Re: Cannot add drive to existing LVM SLES 11 SP 1

2012-03-14 Thread Ayer, Paul W
To see how the current lvm is configured I like to use the command: lvdisplay -m lv_name This will tell you what disks it's on, and what parts of the disks, and/or if it's stripped or not .. Most likely not stripped, but if it is then you will need to add the same number of disks

Re: LVM on CKD?

2011-06-09 Thread Ayer, Paul W
I find that fdasd /dev/dasd_ shows Linux Native for a dasdfmt disks and it shows Linux LVM LVM after you do a pvcreate command to the disk. Using p to look at the partitions and q to not change them ... Command action m print this menu p print the partition table n add a new

Re: SwapCache

2011-06-02 Thread Ayer, Paul W
We lower the default for the parmvm.swappiness The default is 60 and we mostly set this to 5 now. To see where it's set now; cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Change it; echo 5 /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Update the /etc/sysctl.conf file to keep where you want it ... 20, 5, or

Re: Oracle 11g on zLinux

2011-03-30 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Sorry I don't see zlinux (or s390x or linux on z) under the 11g just the 10g on the oracle download page... Am I missing it ? Paul Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this email is intended for the confidential use of the above-named recipient(s). If the reader of this

Re: Oracle 11g on zLinux

2011-03-30 Thread Ayer, Paul W
on zLinux On 3/30/2011 at 11:05 AM, Ayer, Paul W pwa...@statestreet.com wrote: Sorry I don't see zlinux (or s390x or linux on z) under the 11g just the 10g on the oracle download page... Am I missing it ? It's the first selection on the page, in between the (11.2.0.2.0) and (11.2.0.1.0

Re: VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux

2011-03-29 Thread Ayer, Paul W
We have both in place. What we do is create ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 and ifcfg-bond0 like normal .. Do not put the ip info in them... Then create a ifcfg-bond0.xxx (xxx = the vlan tag .. like 32 or 155 or 88 .. whatever) Also found that you will want to remove gateway= from

Re: VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux

2011-03-29 Thread Ayer, Paul W
. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Ayer, Paul W Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:49 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] VLAN tagging and Channel Bonding with Linux We have both in place. What we do is create ifcfg

Re: Support thru IBM?

2010-10-27 Thread Ayer, Paul W
I use the link: https://www-304.ibm.com/ibmlink/etr/etr.wss After log in I do; 1) ETR ask a question 2) z/VM Operating System and Related Products 3) Linux for zSeries (SuSE, TurboLinux, Red Hat) That normally gets the ball rolling. They will work on

Re: zVM RACF database synchronization

2009-06-05 Thread Ayer, Paul W
synchronization On Thursday, 06/04/2009 at 04:06 EDT, Ayer, Paul W pwa...@statestreet.com wrote: So we did install the LDAP server sometime ago in zVM and have been trying to get something with TDI going. We spoke today with our normal LDAP folks and they asked why .. if it's just keeping some

zVM RACF database synchronization

2009-06-04 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good morning all, Today we have many zVM systems to using RACF that are all stand alone across our data centers. These zVM are to support our zLinux guests. Is there a way to have the RACF databases (adds, deletes, password changes) kept in sync between all of the zVM's on our network?

Re: zVM RACF database synchronization

2009-06-04 Thread Ayer, Paul W
[mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 1:11 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: zVM RACF database synchronization On Thursday, 06/04/2009 at 11:24 EDT, Ayer, Paul W pwa...@statestreet.com wrote: Today we have many zVM systems to using RACF

Re: Z10 2098 Q03 Experiences with Sles9 or Sles10

2009-05-27 Thread Ayer, Paul W
We have sles 9's and 10's and also rhel 4.4 thru 5.3 systems and had no issues at all from z9 to z10 hardware changes. Paul -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shockley, Gerard C Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:06 PM To:

Re: channel bonding using 2 Vswitches

2009-05-15 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Thanks for the update Peter. Sorry we know that the items listed are working as planned did not intend to indicate that it was a problem we found just the reasons why we were looking at this ... So we'll keep checking and also thanks for the VSS info we had looked at that in the past and for

