It is, however, conceivable that whatever naming convention you use
for your linux hosts may indeed be regularly expressed in its entirety
and without spurious matches. If absolutely necessary you could
always add an additional step to your pipe:
... | grep some regex capturing all potential
absolutely nothing wrong with the X forwarding approach either, use
ssh -X from a UNIX or Linux host, or in putty's session config screen
(the one that opens when you run the program, which you can also get
back to later although I think the session has to be initiated with
this turned on) go to:
I would think the F word is most likely quite old indeed. And it is
worth noting that in the UK and I believe Australia the word rutting
is used to mean the same activity with which most English speakers
commonly associate the F word. Moreover, the German 'ficken' which
has precisely this
Sounds very rude for a phone support individual. I would have asked
for his manager. :-)
Erik Johnson
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Phil Tullytull...@optonline.net wrote:
Thank You for all the responses. This is the expected answer
I asked the question simply because a customer has tied
Dave,
I would encourage you to contact some folks at NIU about PeopleSoft.
We recently migrated from our own in-house solution which we called
webconnect to peoplesoft, mostly to facilitate the surplussing of our
ESA/390s and it has been ghastly. We have ended up with scores of
students forced
It is worth noting that IBM has an established program called IBM
Academic Initiatives. If you offer any courses on your Zs and you
*need* z/VM to offer those courses, IBM will *possibly* negotiate a
free license of z/VM. I'm at NIU and we have two ESA/390s donated by
IBM many years before my
:52 PM, Erik N Johnson e...@uptownmilitia.com wrote:
It is worth noting that IBM has an established program called IBM
Academic Initiatives. If you offer any courses on your Zs and you
*need* z/VM to offer those courses, IBM will *possibly* negotiate a
free license of z/VM. I'm at NIU and we
The real strengths of the z platform are in I/O throughput and
virtualization. Therefor, as a general rule of thumb, if your
workloads are heavily I/O bound or heavy on virtualization, you will
probably benefit from zLinux vs some other flavor of Linux on
commodity hardware. If you were planning
Can you link documentation on DIAG2A8 and DIAG250?
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote:
On Thursday, 04/02/2009 at 09:25 EDT, Erik N Johnson
e...@uptownmilitia.com wrote:
Can you link documentation on DIAG2A8 and DIAG250?
Both are in the CP Programming Services book, part of the z/VM
This has especial benefits visa-vi code re-usability. In fact, this
is exactly the design philosophy behind the everything's-a-file model
in UNIX-type operating systems. Of course, that metaphor has been
broken since the advent of the socket, but since then several methods
of extending the file
It is rather curious that IBM is being so territorial in this regard.
It would be extraordinarily difficult to break into the system Z clone
market, I would think. People are, I get the impression, largely
stuck with IBM unless they completely change the way in which they
operate their mainframe.
I tend to agree that sudo is a much better way of accomplishing this,
you can embed sudo in scripts as long as the script is called
interactively. Thus it would be very simple to get some info about
the process in question (specifically uid) from either the ps command
or the /proc directory
This is generally considered highly insecure. The usual caveat about
running userland apps as root.
In fact, the generally accepted practice amongst most Linux admins is:
ALWAYS issue administrative commands using sudo. NEVER log in
remotely as root. ONLY log in as root w/ physical access, and
You are quite right John there are problems with the CDDL. The
biggest problems are two in number. The first is that after releasing
your code under the CDDL another user of the software may choose to
distribute a binary version of a derivative work containing the source
YOU wrote under a
For the record, it has been pointed out to me that Dtrace is not
actually white-space-significant. So there you have it. I still feel
that white-space-significant languages are garbage, just don't want to
spread any FUD.
Erik Johnson
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 3:36 PM, David Boyes
In an attempt to bring things back on topic for Scott, and everybody
else who is supposed to keep e-mail work related (sorry guys!) I would
like to point out a major feature of Linux that people seem to remain
unaware of. In Linux you can get virtually any piece of kernel
information from the vfs
expand on your idea here a bit more? What's a Linux NOC?
Thanks.
Erik N Johnson wrote:
In an attempt to bring things back on topic for Scott, and everybody
else who is supposed to keep e-mail work related (sorry guys!) I would
like to point out a major feature of Linux that people seem
the file permissions.) So technically it does allow you to do
a small amount of administration.
Erik
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Erik N Johnson e...@uptownmilitia.com wrote:
In this case NOC stands for Network Operations Center, and calling it
that might be a BIT misleading, because you
Debian doesn't exist to provide a commercial operating system. Debian
has only one purpose, to provide a fully free operating system, which
is why no other GNU/Linux distribution has such a strong relationship
with the FSF or the GNU project. Complaining that Debian does waht it
is their mission
Of course. Debian is only practical in the real world for a handful
of things. But there is nobody in all of GNU/Linux who doesn't
benefit from the work done by these people. The majority of kernel
code comes from paid developers it's true, but the Debian project
submits plenty of patches. The
Which is why they, and many other large corporations have PR
departments. They understand how 'the perception of' goodwill towards
man affects their sales AND stock.
