have
cookie cutter systems, I can update the primary to a service pack, for
example, and then use this method to fully update it's clones, then have
it kick off mkinitrd, zipl, and a reboot of the clones. :)
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Britz, Anton - CO 7th wrote:
Hi,
Is anybody using MySQL on zLinux and if so :
A) how much data have you got in MySQL and
B) what type of through-put are you getting from MySQl ?
C) Are you accessing any other Data sources
We're using it for the database back-end for some tomcat and JBoss,
Goodwin, Derric wrote:
Curious,
We just installed a new 64 Bit SLES9 guest and everything seems to be
working with one exception...
When we run the ID command against a user id after a little churning the
system kicks back a Bus Error.
Has anyone seen this before?
Thoughts?
Thanks
Mark Post wrote:
That probably wasn't a good idea. If you don't want to send root's password
over the network, then uncomment this in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
SystemGroup sys
Then add a user, say cupsadmin, with sys as their primary group.
I also have another suggestion once you restore those
José L. Ramírez wrote:
Hi,
Along with vsftpd, SLES9 also comes with the pure-ftpd server which supports
TLS/SSL.
Pretty much any ftpd can be made into an FTPS server by using stunnel, too.
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John Campbell wrote:
As one of IBM's techies included in the May 1th resource action, I will be
dropping off-list by the end of the month.
It's been fun and I
overhead than ext3, that could affect performance under on
this platform, not to mention z/VM may have an effect on the results as
well.
What works best for you?
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Tom Duerbusch wrote:
We are now looking at sending some bank data to Bank of America over the
public Internet.
BOA supports pgp.
We have gpg, after all, it's freeG.
My position is, well, let's try it.
But it is getting bogged down with technical people that are not
technical in this area.
My
We're having a problem with Veritas Netbackup client 5.1 mp3. The
backups run fine... but the client can't find the backups to do
restores... the connection keeps getting interrupted.
Anyone have this working? It's on SLES 9 sp 2.
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Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) wrote:
We are running the Netbackup client on SLES8 and SLES9 servers on the
mainframe and also with our 1 intel SLES10 PC.
I don't remember if it's 5.1 mp2 or mp3.
Since Symantec(was Veritas) only provides a generic tar file I can't
really tell. We complained about needing
there. Sorry I didn't see your post right away. I'm looking forward to
trying this.
Arigato gozaimasu!
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for a living. And if such
a problem exists, they would need to know about it.
We don't want snmp writing logs - that voids our efforts
of a low resource agent.
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:19:39 -0700
From: Brandon Darbro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Boeing
Using Velocity's snmpd on our
Using Velocity's snmpd on our SLES 9 systems, we're getting some rather
large snmpd logs, mostly filled with the following lines repeated again
and again:
No MemShared line in /proc/meminfo
No page line in /proc/stat
No swap line in /proc/stat
Now I don't see anything in the mibs that would map
John Summerfield wrote:
On a start-stop device one could usefully run vi in non-visual mode, as
one can use TSO's EDIT command processor. Can you do that?
There would be no point to any of this if you can't run vi in visual mode.
*Brandon
are still quite
foreign to me, despite the training I've had to support Linux on them.
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David Boyes wrote:
I see no reason why a virtual serial connection between vm's can't be
created.
The main reason is because the amount of overhead involved in
implementing a byte-oriented processing paradigm on a block transfer
oriented piece of hardware is known to be prohibitive. Other
this for a long time now, and just wondered why IBM
never did it.
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David Boyes wrote:
You know, linux can use serial ports as a console device... So why
hasn't IBM come up with a virtual serial port type of console system
to
use instead? Something like having the console on /dev/ttyS0, and
that
via some z/VM magic, is available on an IP as a port
Rob van der Heij wrote:
On 9/28/06, Brandon Darbro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, the entire point is to not have to tolerate 3270 at all, to also not
have a line mode in telnet. The entire point is to have a virtual
console device that is *completely* usable. Have it good for vi, screen
Adam Thornton wrote:
On Sep 28, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Brandon Darbro wrote:
The main
thing is to get one linux appliance to be attached somehow via virtual
serial connections to all the other Linux guests, and have those
guests
configured to use serial console.