Re: channel bonding using 2 Vswitches

2009-05-14 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Thanks Peter, We did understand that the items listed were by design but was just indication the reasons why were going to try to work around these limits. We had looked at the VSS (and will do again thanks for the reminder) but are going to see if we can get this idea to work. Thanks again,

channel bonding using 2 Vswitches

2009-05-13 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Has anyone setup Channel Bonding using NICs from two Vswiches in Layer 2 mode? We do not have this running yet but are starting to test ... There are a couple of reason for this; 1. We found that when you add OSAs to a Vswitch and setup link aggregation that the OSAs is used only on that

Re: SLES11 install

2009-04-02 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Do you need to add Vswitch=1 to your parms file maybe? In Red Hat we do ... -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 3:49 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: SLES11 install Has anyone

swappiness drop_caches ?

2009-04-01 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good afternoon all, Just wondering if anyone has some input (good, bad, warnings ...) or has had to used the following two items we are running VM5.4 and RHEL4.x and 5.x sles 9 and 10 systems 1) Setting swappiness to other than the default of 60 ? Echo nn

Re: swappiness drop_caches ?

2009-04-01 Thread Ayer, Paul W
PM, Ayer, Paul W pwa...@statestreet.com wrote: Good afternoon all, Just wondering if anyone has some input (good, bad, warnings  ...) or has had to used the following two items we are running VM5.4 and RHEL4.x and 5.x sles 9 and 10 systems 1)      Setting swappiness to other than

ypserv on zLinux (s390x)

2009-03-04 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Morning all, We are trying to install and get working ypserv on zLinux for the first time. It seems that a post install scritp keeps failing with the install. Does anyone have ypserv installed on a RedHat 4.6 s390x system? Here is what we see; rpm -Uih ypserv-2.13-19.s390x.rpm

zipl options

2009-02-03 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good morning, I have just realized that I accidently deleted my initrd-xxx.img file and the system will not boot up. I did not setup any options from the zipl menu to point to another .img file .. shame on me ... Is there another way to pass the at ipl time a parm to use another initrd-.img

Re: Good editor for under the 3270 console interface

2009-01-28 Thread Ayer, Paul W
I use sed and also use echo a lot too from the console. Don't forget to use the to add to file :) else you then need to echo in every line again. I'm going to try the ex now that would be great. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of

VLAN tagging

2008-12-23 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Morning all, Was able sometime ago to get the layer 2 interfaces working fine. Thanks to everyone for their input. As many on the list had said it was not so hard to do and really just had to (in redhat) Change APR=no to yes, add OPTIONS=layer2=1 and VSWITCH=1 and all worked fine. That was

why it's not working - where to start

2008-12-23 Thread Ayer, Paul W
What does this info tell me ... Do I have an OSA problem? Performance toolkit shows; only outbound data bytes on address 0802 the 800-802 addresses as online. A q Vswitch vwdb032a det shows no RX bytes or packets; We (Vswitch and real switch) believe that the vlan id is 32 Why

question on top

2008-12-08 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Morning, I have seen notes before that top lies but; Looking at a top display sorted by %CPU I see some processes using over 200 or 300 % CPU. This LPAR has 4 IFL's installed and the Linux has access to all four. Can we use the %cpu below 400 % as an indicator that we are not using all

vm performance tool kit

2008-12-08 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Hi all, Looking at the vmtool kit (again we have four processors running type is IFL for all four). Each show some % usage so that's fine. Under user extremes we see Max CPU% When looking at Max CPU% we see this note about it. Max. CPU % User which consumed most CPU during the last

Re: vm performance tool kit

2008-12-08 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Boyes Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 11:28 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: vm performance tool kit On 12/8/08 11:15 AM, Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: User which consumed most CPU during the last measuring interval, and the percentage of total CPU used (based

