Re: export DISPLAY

2005-04-26 Thread Jim Sibley
/sshd_config X11Fowarding yes, dislay is set to 10.0 and the java scripts work. Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself). __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo

export DISPLAY

2005-04-25 Thread Jim Sibley
, it uses GUI on the WS. When I try the installs for DB2 and WAS, they fail, saying the export is not set up correctly. Does anyone know the magical combination to get GUI to work (other than use console install mode). Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso

Re: I want to move SLES9 under z/VM to LPAR.

2005-04-22 Thread Jim Sibley
Is above process right? None of the volumes can be minidisk. They must be all native volumes to work under an LPAR. If any of the volumes are minidisk, you have to do a logical copy from the minidisk to the native volume (cp -a or tar2tar). Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give

Re: Latest on PAV's?

2005-04-07 Thread Jim Sibley
where your bottlenecks are. Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself). __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Sign up for Fantasy Baseball. http

Re: Latest on PAV's?

2005-04-06 Thread Jim Sibley
What about PAV's for page/spool volumes? We're trying to decide what size shark volumes to use in a new VM installation. Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself

Re: PAV's revisited

2005-04-06 Thread Jim Sibley
Begging for 3390-1 is probably not a good idea in that environment. Our zOS staff, with whom we have to share a box, and whom have all the PAV they need, is voting for a size of 15288 cylinders (a mod 13.7) - that gives the maximum usage of the backend store or so they say. Jim Sibley Computers

Latest on PAV's?

2005-04-05 Thread Jim Sibley
device size. Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself). __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. http://personals.yahoo.com

Linux 2.4 to 2.6 Transition Guide

2005-03-28 Thread Jim Sibley
this month (March,2005): Linux 2.4 to 2.6 Transition Guide. Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself). __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new

Re: Migration from Linux LPAR to VM

2004-11-08 Thread Jim Sibley
changes. = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself). __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: IP Drops out and comes back after 5-15 minutes

2004-11-03 Thread Jim Sibley
Have you checked to see if your OSA card is getting any errors? I've seen this kind of thing happen with CRC errors on the card. = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself

VM direcotry entry for POSIXINFO

2004-11-01 Thread Jim Sibley
I noticed that the VM DIRMAINT entry for my Linux guest has a entry for POSIXINFO. I thought this was only for MVS. Does it serve a useful purpose for a Linux guest? = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one

running commands at boot (SuSE vs RedHat)

2004-11-01 Thread Jim Sibley
I've found that I can issue commands at boot in SuSE using /etc/init.d/boot.local. Does RedHAT EL3 have a similar mechanism? = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself

Re: Disk Performance

2004-10-11 Thread Jim Sibley
What kind of disk are you using (ramac III, rva, shark?). They have considerably different performance profiles. On a single channel, where you have to read, then write, this would be going at 1/2 device speed as there is no channel overlap. = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only

Re: mkinitrd and SLES9

2004-10-06 Thread Jim Sibley
Chris, the messages you get are normal for mkinitrd. After mkinitrd is run, you have to do a zipl to point to the new initrd module. For SuSE, /etc/zipl.conf contains the the dasd=,, values for the dasd. = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso

Re: Stateless Linux project

2004-09-14 Thread Jim Sibley
? = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself). __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Re: SLES9

2004-09-03 Thread Jim Sibley
Rick, I did all my installs under VM, then ipl'd them in an LPAR. The modprobe for cpint is looking for a module that talks to VM. I wonder if there is an assumption that the build is under VM because cpint is not used in LPAR mode. Have you contacted SuSE on this? = Jim Sibley Computers

SLES9 and SCSI

2004-08-05 Thread Jim Sibley
, the choice is small and having the SCSI driver active may or may not be a problem). = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself). __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new

Re: SLES9 and SCSI

2004-08-05 Thread Jim Sibley
Alan wrote: Are the FCP adapters defined in the IOCDS? If so, take them out. There are no SCSI adapters on the zSeries and no SCSI defined in the IOCDS. All dasd is ECKD. mkinitrd, though, insistes on adding the scsi modules when it makes initrd. = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They

IPv4 and IPv6 on same OSA-X card

2004-08-05 Thread Jim Sibley
its already IPv6 enabled. = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself). __ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com

Re: SLES9 and SCSI

2004-08-05 Thread Jim Sibley
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WG: Performance of large file systems

