Re: Assigning/Tracking Host names

with the above. Using a name repository in the form of a database table should make it fairly easy for a script to fetch a next-available-name, claim it and register it in both DNS and DHCP databases. Kind regards, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: OT: Linux and Railroad Diagrams

, for example. Now that's what I call man pages. :) Kind regards, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFwb3Bfu4IwuB3+XoRA5swAJ0ZsEM5R3XWPyRZpCpMJU/XjMJR9QCfSfeX MvcKLRlVA7NvuEgH+zdiorU= =zGw5 -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: OT: Linux and Railroad Diagrams

docs, but like it or not, that's a lot less than one half of the job. Pragmatically, if one has a need for a command to behave exactly the way they need it to, it doesn't matter what else could be there. One looks it up and one uses it. Thank Bob, we have the option. Kind regards, - -- ~Grega

Re: problems with missing files ..

is actually /usr/lib64, not /usr/lib. 32-bit versions of packages will do you no good. Hope this helped. Kind regards, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFtJNhfu4IwuB3+XoRA/poAJ0boy/f4RJx5YaVmmFvMCLSNqxqbgCfeiGG

Re: problems with missing files ..

~ $ /sbin/ldconfig and retry ldd. Kind regards, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFtJoafu4IwuB3+XoRA2bBAJ9oKe1f4pT/A8wy7Oulo1fSkgAhTQCdEYS/ 2qgin5n51sWcvMtW16S3/RU= =20Im -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Wiki on zLinux

certain HTML attributes, for example table border and such, but this may also be related to the way I installed it. Apart from that, it's been running smoothly for more than half a year. Hope this helped. Kind regards, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: hcp problem

. I'll look into upgrading sometime in near future. Alan, vmcp was there and functions correctly. All I had to do was modprobe vmcp manually (for some reason, vmcp won't trigger modprobing automatically, probably because an udev rule is missing). Kind regards, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab

Re: Interesting article - UNIX oriented

to close the structure with a closing brace (can be tricky when you are nesting braces). For more information, see Brace Expansion in your shell's manual. Kind regards, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux

hcp problem

. Exit status of the command is 0. /dev/cpcmd exists and is a character special device, major 107, minor 8, permissions 0770, root:root. The cpint kernel module is successfully loaded, but use count always shows zero. Any ideas? Kind regards, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net

Initializing a 3590

Hello, list. I've been experimenting with 3590 some time ago, and I can see the VDEV from inside Linux without a problem, also mt(1) can rewind the tape and promises to do things with it, as soon as I initialize the cartridge. How do I do that, though? Kind regards, -- Grega Bremec

Re: The Virtualization Cookbook is published on the IBM Redbooks Web site

is a rebranded GPL'd recompile of RHEL SRPMs. It is free and freely downloadable from http://www.centos.org/. They also have builds for S/390 and S/390x. Hope this helps. Kind regards, - -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux

Re: Starting WAS, MQ, DB2, etc...

dependency-aware parrallel startups now? There may be other, non-technical reasons for spawning processes using init, but since your question implied one of a technical nature, I reserved myself the privilege of being brutally honest. No offense meant. Kind regards, - -- Grega Bremec

Re: Starting WAS, MQ, DB2, etc...

wasexp with wasserver just the other day when I federated a PC with the dmgr on z/Linux. It was a drop-in thing. Hope this helps; please send feedback. I'm willing to start a project of some kind if there's enough interest. Enjoy the hacking. Kind regards, -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot

Re: auto-responses

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Re: Editing crontab

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Re: Editing crontab

. The message shows: | | crontab: no changes made to crontab | | Logged on as root, I can edit the file, called | /var/spool/cron/tabs/root, using vi. These changes are (not | surprisingly) accepted. Hi William, Is this Slackware? Cheers, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net

Re: z/VM 5.2 and QIOASSIST

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Alan Altmark wrote: | On Wednesday, 03/29/2006 at 07:58 ZE2, Grega Bremec [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: |I don't know if this APAR [VM63685] was closed prior to release of z/VM | 5.2, and |last time I heard about it, it was still open. So I'm

Re: z/VM 5.2 and QIOASSIST

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Alan Altmark wrote: | On Wednesday, 03/29/2006 at 09:31 ZE2, Grega Bremec [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | | We've just upgraded from z/VM 4.4 to z/VM 5.2 and I am wondering if | it was safe to use QIOASSIST with OSA and HiperSocket devices

z/VM 5.2 and QIOASSIST

- the kernel did not seem to be cleaning them up properly under 4.4, which caused the TCP session to appear to be alive to both sides, when infact it was not so any more. Thank you all in advance, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux

Re: Yast2 broken - Novell support points to popt but I already have the latest popt

commands don't initialize all the environment variables for root, they just inherit from what you currently have in your $PATH and other environment variables. Hope this helped, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux

Re: Hosed root shell setting in /etc/passwd

-c /bin/bash --login sudo /bin/bash Hope this helps, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD8Oz4fu4IwuB3+XoRA1N1AJ9WWDlDrmTuJ146xgEWHU4JQmr3egCfTBYO MNnXlNfu0Ce9sIDi89oaSqg= =/fIz -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Hosed root shell setting in /etc/passwd

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Eric Chevalier wrote: | Grega Bremec wrote: | | su -c /bin/bash --login | | I'm not sure this command is going to work. I think the --login: | option is going to force the system to try and load the shell defined | in the passwd file *before

Re: Advanced cloning, shared storage and management (HowTo draft)

. Or even use the good, old diskless boot strategy: a trusted FTP (*not* TFTP, of course) server to copy the per-user files from upon boot and use them to populate a V-DISK, of course. Your imagination (and bash scripting knowledge :)) is the limit. Hope this helped, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab

Advanced cloning, shared storage and management (HowTo draft)

you all in managing your penguin farms by at least providing some useful insight, here's my $0.1. Cheers, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD07aLfu4IwuB3+XoRA28yAJ4+wPPMJCqqSzd0W8HETAxgXp6ImACeIGXW

Re: SLES9 SP3

-SLES ~ $ ln -s ./SUSE-CORE/ ./cd2/s390x/updates/SUSE-SLES This also takes care of any problems subsequent updates might run into. Hope this helps, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDyBYhfu4IwuB3

Re: SLES9 SP3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Brandon Darbro wrote: | 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

Re: SLES 9, zSeries, and dropping OSA-G's

NOQIOASSIST to all the OSA devices defined in your user directory and see. And please report of any changes, as I'm anxious to find out, as you know - the induction principle is difficult to apply to computer systems. :) Hope this helped, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN

Re: storage use

definitely worth a shot, especially with the default of 90 being heavily biased towards desktop systems. Hope this helped, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDoMGkfu4IwuB3+XoRA/CCAJ40iL5ZHIDjwbjOx6RgKcscHHii4ACggeHu

Re: Which profile file is read on z/Linux?

to complain about it not working the way it should. :) Kind regards, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDfOY2fu4IwuB3+XoRAwvbAJ9hOOgz1aQzwltxh/GtCcpXEYDOcACdHHg+ LVhmgvtPTOeR4lJV9Zix78o= =saIj -END PGP

Re: Which profile file is read on z/Linux?

user's environment. For more details, see your shell's manual (usually in section 1 of the system manuals), search for the section of the manual called FILES. Hope this helped. Kind regards, - -- ~Grega Bremec ~gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU

Re: mount returning incorrect information

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Re: Forcing FSCK on all DASD at IPL

, and it is polite to consider they might be doing something important to them anyways), so you might want to hint them beforehand: ~$ echo System going into maintenance mode in 10 minutes. | wall; \ sleep 600; /sbin/telinit 1 Hope to have helped, - -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net

Re: Novell to SCO Group: Drop Dead

. http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/688 Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit! Hahaha, I suppose Thunderbird was right to have marked this message as spam. :) Cheers, - -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux

Re: Syslog.conf question

or using a SELinux module that monitors the exec() family of functions, and filter those records according to some filter to make them show up in the appropriate log. Hope to have helped. Kind regards, - -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Syslog.conf question

/pserver local1.* /var/log/pserver local2.* /var/log/pserver ... local7.* /var/log/pserver daemon.* /var/log/pserver user.* /var/log/pserver etc. Only try out one of the above lines at a time, and remember to reload the configuration after each try (killall -HUP syslogd). Kind regards, - -- Grega

Re: Security questions and scads of NOUSER based SSH attacks

yournewport to the ssh command line or adjusting the application profile if people are connecting from a frontend. The usual case is that the number of unauthorized login attempts will have dropped to a still zero. Hope to have helped. Kind regards, - -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net

Re: SUDO access granularity

mode to provide you with a least-privilege access control list without (much) manual configuration at all. Hope to have helped. Kind regards, - -- Grega Bremec gregab at p0f dot net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC1SOFfu4IwuB3+XoRAq15AJ4vxt7jem6sYynfPHuZ9QMh4u