Erik Johnson
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:26 PM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote:
On 3/25/09 3:43 PM, Mark Post
You are quite right that they have made their choice, but, as I say,
it is immaterial which path they choose. M$ Office cannot continue to
dominate that market when there are serious, inter-operable products
available with a totally Free license at no cost. Especially with
everybody looking to
It is very true, however, that you can run several LPARs with
Linux/390 on them. Also, MVS is available for free nowadays, as well
as several other major components that run on the pre-Z
360-derivatives. So although you won't be able to teach your kids VM
you CAN show them what IBM big iron can
the licenses for the Oracle
software.
Jim Dodds
Systems Programmer
Kentucky State University
400 East Main Street
Frankfort, Ky 40601
502 597 6114
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Could Xen run on z/Linux? I don't see why not. But to be completely
honest, a mainframe is a strange place to run Windows. I mean... you
could go and buy an 8086 and run Andy Tananbaum's Minix 3, and that
would make a LOT more sense to me, at least you can learn something
about operating
This is totally amazing to me: There is z/Linux and not z/BSD because
way back at the dawn of time there was a lawsuit involving 4.4BSD and
so GNU/Linux became the flagship open source operating system (when
Linux came out it was a toy, and BSD was a serious software product.)
Now, despite the
Lately I've been reading a lot about the speculation regarding IBM
taking Sun over. As a graduate of an IBM preferred University whose
curriculum had IBM mainframes at its core, and a java developer, I
have a big interest in what might happen here. What I'm really
interested in, though, is the
I'm confused by this thread. Is there a special behaviour of fstab
specific to z/Linux? On every other UNIX or UNIX-clone system I have
ever used including Linux on the x86 and powerpc platforms, the two
integer values at the end of an fstab config line have nothing
whatever to do with automatic
So again, to clarify, two questions:
1. The checkpass value (field 6) has no bearing on whether a given
volume will be automatically mounted and determines only the order in
which fsck will examine the volume (if at all.) Is this correct?
2. The ONLY way to specify that a given fstab entry should
I might add that this list is extraordinarily tolerant of a variety of
things. Especially by comparison to MANY other GNU/Linux oriented
mailing lists! This seems to me a very small thing to ask, and it
really does make a difference. For people who subscribe to several of
these types of lists,
Clearly, you want behaviour OTHER than what normally happens when
users call su -. I would recommend writing a small alias or script to
let people issue INSTEAD of su - when you want this functionality.
You may want to examine the funtionality of env, a command which
allows you to create a clean
Alas, I assumed that the functionality would mirror the original
design from whence it was stolen. In Plan 9 any program can access
the tcp/ip stack or any other networking protocol in just exactly that
way. Of course, Plan 9 is extraordinarily different under the hood,
so it's very easy to do
OH YEAH! With 9p it is theoretically possible to make this work
across networks, since 9p can expose ANY file, including the FIFOs
that processes listen to plumbing messages on. This is exactly how
Plan 9 works.
Erik Johnson
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Erik N Johnson e
To get data back from a network daemon using this technique is quite
trivial, if you are using an X windows desktop. Simply open up two
xterms.
xterm 1:
# tee rx.log /dev/tcp/host/port
xterm 2:
# echo arbitrary message| tee tx.log /dev/tcp/host/port
Send whatever you want to your remote host,
John,
If you're very concerned about the footprint of a proper MTA on your
host check out qmail. But generally I agree with Malcolm, you would
be well advised to run an MTA. There's also no sense reinventing the
wheel. There are three very good, pretty modern totally free and open
MTAs
John,
Does it make any difference at all whether I can easily gain control
of a Windows box with physical access? Since I can VERY easily gain
control of most Windows boxes over any old network they happen to be
connected to? I contend that physical security is a MUCH simpler
problem to solve
After they were done working on UNIX, the various brilliant folks at
ATT wrote the successor to UNIX called Plan 9 From Bell Labs. It's
much better in most respects but it never got any industry adoption,
due mostl to the fact that by that point all the big players had
gotten their fill of
Especially if you happen to be on the z platform and running a major
commercial distribution, such as it sounds like in Mr. Boyes's case, I
tend to agree with you Pieter. It is true hat open source package
APIs can become moving targets on th whim of the respective project
lead, but Redhat and
If you are having this problem it may be possible to isolate the
particular application and, more importantly, the component which is
giving you problems, in a special directory like /opt/essential
package name which MAY fix the problem since the aplications which
are generating errors will
efficiently. So I agree, this probably ought to be
brought to the attention of the package maintainers. Anybody know who
that would be?
