Re: Humor? Microsoft declares: The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007.

2007-05-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:18:42 -0400 Evans, Kevin R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand it only too well, but it isn't Microsoft's business model. How much did you pay for your copy of Internet Explorer when it was released as a download,or MS Word viewer, or ...

Re: Wiki

2007-05-16 Thread Alan Cox
I am considering using Wiki to organize and make available some of the IT documentation that is spread all over my shop. After looking I fount that there are several Wiki engines available. Which one is the best? Is that like asking which editor is the best? Wiki does not organise. One of

Re: Wiki

2007-05-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 16 May 2007 14:13:07 -0700 Warren Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also am looking for something to collect documentation tidbits into a DB that all can contribute to. We do have a need to search and organise though. We are a very small group (6 ppl) and are only doing the

Re: Humor? Microsoft declares: The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007.

2007-05-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:28:19 -0500 McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. Even Linus has got a job today. Controversial statements from the head of Microsoft's Linux Labs, Bill Hilf. /quote A fine demonstration that

Re: FYI APAR HIPER flag change (cross posted)

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:30:21 -0700 David Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back in a previous life, working for IBM Software Support, HIPER meant High Impact *or* PERvasive, not both. Hopefully It Puts Everything Right ducks

Re: getgroups for root

2007-03-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:14:18 -0700 Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been watching this discussion and I just realized that it is a bit silly. If you are root you have access to everything, so you don't need any groups. Except when dealing with NFS, external security models

Re: Pros/Cons of FCP connection DASD

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:37:39 -0800 barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand - where would an installation with many linux servers get SCSI I/O information that identifies a device response time and shows delays associated with that I/O? I/O statistics are nice, but how are they

Re: Surprise, Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS

2007-03-23 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:52:40 -0500 Stahr, Lea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fewer patches for Linux can mean either fewer problems fixed or fewer problems that NEED to be fixed. Or more problems fixed in each patch Alan -- For

Re: Sizing an HTTP-server guest

2007-03-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:55:06 -0500 Adam Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He's asking about how to measure the footprint of his httpd processes inside Linux. RSS size is the approximate answer although large amounts of the pages are shared which makes it trickier. If you are using apache then

Re: Root file system on ramdisk

2007-03-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:20:47 -0500 Eric Gaulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, Any succes stories about having root file system on a ramdisk (a la knoppix) with sles9 or 10 on zVM ? There is nothing stopping you doing this, other than the cost of RAM. On PC class systems where RAM is

Re: Suse S390 on Hercules disk activity

2006-10-17 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Maw, 2006-10-17 am 16:07 -0700, ysgrifennodd Paul Dembry: My installation is SUSE 10 running on the Hercules S/390 emulator running on RedHat. It all runs fine (rather slowly but it runs). I notice two things. First even at idle, the CPU is burning through about a million instrutions/sec.

Re: Getting to 64-bit systems *legitimately*...

2006-09-19 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Maw, 2006-09-19 am 16:20 -0400, ysgrifennodd David Boyes: It's annoying, but understandable. At least the requirement has been voiced and heard, and I can correct the error of the field weenies' ways that the requirement has not been voiced. You can all buy one IBM share each and each go

Re: Getting to 64-bit systems *legitimately*...

2006-09-19 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Maw, 2006-09-19 am 17:35 -0400, ysgrifennodd Post, Mark K: I might regret this, but I'm curious as to how one might pronounce _any_ of that. This is getting off topic a little but for the curious: Well Ar is like you'd expect Maw is short for Mawrth and I guess Maw alone would be pronounced

Re: SLES vs RHEL

2006-08-31 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Mer, 2006-08-30 am 17:52 -0400, ysgrifennodd Post, Mark K: now. I still don't think Red Hat is quite there yet, based on the fact that they have SRPMs on their servers for each architecture. See http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7288. The article covers how the process works (for RHEL3 at

Re: Swap partition filling up on RHEL4

2006-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Mer, 2006-08-30 am 08:21 -0400, ysgrifennodd Hall, Ken (GTI): We've been going around trying to figure out: 1) why we suddenly should have run out of virtual memory (if we did, because we never even got close to that before), and 2) why it was reported in this way. Does anyone know if

Re: Tracing question

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Llu, 2006-08-21 am 10:23 -0400, ysgrifennodd Ray Mansell: Please forgive the naivety of this question, but my knowledge of Linux is severely limited. Back in the good old days of VM and CMS, it was easy to load a program, locate it in storage, set a few CP trace traps within it, and then

