Re: Start DB2 Connect at linux boot

2024-04-10 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
It's quite a long time ago we had DB2 Connect, but the startup of DB2 connect was included in the regular Linux SYSV init startup. I guess the scripts came with DB2 connect. I don't know if current versions are adjusted to SystemD. But in any case, you need to include it in the regular startup.

Re: [DKIM] SUSE 11 guest under z16

2024-03-07 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Victor, We have a couple of SLES11 SP4 and a SLES11 SP3 on z16. In fact, when we moved to our z13 some years ago we did see a SLES10 SP4 fail (migrated to SLES11 SP4) but we still have a few SLES10 SP2 machines that haven't migrated into a newer version yet. Indeed it might be a problem

Re: Increase dynamically memory to Linux guest

2024-02-21 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
ne segments, you can set them to online. Example: echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory32/state So in order to increase/decrease memory dynamically, you do need to prepare that beforehand. Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Berry van Sleeuwen Flight Forum

Re: CRLs on Linux

2024-01-09 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
revocation but I have set it to not check the certificate status. I don't know for sure if that was the default or that I had set it this way myself. Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Berry van Sleeuwen Flight Forum 3000 5657 EW Eindhoven -Original Message- From

Re: zip for vm

2024-01-04 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
For who doesn't follow the IBMVM list, Leland was unaware the homerow.net site was down. It's reactivated. Regards, Berry. Op 03-01-2024 om 19:34 schreef Jack Woehr: On 1/3/24 11:22, Alan Altmark wrote: I'm a fan of VMARC, as the files in it can be viewed on a Windows laptop   with an app

Re: [DKIM] zip for vm

2024-01-03 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
There is ZIP for CMS available, but VMARC is more easy. The commercial PKZIP is available for CMS (IIRC it was also available for zOS and maybe VSE). There is info-zip. It includes versions for VMCMS and MVS. (See https://infozip.sourceforge.net/ for information and ftp locations.) Regards,

Re: zip for vm

2024-01-03 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hm, I missed that homerow.net is offline. Only some months ago I had visited the site. Luckely I got all of it. The vma at rvjansen is the 12.081 version, but Leland had two newer versions, 20.226 and 22.204, though it looks like the changes are included in this 12.081 version as well.

Re: email and crypto

2023-12-05 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Rick, At work I have Outlook, at home I have Thunderbird (yes, Linux only, I use opensuse for a long time already). At work, I have used encrypted mail and some colleagues do as well, but I don't like it all that much. (Actually I was glad it was removed when I installed my new PC, I didn't

Re: [DKIM] Re: CGI not executed

2023-08-01 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
 AM, Berry van Sleeuwen wrote: Hi All, Hi Last week we migrated a linux guest from SLES12 to SLES15 SP4. We are running Samba and Apache in the server. Apache has a page for the users to change their Samba password. The cgi is executed in the html as: As a long time Apache user, that looks

CGI not executed

2023-07-25 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
. Today I have migrated another Samba machine, once again the cgi is not executed. How can I find what the reason is? Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Berry van Sleeuwen Flight Forum 3000 5657 EW Eindhoven * +31 (0)6 22564276 [cid:image001.png@01D9BF05.1D757940

Re: Intermitted TLS error after SLES15 upgrade

2023-07-14 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
the cached entry. And then it fails. So by making sure there is no cache the connection doesn't give an error. Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Berry van Sleeuwen Flight Forum 3000 5657 EW Eindhoven

Re: Intermitted TLS error after SLES15 upgrade

2023-07-12 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Jeff, SLES15 SP4 has openssl 1.1.11. Indeed openssl does list PSK ciphers, but I don't think they are enabled in Apache, at least there are no PSK ciphers listed in the ssl-global SSLCihrsSuite.. Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Berry van Sleeuwen Flight

Intermitted TLS error after SLES15 upgrade

2023-07-12 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
ßen, Berry van Sleeuwen Flight Forum 3000 5657 EW Eindhoven * +31 (0)6 22564276 [cid:image001.png@01D9B4A0.4318DC10] [cid:image002.png@01D9B4A0.4318DC10] -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Re: Edit grub from 3270 console

2023-05-05 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Dave, I assume Rick was referring to the Amdahl UTS Unix system. There is a copy of UTS available at https://geronimo370.nl/vm6pext/uts/. I don't know if it actually contains 'ned', I haven't yet tried it in my Hercules VM. Note that this is an UTS system on 3330 DASD so you can't run that on

Re: Can zLinux detect when files arrive in the virtual reader?