2004-07-20 Thread Jim Sibley
- consecutive addresses and zipl dasd is just a range! However, this will reduce the performance of th backend to a single LSS. To get the best performance on a striped volume, each LSS must be in a different LSS or you may lose any advantage there is to striping. = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They

WG: Performance of large file systems

2004-07-20 Thread Jim Sibley
, maximum. The only way to get the full bandwidth is to put volumes in the stipes in different LSS. I don't know the figures for later version sharks. I'll find out. = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one

MD-dev and barrier

2004-07-15 Thread Jim Sibley
I have some doc that refers to MD devices and boot option barrier. What devices do they mean and what does barrier do? = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself

Re: Is there is an editor

2004-06-29 Thread Jim Sibley
ex is the line editor mode of vi - basically the same commands - and sed is a batch editor you can use. They both come with the distros and even work on the HMC console in a pinch. = Jim Sibley Computers are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here

SuSE vs Red Hat

2004-05-27 Thread Jim Sibley
not really support Reiserfs, if that is your preference. It allows mounting Reiser, but it does not include the tools necessary to support the filesystem (mkfs, tune, and the like). = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso

Initial LPAR install zSeries

2004-05-26 Thread Jim Sibley
over. Otherwise, they worked satisfactorily. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself). __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try

Re: Article on Groklaw on SCO's subpoena of FSF

2004-05-19 Thread Jim Sibley
What else do they have to do in Linden, Utah, especially since they stopped polygamy = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one but myself

Re: ssh access denied

2004-05-13 Thread Jim Sibley
Through the grape vine, I received info that /etc/ssh/sshd_config that prohibits sending clear test passwords from the client in a new release. To make putty behave like it used to when working with the new release simply comment out the line: PasswordAuthentication no = Jim Sibley RHCT

ssh access denied

2004-05-12 Thread Jim Sibley
I can login in via ssh from a linux terminal using ssh, but when I try loggin in using ssh from putty, I get an access denied. Which paramenter in the ssh.config file would affect this? = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo

Re: cpint error messages

2004-05-10 Thread Jim Sibley
I don't see the cpint_load command in the 2.1.0 cpint, just hcp, monstat, and mongen. Will the 2.2 version work with 31 and 64 bit. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso (The NSHO's expressed here represents no-one

Re: DB2 UDB on SLES-8 s390x

2004-05-08 Thread Jim Sibley
of UDB (though DB2 Connect is supported. (Or is it not see the omission ;-). Most other platforms are supported and DB2 Connect is supported at 64bit on zSeries Linux. I thought it was coming out with FP5, myself, but it didn't. I'd check with IBM to see if its scheduled for FP7 = Jim

cpint error messages

2004-05-07 Thread Jim Sibley
I have cpint-2.1.0-1.1.s390x.rpm on a 2.6.5 s390x kernel. When I enter hcp q v dasd I am getting the error message Open: No such device or address 'Sup? = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso

Re: Newbie question about minumum installation

2004-05-05 Thread Jim Sibley
Rod wrote: If you ask 10 people how you should partition things then you'll get 11 answers. A lot of it depends on what you want to do. Certain vendors always reply, It depends, ;-) = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo

Re: Central processor is looping when 64 bit linux is IPLed

2004-05-04 Thread Jim Sibley
, mount /dev/dasda1 /mnt/newroot mount /dev/dasdb1 /mnt/newroot/usr mount proc proc /mnt/newroot/proc chroot /mnt/newroot edit /etc/zipl.conf such that the /mnt is removed run mkinitrd zipl exit (to get out of chroot) sync halt Then boot with your new system. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor

Fw: Central processor is looping when 64 bit linux is IPL

2004-05-01 Thread Jim Sibley
report the problem to SuSE ASAP. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com

Re: Adding Spaces to a filesystem

2004-04-28 Thread Jim Sibley
not imply a warranty on any vendors part that this technique will always work, just a fervent hope that they will get the message if they haven't already). = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso

Re: IBM Virtualization Engine

2004-04-28 Thread Jim Sibley
to develop to a single set of specs and then each OS implement them. I would suspect that other software vendors would like the same capabilities. It would free them from limiting their market to a single platform (does windoze come to mind?) = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries

term zLinux copyrighted by whom?

