Upgrade to SLES10 (s390x from s390)

2007-01-10 Thread Daniel Jarboe
It used to be the case that there was not a supported upgrade path from SLES 31-bit to 64-bit addressing modes. Is that still the case? Has anyone performed a SLES9 SP3 s390 - SLES10 s390x upgrade in place, or is trying this still more trouble than its worth (i.e. install clean and be done with

Re: url question

2007-01-10 Thread Neubert, Kevin (DIS)
I have not used it in a while, but I remember it being generally slow. I gave it a try--it took about five minutes. Regards, Kevin -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Gentry Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:22 AM To:

Re: Time Zone problem

2007-01-10 Thread John Summerfield
Stahr, Lea wrote: I have what I think is a major Linux problem (not on s390 of course). I have a large Red Hat 8 cluster. I have searched the Red Hat database and found the Time Zone patch https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2006-0745.html but it does not list a RH8 version. Any ideas? I have the

Re: Time Zone problem

2007-01-10 Thread John Summerfield
Hall, Ken (GTI) wrote: The tzdata RPM is a noarch, so a version from any distro that's even close should work. I had been asked to look into this, and I was watching for the change to RHEL4, but there has never been any mention in the changelog for the package. So I did a quick search, and

Re: Adding 3590 to Redhat under VM

2007-01-10 Thread Mark Post
The mt command, which is part of the mt-st (or mt_st) package will allow you to operate the tape drive. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Crispin Hugo Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 4:28 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject:

Adding 3590 to Redhat 4 under VM

2007-01-10 Thread Crispin Hugo
Hi Chaps, I need to use a 3590 on Redhat 4 under VM. I have found the OCO and downloaded the RPM and installed it. Now what do I do ? I can't seem to find any documentation as to what I do next so I can actually use the tape drive. My experience is all Mainframe based and not Unix Crispin Hugo

Re: Time Zone problem

2007-01-10 Thread P David Schaub
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stahr, Lea Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 11:23 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Time Zone problem I have what I think is a major Linux problem (not on s390 of course). I have a large Red Hat

Re: DB2 UDB consolidation on zSeries Linux

2007-01-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 1/9/07, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simulation in VM allows 1 physical CPU to service multiple virtual CPUs. It's not optimum, but it can still make a difference in the operation of the Linux application. Notes is my favorite example of this. On a uni, Notes does some tasks

Re: Adding 3590 to Redhat under VM

2007-01-10 Thread Rich Smrcina
The device drivers manual should have info on how to use the tape devices. Crispin Hugo wrote: Hi Chaps, I need to use a 3590 on Redhat 4 under VM. I have found the OCO and downloaded the RPM and installed it. Now what do I do ? I can't seem to find any documentation as to what I do next so I

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2007-01-10 Thread Steve Gentry
Ignore my previous email. It seems to be working now. Steve G, -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: gnupg 2.0.1

2007-01-10 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I initially keyed it in as picky. After I finished keying the email, I went back and changed it to pickey. When I said the word to myself, slowly, pic,key,pic,key,pic,key, I changed it. So certain, that I didn't need to hit the spellcheck button G. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL

Re: [was gnupg 2.0.1] - WAS and SLES10?

2007-01-10 Thread Marcy Cortes
Well, my IBM rep told me, but it is here: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180uid=swg27007673 Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or

Re: Adding 3590 to Redhat under VM

2007-01-10 Thread Stefan Bader
Hi Hugo, have a look at http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/linux390/docu/l26bdd03.pdf. This contains a chapter about the driver for channel attached tapes (including 3590). Mit freundlichem Gruß / Regards, Stefan Bader SW Linux on zSeries Development [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade to SLES10 (s390x from s390)

2007-01-10 Thread David Boyes
It used to be the case that there was not a supported upgrade path from SLES 31-bit to 64-bit addressing modes. Is that still the case? Yes. Upgrade-in-place has never worked across architecture boundaries, and s390-s390x is an architectural boundary. is trying this still more trouble

SLES10 Distro- where is tomcat?

2007-01-10 Thread Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
My coworker says he isn't able to find any s390x.rpm files for Tomcat on the SLES10 DVD or CD's. Has anyone else had trouble? * This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may

Re: SLES10 Distro- where is tomcat?

2007-01-10 Thread Mark Pace
I have tomcat 5 on my SLES 10 distribution CDs. tomcat5-5.0.30-27.2 -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: DB2 UDB consolidation on zSeries Linux

2007-01-10 Thread Your Name
I remember that back when a place I worked was running MVS/ESA guests we found that there was a point in their IPL processing that required a second processor to produce startup diagnostics it the IPL failed; without the second processor the guest would just hang. We added a second vCPU to get

SLES9 SP3 install dropping network connection

2007-01-10 Thread William Dodge
I am doing a SLES9 SP3 install and when the install gets to the device mapper package on the SP3 CD1 my guest goes into a serious loop. It starts clocking serious cpu percentage and through the roof paging then eventually the VNC client or browser window (I have tried both) gets a network

Re: SLES10 Distro- where is tomcat?