2022-08-31 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
I don't think Linux itself can detect that. But if you monitor the Linux console through a user running PROP you can see a file has arrived in the RDR because this will give a message in the virtual machine. PROP can then be used to send a command to the Linux machine to process that file.

Re: Overcommitting zLinux CPU

2020-08-03 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
I'd say have multiple guests. Let's NOT forget SPOF. (Well, you have a SPOF if it's in only one z/VM LPAR but at least you have multiple guests that can be serviced at different times.) I usually like a number of small guests over a single large guest. Especially when there are multiple

Re: Accounting on zVM

2017-05-25 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Mariusz, You can take a look at the ACCOUNT module. (IIRC it's on MAINT 193) This processes an account input file. You can find information about the ACCOUNT module in the CMS Command and Utilities guide.

Re: Best way to edit Linux files in z/VM 3270

2016-09-21 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Indeed, sed/awk can be used. Or check out the rpl package, but still that is just a command to replace strings from the command line, just like sed. The only times I need to use the 3270 console is when the network (ssh) is not available. In that case we have the option to shutdown the

Re: What are your feelings about non-RPM installers for Linux?

2015-01-23 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Or worse, /usr/local/ibm. In our system /usr/local is just what is says, local. This means the directory is moved during migration into the new server. Or rather, the installation version in our golden image isn't moved into an upgraded server. Regards, Berry. Op 23-01-15 om 16:22 schreef

Re: autofs doesn't umount

2014-11-20 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Mark, Yes, I am, at least for autofs. Today I have upgraded autofs with the latest patch. But the issue remained. I have to test a bit further but I have found a way to get it functioning correctly. Currently I have /etc/sysconfig/autofs with a timeout of 20 seconds. The entries through

Re: REXX mod

2013-06-27 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Ron, You can set both CPU and model. CPU serial can be set with a command or within the directory entry for the guest. If you also want to set the CPU model you need to modify the storage address within the VMDBK that contains the CPU model for a guest. But some products query the model in a

Re: CCL OSA device not activated

2012-10-26 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
vriendelijke groet/With kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Berry van Sleeuwen Flight Forum 3000 5657 EW Eindhoven * +31 (0)6 22564276 [atos] [cid:325312309@02022011-28C8] Dit bericht is vertrouwelijk en kan geheime informatie bevatten enkel bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien dit

Re: Formatting large EAV dasd

2012-04-24 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Did you dynamically add the device? We have seen a similar error when new DASD, 3390-9 in our case, is linked in SLES11 SP1. Only after a reboot (logoff/logon) of the guest we were able to format the DASD. Regards, Berry. Op 24-04-12 15:58, Roger Evans schreef: Is there anyway to format dasd

Re: Error while DASDFMT

2012-01-23 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Mark, It's IBM. And like I stated, a few weeks ago I have build a system where I could format. So i'm caught by suprise that it doens't work this time. Regards, Berry. Op 23-01-12 16:20, Mark Post schreef: On 1/23/2012 at 07:53 AM, van Sleeuwen, Berryberry.vansleeu...@atos.net wrote: I

Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs Put everything on

2011-12-16 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Installing Oracle doesn't require X. The only reason Oracle guys want X is because they've learned how to do it on Windows and don't (want to) know the silent install method. Even more so, a silent install can be scripted, can be automated by the linux sysadmin, can make *their* install jobs

Re: Undeleting files

2011-12-14 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Tom, Try google, there are some hits on recovering data on ext3. It might not be easy so it depends on how bad you need the deleted data. I've found for instance http://carlo17.home.xs4all.nl/howto/undelete_ext3.html, quite a long story but apparently it can be done. Regards, Berry. Op

Re: RSH RPM

2011-09-22 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
We use the RDR for that. We send a file to the linux guest. On the console it is noted that a rdr file has arrived. The console automation (PROP) triggers a script that processes RDR files. The script determines what the name and origin for the file is and based on a config file it can run

Re: Samba security again

2011-07-27 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Mark, That was our first idea too but we were not able to get the correct setup for our goal. How should we setup the share config in a way that we get the correct write authorization? When we do not specify anything in the share a file gets username:defaultgroup. So for instance

Re: VM to zLinux Remote Execution

2011-07-22 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
We send a command to the guest console. We have a PROP user that monitors the consoles and is also able to send commands to the guest. Usually the commands are scripts but also regular linux commands can be executed. Downside is that the console doesn't always handle command output correctly so