2004-04-27 Thread Jim Sibley
The official Big Blue legal position on the term zLinux is that it is copyrighted by another company and one should use the terms Linux for zSeries or Linux for s/390. Anyone know who the other company is? = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only

Re: _re:_udev

2004-04-26 Thread Jim Sibley
in the labels causes problems, but here they fix more problems that they cause). = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25

Re: Virtual Storage Tuning Whitepaper for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

2004-04-23 Thread Jim Sibley
Mark, do they have the same kind of thing for 2.6 kenel? I now bdflush and its parameters have been reworked. And some of the other parameters have changed or disappeared as well. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo

udev on 2.6.5

2004-04-22 Thread Jim Sibley
, udev? = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25 http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash

Re: udev on 2.6.5

2004-04-22 Thread Jim Sibley
. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25 http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash

OT: SCO a new wrinkle

2004-04-19 Thread Jim Sibley
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Re: FTEs per Server

2004-04-14 Thread Jim Sibley
it doesn't take much in my case :-) = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

Re: FTEs per Server

2004-04-13 Thread Jim Sibley
Darned users. If we could set traps for them and eliminate them as a source of disruption, things would be a lot easier. :-) I say give them fake keyboards and mice. There is one school of thought that holds that users are just overhead, anyway ;-) = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux

ssh and telnet not working after rhel3 u1 install.

2004-04-05 Thread Jim Sibley
and ssh gets a port 22: No route to host. What would be stopping both telnet and ssh logins? = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design

Re: new disk for linux (CORRECTION)

2004-04-02 Thread Jim Sibley
update /etc/modules.conf, run mkinitrd, then zipl.conf (to capture the new disk location of initrd...img). This has the curious affect that if you use the cio_ignore list, you have to update both /etc/modules.conf to change volumes needed and /etc/zipl.conf to change volumes to ignore. = Jim Sibley

Re: Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-04-02 Thread Jim Sibley
Could it be a syntax problem you have: lcs-1,0x3ad0,0x3ad1,0,3 qeth-1,0x0e04,0xe05,0x0e06,0,0 lcs1 and qeth1 without the dash. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo

Sun enters the Linux fray against microsoft via Walmart

2004-04-02 Thread Jim Sibley
Sorta off topic (different platform) http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5182158.html = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway

Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize on eckd - revisited

2004-03-31 Thread Jim Sibley
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Re: SuSE SP3 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01 ( was Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize on e

2004-03-31 Thread Jim Sibley
Before the zipl, did you do a mkinitrd? The dasd drivers are in the initrd module and not in the kernel. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax

Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize on eckd - revisited

2004-03-31 Thread Jim Sibley
with care as they do affect system performance. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com

Myth of the 1K blocksize on eckd - revisited

2004-03-30 Thread Jim Sibley
blocksizes. So, that is my cut at what it depends means. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http

DB2 UDB 64bit now available

2004-03-29 Thread Jim Sibley
In an earlier thread, someone was asking for DB2 UDB for 64 bit. It is now available. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/zos/db2zosv8.html = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso

Re: DB2 UDB 64bit now available

2004-03-29 Thread Jim Sibley
Rick wrote: Pardon me for being thick, but how does this affect Linux for zSeries. On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 11:04, Jim Sibley wrote: In an earlier thread, someone was asking for DB2 UDB for 64 bit. It is now available. zSeries, if I'm not mistaken, is a 64bit machine. Prior to this announcement

Re: DB2 UDB 64bit now available

2004-03-29 Thread Jim Sibley
. It only mentions db2 connect for 64bit, not UDB. I seem to have made another wrong assumption. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english-us/db2linux390v8/fixpak/FP5_MI00073/Release.Notes/release.txt = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can

Re: DB2 UDB 64bit now available

2004-03-29 Thread Jim Sibley
Rick, it looks like zSeries 64bit UDB may be in the next fixpack. But DB2 Connect is definitely 64bit. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax

Re: 3390-3 Dasd Capacity on SLES8 ext3

2004-03-24 Thread Jim Sibley
The maximum capacity of a 3390-3 formatted for 4k blocks is 2.3 GB (4096 x 12/track x 15 tracks/cyl x 3339 cylinders). Formatted for 1k blocks, the maximum capacity is 1.4 GB. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso

Myth of the 1K blocksize on eckd (corrected)