I seem to recall that quite a long
David Boyes wrote:
I seem to recall that quite a long time ago--maybe 5 years now--there
was discussion of doing clustering/HA stuff with Linux guests that
used vCTCs as serial devices. Maybe this could do what you want:
Define one octopus guest, the console server, with dozens of CTC
pairs,
David Boyes wrote:
Do you consider the line mode approach that most Unix servers have in
their boot PROMs broken as well? That's the comparison you want, I
think.
I don't know of any Unix implementation that does fullscreen stuff in
the boot PROMs.
No, line mode makes sense at the boot prom
David Boyes wrote:
But doesn't that limit it to line mode again? If so, what the heck
would be the point?
I guess I start with the assumption that the console of a Unix machine
is something that does not ever get regular use -- it's a emergency
device at best. I find that it's safer to start
David Boyes wrote:
We're just starting from different assumptions, I guess. I have no
problems working on a TTY linemode console, because that's what I assume
the lowest common denominator is, and I rarely use or need the setup
tools. It's a PITA, but then it's only a problem long enough to get
David Boyes wrote:
Here's my point... The biggest barrier to my sharing support
responsibility for z/Linux is the console.
Let me pose this question: how many of your colleagues know what to do
after hitting L1-A on a Sun console, or accidentally disconnecting a
serial cable to a console
You know, it was just an idea on how to make life simpler for our shop.
I said what I was looking for, I gave the requirements... why do you
folks need to question why I need it or want it? If you can, and feel
like, helping and pointing me in the right direction toward developing a
solution,
Marcy Cortes wrote:
Sounds like Brandon's sysadmin role must be a little different from
ours. Either that or he's got 500+ servers? Heck, I'd be happy to have
5 linux sysadmin in my group!We have various other support teams
support teams - db2, mq, websphere, etc. So the ones who can
Rob van der Heij wrote:
On 9/28/06, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Write them a quick cookbook man page detailing the steps to get a
guest back on the net -- call it zlinux-console -- and put it on one of
the Solaris or HP boxes. They can log in to their favorite environment
and type
Ulrich Weigand wrote:
Brandon Darbro wrote:
Current experience: Oh, the networking info on that vm is wrong. Log
into it's 3270 console... oh yeah, remember, don't type vi! Let's use
ed or ex... okay, configuration fixed... let's see if I can ping out
now. OH NO! I forgot to tell it only
Adam Thornton wrote:
On Sep 28, 2006, at 2:10 PM, Brandon Darbro wrote:
Things my fellow admins face when trying to support z/Linux:
* Different backup solution than the rest of distrubted Unix/Linux.
Why? Bacula and Amanda run spiffily under it.
* Different system health monitoring system
Grega Bremec wrote:
Neale Ferguson wrote:
| See: http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2006011301426NWSWSS
|
| Novell has released Service Pack 3 for SuSE Enterprise Linux Server
9, which includes all security patches and bugfixes since SP2--of which
there have been dozens--as well as
Grega Bremec wrote:
I believe the list of updated packages consists of all of the updates
between SP2 ISO images and the SP3 release notes links on this page:
http://support.novell.com/linux/psdb/product21.html
It is a cumulative update, the service pack, so there should be care
taken to
We ran into a situation where a Tomcat application server was getting
connections that wouldn't time out reasonably when failing to connect to
an Oracle database server. The connection would start, but the database
server never finished opening the connection. This would cause Tomcat
to spawn
Stefan Bader wrote:
path. So you should/must rather use 12stripes because
3. LVM wants to put volume size/stripes to each disk and won't add
space from another space
do so. So 27G/8 requires around 3G on 8 free PVs and yours only have
2.25G.. So 12 stripes
should work.8 won't.
Phil Tully wrote:
One question are these Escon or Ficon, with Escon you may see
unpredictable performance results if more stripes than paths exist (as
described by Brandon) , this should not be a problem with Ficon.
Ahh, yes these are Escon. Ficon someday... someday...
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porting to another language, and you end up
with native binaries, instead of java byte code.
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Adam Thornton wrote:
I have been a big un-fan of reiserfs since it ate a bunch of my mail
spool under heavy load (on LVM disk across ten minidisks). I try
hard to avoid its use these days. For what it's worth, I use signal
shutdown on guests with ext3 all the time and have never had
corruption
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folks agree that should be included in the pam configuration for
those services, I'll file a bug report with SuSE.
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Has anyone setup Oracle RBAC backups on z/Linux, making it work with
Tivoli as the backup solution? Or is there a redbook out there that
I've overlooked on the subject?