Re: Open Xchange

2011-06-16 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Mark, I did find that post and indeed it worries me that it looks like a silent forum. We would like to setup a exchange-like server with more or less the same function. We are open for suggestions if there is a better solution for this on zLinux. We have loaded mod_proxy_ajp according to

Re: Open Xchange

2011-06-16 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
possibly already installed). This approach has pros and cons. Just a thought. -- R; Rick Troth Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 15:15, Berry van Sleeuwen berry.vansleeu...@xs4all.nl wrote: Hi Mark, I did find that post and indeed it worries me

Re: How many virtual servers per IFL?

2010-12-06 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
How about savings in power consumption. If configured correctly a virtual server won't cost you anything. Well, hardly anything. Running a dedicated server you must size the server for it's peak load. In VM you run multiple servers and if their peak load doesn't overlap you don't need to size for

Re: Question to smsgiucv

2010-12-01 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Florian, Please don't use polling. You wakeup your machine even when nothing is happening. If you want to receive files you can use the linux console. When a file is send to a guest a message on the virtual console appears. Trap this message (use SCIF and PROP to monitor your linux consoles,

Re: HCPGIR450W and HCPGIR453W after editing user direct

2010-11-04 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Are you even running DIRMAINT? I guess not, since you use a directory on MAINT. But if you are then it could be your directory is now replaced with an old (probably incorrect) version. Actually you didn't need to IPL VM. Once you put the directory online it is available. So delete the IPL step

Re: mon_fsstatd - filesystem monitor records

2010-10-21 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi scott, We do see records for every mounted filesystem. Both on SLES10 SP2 and SLES11 SP1. Indeed, have option APPLMON for the guest and start mon_fsstatd. Actually we have APPLDATA, mon_fsstatd and mon_procd running. We run two machines on the CP MONITOR running custom plumbing. The first

Re: mon_fsstatd - filesystem monitor records

2010-10-21 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
in the output. So I obviously need to parse the MONWRITE data correctly. I'll poke around the MONVIEW stuff to figure it out. Thanks again! Scott Rohling On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Berry van Sleeuwen berry.vansleeu...@xs4all.nl wrote: Hi scott, We do see records for every mounted

Re: PowerCenter on z

2010-10-05 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
. Is PowerCenter available for z/Linux? And if so, what are the requirements for PowerCenter? Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards, Berry van Sleeuwen Flight Forum 3000 5657 EW Eindhoven ( +31 (0)6 22564276 -- For LINUX-390

How to convince others. Was: Re: mono keep guest active - ban the blips.

2010-08-19 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
That's a good way to make things clear. Especially to management. Here is a challenge. We are in the process of enrolling new machines into production. Part of that is that they want to force us to install a general monitoring tool (nagios and local scripting). We noticed quite a dramatic

Re: How to convince others. Was: Re: mono keep guest active - ban the blips.

2010-08-19 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
schreef: Are Nagios and local scripts waking up needlessly? or are they doing legitimate work even if it is wasteful? David Kreuter Original Message Subject: How to convince others. Was: Re: mono keep guest active - ban the blips. From: Berry van Sleeuwen berry.vansleeu

Re: How to convince others. Was: Re: mono keep guest active - ban the blips.

2010-08-19 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
True, it isn't. It's the replacement of an operator. The main issue here is that it needs to raise tickets and get reporting stats. For instance, raise a ticket at 100% CPU (and indeed, our ABS limithard machines do raise tickets when they are running their batch..sigh.) or when a filesystem is at

Re: Shared root and shutdown

2010-08-10 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
I have been playing with a RO setup. Directories that need to be RW are separate minidisks (/var and /tmp) or they are linked to a directory on the RW disk (/root, /home, /srv). /var is a separate RW disk, even the regular RW systems also have /var on it's own (mini)disk. I didn't test it with lvm

Re: Shared root and shutdown

2010-08-10 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hm, I didn't think of that when I tried it. IIRC the redbook did mention to replace the /etc/mtab on the / disk with a sym-link but didn't mention to also replace it on the RW disk that is bind mounted. So that's keeping my /etc from umount. Also, I did replace it once and found the boot.rootfsck

