Two things I learned way back on SP1 were; Don't make volumes CP-owned
unless they need to be, and don't change the file *type*. This is the
source of the confusion here.
When the file type is DIRECT then XEDIT will set the config to not
display the sequence area, and other things. In this case
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So what's happening? Do you have a half configured package, and dpkg
attempts to finish the configuration and fails?
Does a dpkg --configure -a tell you anything interesting?
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Well, that is not very inforative to me.
Hope it means something to somebody else!
[bromine:/]$ apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Starting
Starting 2
Done
Done
0 upgraded, 0
That is exactly the problem. It hasn't finished at all!
Isn't there some way to force it to restart? Or do I just
use the MicroSoft default solution of reformat and reinstall?
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apt-get dist-upgrade did not finish! It stopped and
went to a ready prompt immediatly after the error message.
No new kernel was installed, for example. And even though
it thinks it finished, I don't think it did. If someone can
confirm that the installation of netatalk is the last thing
that
Greetings;
I started to upgrade Debian and everything was going along fine
when it tried to install and activate Appletalk or some such thing
and couldn't do it. So, it just quit!
Seems to be an , shall we say inconvenient thing to do! That
doesn't sound like a terminal error to me!
But the
An SE is the software equivalent of a CE.
SE = Systems Engineer.
I think they are nearly extinct now as I haven't
had a verifiable sighting of one since 1984.
They used to get you copies of PUT tapes, help
you install software, help gather doc for APARs,
and file them, and all sorts of other
This is a behavior that is strange to us mainframers. When you add more
dasd
add it to the end of the dasd= string, wherever you have that defined.
With linux, regardless of the physical address, the first dasd defined is
the dasda device, the second b, etc. By putting new devices at the end of
Instead of cat use the ed command
1,$n
which will print the file with line #s
you can print a range with
1,20n
21,40n
and so forth
to print the line you just changed for verification
just do nenter
Don't forget w to write the updated file
then q to quit
I think ed is much better than sed
Well, this is just slightly OT, since it isn't 390 but is Windows Samba.
I guess two out of three ain't bad.
Anyway, at home I have two desktops on CAT5 ethernet, and two notebooks
on 802.11g all running WIN2K and one wired linux machine running debian.
The workgroup machines showing up seem to
Greetings;
It appears that your TOD clock is set to JST. It should be set to UTC/GMT
and your time zone def should be
Timezone_Definition JST East 09.00.00
and you don't need the TimeZone_Boundary as Japan does not
observe any daylight savings time. (Not according to my sources anyway.)
vsftpd is the culprit!
For some reason they consider ASCII mode to be a security
risk and it is disabled in /etc/vsftpd.conf and as far as I
can figure out there is no way to force it to do an ASCII
transfer in that case.
Your only choices are either change vsftpd.conf to allow
ASCII transfers
Unless they went backwards in 5.1 it *is*not* necesssary
to logoff maint or restart z/VM. The new logo becomes active
as soon as CP re-accesses it.
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I just tried to build from soure on Debian 2.4.19 and had a problem. It
hung up
for a lon time after the following sequence of output then
canceled
with make: *** [librexx_la-Setup.lo] Error 1
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DORX_VER=3 -DORX_REL=0 -DORX_MOD=0
-DORX_FIX=0
No, you don't need to write labels on the tapes. The library only
recognizes the barcoded label on the outside of the tape.
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I think there must be some confusion somewhere. IFL \= LPAR.
I doubt anyone other than JPL, NOAA, NASA and other such
huge places would ever need 32 processors, IFL or otherwise.
That is a *HUGE* amount of processing power!
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You don't even need the t/v disk. The dasd=xxx sets up the slots
and if you don't have a device attached there is still a dasda1
slot present. That is another advantage of VM!
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Greetings;
I'd like a little clarification on Tao-linux.
Is the entire project defunct, abandoned, whatever,
or only the S/390 S390x part(s) of it?
TNX for any info,
Dennis
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Greetings;
I have tried several times to get Slack390 to install but no joy.
No matter how I get there I always get the following error when
booting the starter system from the VM reader. The result is that
none of my dasd is recognized. 3390-3 formatted on a debian
guest and with ext3 fs
I hate to follow-up to my own email, but just in case anybody else
runs into this, I got around it by not defining my dasd in the
parmfile and waiting until it prompted for the addresses while booting.
That works.