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Yes, sorry. Dunno where rbac snuck into my vocab, I meant RMAN.
Little, Chris wrote:
I'm not a DBA so I can't speak too much, but we use the RMAN/Tivoli
solution. Is that similar?
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Little, Chris wrote:
In that case. It's flawless for us. Anything in particular you need to
know?
Now that I'm searching on the correct term, I've found plenty of reading
matterial. I'm off to go RTFM before I ask for more help. Thanks
though! :)
*Brandon
P.S. Rbac was my brain
/redbooks/pdfs/sg246552.pdf
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Brandon Darbro wrote:
Little, Chris wrote:
In that case. It's flawless for us. Anything in particular you need to
know?
Now that I'm searching on the correct term, I've found plenty of reading
matterial. I'm off to go RTFM before I ask for more help. Thanks
Problem solved. The solution was to get a newer release from IBM.
Upgrading IBMJava to the latest 64 bit version: 1.4.2 SR1a
techsvcs:~ # java -version
java version 1.4.2
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2)
Classic VM (build 1.4.2, J2RE 1.4.2 IBM build
tried SLES 8's 1.4.1 31 bit, that was worse, it just
locked up tomcat solid.
I've requested Gordon Wolfe send in a bug report to SuSE at this point.
Any other pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Anyone run into problems with Tomcat on SLES 9 SP1 (64 bit) crashing
out? We're having a problem with Tomcat imploding. This is the Tomcat
that comes with SLES 9 and it's using the IBM Java.
The versions in use are:
jakarta-tomcat-5.0.19-29.1
IBMJava2-JRE-1.4.2-0.55
We have java cores if
(ncwrapper) tries tries to ping the ip of the host you are
ssh'ing to, if it fails, it assumes the host must be external and so it
will wrap the ssh connection with a dynamically socksified netcat
program. This allows the user to ssh to internal and external hosts
seemlessly.
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ads_set_machine_password: Message too long
Samba is setup correctly, I start it, and it lets people authenticate,
but only after reporting their kerberos key was rejected.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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Adam Thornton wrote:
Another development.
An interview with Fuat Kirccali, owner of Sys-Con Publications, was
published in which he made it quite clear that in fact, his only
problem with Maureen O'Gara's story was that it caused people to make
calls to his advertisers and DDOS his servers
Is my installation media incomplete, or is there no lynx package for SLES 9?
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the right font. Here is some good news for you, the lynx source rpm
from wintel SuSE 9.1 builds perfectly on 64 bit SLES 9.
I'm surprised and a little disappointed to see lynx replaced by SuSE. I
have scripts that use it to parse HTML pages.
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James Melin wrote:
You can still get lynx and maintain the build yourself.
I did. I believe I mentioned the source rpm from wintel Suse 9.1 builds
perfectly. :)
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Nilson Vieira wrote:
Can anybody put available service pack 2.0 and 3.0 so that a can
download that i need to apply on my production machine ( i dont have suse
subscription)
Thanks in advance
I believe that doing that would be a violation of our support agreement.
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Back when SLES 8 was new, I found that the autofs 3.1.7 was insufficient
for having a dynamic /net amount. By that, I mean one should be able to
cd /net/hostname/whatever and have it automounted dynamicly. At the
time the only solution I found was to upgrade us to autofs 4.x which
allowed me to
,
ensure they do not have a loginable password.
These steps combined will greatly reduce the ssh probes you are receiving.
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mainframes? If so, let's talk off of the list
about pricing.
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libucbhelper2gcc3.so = not found
libvos3gcc3.so = not found
libcppuhelpergcc3.so.3 = not found
libcppu.so.3 = not found
libsal.so.3 = not found
libtk645l3.so = not found
libstlport_gcc.so.4.6 = not found
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Yes, I thin the old Sequent Numa-Q's were.
McKown, John wrote:
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Subject: Fw: [LINUX-390] Why Zseries
Stupid question:
Does
available for VM? Then you could just
have your linux clients point to their time server... Hrmmm. Anyone?
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Post, Mark K wrote:
Don't do it. Keep your root file system as plain vanilla ext3, and move
other things to LVM (using ext3 as well):
/home
/opt
/tmp
/usr
/var
You really, really, don't want to have to fix LVM to get your system up an
running if it ever comes to that.