2004-03-22 Thread Jim Sibley
and and a goodly number are over 4k. I don't see how 1k blocks are reasonable on 3390 ecked devices under any circumstances. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo

Re: Myth of the 1K blocksize on eckd (corrected)

2004-03-22 Thread Jim Sibley
there are more blocks on the 4k side. Why can't I get more inodes on the 4k size? = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time

myth of the 1K blocksize on eckd

2004-03-19 Thread Jim Sibley
comparison: 1k cdl 4k cdl 1626740 = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com

Myth of the 1K blocksize on eckd (corrected)

2004-03-19 Thread Jim Sibley
. For blocks gt that about 4096, there is more data on the track than overhead. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam

Re: Format disk and mount FS : lost space

2004-03-17 Thread Jim Sibley
devices, the transfer overhead of moving 1k blocks is greater than the moving 4k blocks. I would suggest that, as long as you have eckd devices, 4k is better than 1k formatted devices. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo

Re: DB2 Connect for 64 bit Linux

2004-03-16 Thread Jim Sibley
I suspect you'll see something about db2 connect and 64bit at the end of March. http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/03/03/HNmainframedb2_1.html = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso

Re: DB2 Connect for 64 bit Linux - an even better reference

2004-03-16 Thread Jim Sibley
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/linux/validate/rhel3.html = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http

Re: Certifying prodcuts on linux over multiple platorms

2004-03-15 Thread Jim Sibley
of the development during the Linux Beta Cycle, where NFS is reasonably stable, but AFS has not quite up to speed. For products later in the development cycle, AFS is certainly a good alternative. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers

Re: Can't locate module char-major-10-224

2004-03-12 Thread Jim Sibley
no ill effects - YMMV. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com

VSWITCH and LINUX

2004-03-12 Thread Jim Sibley
Sorry should it be Flock, Herd, or School for penguins. The correct term seems to be rookery of penguins. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find

Lindows (oops, sorry) LindowsOS

2004-03-12 Thread Jim Sibley
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=581e=1u=/nm/20040312/tc_nm/tech_lindows_dc = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you re

OT: Penguin terminology, was RE: VSWITCH and LINUX

2004-03-12 Thread Jim Sibley
grandchildren ;-) Would colony and ROOKery be acceptable terms to a multinational company, considering the other connotations of the words? Maybe we should have a meeting? ;-) The company, though, seems to prefer dinosaur names for the big iron (raptor, trexx). = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor

Certifying prodcuts on linux over multiple platorms

2004-03-12 Thread Jim Sibley
challenge, I prefer the old mathematical connotation of problem). ;-) = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you re looking for faster http

Re: telnet limiting logins to 1 or 2

2004-03-09 Thread Jim Sibley
Mark, the /var/log/xinetd.log shows FAIL: telnet service_limit from (ip) = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you re looking for faster

Re: telnet limiting logins to 1 or 2

2004-03-09 Thread Jim Sibley
! = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com

telnet limiting logins to 1 or 2

2004-03-08 Thread Jim Sibley
they should use ssh, but there are some technical reasons why they cannot). = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you re looking for faster http

Re: automatically starting xinetd in SuSE SLES8

2004-03-05 Thread Jim Sibley
Holger wrote: use yast (network service configuration) or create the appropriate symlinks in /etc/rcrunlevel.d manually Yast insists on starting inetd, not xinetd. The chkconfig puts the right entries in init.d to start xinetd. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer

automatically starting xinetd in SuSE SLES8

2004-03-04 Thread Jim Sibley
Sorry for the brain fog. How does one start xinetd automicatilly in SuSE SLES8 AFTER the intial install? = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find

Re: automatically starting xinetd in SuSE SLES8

2004-03-04 Thread Jim Sibley
Duh! Thanks! And its not even Friday! = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com

Re: z/VM access to EMC (was: Accessing DASD on a Shark from Linux under z/VM)

2004-02-26 Thread Jim Sibley
be notified. Path selection, etc,etc, has been moved to these SAPS. The mainframes make dandy servers when you need access to a lot of data quickly. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso

Re: RHEL3 for s390x gcc 2.95 compatibility libraries

2004-02-24 Thread Jim Sibley
It looks like the following is the one your're looking for. Try rpm -q -p -i compat-libstdc++-7.2-2.95.3.77.s390x.rpm = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo

Re: dasdfmt with a 1K block size - VSAM tangent

2004-02-19 Thread Jim Sibley
/ZFS for Unix Systems Services on MVS. Its interesting to those that compare Linux on zSeries vs USS. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard

Re: dasdfmt with a 1K block size - still not recommded?