Re: Tracing question

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Llu, 2006-08-21 am 12:28 -0400, ysgrifennodd Ray Mansell: Thank you both for the responses, but this isn't quite what I'm after. I really do need a CP instruction trace of a given program running in Linux, and as far as I can tell, neither gdb nor ptrace will give me this. They won't. Linux

Re: Small Mail Transport Agent

2006-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Sad, 2006-07-29 am 14:54 -0700, ysgrifennodd Adam Thornton: I somehow don't think that putting a thick coat of M4-flavored makeup on the pig actually makes the pig much more attractive. Why not ? It works for mustard. It certainly makes it a lot simpler to generate new configuration files.

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Sad, 2006-07-29 am 11:08 +0800, ysgrifennodd John Summerfield: Aside from users' aversion to cookies, their correct use isn't any easier than good backups;-) I reckon a lot of application authors trust the data held cookies, saying we provided that so we know it's okay. It is possible to

Re: Small Mail Transport Agent

2006-07-27 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Iau, 2006-07-27 am 13:19 -0500, ysgrifennodd McKown, John: True, but the MTA does not need to run on the same system as the MUA (email client). Nor does it need to listen to the internet side. This is one reason the default MTA setup on Red Hat boxes is not to listen to the internet merely

Re: OPM zLinux Experience

2006-06-26 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Llu, 2006-06-26 am 11:19 -0500, ysgrifennodd James Melin: Yes. Big reason. At what point does the box get overwhelmed by the rate of data through the firewall and cause a network slowdown. At what point will a single drive failure kill the box. What is the maximum sustainable data rate

Re: OPM zLinux Experience

2006-06-26 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Llu, 2006-06-26 am 12:32 -0400, ysgrifennodd Post, Mark K: Mirrored drives for the OS (which requires a SCSI/SATA RAID controller) Not really, in fact almost every raid controller sold today is BIOS software RAID on generic controller chips. Alan

Re: Secure FTP Server

2006-06-21 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Mer, 2006-06-21 am 12:48 -0400, ysgrifennodd Terry Spaulding: The team here did download the vsftpd 2.0.4 and tried to compile it. They thought that maybe the source was for Intel Linux not zSeries Linux. Same source 8) --

Re: create a z-linux test system

2006-06-06 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Gwe, 2006-06-02 am 08:47 +0800, ysgrifennodd John Summerfied: I've recently discovered that, while it's extremely convenient, that it's also slow on fast networks. The problem is that encrypting the datastream costs. I guess it does on slow processors, on a PC its scarcely noticable. You

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] Who's been reading our list...

2006-05-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2006-05-18 at 10:03 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: On x86 it is the translation-lookaside-buffers (TLBs) which get flushed each time the control register 1 is loaded. Switching between threads is [%cr3 not 1 but thats by the way] fine because the use the same translation table.

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] Who's been reading our list...

2006-05-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2006-05-18 at 09:51 -0400, Joseph Temple wrote: Yes tagging works, but you will find that the system z holds a lot more translations in a two tiered TLB and has tagging as well. Thus the System z does not have to retranslate as often. How many tags does the Z have in the TLBs ?

Re: Google out of capacity?

2006-05-04 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2006-05-04 at 09:31 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: But today is special - the CEO has admitted that the grand distributed PC approach hasn't worked. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/34147.htm Funny but that doesn't seem to be what the original referenced material is about.

Re: Spreadsheets woes - not to do with Linux or Mainframes but probably of interest

2006-05-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2006-05-03 at 10:12 -0500, Steve Gentry wrote: or from the EXEC wing, etc. ) write spread sheets that you're gonna base business decisions on, especially if that person bought the PC and spread sheet software the week before. More of a concern to some of us is that similar casual use

Re: What file system type to use for LVM ?

2006-04-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2006-04-27 at 13:41 -0400, Hall, Ken (GTI) wrote: Mount options NOATIME and NODIRATIME But I don't see those on the current Reiser doc pages. You wouldn't as they more generic options. Reiserfs does have some specific options such as those to disable tail packing which are documented

Re: Hipersockets for RedHat in an LPAR

2006-03-30 Thread Alan Cox
/etc/modules.conf /etc/rc.config /etc/chandev.conf Well no files at all with these names. Those are SuSE files so I would guess the Redbook needs fixing. I am new with Red Hat, can somebody please help me? /etc/modules.conf is /etc/modprobe.conf Hipersockets are discussed in the RHEL4

Re: Xen

2006-02-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2006-02-16 at 11:03 -0600, Tom Shilson wrote: Xen is a Linux form of VMWare. It allows you to run multiple instances of Linux. Instead of creating a virtual machine, however, Xen shares the kernel. Compared to VMWare (or zVM) it is limited because of this. I have never used it. I

Re: Linux on Intel;

2006-02-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2006-02-10 at 08:56 -0800, Clark, Douglas wrote: Does anyone have a USB 2.0 PCI card they would recommend running in an Intel box that supported Linux? USB 2 cards all implement a standardised interface called EHCI (yes sanity finally hit the PC world for once). So any old card should

Re: Interesting? to those who are subject to SOX

2006-01-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 10:30 -0600, Jay Maynard wrote: I do not agree at all that LKMs almost certainly violate the GPL, considering that Linus has said they do not. Linus is only one copyright holder and he's hardly said they do not just that they maybe don't in some cases. Its an area of law

Re: Interesting? to those who are subject to SOX

2006-01-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 14:20 -0500, Post, Mark K wrote: he's absolutely right. The BSD style licenses are much more business friendly than the GPL. Dangerous assumption. BSD licenses can be a lot less business friendly especially the older one. I worked for a certain networking appliance

Re: Secure file transfers: thoughts on zLinux as server for MVS sysplex?

2006-01-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2006-01-09 at 15:01 -0500, Tom Ambros wrote: We are looking to eliminate password authentication and, probably, encrypt all production file transfers on our internal network. Neither ssh nor ssl eliminate the need for passwords. Thats a terrible mistake a few people have made at great

Re: /etc/hosts

2005-11-01 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-11-01 at 17:34 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: We had a similar issue with Oracle on AIX, it was only a problem with a multi-homed guest. In that circumstance oracle defaulted to looking at the hosts file to know what interface / name itself was. Is there a problem with

Re: How to make Linux re-read the directory of a read-only file system?

2005-10-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-10-28 at 12:09 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: James Melin wrote: Actually, if you have the disk as ext3, you get gazillions of errors when it is R/O because the system that is mounting the disk R/O tries to use the journal too but it cant open it R/W. Since in such a case the

Re: R/W DASD shared among zLinux images...

2005-10-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-10-28 at 08:08 -0500, Nix, Robert P. wrote: Is there a properly intelligent filesystem and driver that can handle a read-write filesystem across multiple zLinux images? We're trying to install the set of Tivoli products, using zLinux as the server for many of the pieces, and

Re: How to make Linux re-read the directory of a read-only file system?

2005-10-27 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-10-27 at 08:17 -0500, James Melin wrote: Actually, if you have the disk as ext3, you get gazillions of errors when it is R/O because the system that is mounting the disk R/O tries to use the journal too but it cant open it R/W. To do shared storage you need either a network file

Re: DIAG [was: 2005-10-04 Recommended Linux on zSeries ...]

2005-10-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-10-13 at 14:02 +0200, Carsten Otte wrote: While the big sledgehammer CAP_DIAG works, I would prefer a bunch of smaller special purpose hammers. So you add a required cap bits to your diag driver interface and use 0 for useful unpriviledged diag calls. It doesn't make the problem

Re: DIAG [was: 2005-10-04 Recommended Linux on zSeries ...]

2005-10-12 Thread Alan Cox
Individual DIAGs can have their own variables in /sysfs/zvm/diag/nn as appropriate. The lock mechanism is simple to implement in arbitrary languages (works trivially in Fortran -- my favorite test), and is general enough to accommodate arbitrary DIAGs. Once that basic structure is in place,

Re: DIAG [was: 2005-10-04 Recommended Linux on zSeries ...]

2005-10-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-10-11 at 12:33 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: Sorry to burst bubbles here. A generic diag interface doesn't make sense. diag is a way to call the hypervisor from the guest kernel to do something. I'm not entirely sure I agree. Think about things lik scsi generic or /dev/ioport

Re: DIAG [was: 2005-10-04 Recommended Linux on zSeries ...]

2005-10-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-10-11 at 20:13 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: That doesn't sound like the Red Hat I know. At one point (before EL) most of the Kernel RH shipped was _not_ standard. Even now, Most of the applied patches are backports or configuration. It is one of the unavoidable things that occurs

Re: catfight.

2005-10-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-10-07 at 11:17 -0400, David Boyes wrote: job safe is a problem. Being the only pipe into the arch/s390 and arch/s390x trees is eventually going to be a problem in terms of succession and workload. As he *is* the only gatekeeper for this architecture, this seems like something that

Re: test msg

2005-09-26 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-09-26 at 11:41 -0400, Mark D Vandale wrote: This is just a test. No need to reply. This is just a reply. No need to test. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Xen and Linux on z/Series

2005-09-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-09-13 at 10:41 -0400, Jim Elliott wrote: Xen is an x86 (i.e. Intel/AMD) only solution. Think of it as an Not really no - it has gone beyond that. However it is for running x86 on x86, ppc on ppc etc not x86 on S/390. Qemu does the latter although it would need measurable further

Re: Xen and Linux on z/Series

2005-09-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-09-13 at 10:51 -0400, Uriel Carrasquilla wrote: I am not an authority and I only have a cursory understanding of XEN. It seems to me that once you have zVM there is no need for XEN. My understanding is that XEN runs a common kernel for both Linux images. It does it by modifying

Re: PuTTY on SuSE 9

2005-08-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-08-17 at 15:49 -0400, Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco wrote: delivery of this Email to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this Email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please

Re: [Possible Spam] Re: Dasdfmt and other potential block sizes

2005-08-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-08-15 at 12:32 -0400, Ward, Garry wrote: Technically there are Inter-Record-Gaps. As far as I know all SCSI and IDE disk are physically formatted in 512 byte sectors (oddly enough so IDE and SCSI formatting is far more complicated that physical sectors these days. The actual block

Re: Hundreds or Thousands?

2005-07-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-07-22 at 07:13 +0800, Glenn Nicholas wrote: My follow up question on this is: in terms of resource requirements, would you treat MySQL as being roughly equivalent to Oracle/DB2? At what task - that bit is important. For example sqlite is incredibly quick and efficient and blows

Re: PHP issue;

2005-07-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-07-19 at 08:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SuSE's response was to wait for the developer in-charge of PHP to incorporate a release of PHP that supports 64bit systems. Meanwhile I continue to sit idle. Would it be a bad thing to download and install the PHP source myself? I

Re: Denial of service attack

2005-07-12 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-07-12 at 05:05, shogunx wrote: Verifying source is fairly hard except for internal network traffic. Perhaps a quick arp lookup on the ip address indicated in the packets, and a comparison to the originating mac address's ip. Who would that exclude? Forged ip addresses. Virtual

Re: Denial of service attack

2005-07-12 Thread Alan Cox
If you want asymmetric routing its as simple as setting routes outgoing on your box and routes incoming on the router differently. Some distributions rather oddly like to set rp_filter to 1 (filter packets via different routes than you would send) so you have to change the setting [or educate them

Re: Denial of service attack

2005-07-07 Thread Alan Cox
Is there any software, z/Linux or z/VM based, that can be used to check for, and possibility prevent a DOS attack? Perhaps from Velocity? hint..hint.. (sure would help justification...) snort is the classic tool set used for security monitoring in the open source world. It can detect a lot of

Re: Denial of service attack

2005-07-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-07-07 at 17:50, shogunx wrote: On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Ryan McCain wrote: Just make sure you DROP it and not REJECT it. I was thinking MIRROR it, sending back to the pit from whence it came. You don't know where it came from because the source maybe fake. Mirroring it merely helps

Re: Denial of service attack

2005-07-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-07-07 at 22:12, shogunx wrote: Oh, I see. Someone forges headers to spoof the mirror into relaying nasty packets somewhere. A bit of logic in the middle of the subroutine could verify authenticity and if authentic, MIRROR, and if not authentic LOG or DROP. Verifying source is

Re: OT Slinkies

2005-06-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-06-30 at 21:10, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: Thanks, Steve. The closer I get to retiring, the more cynical I become and the less patient I am with those around me. My co-workers are just glad I don't bite. Thats ok, you provide me with a glorious source of .sig material. In fact four

Re: x3270 console problem under hercules

2005-06-06 Thread Alan Cox
IBM doesn't license z/VM on Hercules. If we did, there would be additional charges (it's another CPU), just like there are for FLEX-ES boxes. Ah the perils of proprietary software restrictions. Fortunately if you want to play with virtualisation on a PC you can do so with Xen and x86 without

Re: Linux default permissions

2005-05-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-05-18 at 21:47, Tom Duerbusch wrote: The default permissions defined when a file is created, seems to be +644. Actually the kernel doesn't really care. The property is set by what is called the umask (for daft historical reasons that don't matter). You can set it in a users login

Re: Which is better cp -av src dest or rsync -a src dest?

2005-04-28 Thread Alan Cox
rsync is way better. It handles stuff like named pipes properly and its much more resistant to files being moved *during* the copy. Many versions of gnu cp can end up doing quite bizarre things if its copying a directory and that directory is renamed up the file tree while it copies. rsync also

Re: SSH based attacks

2005-04-12 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-04-12 at 22:04, Gregg C Levine wrote: As all of you know, I run Slackware Linux here, for Intel, practically every day the system is on, I see people attempting to access the system via SSH from unknown, to it, IP addresses. There are worms that just sit doing dictionary attacks

Re: In Place Upgrade SLES7 or SLES8 to SLES9?

2005-03-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-03-22 at 14:34, Jeremy Warren wrote: I can hear the responses already.. Don't do it! are you nuts... but here goes anyway.. I do this with Red Hat. It's not the right way to do things for a critical production environment but its more fun (In fact I've got a box running Fedora Core

Re: Mono 1.1.4 RPMs for S/390

2005-03-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-03-18 at 12:49, Michael MacIsaac wrote: best development environment in the world. And I got the feeling that that man knows his development environments. FWIW. I think you'll find a lot of people who disagree with both of those statements 8)

Re: Reminder: P390 for sale on eBay - Item 5751712997

2005-02-23 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-02-23 at 06:50, Kevin O'Brien wrote: As requested, a reminder that the P390 PC Server 500 (MicroChannel) for sale on eBay auction closes today at 18:54:05 Pacific Standard Time . The link to the item is http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=5751712997 . If the

Re: developerWorks Patches *not* in 2.6.10

2005-02-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-02-18 at 17:28, Post, Mark K wrote: Alan, Thanks for the warning. Is there a collection of these patches anywhere? I just downloaded the FC3 kernel update, and it has an intriguing file named patch-2.6.10-ac12.bz2 in it. When I looked at it, though, I couldn't tell if any of

Re: GPL CLAW Driver and 2.6 Kernels

2005-02-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-02-14 at 17:05, Post, Mark K wrote: I just noticed that the c7000 (CLAW) driver that UTS Global developed for the 2.4 kernels is not in the 2.6 kernel source tree. Does anyone know if this was an oversight of some kind (not very likely), or was there just not anyone willing to

Re: Linux task structure

2005-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-02-02 at 15:31, Tom Shilson wrote: I wanted to follow control blocks in Linux memory from 'outside' of Linux by using VM commands. It worked on lots of other programs and operating systems. The problem is that the documentation just isn't there. We're not in the mainframe world

Re: Lost TCP/IP packets

2005-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-02-03 at 16:32, Thomas Denier wrote: into slow start mode. My rough calculations indicate that a one percent loss rate will limit throughput to something like a tenth of the nominal speed of the connection. However, we are seeing something like a thousandth of the nominal speed.

Re: appropriate value of LOAD AVERAGE

2005-01-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-01-27 at 10:09, Rob van der Heij wrote: From what I understand uptime reports the average number of processes inside this single Linux guest competing for CPU resources. Some of these processes come from interaction with end-users or requests via the network. If there is heavy

Re: Changing MTU size on an ethernet interface

2005-01-04 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-01-04 at 14:20, James Melin wrote: I'm in an interesting situation. Our network, hence my linux guests, use an MTU size of 1500. As it turns out, our z/os systems use an MTU size of 1492. We just started using a z/os HTTP server outside the firewall to do reverse proxy

Re: fedora on IBM ZOS mainframe

2005-01-04 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-01-04 at 21:02, James Melin wrote: Mark, do you have any personal experience flying the taolinux distro on big iron? My boss was interested in a 'truly free' Linux for our non-vm box in case we needed some stand-alone guests. I have no clue what he's thinking about however. Tao

Re: PDF files and code pages?

2005-01-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-01-03 at 19:55, Tom Duerbusch wrote: Do PDF files use code pages? Not as such but they do use embedded fonts in the printer and those can vary slightly. A simple workaround is to use gv to render the pdf into a bitmap then you know what you are getting.

Re: VMware vs. VM

2004-12-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2004-12-13 at 02:46, Knutson, Sam wrote: Isn't it more likely IBM could continue to relieve the few situations that require POR than to develop the VM guest teleportation facility? Adding or removing storage, processor, or memory resources should not Moving VM's around opens an entire

Re: OT: MsVS vs VMware musings (was Re: VMware vs. VM)

2004-12-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Sad, 2004-12-11 at 05:32, Vic Cross wrote: If the workload is Linux, then you'd have to be very wary about MsVS (IMNSHO). What might work today would definitely be unsupported by Ms, and may become disfunctional in the future if (when?) Microsoft decides to make MsVS a Windows-only

Re: VMware vs. VM

2004-12-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2004-12-10 at 19:53, Adam Thornton wrote: Won't there be some interruption time between the suspend-to-disk on the first set of servers, and the resume-from-disk on the second set? That is, the servers don't know they were down, but connected guests will see a pause there, won't they?

Re: VMware vs. VM

2004-12-10 Thread Alan Cox
You seem to be comparing Windows on Vmware with Linux on the 390 rather than Linux on both ? VMware certainly has some limits because unlike the 390 it is trying to emulate commodity hardware not designed for virtualisation on commodity hardware. That means they have to do some truely remarkable

Re: VMware vs. VM

2004-12-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2004-12-10 at 18:16, Adam Thornton wrote: On Dec 10, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Steve Shomaker wrote: VMware ESX Server runs on bare metal. Well, sorta. I think it runs on its own embedded Linux distro. It boots what seems to be an old Red Hat derivative and that then loads up the vmware

Re: RV: NFS - RPC Failure (Portmap)

2004-11-26 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2004-11-26 at 10:48, Jos Ral Barn Rodriguez wrote: mount -t nfs 197.10.1.8:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom But it fails saying: mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive I just can't find which my mistake has been. Could anyone help me ?

Re: Security alert for SMBFS - Anyone know anything?

2004-11-25 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2004-11-23 at 16:09, James Melin wrote: Ahh good. I didn't think this had bearing on things here at the moement. I can see it becoming a future item. I'll file it under the 'be aware of' department. Vendors have known about this for a while (its been under shared non disclosure) so

Re: Shutdown by Operations

2004-11-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-11-17 at 21:52, Craig Kittendorf wrote: Newbie question: Is there a way to allow Operations to shutdown without giving them root's password? One common way people do this is to add a shutdown user whose password is known to operations staff and whose shell is /sbin/shutdown (or

Re: How to restrict memory/CPU for certain users

2004-10-27 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-10-27 at 23:46, Fargusson.Alan wrote: I don't know the answer to the question you are asking. Having said that: I think you should find out what is wrong with the CGI script. Limiting memory and CPU will just cause the script to abort, and probably annoy your users. Setting

Re: Sigh.. is it really too much trouble to check the terminal ty pe?

2004-10-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2004-10-21 at 13:53, Nix, Robert P. wrote: During system init, is there actually a $TERM to be queried? The init scripts don't actually run at a terminal, do they? Just a thought, and may be showing my ignorance... $TERM during init depends upon what the init scripts set. Red Hat for

Re: Sigh.. is it really too much trouble to check the terminal ty pe?

2004-10-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2004-10-21 at 17:11, Richard Troth wrote: Right. That's where the problem lies. RH (not alone, but for example) makes this assumption in cases where it is not true. Perhaps detecting 'uname -m' and varying based on that might help? I don't like it, but it'd be a start. This

Re: Sigh.. is it really too much trouble to check the terminal type?

2004-10-20 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-10-20 at 20:55, Gregg C Levine wrote: Hello from Gregg C Levine And I agree with you, David, regarding the terminal settings for the different systems we use. Some sort of detection mechanism should be created to prevent these guessing games. It should always honour the setting

Re: Confining a user to the home directory specified in the user record

2004-10-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2004-10-11 at 18:45, James Melin wrote: Looks like rbash or bash -r will do the job nicely. For most real uses bash -r breaks down very fast. Gives someone vi and they can break out for example. If your distro is new enough you can use bind mounts to avoid extra copies of data on those

Re: Performance of ext3 crash recovery

2004-10-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2004-10-11 at 21:30, Thomas Denier wrote: We are considering setting up a mainframe Linux system with a file system with a size somewhere in the hundreds of gigabytes. This file system would contain a few hundred files with sizes ranging from a couple of hundred megabytes to several