Mark Post
Agreed. When we
. It's pattern
writing passes don't eat cpu, however. Also, this will erase any
partitions on the device, so to reuse it, you'll need to recreate a
valid partition table.
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Lee Stewart wrote:
You'd probably migrate back to the old (now updated) server to balance
your
workload capacity. Of course if you had the capacity on the other
server(s), there'd be no need, at least right away.
Lee
Have you folks looked into UserMode Linux?
Might anyone be able to help me with this? I'm trying to build
OpenOffice 1.1.3 and it gets about an hour into it and then dies with
some Java compile error. I'm wondering if it's because the sdk is IBM's
and not Sun's. Thoughts?
Details on the system:
z800 / two IFL's
Linux under
Anyone know of a prebuilt OpenOffice 1.1.3 for SLES 8 SP3 31bit? I have
a customer who wants to use it for it's conversion libraries. Or worse
case scenario, any build tips?
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I'm getting permission denied when trying to download Samba 3.0.9-17
packages from sernet.de.
URL: http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/sles8-s390/
Can whomever it is that maintains this please open up the permissions
on the files?
Thanks
*Brandon Darbro
or reduce
the frequency of those fs checks.
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James Melin wrote:
What are the current leading anti-virus software vendors that have a
product that runs native under linux on z/Series?
I've seen options that require me to NFS mount my disk, and other things.
I've seen a few anti-virus probrams that run native, but our management
doesn't want a
Marcy Cortes wrote:
There is a client. I have it. It exists. Go here
http://eval.veritas.com/mktginfo/products/Datasheets/Data_Protection/nbu
_51_enterprise_server_ds_final.pdf
And look at the last page. There's a note 3 on the chart and
specifically says z Linux, both RedHat and Suse. The
Mark, would you consider starting a moderated Usenet newsgroup instead?
That would get far more exposure, and benefit from being Google
searchable.
*Brandon
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If you have backups, I'd be happy to pay for alternate hosting that you
could restore to for the short term, say a month or two.
Let me know,
*Brandon
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I've used SLES 8 sp 3 32bit for exporting to Sun and HP with no
problems.
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Thank you Martin. I will try to mount to a Sun server and see if that
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What's wrong with YaST?
Other than being completely icky? Not much.
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Terry Spaulding wrote:
| I am looking for a down load site for webmin to run on SuSE SLES8 Intel.
| Can anyone point me in the correct direction ?
Just download the rpm from www.webmin.com.
Be aware the partitioning utilities in webmin are not
For cli (curses) based editors, there are:
- joe (excellent old style WordStar clone)
- EMACS (You think vi is tough...)
- Pico/Nano (Simplistic editor with few features)
- ex (A command line and scriptable version of vi)
- sed (A stream editor, similar to ex, but for streams)
- ed (worse
The distribution is using xinetd instead of inetd.
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Sent: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:35:58 -0500
Subject: inetd
I installed SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM S/390 in a linux
partiton on a
z900. inetd is no
The distro is using xinetd instead.
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:35:58 -0500
Miller, Ila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I installed SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for IBM S/390 in a linux partiton on a
z900. inetd is no where to be found after the install. In the olden days of
install before Enterprise
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why?
6. Lastly, why would you choose to run J2EE on mainframe Linux as
apposed to some stand-alone system (Unix, Windows, Other)?
Thanks folks,
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I have been looking into ways to add a writable layer to read only DASD
for a while now, including ovlfs. Ovlfs simply doesn't do the job,
unfortunately. I have problems with data getting lost between boots
and it seems to continue to consume memory until the linux host
eventually dies. So
On Friday 18 June 2004 02:54 pm, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
What you're looking for are EVMS or LVM2 snapshots using device-mapper.
Huh? EVMS or LVM2 has a method of adding a writable layer to read only dasd?
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Once I have it built and working fine against 2.4.21-83, would you like me
to post
for a while until we
switched to a PHP-Nuke variant (MPN). Just thought I'd warn you before you
switched to nuke. :)
Sorry for the offtopic thread.
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/include/linux/list.h:21: previous
declaration of `list_t'
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Anyone here have
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Heya Mark,
Did you compile it against your new 2.4.26 kernel or the 2.4.21-83 kernel?
I'm building against 2.4.21-83 and getting:
Compiling
their effort.
Mark Post
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