Erik Johnson
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Larry Ploetz la...@stanford.edu wrote:
On 1/8/09 12:21 PM, Erik N Johnson wrote:
Does this failure to behave as one might
Thus, if you want the behaviour you described in the above command,
you could do the following:
command parms 21 | cat file.tmp
which would put everything in the file file.tmp
Erik Johnson
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Edmund R. MacKenty
ed.macke...@rocketsoftware.com wrote:
On Thursday 08
Does this failure to behave as one might hope perhaps constitute a bug
in a widely used admin utility?
Erik Johnson
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Larry Ploetz la...@stanford.edu wrote:
On 1/7/09 1:44 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
I see no reason logrotate should not handle sparse files well
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Upon realization of that fact,
further argument on the point would seem pedantic and obtuse
:
Shawn Wells wrote:
Erik N Johnson wrote:
It is an interesting question. The fact o the matter is that Linux
is
named after Linus Torvalds. The predominant pronounciations of Linux
are: 'LINE-ix' and 'LI-nucks', but the name Linus (in Helsinki at any
rate) is pronounced 'LEE-noose'. So
It is an interesting question. The fact o the matter is that Linux is
named after Linus Torvalds. The predominant pronounciations of Linux
are: 'LINE-ix' and 'LI-nucks', but the name Linus (in Helsinki at any
rate) is pronounced 'LEE-noose'. So the 'correct' pronounciation of
Linux should
That doesn't make any sense. Based on what I know about 'process
sleeping' and 'waking up' there are two possibilities for how this
works. The first is, of course, busy polling. If that's how it works
then the question is irrelevant since busy polling means useless work
no matter what. Since I
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That doesn't make any sense. Based on what I know about 'process
sleeping' and 'waking up' there are two possibilities for how
Are people limited to 3270 hardware to solve this problem or could a
3270 emulator provide an acceptable solution? Just curious.
Erik Johnson
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Romanowski, John (OFT)
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For anyone else having problems reaching www.linuxvm.org today?
try
Sounds like fun, do you have a pointer to some documentation for IND$FILE?
Erik Johnson
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:06 PM, McKown, John
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I just had one of my flashes of insight (or is that insanity?).
Anyway, this whole thing about using the 3270 interface is for when
.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:18 PM, McKown, John
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license.
So here goes nothing :-D
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's s3270 for 'scraping' which allows you to get the contents of a
3270 screen into a file. From there we could easily use awk to disect
a text file and get needed information
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Okay, I read the license for x3270, it's very short, if not too
terribly sweet. It's basically the old
So x3270 includes IND$FILE functionality, according to the website
daver++ pointed out. Still looking on the x3270 page for the
documentation of this functionality. May just download the code and
figure it out.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And I
Ahh, it's a menu option. In the file menu.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So x3270 includes IND$FILE functionality, according to the website
daver++ pointed out. Still looking on the x3270 page for the
documentation of this functionality. May just
Does anybody require UTF-8 support?
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ahh, it's a menu option. In the file menu.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So x3270 includes IND$FILE functionality, according to the website
Whoops, forgot. It's called ed. For editor, very UNIX
Erik Johnson.
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a text editor. THE text editor, by some reckoning :-D (it
was the very first unix text editor, vi's command mode: ex is modeled
on this.) I
There is also a port of rpm to debian. You can therefor install rpm
packages on debian, allowing you to deploy commercial software which
is available only in rpm format. And since both debian and redhat are
in fact GNU/Linux and therefor CAN present exactly the same
environment to applications
Building a kernel is not a herculean task by any measure. It is
completely automated and the configuration can easily be done
graphically if you have an X11 server. You probably need to go
looking for some literature before you try to boot up a machine as
expensive as a z10 on a homebrew kernel,
you would ever rein in the creative process. Programmers DO
create things, after all.
Erik Johnson
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:40 PM, John Summerfield
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Alan Altmark wrote:
On Monday, 07/14/2008 at 05:55 EDT, Erik N Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Building a kernel
There are absolutely lots of problems with ReiserFS. It's best
deployed on a home user's PC. The journaling is great if you lose
power abruptly, but it's faster than some of the more mature
journaling file systems. It doesn't really pose a serious threat to
data integrity there because the most
The reason to recommend reiser is performance, and in fact, ext2 gives
much better performance. It just isn't journaled. As I said, you
should certainly pick your filesystem based on your needs. In big
business, data integrity is the name of the game, since clients hate
it when you lose their
Several years ago there was a dispute over the direction that the
development of the XFree86 project should take. The plan was to make
substantial changes to the licensing and distribution of the software.
However, the bulk of the developers found that the proposed changes
were neither
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