2004-02-18 Thread Jim Sibley
Beware of the small blocks on ECKD images. In a 3390 image, there are 12 4K blocks/track or 49152 bytes. There are 33 1K blocks/track or 33792 bytes! You could lose up to 1/3 of your capacity using smaller block sizes! = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer

Re: dasdfmt with a 1K block size - still not recommde d?

2004-02-18 Thread Jim Sibley
2x4, even if the material is steel! A hollow steel 2x4 is stronger than a solid wood 2x4, but the measurement is still a 2x4! = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo

Re: dasdfmt with a 1K block size - still not recommde d?

2004-02-18 Thread Jim Sibley
usage of disk on SCSI for zSeries, formatted block sizes, and the like... = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http

Re: dasdfmt with a 1K block size - VSAM tangent

2004-02-18 Thread Jim Sibley
is the data in the field has to catch up. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

Re: How much $$

2004-02-12 Thread Jim Sibley
allows cpu and I/O overlap). The more concurrent activity, the better off you are with SMP, even with the loss due to spin locking. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo

products on SuSE SLES8

2004-02-12 Thread Jim Sibley
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Re: Disk Problem during install of RHEL30 under z/vm 4.4

2004-02-06 Thread Jim Sibley
to update /etc/zipl.conf to change the name. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com

Re: Adding Swap Space on the Fly

2004-02-06 Thread Jim Sibley
to make much practical sense. It would tend to force all your paging to a single device. To get better performance, I've found that with equal priorities, the I/O gets balanced across the multiple swaps. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give

Re: Adding Swap Space on the Fly

2004-02-06 Thread Jim Sibley
load. But then again, if wishes were fishes ... ;-) ). = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com

Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Jim Sibley
But how do I make the change permanent in RH EL 3.0 AS? The mkinitrd makes the /etc/modules.conf change permanent in the /boot/initrd... module. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso

Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Jim Sibley
finding that with a lot of systems labeled /, the Redhat default, then reparing the volumes from another system or cloning them is a bit of a nuisance. Labels work fine in fstab and zipl.conf, but, if you have a lot volumes, its easier if the labels are unique (volser?) = Jim Sibley RHCT

Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Jim Sibley
changes because the initrd name changes. (I'll verify this). To use the same initrd name, use this form of the mkinitrd: mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-($uname -r).img $(uname -r) = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso

Re: zipl.conf for RH 3.0

2004-02-06 Thread Jim Sibley
the mkinitrd and zipl are required to change the dasd addresses. The dasd= is not placed in the boot record by zipl or mkinitrd. Is it that the boot record has to be updated by zipl to get to the new initrd module? = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only

Adding Swap Space on the Fly

2004-02-05 Thread Jim Sibley
All the swap space needs to be the same priority. Otherwise, Linux only uses the first swap space. Feature or bug? = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo

Linux stress reducer

2004-01-30 Thread Jim Sibley
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Re: putty for linux

2004-01-29 Thread Jim Sibley
to get to other *IX platforms beside Linux (some of these other platforms are not up to speed with ssh). Unfortunately, whenever I put in a release of Linux, I do have to open the telnet and ftp ports so that the users have a single interface to all *IX platforms. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor

Re: OT: Virus alerts from Homeland Security

2004-01-28 Thread Jim Sibley
Based on the number of every changing worms, viruses, and other crud, it sounds as if the Alert sytem could generate enough traffic to make it indistinguishable from other spam! ;-) = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo

Re: Windows? Blue Screen?

2004-01-27 Thread Jim Sibley
x37 abends. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

FW: Z Gigabit Ethernet performance

2004-01-09 Thread Jim Sibley
What is your MTU size? Using the default of 1492/1500 spends a lot of cpu time deblocking/blocking your data, as described. = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso __ Do you Yahoo

Re: Existing partitions to LVM

2004-01-09 Thread Jim Sibley
Another possibility is to put /usr/share on a 3rd volume, depending on how your /usr is set up. But do you really expect /usr to expand much beyond the 63% full? = Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries Computer are useless.They can only give answers. Pablo Picasso

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