Re: Attach OSA express3 to a guest

2010-08-02 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Mark, Thank you, after reboot the network has been started correctly. To make you smile, now our client noted the java 1.5 and tomcat5 but he realy wants java1.6. and tomcat6. So yes, i'm pulling SLES11 SP1 at this moment. Regards, Berry. Op 30-07-10 20:59, Mark Post schreef: It looks

Re: Attach OSA express3 to a guest

2010-07-27 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Mark, At the IBM devworks (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/development_recommended.html) I found that four-port OSA is supported with a patch against kernel 2.6.25. We are running in SLES10 SP2 at level 2.6.16. So does our system support this option? Regards, Berry. Op

Re: Attach OSA express3 to a guest

2010-07-27 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
in VM or in the linuxguest. Where can I find this in the documentation? Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards, Berry van Sleeuwen Flight Forum 3000 5657 EW Eindhoven ( +31 (0)6 22564276 Atos Origin http://www.atosorigin.com/ MO CF SC Mainframe Services

Re: Files on disk

2010-07-21 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hello Edmund, Sparse files. OK. Then the next question, how can I store a 26G file in a machine that isn't that large? And to add to this, why does the filesystem backup really dump 26G into our TSM server? So it looks like the data is going somewhere. Berry. Op 21-07-10 15:41, Edmund R.

Re: Files on disk

2010-07-21 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Thank you all for your replies. It's clear to me, we were dumping zero's. Regards, Berry. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: Guest network connection error

2009-11-07 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Indeed, the actual linux guest is moved to the other VM. Another thing that was noticed by the network guys, the OAT doesn't show the registered IP addresses from this LPAR anymore. This is for all guests, including the ones that are still running in this LPAR. If a guest logs off it cannot

Re: JAVA JDK 1.6

2009-08-08 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
simply buy a new zSeries every year. So I think there is a real need to support JAVA 1.6 also on SLES 10 and I really don't see why this should not be possible. Best regards, Florian On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Berry van Sleeuwen berry.vansleeu...@xs4all.nl mailto:berry.vansleeu

Re: JAVA JDK 1.6

2009-08-07 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
I wish we could manage the programmers :-). Some do program with a version in mind. Especially when new functions are incorporated into a new software product. Or when some product requires (or thinks it requires) a certain version. As much as we would like to we can't always control the

Re: Administration on RedHat

2009-07-16 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
I didn't know the system-config commands so I'll have a look at them. As for YUM, as I understand it it is more like an updater so I didn't look at it thus far since I want to install software (from my software repository) rather than update installed packages. Thank you all for your tips.

Re: Mingetty version on SLES10

2009-01-22 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hello Bruce, When searching for an answer it was described with mingetty. But then I found that that option wasn't available until version 1.0.*. IIRC I did try some options, including agetty but all failed, probably due to my error I guess. Anyway, you all gave me some hints to try other

Re: Kernel bug in SLES 9

2009-01-06 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hello Mark, Thanks for your comments. This workaround would be an option. We'll have to look into that. I did find that some work has been done when I was looking into the aio.c. And also that some parts have been discussed for some time now. The aio.c (and aio.h) have been changed to some

Re: Recover a root disk

2008-11-27 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
of a filesystem can just disappear? With kind regards, Berry van Sleeuwen. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http

Re: Recover a root disk

2008-11-27 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hello Waldo, We have mainframe DASD, 3390 model 3. Configured as minidisk in zVM. We have mirrored DASD but since the source (production) disk has been corrupted so is the mirror. Well, I hope it wasn't an attack because that would mean it's an inside job. This guest is not connected to the

Re: SUSE 10 Installation Help

2008-11-24 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hello Russel, I don't know if you are connecting from a windows (putty) or linux PC (ssh or openssh) but yesterday I installed a system and connected from a linux machine. SSH from linux apparently sends the userid with it. So I had to issue ssh -l root 192.168.200.2 instead of just ssh

Re: How to virtualize Windows under SLES Linux on zSeries - PJBR

2008-11-11 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hello Florian, IMO it is the other way around. Microsoft doesn't build it's software for zseries therefore it will not run on zseries. Perhaps IBM would sell zseries machines to run windows, just like they do for linux, but then Microsoft would have to build the software for this CPU. And also

Re: WHat are people doing

2008-09-19 Thread Berry van Sleeuwen
Hi Terry, When we started our Linux on Z one of the first machines that has been moved to this platform is a datawarehouse database. This database holds some 500G (IIRC) and runs 2 entire IFL's. It could run even more if we had more IFL power available. As for the reason why anyone would stay on