Now, I have to wait for the rest of the day while I download all the
other software
Greetings;
I just brought up Debian Sarge which is kernel 2.4.27-2-s390x and
tried to install cpint. It is just too handy to not have! Anyway,
on the first try insmod returned
ELF file /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-s390x/kernel/drivers/s390/misc/cpint.o
not for this architecture
I finally gave gcc an
Greetings;
I know someone must be running this version, but I can't get it to boot.
I have installed vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-s390 and initrd.img-2.6.8-2-s390
right from debian/testing. I think it is a problem with my
kernel parameters but I can't find the right combination.
The best results that I ever
Jose,
The link works fine. Just make sure you get the entire link with no spaces.
Many mail agents fold the line and confuse things greatly!
The manual # following .../docu/ should be lx24jun03dd04.pdf
Make sure you don't get the ) on the end!
Good Luck!
Dennis
Greetings;
I just installed Debian kernel-image-2.4.27-2-s390 from unstable
on a test VM guest. (zVM 4.4.0)
I don't see any error messages during startup until it starts
spewing out message
modprobe: modprobe: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20050210.log
Read-only file system
and that is
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Tom,
It sounds as if you are running your linux systems as VM guests.
If so, just spool the console like any other guest.
I IPL CMS in all my linux guests, run a profile to setup swap
and other things, and spool the console. Then I ipl the linux
boot volume.
Otherwise you can use that neat
OSA/SF is included with zVM and it is a lot easier to
setup than installing VSE!
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or a copy of VSE.
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OSA/SF is included with zVM
Or a Faraday Cage!
Alan Altmark
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On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 12:54, Alan Altmark wrote:
On the downside, no ability to issue #CP commands.
cpint?
On the
upside, the ability to use vi before your virtual network connection is
established.
ITYM, the ability to use emacs. Using vi is never an upside.
Adam
It is if the
Greetings;
Of course you would not have all of your penguins each talking to
a bunch of remote NTP servers. You just have one of them doing that.
It then becomes a Stratum-3 time server and the rest of your penguins
talk to it. You can also have your windows servers and desktops synch
to your
Greetings;
Yes, but /etc/localtime can point to any timezone. It does
not have to be hardware local time.
In Debian there are many timezone files in /usr/share/zoneinfo
and I suspect that other distribs have the same or similar.
Look for files with timezone names. eg. EST, Poland, Greenwich,
Actually, I prefer to use passwords with ssh. The
passwords are not sent in the clear and this way
if anyone gets access to your PC they can't log
on to other systems just by clicking icons.
One more hurdle for the intruder to surmount!
David Goodenough
Hummm
You must be a lot better typist than I am!
And sed works nicely too. And there's always the option of just using cat
filename and just reentering the whole bloody thing
??
It appears that VMESA-L has been on hold since
at least 0200 CDT Thursday.
Anybody have any idea what the problem is?
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It depends on which side of the pond you are on!
Fargusson.Alan
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Greetings;
According to another article he graduated from Harvard in 1948
and became an Asst. Prof. at WUSTL, publishing an article on
nuclear magnetic
resonance his
Greetings;
I have qmail installed on my debian system.
We have been using it succesfully as a storefwd
server foour VSE systems when the corporate mail
server is down and it works fine.
Now I would like to be able to send mail from the
local host itself but so far no joy.
I can get messages
Greetings;
Yes, I use it and have been using it for about five years.
What I like about it is that I can still use xedit directxa
as I have for years and use DRM for allocating mdisks.
The only problem I have with it is that the second subsequent
PF12 (File+map+directxa) won't accept the
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Greetings;
wget should work. The pages are served in ASCII by the server
else they would be gibberish to any ascii machine receiving
them.
And, yes, I just tried it. Works great and quickly.
One problem you might encounter is when the pages use SSI
or pages are generated by cgi programs. Then
Port
That's if you access them via HTTP. Not FTP, which is what was being
discussed, for the very reason you mention. CGI, JSP, etc. files wanted,
but not accessible via HTTP.
Mark Post
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access the console, however, I don't want them having root access . . .
some
of them like to experiment. Ok, some sysadmins like to also . . . perhaps
not a good example :)
but you get the idea.
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From: Dennis Wicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 31
But, it is still the programmer's fault!
Such things as bounds checking and reasonablness
tests need to be instinctual if you are an
applications programmer. Just like not
breathing while you are under water!