Re: Off charter - Mickeysoft

2004-09-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-09-15 at 16:56, Phil Payne wrote: Shouldn't it have said Our software executed an illegal instruction? C|NK Actually it should have said Our software executed an invalid instruction. Illegal means prohibited by law and the use made of it for other things is incorrect according to

Re: Interesting project by IBM - K42

2004-09-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-09-15 at 22:34, Fargusson.Alan wrote: Frankly in my experience micro-kernels are not any more reliable or secure then kernels like Linux. They are a little more scalable. I would rather see someone work on making Linux scale to thousands of processors. It does for the most

Re: Stateless Linux project

2004-09-14 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2004-09-14 at 19:02, Jim Sibley wrote: The procedure has the following statement: [StatelessLinux] name=Stateless Linux baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/dmalcolm/stateless I doubt dmalcolm reads this list so suggestions on statelsss Linux improvements are best sent to him really. All

Re: Slack/390

2004-08-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2004-08-19 at 14:57, Richard Pinion wrote: gdm defaults to local access only. Either gdmconfig or fiddling with the config file by hand can be used to change that gdm.conf is commented - the thing you need to enable is less obvious. The remote X protocol is called XDMCP and that is the

Re: Slack/390

2004-08-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2004-08-19 at 13:49, Richard Pinion wrote: I login as root and type in gdm and the same for xdm. gdm comes up but I can't get a session using Labtam's Xserver Windows software. gdm defaults to local access only. Either gdmconfig or fiddling with the config file by hand can be used to

Re: Newbie question - Redhat 8 and 9

2004-08-12 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2004-08-12 at 14:00, McKown, John wrote: Install RedHat on the Intel server - 1 work day, assuming no interruptions. If its a modern release (for example Fedora if the PC side can be the freebie version) then it should take about two hours (allowing 1.5 hours for non 'CD operator'

Re: Can NFS export a samba share?

2004-08-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-08-11 at 19:58, Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote: Hi, If I have a SLES 8 zLinux server connected via samba to a read-only Windows share can the Linux server export that share read-only via nfs to other SLES8 zLinux servers? NFS depends on stable inode numbering so generally its a

Re: For the security weenies

2004-08-02 Thread Alan Cox
Guys if I wanted to read alt.humor.notfunny I'd try usenet. Or can we have linux-390-ontopic ? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: Cobol on Linux

2004-07-31 Thread Alan Cox
On Sul, 2004-08-01 at 00:59, David Boyes wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:50:23AM +0530, Maneesh Menon wrote: I meant Lex and Yacc Better look at the complexity of the language first. The LLR grammar for COBOL is *not* trivial. You'd also still need to write the code generator; also

Re: Under what conditions will Linux start releasing Cache?

2004-07-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 15:25, James Melin wrote: the application data is local. If there are any of the Linux Kernal developers monitoring this list, add my voice to those that are telling you that not being able to control cache behavior is a really frustrating when working in a virtualized

Re: Linux on zSeries and file caching...

2004-07-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2004-07-13 at 17:19, Dave Jones wrote: Folks, does anyone know how to build a Linux 2.4.x kernel that has Linux file caching disabled? I want to disable Linux's file caching and let CP's minidisk caching functions do it instead, and to reduce the virtual storage requirements for the

Re: good basic editors: gui or command line

2004-07-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2004-07-13 at 22:07, Brandon Darbro wrote: - ed (worse than edlin for DOS...) Thats unfair, ed is vastly more logical and powerful than edlin. Its an extrodinarily elegant tool if you know what you are doing and understand regexps.. - Gedit (Gnomes editor) Gedit can be extremely

Re: Progress on PL/1 for Linux

2004-07-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2004-07-13 at 23:42, Jeffrey Savit wrote: David is quite right: several brokerages used APL quite heavily. They would hire people out of business school and throw them into analytics departments. When I started working with these guys I was aghast at the idea of using interpreted APL

Re: Redhat Intel to SuSE Mainframe

2004-06-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2004-06-28 at 22:39, Marcy Cortes wrote: Users here are moving a websphere app from Redhat on Intel to SuSE on Linux on the mainframe. They are saying that they think RedHat was using UFT-8 and we're not and that's screwing up some data. How would/can one change that on SuSE? UTF-8

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