Re: vm performance tool kit

2008-12-08 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Boyes Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 11:43 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: vm performance tool kit On 12/8/08 11:31 AM, Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what can I tell from below ... is WDCB1112 3.0 just for the P00 ILF? Can't tell from the output posted -- the HTML

Re: vm performance tool kit

2008-12-08 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Of David Boyes Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:38 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: vm performance tool kit On 12/8/08 12:13 PM, Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is screen FCX100 (see top left corner of screen): It shows the four IFL type processors PROC%cpu

Re: vm performance tool kit

2008-12-08 Thread Ayer, Paul W
, December 08, 2008 1:22 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: vm performance tool kit On 12/8/08 12:42 PM, Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry I'm accessing via a web link and it does not show any screen numbers. But when I first get in I see a screen that has lots of options

Layer 2

2008-11-28 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good morning all, Does anyone have a link to some good doc on setting up layer 2 interfaces on zlinux? Some pointers would be great. Thanks, Paul -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

dvd download / using can red hat as nfs sever for sles install not working

2008-07-10 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Hi all, The good news is I'm all set now. Bit of back ground that I don't think I made clear yesterday. I had been using a sels 9.3 system as my nfs server for all installs (SuSe and Red Hat's) and all was fine all the time. But I broke the server and figured well it's just ... nfs anyway ...

sles 10 install using nfs

2008-07-09 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good morning, I am trying to create a new system sles 10 sp0 (tried sp1 also). The install keeps failing at the point where it evaluates the package selection and then says; 'No catalog found at 'nfs:192.168.127.22/exports/CD1' I have tried many ways to take the .iso files

Re: sles 10 install using nfs

2008-07-09 Thread Ayer, Paul W
the path to SLES-10-SP1-s390x-CD1.iso and it finds the others somehow. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ayer, Paul W Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 3:22 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: sles 10 install using nfs Good morning, I am

Re: sles 10 install using nfs

2008-07-09 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Subject: Re: sles 10 install using nfs On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:21 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, I am trying to create a new system sles 10 sp0 (tried sp1 also). The install keeps failing at the point where it evaluates the package

Re: sles 10 install using nfs

2008-07-09 Thread Ayer, Paul W
- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:44 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: sles 10 install using nfs On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:11 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks mark I did

can't download the compete dvd of sp10

2008-07-09 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Hi On the web page: http://download.novell.com/protected/Summary.jsp?buildid=0SF2mutIxKc~ I have used the download button next to ; SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso4.2 GB (4514115584) The download completes successfully as far as my http session is concerned but the file is only

Re: can't download the compete dvd of sp10

2008-07-09 Thread Ayer, Paul W
of sp10 On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:15 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On the web page: http://download.novell.com/protected/Summary.jsp?buildid=0SF2mutIxKc~ I have used the download button next to ; SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso

Re: can't download the compete dvd of sp10

2008-07-09 Thread Ayer, Paul W
PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On the web page: http://download.novell.com/protected/Summary.jsp?buildid=0SF2mutIxKc~ I have used the download button next to ; SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso 4.2 GB (4514115584) The download completes

dvd download

2008-07-09 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Ok after the Firefox session sitting at 4% for a long time for the sp0 dvd1 it now says complete. The file size I got is 219,148,577 SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso (almost the same size as before with IE) Should be 4,514,115,584 Per the web page ... The directory has 41,055,455,777

Re: dvd download

2008-07-09 Thread Ayer, Paul W
, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok after the Firefox session sitting at 4% for a long time for the sp0 dvd1 it now says complete. The file size I got is 219,148,577 SLES-10-IBM zSeries-DVD1.iso (almost the same size as before with IE) Should be 4,514,115,584 Per the web page

Re: dvd download

2008-07-09 Thread Ayer, Paul W
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: dvd download The drive has to be formated with NTFS because FAT has a max file size - Original Message - From: Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 4:18 PM Subject: dvd download Ok after