2007-01-10 Thread Post, Mark K
He'll never find an s390x _or_ an s390 RPM for tomcat. It's a -noarch RPM: find . -name tomcat* ./noarch/tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.0.30-27.2.noarch.rpm ./noarch/tomcat5-5.0.30-27.2.noarch.rpm ./noarch/tomcat5-webapps-5.0.30-27.2.noarch.rpm ./src/tomcat5-5.0.30-27.2.src.rpm Mark Post

Re: SLES10 Distro- where is tomcat?

2007-01-10 Thread Smith, Ann (ISD, IT)
Thanks. For some reason Ed thought with SLES8 and SLES9 they had provided s390 and s390x rpm files. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Post, Mark K Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:07 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES10

Re: SLES10 Distro- where is tomcat?

2007-01-10 Thread Kim Goldenberg
Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) wrote: Thanks. For some reason Ed thought with SLES8 and SLES9 they had provided s390 and s390x rpm files. SLES10 is only s390x, therefore only one rpm. The 8 and 9 had two different versions that could be used separately so they had it there twice. Kim

Re: SLES9 SP3 install dropping network connection

2007-01-10 Thread William Dodge
It's set at 512MB and there ar 45718 pages res and 57885 pages in the working set. It doesn't do much paging until it gets to that package. I thought about using SSH to see if it made a differnece. I think I'll do that Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you could try doing the

Re: SLES9 SP3 install dropping network connection

2007-01-10 Thread William Dodge
Well it turns out that the install was still running. I left the guest alone while I went for lunch and when I got back it had shut down. I IPLed and it appears to be ready to continue the install. Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, you could try doing the install via SSH

Re: How do I find ...

2007-01-10 Thread Rich Smrcina
Try SPident -v LJ Mace wrote: What fix paxk oof sles I'm on?? I know I'm on sp3 but let say I fall and bump my head tonight and tomorrow someone asks me What fix pack of sles are we on? I could try a unmae -a ,if I rememebered it but that doesn't show it. thanks Mace

Re: How do I find ...

2007-01-10 Thread RPN01
The tool that is supposed to tell you is Spident, but I don't find it to be reliable. Below are the output from two of my systems, both recently updated with every patch available from SuSE at the time it was updated... rockhopper:~ # SPident CONCLUSION: System is NOT up-to-date! found

Re: How do I find ...

2007-01-10 Thread Post, Mark K
This is usually caused by not installing the optional updates. One of the reasons why (prior to SLES10), I always ran online_update from the command line, and not via YaST. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RPN01 Sent:

Re: How do I find ...

2007-01-10 Thread Stahr, Lea
My system does not have SPident at all. My SuSE-release files just says Version 8.1 and nothing else. Lea Stahr Linux/Unix Team 630-753-5445 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RPN01 Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:23

Re: How do I find ...

2007-01-10 Thread RPN01
In my case, I've generally installed most of the optional updates as well as the Security and Recommended ones. I still end up in the situation shown. -- .~.Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation /V\RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW /( )\ 507-284-0844

Re: Time change

2007-01-10 Thread Bernard Wu
There is a bug # for this problem ( #46588 ). Upgrading to glibc-2.3.3 rel 98.61 solves the problem. If you linux guests were created before Novell fixed CD#3, then you will get the Seg fault. If the guests were created the the correct CD#3, it works. Bates, Bob

Re: How do I find ...

2007-01-10 Thread Mark Pace
I've also seen SPident complain about a package being back-leveled that I did not even have installed. -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Upgrade to SLES10 (s390x from s390)

2007-01-10 Thread John Summerfield
David Boyes wrote: It used to be the case that there was not a supported upgrade path from SLES 31-bit to 64-bit addressing modes. Is that still the case? Yes. Upgrade-in-place has never worked across architecture boundaries, and s390-s390x is an architectural boundary. is trying this

Re: How do I find ...

2007-01-10 Thread Dell Harris
If you run SPident with -vvv it will list out all of the packages that are either newer or older than what it expects to be an updated system. RPN01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/10/07 2:06 PM In my case, I've generally installed most of the optional updates as well as the Security and Recommended

Re: VncServer setup/startup

2007-01-10 Thread Brendan Kelly
Er, Brendan, do we need all those pictures? Sorry - usually delete them - must have forgotten this time. I won't comment on how I feel about lotus notes :-) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Hillgang

2007-01-10 Thread Neale Ferguson
A reminder that the next Hillgang meeting is tomorrow in Herndon Va. Details at: http://www.vm.ibm.com/events/HILL0107.PDF. Neale Ferguson -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

More interesting Bacula info -- screenshots of 2.0 GUI

2007-01-10 Thread David Boyes
http://www.bacula.org/presentations/Bacula-FOSDEM-talk-24Feb07.pdf -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit