Re: zLinux Question

2014-02-14 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I do both. Mostly you need Linux except when it comes to your disk space. There are different commands/concepts, not hard to pick up, just different. If running under z/VM, some understanding of how z/VM works us needed. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of

Re: A bash script question

2013-09-05 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
This works, thanks and I got the same from Paul. Never thought of using 'f' Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: John Campbell [mailto:soup...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 05,

A bash script question

2013-09-05 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I've spent a nice part of the day trying to figure out how to pad a variable with leading zeroes and still keep the decimal. The variable needs to be formatted n.nn. Printf with a %d clobbers the decimal. Any suggestions not using SED or AWK? Thanks Bobby Bauer Center for Information

Re: Bash script for FTP to mainframe

2013-08-30 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Kind Regards, Filipe Miranda On Aug 30, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: That's interesting, it is prompting for the password!? ftp -inv $HOST EOF user $USER PASS $PASS put something bye EOF 220 Connection will close if idle for more than

Bash script for FTP to mainframe

2013-08-30 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Need to write a bash script (RHEL6) to FTP a file to the MVS side of the mainframe. Love to use SCP but to my knowledge, it only sends to the OMVS side. Here is the code with the names changed: HOST=nih USER=me PASS=password ftp -inv $HOST EOF user $USER $PASS put something bye EOF and

Re: Bash script for FTP to mainframe

2013-08-30 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
sending the Password on a separate line with the PASS command user $USER pass $PASS Larry Davis, VM Capability -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 12:30 PM To: LINUX-390

Regina listserv

2013-07-18 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
We have a Rexx (Regina) requirement. Is there a Regina listserv? I haven't been able to find one. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -- For

Some interesting bits about eth0:n

2013-07-09 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
This may be old news to some but it has cost us several hours so I thought I'd pass it on. We run multiple blog sites on single RHEL6 servers (multiple servers with similar configurations), each blog has an IP address defined with a ifcfg-eth0:n interface. Works fine except when we recently

Re: Some interesting bits about eth0:n

2013-07-09 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
There are no mac entries in that files. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 From: Hornyak, Stanley (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 10:15 AM To: Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]; 'Linux on 390 Port' Cc: Dickinson

Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Is there some way I can put messages in either dmesg or /var/log/messages. At boot time we run a script from rc.local and I'd like to record it. I tried an echo command, that didn't work. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National

Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 1:00 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages Is there some way I can put messages in either dmesg or /var

Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
won't waste time discussing that unless you are already suffering under its weight. -- R; On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: I did not know of the logger command. The man page and a quick test. Looks like just what we need, thanks Bobby

Setting kernel parms for RHEL6

2013-05-29 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Trying to setup a Linux terminal server. Everything I read says to set kernel parms of console=hvc0 hvc_iucv=2 or something similar. Nothing tells me where/how to set kernel parms that I have found so far. It must be one of those universal truths that Linux people have but us old zOS dinos

Re: Setting kernel parms for RHEL6

2013-05-29 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
- From: Alan Altmark [mailto:alan_altm...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 2:29 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Setting kernel parms for RHEL6 On Wednesday, 05/29/2013 at 02:20 EDT, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Trying to setup a Linux terminal

Re: General Question

2013-02-27 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
We have discovered that some vendors expect x86 modules to be present. It may be Linux code but they are relying on x86 modules to be there. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From:

Quagga help

2013-01-16 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I'm trying to configure OSPF (0.99.15) on my Linux. I want to set the router-id to 10.1.160.42. The Quagga PDF (0.99.18) has the command ospf router a.b.c.d When I telnet to port 2604, the OSPF daemon, enter enable mode, configure terminal, there is no ospf command Anybody have any ideas.

USE_DIAG

2012-12-31 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Been reading, always a dangerous thing. In Chapter 25. Configuring an Installed Linux on System z Instance, I see in zipl.conf, USE_DIAG=0. In dasd.conf I see USE_DIAG=1. What is the difference? Where do I find these? I don't have a USE_DIAG coded in my zipl.conf. Goggling around I also found

Re: Changing system name

2012-11-19 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Not a help or answer but I have instructions for a non-SSI system. I opened a ticket with IBM to get it. This being locked into a system name is a real pain. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original

2 Factor authentication

2012-10-22 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Anybody doing or even know of using 2 factor authentication to logon to RHEL 6 running under z.VM? For instance a smart card and a password Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474

Redhat network

2012-08-28 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Anybody else having trouble getting to the Redhat network? I get a Technical Problem (503)' when I try to login. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474

Re: Redhat network

2012-08-28 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I called them and they are down. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 12:14 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Redhat

Re: z/Linux and z/OS

2012-07-26 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Sure, that's how we got started. Brought up Redhat on a spare lpar sharing part of a regular CP. Then got a trial version of z/VM from IBM and management was more or less sold on the z/VM-zLinux configuration. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health

Re: z/Linux and z/OS

2012-07-26 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Another though. Don't run z/OS under z/VM, use the new lpar with z/VM and zLinux and leave the z/OS lpar alone. Setup hipersockets between the 2 lpars and you have isolation and at the same time FAST communication between the two. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National

IPv6 on hypersockets

2012-05-09 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I'm trying to setup IPv6 across hypersockets in anticipation of IPv6 actually be rolled out in the next year. Having no luck at all. Can't find any doc on the subject either for RHEL6. Where are the entries you code in an ifcfg- entry found? I have IPv4 hypersockets working between several

Re: IPv6 on hypersockets

2012-05-09 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:18301 (17.8 KiB) ping doesn't work yet but one step at a time. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent

Displaying the volsers

2012-03-27 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I know there is a way to display the actual volsers that are attached to a Redhat Linux server but I can't find the command. For instance: lsdasd Bus-ID Status Name Device Type BlkSz Size Blocks ==

Re: LDAP

2012-02-03 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Greek to me but hopefully somebody who is LDAP/AD knowledgeable will respond. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Dickinson, Eric (CIT) Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:18 AM To:

Odd swap space behavior

2011-11-02 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
One of our Redhat servers got a LOT of activity yesterday and the swap space looks funny to me. swapon -s FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority /dev/dasda2 partition 1023976 3692-1 /dev/dasdb1

Re: Odd swap space behavior

2011-11-02 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
:37:17AM -0400, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: haven't done Linux on Z for a while, but I have always used the same Priority for the swapdisks so that linux could spread out the IO to several disks (preferably on separate spindles). This works well on x86 (real VMware) and P-Series

Re: Enabling core dumps for RHEL 6

2011-09-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Anybody know how to enable core dumps for RHEL 6. Working with a vendor who has asked for a dump but we can't seem to get one. Haven't found anything in the manuals yet. Did you read the Using the Dump Tools on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1

Enabling core dumps for RHEL 6

2011-08-25 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Anybody know how to enable core dumps for RHEL 6. Working with a vendor who has asked for a dump but we can't seem to get one. Haven't found anything in the manuals yet. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474

Re: Rhnsd?

2011-08-23 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
...@redhat.com Worldwide System z Sales, Strategy, Marketing Red Hat, Inc. +1 (919) 360-0443 http://www.redhat.com/z On Aug 22, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: Hi Brad, logrotate is installed. There doesn't seem to be a pattern. [Thu Aug 18 02:21:30 2011] up2date logging

Re: Rhnsd?

2011-08-22 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
(919) 360-0443 http://www.redhat.com/z On Aug 18, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: In our RHEL 6, there is an RHNSD task that the man page says queries 'Red Hat Network for updates and information'. It is suppose to check in every 4 hours, the default, this is also

Rhnsd?

2011-08-18 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
In our RHEL 6, there is an RHNSD task that the man page says queries 'Red Hat Network for updates and information'. It is suppose to check in every 4 hours, the default, this is also specified in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd. According to /etc/init.d/rhnsd it uses /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date as its

Re: Poor man's top

2011-07-21 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Can somebody explain to me what the 'cut' step is suppose to do? I left it out and the results appear to be the same. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Richard J Moore

Re: is ext4 ready for production use?

2011-06-27 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Been using it for several months, no issues. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Donald Russell [mailto:russell@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 1:16 PM To:

Re: Why does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry?