Re: zVM 3.1 at 100% CPU after z9 upgrade

2008-06-17 Thread Ayer, Paul W
cat /proc/sys/kernel/hz_timer O or 1 ? -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coffin Michael C Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 1:46 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: zVM 3.1 at 100% CPU after z9 upgrade Hi Ismael, Do you have VM/RTM

lsscsi command

2008-06-03 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Hi Anyone have the lsscsi command installed on there z/Linux systems? (I'm using RHEL 4.6 - 5.1 on s390x) I can't seem to down load it. I have seen some documents where it's in S390-tools but have not yet found it. Any pointers to where I can get it would be much appreciated. Thanks, Paul

Re: vmcpi command

2008-06-03 Thread Ayer, Paul W
We use it a lot here. From what we have seen if you enter vmcp xx (xxx being a normal vm command like; vmcp q Vswitch det vmcp q dasd vmcp q names If the command comes back with vmcp not found I do a modprobe vmcp and try my command

Re: lsscsi command

2008-06-03 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Found it ... great thanks -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Perry Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:09 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: lsscsi command Ayer, Paul W wrote: Hi Anyone have the lsscsi command installed

Re: Any Communication Controller for Linux users out there?

2008-05-16 Thread Ayer, Paul W
We are for a couple of years now. All working fine. SLES 9 SP 3 Remove all of our 3745/46-900 systems and (knocking on wood .. they just run fine all the time). Paul -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008

Re: Resize fs while mounted?

2008-05-06 Thread Ayer, Paul W
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Perry Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:06 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Resize fs while mounted? Ayer, Paul W wrote: Have you booted after doing this? I seem to have problems after this on he boot. -Original Message- I am not about to reboot

Re: Resize fs while mounted?

2008-05-06 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Have you booted after doing this? I seem to have problems after this on he boot. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Perry Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:53 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Resize fs while mounted? Mark Perry

Re: Resize fs while mounted?

2008-05-06 Thread Ayer, Paul W
No we are a RedHat shop and have migrated to running: RHEL4.4 , 4.6 , 5.0 , 5.1 (have only a few SLES systems left running 9 SP 3 ... ) I've been testing mostly on our RHEL4.6 code level as that's our largest deployed level at this time. I'll test again later this afternoon and update to the

Re: Resize fs while mounted?

2008-05-06 Thread Ayer, Paul W
] On Behalf Of Mark Perry Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:30 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Resize fs while mounted? Ayer, Paul W wrote: No we are a RedHat shop and have migrated to running: RHEL4.4 , 4.6 , 5.0 , 5.1 (have only a few SLES systems left running 9 SP 3 ... ) I've been

Vswitch and subnets

2008-04-16 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good morning, Running Oracle RAC and having a problem with supporting the way Oracle does VIP address fail over. This environment has two z9 systems running z/VM 5.3 with Vswitch on each and a linux (rhel 44). On each z/VM the Vswitch is setup to support a specific subnet. Vswitch on System A

Re: Vswitch and subnets

2008-04-16 Thread Ayer, Paul W
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayer, Paul W Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:26 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Vswitch and subnets Good morning, Running Oracle RAC and having a problem with supporting the way Oracle does VIP address fail over. This environment has two z9 systems

Re: Vswitch and subnets

2008-04-16 Thread Ayer, Paul W
nie jesteście Państwo jej adresatem, bądź otrzymaliście ją przez pomyłkę, prosimy o powiadomienie o tym nadawcy oraz trwałe jej usunięcie -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayer, Paul W Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:26 PM To: LINUX-390

Re: FW: Could use some help tuning a POC

2008-04-11 Thread Ayer, Paul W
We try it this way; Setup Vdisk swap as primary area then real disk swap space as #2 area (two swap disks) ... then set memory lower and lower until we start to see Vdisk swap some ... if we see swap move into the real disk area we then need to add a bit more memory until just Vdisk swap is used

Re: Swap space problems...

2008-03-07 Thread Ayer, Paul W
- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:01 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Swap space problems... On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:50 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In an effort

Swap space problems...