If the end user is suffering then they should be
standing around the programmers desk
Greetings;
It appears that I need to install the qeth module on my Debian/Woody
2.4.19 system. How do I do this?
TIA,
Dennis
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Don't you just hate it when you can't find the info you
know you have saved ... somewhere?
Well, that is where I am at!
What is the manual that docs how to setup configure QDIO
for L/390?
Many TIA!
Dennis
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True, but it is GPL so it might be possible to use
it as a base for a VM/{IA,AMD,PPC} whatever.
Chris Cox
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As I was told a while back ...
wine is not an emulator, it is an API!
Thorsten Hock
Greetings;
Did you say the real device is a 2540?
Well, if memory serves, the 2540 is a buffered device and if you get
a read check or a card jam the system will only get an intervention
required. Fix the problem and push the start button and you are on
your way!
I had a read brush burn off
Do you have some real numbers to back up that claim?
Many people make the mistake of comparing the one-time-cost
of a programmer changing a program to the recurring cost of
hardware upgrades. There may be installation charges and there
will most certainly be an increase in MMC for the foreseeable
In a recent post there was the statement;
... SuSE (pronounced SOOS-ah) ...
I was told that it was SOO-say.
Could someone from SuSE or any .de give a definitive and
authoritative correct pronunciation?
Thanks,
Dennis
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Been there ...
Done that ...
Said that ...
My desktop is now running the latest and greatest ...
Windows XP!!
Obviously, nobody listens to me!
John Summerfield
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Suspicious? Moi?
Back in the Win 3.1 days there were two companies that had
really great products. Central Point Software and AutoMap.
Both were bought by MS. Neither reappeared in any recognizable
form or function.
I imagine that there are a lot of other examples out there.
Greetings;
The problem is that Sine Nomine is not mentioned the first time
that David is quoted. They remembered to slip it in the second time.
As for the statement in the article, I guess I must be in a
small minority. I have been working with main frames for
(mumble) years and I never had any
Greetings;
I am pretty sure that the links for apache are incorrect.
../apache is usually a directory and ../jboss probably is also.
The correct links are more likely of the form
K20apache - ../init.d/apache
Good Luck!
Dennis
James Melin
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Greetings;
I don't think I have seen this particular aspect of V-DISK swap
space discussed here before.
Is there any thing in either VM or linux that would make the use
of multiple V-DISK swap spaces better or worse than a single one?
I don't mean just one versus two but more on the order of
Greetings,
For anyone who is looking at this problem here is some more info.
It always happens at the same time of day, and that is the same
time that logrotate runs. But, it doesn't happen every day!
The process is always apache.
NB. My original post is in the archives at:
Greetings;
This sort of begs the question, why does blogd need to be killed off?
As regards consistently prevented, I predict, based upon my (mumble)
years of experience, that it will work consistently until sometime that
one or more of the following conditions are met:
- It is 2:00 AM
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Dennis Wicks wrote
Greetings;
You probably have devfs enabled in your kernel. I think
that is the default in 2.4.19 and probably earlier too.
You can either rebuild your kernel and disable/turn off
devfs or change your parmfile in /boot to something like
root=/dev/dasd/0100/part1 ro noinitrd
Greetings;
I get this error if the system has been idle for awhile.
In this case it was about 10hr 02min. I had 4 logons through
ssh but they were not doing anything.
I am running the 2.4.19 kernel w/timer patch.
That is kernel-image-2.4.19-s390 from debian.org
with no other patches applied.
I
Or 360 COBOL to run in a 32K DOS (mainframe, not PC) partition.
James Melin
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Greetings;
Actually vi was written for use on VT100 class terminals at 300 baud. It
was the son, or grandson of ed, which was written for use on hardcopy
terminals.
I haven't used every editor out there, but I have used a few of them,
AFAIR every one of them makes a distinction between insert
Greetings;
The first thing to do upon encountering an error is to stop.
Anything beyond that is icing on the cake, a product enhancement.
Halting is the bare minimum and an absolute requirement.
Stopping the process/system/machine at least prevents trashing
the data and allows the failed
Greetings;
I am trying to install lvm2. I downloaded the .deb file but could
not get apt-get to install it no matter what I tried. I finally
got some results with dpkg -i ... but it said there was a dependency
on libc6. I downloaded that. Same difficulties as with lvm2. I seem
to be in a
Greetings;
I just cloned my debian penguin, changed the ip-addresses and
host names and booted the clone. Neither my ctc0 link or the
eth0 link came up.