2011-06-13 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Thanks everybody for the info on the last column. It is in the man for fstab. That's what I get for just copying what Anaconda had built when the system was created. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474

Re: bad entry in fstab

2011-06-09 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Mainframe Design Development SE-405 08, Gothenburg Sweden E-mail: tore.agb...@volvo.com http://www.volvo.com/volvoit/global/en-gb/ From: Linux on 390 Port [LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] [baue...@mail.nih.gov] Sent

Why does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry?

2011-06-09 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I recently had a typo in fstab for a new file system I tried to add and my system would not come back up. Thanks to everybody for helping me out and getting my system back without a major recovery effort. Any reason why zLinux dies when it finds a bad entry in fstab even though the filesystem

bad entry in fstab

2011-06-02 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I made a typo when I added a new logical volume to fstab, I misspelled the logical volume mane. The reboot fails with: [/sbin/fsck.ext4 (1) -- /LAData] fsck.ext4 -a /dev/mapper/vg_labarc-LogVol08 fsck.ext4: No such file or directory while trying to open

Re: bad entry in fstab

2011-06-02 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Running RHEL V6 under z/VM 5.4 Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 11:55 AM To: 'Linux on 390 Port' Subject: bad entry

Re: bad entry in fstab

2011-06-02 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: I made a typo when I added a new logical volume to fstab, I misspelled the logical volume mane. The reboot fails with: [/sbin/fsck.ext4 (1) -- /LAData] fsck.ext4 -a /dev/mapper/vg_labarc-LogVol08 fsck.ext4: No such file

Re: bad entry in fstab

2011-06-02 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
[mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 1:32 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: bad entry in fstab Thanks to everybody for help, especially for the remount command. Never did find a way to send Control-D The sed command worked

Re: bad entry in fstab

2011-06-02 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
. Aria -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 1:32 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: bad entry in fstab Thanks to everybody for help, especially for the remount

Re: Linux Applications

2011-05-31 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I'd suggest going to RH6 first. There are enough differences to make a migration non-trivial. We are running RH6 in production and it has had no problems. The biggest hurdle was the different methods v6 uses to do the same thing v5 did. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National

Re: modprobe.conf

2011-05-25 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
/dasd.conf (just add a new line with the dasd address and any parameters, there should be some examples there already). On 05/23/2011 11:29 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: I see in RHEL V6 Migration Guide that modprobe.conf is not created by default. The manual doesn't tell me what is used

modprobe.conf

2011-05-23 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I see in RHEL V6 Migration Guide that modprobe.conf is not created by default. The manual doesn't tell me what is used in place of modprobe.conf. Anybody know? Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474

Spiking server

2011-03-03 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
We have a Wordpress server that really spikes during certain, know times of the month, about 45000 hits/hour. Its running on a single z9 IFL with only 4G of memory on the lpar, z/VM 5.4, REHL 6 (yeah, I know, more memory, good luck since we are a govt. agency). The user did not expect this kind

Re: Spiking server

2011-03-03 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: We have a Wordpress server that really spikes during certain, know times of the month, about 45000 hits/hour. Its running on a single z9 IFL with only 4G of memory on the lpar, z/VM 5.4, REHL 6 (yeah, I know, more memory, good luck since we

Re: Spiking server

2011-03-03 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: donderdag 3 maart 2011 13:45 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Spiking server We have a Wordpress server that really spikes during certain, know times of the month

A little more script help

2010-12-23 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
OK, I'm going to forgo Rexx and learn bash script! I want to input a file into an array. For instance I want the variable xyz to have the contents of /tmp/test. /tmp/test looks like: 08:50:01 AM all 3.48 0.00 0.18 0.15 0.19 95.99 09:00:02 AM all

Re: A little more script help

2010-12-23 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 11:51 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: A little more script help On 23/12/2010 16:28, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: OK, I'm going to forgo Rexx and learn bash script! I want to input a file into an array. For instance I want the variable xyz

Re: A little more script help

2010-12-23 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
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Need a little help with a Linux script

