Re: SLES9 Install hang

2004-12-07 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:48:35 -0700, Ledbetter, Scott E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I'm wondering about my SLES9 images. I downloaded all 6 CDs for both 31 and 64 bit versions from the Novell website to my Win2K PC. Not a single one matches the MD5 checksum on the Novell Download webpage.

Re: cpint - how to use from Perl

2004-12-07 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cpint - how to use from Perl On Dec 6, 2004, at 9:16 PM, Ranga Nathan wrote: Does anyone have a perl

Re: SLACK390 IPL goes into disabled wait state?

2004-12-07 Thread Richard Pinion
Try running zipl. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/06/04 04:50PM While IPL'ed from an install tape, I've run through the install of the required applications from the 'A' series of SLACK390, and completed the setup and configuration script. When I halt my system and attempt to IPL/boot from the volume

Re: SLES9 Install hang

2004-12-07 Thread Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)
We went round on this before. My suspicion is that they have (or had) one mirror with bad ISO images. Out of the 12 images I downloaded, all using IE on the same machine, two were bad. I didn't find out till I'd burned them, and couldn't mount them. I ended up tossing out at least 4 CD's

Re: SLACK390 IPL goes into disabled wait state?

2004-12-07 Thread Henn Richard D.
Mark, I'm installing version 9.1 from the SLACK390 site. During the setup, it gives me image-2.4.21. I've run through the setup process several times to be sure I was getting all the selections, and the last several tries have been in newbie mode so that I get the full prompts and results. My

Re: SLES9 Install hang

2004-12-07 Thread Rod Furey
Sometimes an image is downloaded incorrectly. CD Recorder says it is a bad image. So, I delete it and download it again (takes the same amount of time for the download). CD Recorder again doesn't like it. There is nothing I seem to be able to do considering that image. But, if I go to another

Re: SLES9 Install hang

2004-12-07 Thread Rod Furey
Tom Duerbusch wrote: O man... They left out regina! How can I operate without Rexx! Simple - you download the latest Regina release and compile it. Then you can use my pi... oh, no, wait... it's not ready yet :-) Rod -- For

VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-07 Thread Alan Schilla
Hi, I have been looking over the list for an example of what I wish to accomplish but have not seen this particular config. I am running SLES 8 under zVM 4.4. I have installed VSWITCH with 2 vswitch controllers in case one fails or I must take one down. These are associated with 2 gige

Permissions on Samba Printshare files

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Lonergan
We have a printshare defined in Samba (SLES8) with the following: [xprint] path = /spool/xappl/samba printable = yes force group = xgroup create mask = 0660 force create mode = 0660 security mask = 0660 force security mode = 0660 The share directory is set to 660 xuser xgroup. We print files to

Re: Permissions on Samba Printshare files

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Wickman
I'm out of the office LINUX-390 12/07/04 11:30 We have a printshare defined in Samba (SLES8) with the following: [xprint] path = /spool/xappl/samba printable = yes force group = xgroup create mask = 0660 force create mode = 0660 security mask = 0660 force security mode = 0660 The share

Re: Permissions on Samba Printshare files

2004-12-07 Thread Daniel Jarboe
When print files appear in the printshare, they belong to xgroup, but they have permissions as 600, instead of our intended 660. In this printshare, that's important because the files don't go straight to a printer. Instead, a process picks them up and modifies them. Our work-around is to

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-07 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 12/07/2004 at 09:57 CST, Alan Schilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been looking over the list for an example of what I wish to accomplish but have not seen this particular config. I am running SLES 8 under zVM 4.4. I have installed VSWITCH with 2 vswitch controllers in

Sun Alert ID: 57591

2004-12-07 Thread Hodge, Robert L
Hello, I need to upgrade the Java on my Linux for zSeries to resolve the vulnerability reported in Sun Alert Id 57591, http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57591-1 The resolution for this vulnerability is in SDK and JRE 1.4.2_06 and later. The fix was released on 11/22/2004.

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-07 Thread Alan Schilla
Thanks Alan. So if this particular design characteristic is needed I will need an external device like DNS round-robin or some form of smart DNS or content switching. Not VIPA. Thanks Again, Al -Original Message- From: Alan Altmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07,

Re: SLACK390 IPL goes into disabled wait state?