2008-03-06 Thread Ayer, Paul W
In an effort to not have to have the Linux Admin staff do something in VM I added the exec below to the boot process. I'm still fine tuning it but over all it works rather well. We were advised that we should have two swap spaces, one on Vdisk and one on real disk. The vdisk being primary and

vm profile question

2008-03-06 Thread Ayer, Paul W
We have two IFL's defined to one of our systems. Today via the profiles we have it set so that CPU 00 is used by only VM, and the Linux guests use only CPU 01 (really IFL's) Does anyone else do this ... reserve a whole IFL for just VM? Thanks, Paul

Re: vm profile question

2008-03-06 Thread Ayer, Paul W
, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different. On 3/6/08 3:00 PM, Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have two IFL's defined to one of our systems. Today via the profiles we have it set so that CPU 00 is used by only VM

Re: /proc/sysinfo

2008-03-05 Thread Ayer, Paul W
are different. On 3/5/08 8:42 AM, Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, Does the below info from a cat /proc/sysinfo tell me I have two active IFL's on this LPAR but the zLinunx only has access to one? We only have IFL's so I know that anything that says CPU is IFL just checking

dasdfmt

2008-01-23 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Morning, Using dasdfmt to format ECKD disks. Is there a way to not write a volser to the disk? Seems like no from what I am reading. Just wanted to be sure .. Thanks, Paul -- For LINUX-390 subscribe

Re: dasdfmt

2008-01-23 Thread Ayer, Paul W
], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using dasdfmt to format ECKD disks. Is there a way to not write a volser to the disk? I imagine you could pass a string of blanks for the volser, but why do you think you need to do that? Mark Post

Re: dasdfmt

2008-01-23 Thread Ayer, Paul W
you are using minidisks that start on a cylinder other than 0. Real cylinder 0 should be avoided for virtual machine use. David -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Ayer, Paul W Sent: Wed 1/23/2008 12:56 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: dasdfmt Running

Re: dasdfmt

2008-01-23 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Post Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:38 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: dasdfmt On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 1:19 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- We have been using mini disks up to this point and the space that the linux would see

Re: dasdfmt

2008-01-23 Thread Ayer, Paul W
No .. but I'll start looking into it. thanks -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:18 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: dasdfmt Oracle rac + asm (asm is managing the locks and all)

Re: dasdfmt

2008-01-23 Thread Ayer, Paul W
for the help. Paul.. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:26 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: dasdfmt On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 1:45 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL

Re: New qeth failure message

2007-12-06 Thread Ayer, Paul W
I had this message also once it ended up being that the guest was not granted access to the Vswitch -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:20 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: New qeth failure

Re: boot into single user mode?

2007-11-19 Thread Ayer, Paul W
] target = /boot/zipl dumpto = /dev/dasd?? [dumptape] target = /boot/zipl dumpto = /dev/rtibm0 -Original Message- From: Mark Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:38 PM To: Ayer, Paul W Subject: RE: boot into single user mode? On Thu, Nov

Re: boot into single user mode?

2007-11-15 Thread Ayer, Paul W
] On Behalf Of Piotr Kolasinski Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:52 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: boot into single user mode? Hi ! Try to use LOADPARM PROMPT Piotr Ayer, Paul W napisał(a): Good afternoon, Running SLES 9 SP 3 z/VM 5.2 The way we start the z/Linux systems

boot into single user mode?

2007-11-14 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good afternoon, Running SLES 9 SP 3 z/VM 5.2 The way we start the z/Linux systems is;I 150 In Red Hat there is a 15 second delay built in were you can enter a command to boot into single user mode. I used to hate this but now kind of like it. Is there a way to do this in SLES? Thanks,

email history

2007-10-24 Thread Ayer, Paul W
I would not like to bring up a question if it's already been talked about. Where or how do I look at the history log of messages? Thanks, Paul -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: email history

2007-10-24 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Thanks Mark... -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:37 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: email history On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 2:29 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL

Linux password and the VM console

2007-10-02 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Afternoon all, I had tried to ask the group yesterday but the email did not seem to make it. Our audit groups are having a problem what the fact that the Linux password can be seen when typed in ... Anyone have a way to not have the Linux password echo back to the VM