2010-12-08 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I'm trying to write a little script and having trouble comparing integers and decimal numbers. The shell doesn't like it and I haven't been able to figure out how to get around it. Script is named zyx. 1 #!/bin/sh 2 ADMINA=baue...@mail.nih.gov 3 dt=`date '+%a %b %e %I:%M %p' `

Re: Need a little help with a Linux script

2010-12-08 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:41 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Re: Need a little help with a Linux script

2010-12-08 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 1:41 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Need a little help with a Linux script I'm trying to write a little script and having trouble comparing integers and decimal numbers. The shell doesn't like

Re: Need a little help with a Linux script

2010-12-08 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Still learning this stuff. Wish I could write it in Rexx, now that I know. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Shane [mailto:ibm-m...@tpg.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Creatying a new interface

2010-12-07 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I'm trying to setup a new virtual interface on a running server. I did: vmcp def nic 808 qdio devices 3 vmcp couple 808 to system vsw2 and it seems to have worked: vmcp q nic Adapter 0800.P00 Type: QDIO Name: UNASSIGNED Devices: 3 MAC: 02-00-00-00-00-07 VSWITCH: SYSTEM VSW2

Re: Creatying a new interface

2010-12-07 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 12:04 PM To: 'Linux on 390 Port' Subject: Creatying a new interface I'm trying to setup a new virtual interface on a running server. I did: vmcp def nic 808 qdio devices 3 vmcp couple 808 to system vsw2 and it seems to have worked: vmcp q nic

Re: Support thru IBM?

2010-10-27 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
pieter.har...@brabantwater.nl wrote: Yes, you can (at least for Suse I have done so). You illogically have to follow the z/OS tree and Linux is linked in as a z/OS subproduct. Van: Linux on 390 Port [linux-...@vm.marist.edu] namens Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E

Support thru IBM?

2010-10-26 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
To those who have Redhat support through IBM, are you able to enter a problem using IBMLINK or do you have to call? Thanks Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474

Re: Support thru IBM?

2010-10-26 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
/( )\ -^^-^^ In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different. On 10/26/10 7:27 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: To those who have Redhat support through IBM, are you able to enter a problem using IBMLINK or do you have to call

Oracle on zLinux

2010-07-22 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Anybody recommend current install and use doc. We are running z/VM 5.4 and Redhat 5.5. I'm finding a lot of old doc for VM 5.1 and Redhat 4. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474

Can't get hipersockets to come online

2010-07-20 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Just rebuild our sandbox going from a couple of mod3's to a mod27 and of course the latest Redhat Linux 5.5. No change on the VM side but the hsi0 interface won't come up and I can't see why. Most frustrating because it work yesterday before I changed disk. Obviously I've forgotten something

Re: Can't get hipersockets to come online

2010-07-20 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
for each device) From: Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 07/20/2010 07:49 AM Subject:Can't get hipersockets to come online Sent by:Linux on 390 Port LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Just rebuild our sandbox going from

Re: Can't get hipersockets to come online

2010-07-20 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Subject: Re: Can't get hipersockets to come online Page 98 http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246816.pdf -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:16 AM To: LINUX-390

Re: Can't get hipersockets to come online

2010-07-20 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:16 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Can't get hipersockets to come online Same command for Redhat. Didn't try that but no help. Nothing to tell me why it didn't come online. [r...@lssb1

Missing chccwdev

2010-06-22 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I just built a new server and 'chccwdev' is missing. Not sure what I did differently. Anybody tell me where to get this module. Probably I forgot to install some package. I noticed it when I tried to setup swap devices. Thanks Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes

Re: Missing chccwdev

2010-06-22 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
: Missing chccwdev On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: I just built a new server and 'chccwdev' is missing. Not sure what I did differently. Anybody tell me where to get this module. Probably I forgot to install some package. I noticed it when I

Error bringing NIC 0800 online

2010-06-14 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I'm trying to build a new server under VM and can't seem to get the virtual NIC to talk to the vswitch to come online. The error seems to indicate a mismatch between layer2 and layer3 but I can't see it. Any help would be appreciated. I've cross posted to the zVM listserve When I log into

