF2. 1. Solaris 2. Windows 3. Active Directory 4. HP/UX 5. Linux/IA32 and IA64 6. AIX We have over 1500 servers that today use /etc/passwd or some other means to authenticat