Re: Linux password and the VM console

2007-10-02 Thread Ayer, Paul W
for? It is not intended for day-to-day use and when it is used, should be done in a secure place so that the password is not exposed. Ayer, Paul W wrote: Good Afternoon all, I had tried to ask the group yesterday but the email did not seem to make it. Our audit groups are having a problem what

Linux password and the VM console

2007-10-01 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Morning all, Anyone have a way to not have the Linux password echo back to the VM console screen when it's typed in? The VM system knows not to show the VM password, but when the Linux password is entered it's just data. Anyone have a way around this? Thanks, Paul ...

FW: Linux password and the VM console

2007-10-01 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Morning all, Anyone have a way to not have the Linux password echo back to the VM console screen when it's typed in? The VM system knows not to show the VM password, but when the Linux password is entered it's just data. Anyone have a way around this? Thanks, Paul ...

Re: channel bonding

2007-09-19 Thread Ayer, Paul W
VLAN tagging, then each of those virtuals could travel different networks (perhaps to a DR site?). Doesn't help much for *real* interface bonding, but that's one use for it. Mike. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ayer, Paul W Sent

Re: channel bonding

2007-09-19 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:25 AM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: channel bonding On Wednesday, 09/19/2007 at 09:16 EDT, Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the input. But still if in a Vswitch only one OSA is really working at time into the network then channel

Re: channel bonding

2007-09-19 Thread Ayer, Paul W
at 10:47 EDT, Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this time in Vswitch only one OSA is really active and passing data. With (IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation) both OSA's would be moving data? With a z9 and z/VM 5.3, yes, you can have up to 8 OSAs moving data simultaneously for a single VSWITCH

channel bonding

2007-09-18 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good afternoon all, Have been having good success getting channel bonding going. We also have Vswitch as well. But it dawns on me that channel bonding and Vswitch (the way we have them) really don't go together. In Vswitch we have two OSA's one active and one backup. If in VM we setup two

issuing a shutdown to linux before IPL'ing VM

2007-08-06 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good afternoon, We are looking at ways to issue a z/Linux level shutdown (either init 0 or shutdown -h now type command) before doing a VM shutdown. Has anyone had to address this? Any samples or documentation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Paul

Re: Hipersockets

2007-07-27 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Hi Mike, Since this is an internal only network the ip address should not matter at all (my thought anyway), plus if we were to use a real routable address that could become a problem if a session to that address were made over the OSA (not hipersockets path) ... ??? but I guess if were to

hipersockets + route update command allows one DNS name

2007-07-27 Thread Ayer, Paul W
This seems to work fine. Please tell me where I may be in error or have a possible problem waiting to happen. From DNS name is agzls008 with and IP address of 192.168.32.139 To DNS name is agsl013 with and IP of 192.168.127.5 Background On agzls008 I have this ifconfig

Re: hipersockets + route update command allows one DNS name

2007-07-27 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Subject: Re: hipersockets + route update command allows one DNS name On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:08 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems to work fine. Please tell me where I may be in error or have a possible problem waiting to happen. -snip- pings

Hipersockets

2007-07-26 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good day, I have seen a few notes here before but they were mostly for not working links. Here is my problem have z/linux working for both normal in/out the OSA to the network and also have now setup the hsi0 for Hipersockts links. Pings, traceroutes, ftp's, ssh's all work fine using addresses

Re: mkinitrd bug ?

2007-06-24 Thread Ayer, Paul W
], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- Everything is all set now and fixed .. but what I am wondering is if mkinitrd or a forked process it kicks off should at least give a warning message that the /etc/fstab is empty and do not boot or you won't come back up Paul, That sounds more

mkinitrd bug ?