Re: Error bringing NIC 0800 online

2010-06-14 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
-...@vm.marist.edu] Namens Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Verzonden: maandag 14 juni 2010 15:32 Aan: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Onderwerp: Error bringing NIC 0800 online I'm trying to build a new server under VM and can't seem to get the virtual NIC to talk to the vswitch to come online. The error seems

Re: Renaming a volume

2009-09-28 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
. As in: `fdasd -k -c /fdasdb.conf /dev/dasdb` Also, you might also try: `fdasd -l UPST01 -c /fdasdb.conf /dev/dasdb` On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Is there a way to rename a volume? I'm testing a DR scenario. I've formatted a volume under ZM

Renaming a volume

2009-09-25 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Is there a way to rename a volume? I'm testing a DR scenario. I've formatted a volume under ZM as UPST01, attached it to Linux (Redhat 5) and did lsdasd 0.0.0201(ECKD) at ( 94: 0) is dasda : active at blocksize 4096, 1802880 blocks, 7042 MB 0.0.2201(ECKD) at ( 94: 4) is dasdb : n/f

Re: FDR Upstream for DR

2009-09-19 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I received a very detailed doc from Ron Foster. Once I get this working I'll be glad to try to extract 'stuff' for the wiki if Ron, or somebody else, doesn't do it. Trouble is, I have never updated a wiki. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD

FDR Upstream for DR

2009-09-18 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
We are testing FDR Upstream and I'm trying to simulate a DR test for our z/VM (5.4) and Linux servers(Redhat v5). Innovation isn't being very helpful. MY Linux skills are not great being a converted MVS sysprog but I'm having a difficult time getting through this. I'm told lots of companies use

Adding dasd technique

2009-07-28 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
We are running Redhat V5 with z/VM V5.4 with all 3390 dasd. I need to add another volume to one of my servers. I also have 2 swap disk defined using Sine Nomine's swapgen macro in the profile exec for the server and the mkswap and swapon commands in rc.local: chccwdev -e 700 mkswap

Re: Adding dasd technique

2009-07-28 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Thanks Mike but the manual expects you to reboot to make the new disk available. Not always an option. It is the naming that I'm having trouble with. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message-

Re: Adding dasd technique

2009-07-28 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
-Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:29 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Adding dasd technique On Jul 28, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: We are running Redhat V5

Duplicate MAC address across 2 zVM lpars

2009-07-23 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
We have 2 z/VM lpars (V5.4 0901) with vswitches and we are seeing duplicate mac addresses on zLinux servers on each side. I define in AUTOLOG1: CP SET VMLAN MACIDRANGE SYSTEM 0F0001-0F USER 0F0001-0F' CP DEFINE VSWITCH ZVM1 RDEV 0C60 C70 CONTROLLER * ETH VLAN UNAWARE' This is

Re: Duplicate MAC address across 2 zVM lpars

2009-07-23 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:55 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Duplicate MAC address across 2 zVM lpars On Thursday, 07/23/2009 at 11:42 EDT, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: We have 2 z/VM lpars (V5.4 0901

Dedicated Ficon adapters

2009-04-27 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
We've figured out how to setup a SAN and make it available to one of our zLinux guest. The Ficon adapter was attached to the linux guest first with an ATTACH command and now with a DEDICATE statement in user direct. That says to me I can't use that Ficon adapter for any other guest that I may

Re: Dedicated Ficon adapters

2009-04-27 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Oh, of course! Thanks Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Harder, Pieter Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 10:31 AM To:

Hipersockets on Redhat

2009-04-09 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I think I need somebody to look over my shoulder. I just built a new server and cannot get the hipersockets to come online. They are working just fine on the one one other server I have them setup on using addresses 7104-7106. They are define in HCD as: 7100,48 IQD In user direct: DEDICATE

Re: Hipersockets on Redhat

2009-04-09 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Seems Redhat doesn't have 'hwup' or /etc/sysconfig/hardware however the 'lsqeth' did not know about the hipersocket addresses. So I added them dynamically: cd /sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/qeth echo 0.0.710c,0.0.710d,0.0.710e group cd 0.0.710c echo 1 online ifup hsi0 and it worked. I noticed