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Post
Ok, I can see that I need to move the s390-tools package from the k series to the a series. The s390-tools package contains not just zipl, but dasdfmt, and fdasd as well. These are necessary to format and partition new DASD volumes later on. You can either re-do the install, making sure to

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Post
As Alan mentioned, VIPA won't accomplish this. But, there are Open Source packages that will allow you to set up a High Availability (HA) cluster with your Linux/390 guests. Tivoli Systems Automation will certainly do the job, but at a much, much higher cost. Mark Post -Original

LVM question

2004-12-07 Thread dclark
SLES9 for S/390 (31-bit) in an LPAR (no VM) using a shared IFL I must be missing something -- but things may be different under SLES9 Currently I have /srv filesytem under root. I would like to /srv under LVM. I keep getting an error during the IPL stating /sbin/fsck.reiserfs /srv failed open

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-07 Thread Tom Shilson
Would you care to mention the names of a few of those packages? thanks Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/07/2004 06:02:14 PM: As Alan mentioned, VIPA won't accomplish this. But, there are Open Source packages that will allow you to set up a High Availability (HA) cluster with

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Post
I just went to freshmeat.net and put in cluster for the search argument. Mosix, OpenMosix, Linux-HA, Linux Virtual Server, mon, heartbeat. Beowulf can be used for HPC (High Performance Computing), but I'm not sure about HA. There is a write-up on LVS (Linux Virtual Server) in the Distributions

Re: LVM question

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Post
What does the output of cat /proc/lvm/global show you? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LVM question SLES9 for S/390 (31-bit) in an LPAR

DIRMAINT cloning question

2004-12-07 Thread Ranga Nathan
I set up a new Linux environment and started cloning the minidisks. I get messages like the following. It seems that the cloning is completed successfully but something is not done yet. DVHBIU3450I The source for directory entry DATAMOVE has been updated. DVHRLA3891I Your DMVCTL request has been

Re: LVM question

2004-12-07 Thread dclark
I crossed up too many systems trying to get this to work and I had to restore from backups. I then ran pvscan sans quotes techlnux:/proc # pvscan PV /dev/dasdc1 VG system lvm2 [2.29 GB / 0free] PV /dev/dasda1 VG system lvm2 [2.29 GB / 68.00 MB free]

Re: LVM question

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Post
Ok, this looks like a difference between LVM and the LVM2 that comes with 2.6. I guess vgdisplay and ls -l /dev/usrdata might tell us something. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Re: DIRMAINT cloning question

2004-12-07 Thread David Kreuter
No your CLONEDISK command has not completed properly. RC 105 from link indicates that another virtual machine was linked to the disk in write mode, stable mode or exclusive mode. DATAMOVE could not perform the cloning operation. Check with DIRMAINT for files indicating why the link couldn't be

Re: DIRMAINT cloning question

2004-12-07 Thread Ranga Nathan
Thanks for that. The existing guest was active at the time. I shut it down and performed the cloning. Looks like it worked OK but I still get something like: DVHDRC3428I Changes made to directory entry ZLP1 have just been placed DVHDRC3428I online. DVHBIU3450I The source for directory entry

Bruce Perens: When open source makes sense

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Post
I liked some of the thoughts from Bruce Perens in this interview. It made a lot of sense to me as to where a company might want to spend its money on software. http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/12/03/49FEopensourceinterview_1.html Mark Post

Strange allocation in DIRMAINT

2004-12-07 Thread Ranga Nathan
I see this when I issue DIRM FREE: * * * Top of File * * * VOLUME DEVTYPE -- FREE EXTENTS --- $$ 3380 START= 1 AVAIL=500 $$ 3380 START=503 AVAIL=382 LIN022 3390-03 START= 1351 AVAIL= 1988 LIN023

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-07 Thread Vic Cross
On 08/12/2004, at 10:21am, Tom Shilson wrote: Would you care to mention the names of a few of those packages? Keepalived is one. http://www.keepalived.org. I wrote this up in a Redpaper a little while back (REDP-3657, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol on VM Guest LANs). Although my paper talked

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-07 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 12/07/2004 at 07:02 EST, Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Alan mentioned, VIPA won't accomplish this. But, there are Open Source packages that will allow you to set up a High Availability (HA) cluster with your Linux/390 guests. Tivoli Systems Automation will certainly do the

Re: DIRMAINT cloning question

2004-12-07 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 12/07/2004 at 07:46 PST, Ranga Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that. The existing guest was active at the time. I shut it down and performed the cloning. Looks like it worked OK but I still get something like: DVHDRC3428I Changes made to directory entry ZLP1 have just

Re: LVM question

2004-12-07 Thread dclark
I had to restore back to a state previous to the creation of usrdata. I have LVM with system VG and so I captured it. I get the same error when I tried to add a logical volume to system also. techlnux:~ # vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name system System ID Format

smbmount question

2004-12-07 Thread Istvan Nemeth
Hi! smbmount works strange for me: when I mount a winxp share and walk into a folder wich contains 484 files, and I re-read it in mc some files disappear. Noone is writing in this folder. I want to tar some files, but: tar: /mnt/xx/data1.txt: file changed as we read it ...and when I repeat the