2007-06-22 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good afternoon, Recently had a problem where after doing a mkinitrd and booting the system it came up in panic mode (or should I way would not come up) .. After some research found that someone who was intending to backup /etc/fstab had actually had emptied it out. This was done after a

Re: RHEL 4 - FCP - tape drives

2007-06-05 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Hi Ray, Yes that's what I did cd /sys/bus/scsi/devices and did an ls ... empty also a cat /proc/scsi and cat /proc/scsi/scsi is empty too. lstape is blank. On the wwnn and wwpn side at first I was trying to use what filled in there when I echo'ed 1 to online but then on the vm console I would

Re: RHEL 4 - FCP - tape drives

2007-06-05 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Hi Alan, This was a problem at fist for me. I was trying to use the wwnn and wwpn that I saw when the online was done. This is not what I use correct (as it only got errors on the vm console) I would use the real wwnn and wwpn for The tape drives I'm looking to get to .. correct ? Paul

Re: RHEL 4 - FCP - tape drives

2007-06-05 Thread Ayer, Paul W
I am RHEL 4.4 here is a modinfo for tape_34xx and also zfcp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# modinfo tape_34xx filename: /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.EL/kernel/drivers/s390/char/tape_34xx.ko license:GPL description:Linux on zSeries channel attached 3480 tape device driver ($Revision: 1.21 $) author:

RHEL 4 - FCP - tape drives

2007-06-04 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Morning, Having fun trying do define and put on line some tape drives via FCP. I have searched but have not yet found doc I can use that shows a good example of how to define this. Can someone direct me to some doc on this (cookbook or REL4 stuff maybe) Thank you,

Re: RHEL 4 - FCP - tape drives

2007-06-04 Thread Ayer, Paul W
If you need to share the tape drive across multiple LPARs, you'll need to use NPIV: http://linuxvm.org/present/SHARE107/S9257vs.pdf (although the NPIV link above isn't working for me right now. Mark, can you confirm?) -Brad On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 07:42 -0400, Ayer, Paul W wrote: Good Morning

changing the default gateway address

2007-06-01 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good morning, If I wanted to change the default gateway for routing and did not want to use yast. What file would I look at to update? Running SLES9 SP3 Thank you, Paul -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Re: changing the default gateway address

2007-06-01 Thread Ayer, Paul W
, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I wanted to change the default gateway for routing and did not want to use yast. What file would I look at to update? Running SLES9 SP3 # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask

boot error

2007-05-02 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Morning, Anyone ever come across this error at boot time. Before the boot I formatted and added 53 3390 packs and when I tried to update the /etc/modprobe.conf file, but the / file system was full. So I could not update that. Did the reboot thinking that oh well the disks will just

boot error

2007-05-02 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Morning, Anyone ever come across this error at boot time. Before the boot I formatted and added 53 3390 packs and when I tried to update the /etc/modprobe.conf file, but the / file system was full. So I could not update that. Did the reboot thinking that oh well the disks

adding 3390 disks

2007-04-30 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good Morning, Does anyone have a nice script for adding 3390 disk to a z/Linux system? We are running RH 4.4 and from the doc there are a few steps. 1- put the disk online 2- find the name given to the disk .. like dasdb 3- format dasdb 4- fdasd 5-

Re: adding 3390 disks

2007-04-30 Thread Ayer, Paul W
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 11:29 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: adding 3390 disks On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 7:37 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ayer, Paul W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip

can a max file size be set when using lvm

2007-03-22 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Good day, Back ground; Today on non z/Linux systems our install sets a max file size for / , /opt, /tmp, /var,/usr this is done at install time by setting the partition size and then the mount point to that partition. The minimum size real

Re: can a max file size be set when using lvm

2007-03-22 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Well I have done some work and now have something that is getting closer to what we would need here. This looks just like our non z systems. So our service areas would be happy-er lvm lvscan ACTIVE'/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [1.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE

FW: can a max file size be set when using lvm

2007-03-22 Thread Ayer, Paul W
Well I have done some work and now have something that is getting closer to what we would need here. This looks just like our non z systems. So our service areas would be happy-er lvm lvscan ACTIVE'/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00' [1.00 GB] inherit ACTIVE

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