Formatting 3390-9 problem with RedHat

2009-04-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Suddenly this morning I'm having trouble formatting a 3390-9 in compatibility mode. After formatting the device under VM with cpfmtxa and examining the vtoc with IEHLIST, it is as expected, it tells me there is a permanent I/O error. Attaching the device to a guest and formatting with:

Re: Formatting 3390-9 problem with RedHat

2009-04-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
/VM point of view in terms of a valid VTOC. Scott On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Suddenly this morning I'm having trouble formatting a 3390-9 in compatibility mode. After formatting the device under VM with cpfmtxa and examining the vtoc

Re: Formatting 3390-9 problem with RedHat

2009-04-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
The message comes from IEHLIST IEH108I REQUEST TERMINATED --- PERMANENT I/O ERROR WHILE READING DATA SET Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Formatting 3390-9 problem with RedHat

2009-04-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
of a valid VTOC. Scott On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Suddenly this morning I'm having trouble formatting a 3390-9 in compatibility mode. After formatting the device under VM with cpfmtxa and examining the vtoc with IEHLIST

Problem getting a SAN device connected to our Linux

2009-03-18 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
We have an older model SANs device that we are not having much luck with connecting to our Red Hat Linux (5.3) under z/VM 5.4. We specified the LUN as 0 on the SANs device. It is a CorData SAN and we are contacting the vendor. All seems to go well until I try to echo the LUN into unit_add

Re: Problem getting a SAN device connected to our Linux

2009-03-18 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Thanks Jay, worth a try but it didn't help. Same results. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Robert J Brenneman Sent:

Re: Layer 2 VSWITCH and SUSE 10 starter system problems

2009-03-12 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
One gotcha I ran into was in the PROFILE TCPIP in VM, the LINK statement for the VSWITCH needed to be changed to specify ETHERNET from IP. IP is the default. May not have anything to do with this error but something to check. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of

Re: Can anybody explain this?

2009-03-02 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
it seems to be a bug and the following links might be of interest: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=425955 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html Best regards, Amelia On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 08:41 -0500, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: That's 130 extents, not bytes, from

Re: Can anybody explain this?

2009-03-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 5:19 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Can anybody explain this? On 2/28/2009 at 4:32 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: I am trying to add space to a file system. The lvextend to add space worked

Can anybody explain this?

2009-02-28 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
I am trying to add space to a file system. The lvextend to add space worked OK but the resize2fs tells me there is not enough space? [r...@lssb1 ~]# lvextend -l +130 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol06 Extending logical volume LogVol06 to 9.78 GB Logical volume LogVol06 successfully resized

Re: Broken logical volume group

2009-02-18 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Hinson Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:49 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Broken logical volume group Mark Post wrote: On 2/17/2009 at 1:17 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Looks like this is going to be ugly. We booted on of our servers and the logical

Re: Broken logical volume group

2009-02-18 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
volume group Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: Hey, this is getting to be fun. I've gotten into rescue mode as described in the manual Brad referenced below and was able to follow the script but it doesn't tell me how to finish. An 'lvm vgscan' found VolGroup00 The 'lvm vgchange -a y

Broken logical volume group

2009-02-17 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Looks like this is going to be ugly. We booted on of our servers and the logical volume was corrupted and I got dropped down to the Repair Filesystem prompt. One big problem is /usr is empty so none of the logical volume commands are availably. We FDR restored all 5 physical volumes (3390

Enterprise LDAP authentication

2009-02-10 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
We have a new client requesting to use the enterprise ldap server (running on a windows box I think). First reading indicates I can run an ldap server on a zlinux machine and point it to the enterprise ldap server for authentication. I found the Redhat rpms. Anybody know any gotchas or

Re: Volumes not being seen

2009-02-07 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
This is resolved, the CONF file in VM was wrong. Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 -Original Message- From: Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 8:00 PM To: 'The IBM z/VM Operating

Volumes not being seen

2009-02-06 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 Cross-posted to both zLinux and zVM since I don't know where the problem may be. I am in the process of installing a new server with 60 mod9s. I have built the user in user direct and done an

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