High Availability Systems

2004-05-10 Thread Phil Hodgson
Does anyone run any hot standby systems on Linux 390? Is the data (if any) migrated and health checked by your own code or is there some software that I need to be made aware of? Thanks Phil Hodgson -- For LINUX-390

time again for time

2004-05-10 Thread Little, Chris
I'm running ntpdate (and logging the output) every five minutes in lieu of ntpd for timekeeping. On the same (and only) guest : 8 May 11:55:00 ntpdate[2753]: adjust time server 10.2.0.9 offset 0.006435 sec 9 May 14:01:50 ntpdate[2792]: step time server 10.2.0.9 offset 90196.031766 sec 9 May

Re: High Availability Systems

2004-05-10 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 09:16, Phil Hodgson wrote: Does anyone run any hot standby systems on Linux 390? Is the data (if any) migrated and health checked by your own code or is there some software that I need to be made aware of? There are certainly sites using the Linux-HA clustering code on

Interesting Articles on IBM's Research Development Web site

2004-05-10 Thread McKown, John
Some interesting articles at http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd48-34.html 1) Millicode in an IBM zSeries processor 2) SCSI initial program loading for zSeries 3) The GNU 64-bit PL8 compiler: Towards an open standard environment for firmware development -- John McKown Senior Systems

Re: Z/800 IFL W/O VM using SANS and/or Oracle

2004-05-10 Thread Ann Smith
We have 8 paths to each chpid on the mainframe dasd. And I/O subsytem. SAN is network and is fiber. I had wondered if the paths had helped swing the stats. Richard Troth wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2004, Ann Smith wrote: The performance on the mainframe dasd (STK raid 5, turbo) was better than the

Re: SSL Basics for Linux/390 ?

2004-05-10 Thread Ann Smith
Thank you! I obviously was searching on the wrong keywords. David Boyes wrote: FYI: The redbook SG24-6870 found at http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg246870.h tml?Open covers the use of the crypto hardware in Linux in some detail. On the surface it looks like

Re: Z/800 IFL W/O VM using SANS and/or Oracle

2004-05-10 Thread Ferguson, Neale
How many paths to SAN switch? How many host adapators on the STK? How many ranks are the SCSI disks split over? The HA is the real limiting factor here. A maxed out ESS (i.e. all possible CHPIDs HA in use to disks split) is a capable of 250 MB/s (read) and about half that for write.

Re: SLES9

2004-05-10 Thread Ann Smith
Jim, With SLES8 you have to pay separate license/maint. fees for 31-bit and 64-bit versions. So with SLES9 you do not? Also, others (at IBM) had lead me to believe SLES9 would be 64-bit only but 31-bit apps could run under it. In either case, the pricing sounds better. 64-bit only sounds fine too

This newbie is getting there with SLES8 but...

2004-05-10 Thread Nigel . Havell
Hi again! I sorted out the last problem around PROFILE TCPIP and it turns out it was an intentional routing restriction which I have now resolved, so thanks to Carlos for that line of enquiry. Anyway I've now got another problem. I've successfully selected the vnc installation method and have

Re: This newbie is getting there with SLES8 but...

2004-05-10 Thread Rich Smrcina
What size virtual machine are you running in? On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 09:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again! I sorted out the last problem around PROFILE TCPIP and it turns out it was an intentional routing restriction which I have now resolved, so thanks to Carlos for that line of

Re: Z/800 IFL W/O VM using SANS and/or Oracle

2004-05-10 Thread Ann Smith
I'm confused by your 'host adapter' questions. The SAN is an EMC device. The STK mainframe dasd is ESCON attached to the z800. 3 LPARS share 3 RVA's. Now that we are using snapshot we have 6 paths to each chpid. When we were testing we had 8. I'm pretty SAN illierate but I can ask the storage

Re: This newbie is getting there with SLES8 but...

2004-05-10 Thread Doug Bulbeck
Hi Nigel, I ran into the same problem when installing SLES 8 from my PC, using SMB. I was told that there are some problems using SMB or FTP to a PC with this type of install. I was able to get past this problem by doing a NFS install, which worked much better! Regards, Doug Doug Bulbeck

Re: time again for time

2004-05-10 Thread Post, Mark K
Do you have the on demand timer patch enabled? If so, turn it off, and see if this changes. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Little, Chris Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: time again for time

Re: This newbie is getting there with SLES8 but...

2004-05-10 Thread Nigel . Havell
It has 256M -Original Message- From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2004 16:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: This newbie is getting there with SLES8 but... What size virtual machine are you running in? On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 09:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: cpint error messages

2004-05-10 Thread Post, Mark K
Neale has sent me cpint-2.2.0, and I've uploaded it to the web site. Please note that this is for Linux 2.6 systems _only_. Neale says that he'll be coming out with a 2.3.0 version fairly soon to work better with sysfs and probably change the diag0 driver into creating readable entries in sysfs.

Re: This newbie is getting there with SLES8 but...

2004-05-10 Thread Rich Smrcina
Perhaps I should have added that different installation methods have different storage requirements. You may want to verify with the readme that 256MB is enough for a VNC install. I use 256MB for a ssh install. You can certainly step down the virtual machine size after install. On Mon,

Re: This newbie is getting there with SLES8 but...

2004-05-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
I got not enough space errors when I was having I/O erros reading it. Check the console to see if you have any bad messages there. Marcy Cortes Wells Fargo Services Company -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: This newbie is getting there with SLES8 but...

2004-05-10 Thread Janek Jakubek
I've successfully selected the vnc installation method and have loaded the first bits using SMB from my PC's CD drive. The DASD have been formatted and partitioned and I then get to the YaST2 Installation Settings screen. But under the section 'Software' it gives the error: 'Not enough disk space

Re: Interesting Articles on IBM's Research Development Web site

2004-05-10 Thread Jim Elliott
Some interesting articles at http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd48-34.html My fav is the article on The IBM PCIXCC: A new cryptographic coprocessor for the IBM eServer as this new feature uses Linux as the embedded operating system. Jim

Re: High Availability Systems

2004-05-10 Thread Dave Jones
To expand just a little on what Adam just said. Adam Thornton wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 09:16, Phil Hodgson wrote: Does anyone run any hot standby systems on Linux 390? Is the data (if any) migrated and health checked by your own code or is there some software that I need to be made

Re: cpint error messages

2004-05-10 Thread Jim Sibley
I don't see the cpint_load command in the 2.1.0 cpint, just hcp, monstat, and mongen. Will the 2.2 version work with 31 and 64 bit. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one

Samba printing fix

2004-05-10 Thread Ferguson, Neale
From the IBM LTC page: http://www-124.ibm.com/linux/patches/?patch_id=1530 Description: This fixes the error processing command messages that are returned from trying to manipulate (pause, resume, cancel) indivudual jobs from windows on a samba print queue.