After much cursing and gnashing of teeth and scratching
of head I had a hunch and changed the physical addresses of
the links to be the same as
Greetings;
Good point, but all the directory entries and profile execs for
a dozen or so penguins are already set up, from way back when the
Marist distrib was the hot thing here. And, there was a pattern
then.
So, although there may not be a reason for the virtual addresses
to be different,
Thanks for all the assistance. I have it figured out
now and I might even try making a script to automate the
process a little. Everything I do with linux turns out
to be a big learning exercise!
Again, Thanks!
Dennis
Greetings;
Don't know about SuSE, but mkswap and swapon works just fine
on my TurboLinux 2.2.16 kernel. Maybe with 2.2.x you could
dasdfmt a FBA device even though it wasn't necessary,
or it just ignored you silently!
Good Luck!
Dennis
Post, Mark K
Greetings,
I have managed to figure out today how to get some linux disks
(running under VM) mounted on my Win NT system. Every thing seems
to be working except for one important function: I can't write on
those disks! Neither new files or changed files.
I imagine it is one particular parameter
Everyone,
Thanks for all the help!
I have it working now, and I have discovered some interesting
things to investigate on Monday.
Hope everybody has a good weekend!
Dennis
Greetings;
Yes, you can run ntp or whatever on l/390 (at least under VM)
and synch to any time server you can reach.
Good Luck!
Dennis
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Greetings;
In the eternal quest for decreasing the cost of software it occurred
to me that it might be possible to use linux facilities, read open
source and low cost, to back up VM and CMS files and eliminate the
high cost of VM software currently being used.
So, has anyone considered this?
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So, has anyone
This reminds me of that famous Pogo-ism:
We have met the enemy and they are us.
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Greetings;
They key phrase here is (if they get in).
The article itself isn't even up to the Assembler For Dummies
level and doesn't reveal any great secrets about getting into
the system.
This is just the latest in a long string of writings by someone
who doesn't know much about S/390 systems
Greetings;
By all means install ntpd and friends.
I have one l/390 guest setup as a stratum 3 server and
I synch the other linux machines as well as several PCs
with it.
My stratum 3 synchs to three or four stratum 2 servers.
You can find a list of public access stratum 2 servers
at
Very cool!
Adam Thornton
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Greetings;
Statements like this are made by people who are not taking into
account the seriousness of the vulnerabilities. They are
comparing apples and oranges, or better yet apples and marshmallows.
It is like saying that having the rearview mirror fall off of your
car is as serious as losing
Greetings;
Re: the training comment. When I first started in DP there was always
one or two trainie operators and programmers on the staff. The first
place I worked we got them from a couple local business schools. We
never hired anyone straight out of college because they didn't know
anything
Tom;
Nearly every program/package has a command that will display
the version that you are using.
[root@krypton log]# grep -V
grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2
This is quite often -v or -V or --help or some such. The man
pages have pointers.
Somewhere there is a list of the commands and options
Greetings;
In case you haven't discovered it yet Blackbox is now at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/blackboxwm/
Good Luck!
Dennis
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Greetings;
In the Readme.zipl in the s390 tools material reference is made to
http://www.enjoy.ne.jp/~gm/program/parsecfg
That link is no longer valid.
However the sources for parsecfg-3.6.7 can be found at
http://www.netsw.org/system/libs/config/
Good Luck!
Dennis
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Greetings;
I thought I had saved a post that detailed how to do this, but I have
saved too many posts. Too much good info on this list!
Anyway, I have installed the rource rpm for strace and updated the
spec file with the two additional patches for the May 2002 stream
390 updates.
Now what do
Greetings;
I noticed that the May 2002 stream includes changes for gcc,
glibc and binutils. In the dark recesses of my memory I recall
that the last time I tried to update these three components
my system became inoperable because of a change in the format
of the object modules. Probably also
Greetings;
I am getting prepared to build a 2.4.17 kernel and I am confused
by what I am reading on Developerworks.
I am going to apply the linux-2.4.17-timer-2.diff patch.
Now the confusion, in one place the DevWrk page says that I need
a special/different version of the OSA OCO modules, and
Looks like I procrastinated just long enough!
I have been putting off doing this for a couple weeks.
Must have been picking up brain waves from Boeblingen
or something.
Thanks a lot Uwe, Gerhard, et al, your timing is superb!
Dennis
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