Re: Update mySql on Slack/390

2008-09-25 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 9/25/2008 at 12:22 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jones, Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > I found a s390 download on the mySql web site. The package is > mysql-5.0.67-linux-s390x.tar.gz > ar.gz/from

Re: Update mySql on Slack/390

2008-09-25 Thread John Summerfield
Jones, Russell wrote: It looks like 5.0 is that latest stable release. I found a s390 download on the mySql web site. The package is mysql-5.0.67-linux-s390x.tar.gz

Re: question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread John Summerfield
David Boyes wrote: now I see said the blind man. I was hoping to make it very,very simple Suggestion: Write some small scripts with the command names you want, stash them somewhere, and have the aliases call those scripts. You can then authorize appropriately in sudoers. Also lets

Re: question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread John Summerfield
LJ Mace wrote: (rant on)I am trying to protect the system from an incompetent manager making a bad decision about an operator(rant off). Anyway so the operator doen't have to log into root I'm trying to setup sudo to perform several commands. To shorten the keying I have setup cmnd alias ,but wh

Re: Piping dd to tar/bzip/etc for in stream compression

2008-09-25 Thread John Summerfield
gah wrote: I am looking to take dd disk images of some small disk volumes and compres= s the dd output in stream rather than after the fact. Is that possible? My experiments so far seem to indicate that it needs to be a two step process.= I'd prefer that it be one step, but I've not succeeded i

Re: Linux reiserfs mounting issue - system hangs

2008-09-25 Thread Adam Thornton
On Sep 25, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Mark Post wrote: That wasn't necessary, big warning messages from mkreiserfs to the contrary. (Who thought that putting out "ATTENTION: YOU SHOULD REBOOT AFTER FDISK!" during a mkreiserfs command was a good idea?) One might parenthetically note that Hans Reiser is

Re: Linux reiserfs mounting issue - system hangs

2008-09-25 Thread Brad Hinson
Mark Post wrote: On 9/25/2008 at 8:46 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mary Elwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- I invoked YAST and I performed a dasdfmt on disk /dev/dasdh and I created a partition /dev/dasdh1. FDASD failed for unknown reason was return from YAST. I assumed it was

Re: Update mySql on Slack/390

2008-09-25 Thread Jones, Russell
It looks like 5.0 is that latest stable release. I found a s390 download on the mySql web site. The package is mysql-5.0.67-linux-s390x.tar.gz . Should that package

Re: Update mySql on Slack/390

2008-09-25 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 9/25/2008 at 11:25 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jones, Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to upgrade to the latest version on MySql on my Slack/390 > 10.1 system. It there a prebuilt package out there that I can install. Not at the moment. What version of MySQL ar

Re: question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread David Boyes
> now I see said the blind man. > I was hoping to make it very,very simple Suggestion: Write some small scripts with the command names you want, stash them somewhere, and have the aliases call those scripts. You can then authorize appropriately in sudoers. Also lets it warn you when J

Re: question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread LJ Mace
You know I've read a lot on sudo but this was never explained so well or if it was I missed it. You have turned on another light. Thanks Scott Mace --- On Thu, 9/25/08, Scott Rohling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Scott Rohling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: question about sudo > To: LI

Re: Linux reiserfs mounting issue - system hangs

2008-09-25 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 9/25/2008 at 8:46 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mary Elwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > I invoked YAST and I performed a dasdfmt on disk /dev/dasdh and I created > a partition /dev/dasdh1. FDASD failed for unknown reason was return from > YAST. I assumed it was because i

Re: question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread Scott Rohling
To further explain -- you would normally use an alias in sudoers to point to a list of commands ... Cmnd_Alias OPCMDS = /opt/scripts/cmsshutdown.sh, /sbin/shutdown -h now, /sbin/shutdown -r now Then use that allias throughout the sudoers file: oper1 ALL=OPCMDS Scott Rohling On Thu, Sep 2

Re: question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread LJ Mace
now I see said the blind man. I was hoping to make it very,very simple Mace --- On Thu, 9/25/08, Scott Rohling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Scott Rohling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: question about sudo > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008,

Re: question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread Scott Rohling
Ah - well - the alias isn't for the 'sudo' command itself -- it's just for sudoers...The alias will resolve into the list of commands -- you don't actually get to use it on the command line. It's just a vehicle to help you code sudoers more efficiently - not to provide an alias when you issue

Update mySql on Slack/390

2008-09-25 Thread Jones, Russell
I would like to upgrade to the latest version on MySql on my Slack/390 10.1 system. It there a prebuilt package out there that I can install. Thanks, Russ -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, sen

Re: question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread LJ Mace
But when I sudo SHUTL2 I get: sudo: SHUTL2: command not found Mace --- On Thu, 9/25/08, Scott Rohling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Scott Rohling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: question about sudo > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 11:06 AM > Isn't that

Re: question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread Scott Rohling
Isn't that what you want to see? The resolution of all the aliases and the final result? That's what I'd want to see - sanity check to make sure the aliases are resolving...And in this case it looks like SHUTL2 is resolving but CMSDOWN is not.. Scott Rohling (resending -- for some reason

question about sudo

2008-09-25 Thread LJ Mace
(rant on)I am trying to protect the system from an incompetent manager making a bad decision about an operator(rant off). Anyway so the operator doen't have to log into root I'm trying to setup sudo to perform several commands. To shorten the keying I have setup cmnd alias ,but when I try to execu

Re: Linux reiserfs mounting issue - system hangs

2008-09-25 Thread Romanowski, John (OFT)
Mary, Don't have to run dasdfmt against fba dasd. What's drstartr virtual machine's memory size? Is dbstrtr a RAM-based system? I've had RAM-based rescue system's hang like you described when they don't have enough memory. Give it at least a couple 100MB of memory, or a GB and try again. >

Re: Linux reiserfs mounting issue - system hangs

2008-09-25 Thread Ron Foster at Baldor-IS
Mary, I am not familiar with FBA devices, but I have done some work with Upstream recovery. Are you planning on using FDR/Upstream to perform the recovery? If so Upstream is file based, not filesystem based. That is you might not have to restore your 100G file system to reiser, you might t

Linux reiserfs mounting issue - system hangs

2008-09-25 Thread Mary Elwood
I’m trying to recover a linux SLES9 system using a linux starter system (drstartr). Once I get the environment setup I will use Upstream to recover the data. But first I’ve got to create the dasd and partitions. The system I am trying to recover has a device 0100 on ECKD. No problem creating, m

Re: hsi0 and SuSE

2008-09-25 Thread Richard Gasiorowski
Mark In my case, putting in the chanids (space separated) makes things work. Leaving it blank, or using commas to separate them makes things fail. The YAST netwrok screen GUI lists them in line item order. There are no space or commas. IBM OSA Express Network card (0.0.7000)│20.15.36.52 IBM