PROP-like action routines for linux syslog ?

2009-12-28 Thread Kern, Thomas
Given a series of linux servers sending their filtered syslog messages to a central server, is there some facility in linux syslog (or an add-on) that can parse the incoming messages and based on message content trigger some linux action routine? Action routines might send email to some support

Wiki Request: Disaster Recovery

2009-09-28 Thread Kern, Thomas
I like how the wiki is beginning to take shape. But I do have a request. Can the content of the Disaster Recovery subpage be moved down in a hierarchy so that alternatives to FDR/Upstream can be documented at the same level of hierarchy? We use DFSMS's ADRDSSU utility under z/OS for our full

Oracle Enterprise Manager

2009-06-17 Thread Kern, Thomas
Our DBA has just installed the Oracle Enterprise Manager 10.2.0.5 on a test server (SLES9 SP3) on our z/VM 5.3 machine (z890 IFL). This morning I noticed that from midnight to 11:00 that test server used about 6 times the CPU seconds as an idle production server. PerfTK shows that SVM using about

Recompiling MySQL

2009-01-29 Thread Kern, Thomas
This may not be the best place to ask this but I think you will understand why I am doing things this way. One of my clients wants to use the 'built-in' SSL support in MySQL. The latest MySQL supplied by Novell was not compiled with SSL support (why they don't have SSL support compiled into

Re: Recompiling MySQL

2009-01-29 Thread Kern, Thomas
mp...@novell.com Subject: Re: Recompiling MySQL On 1/29/2009 at 10:19 AM, Kern, Thomas thomas.k...@hq.doe.gov = wrote:=20 This may not be the best place to ask this but I think you will understand why I am doing things this way.=20 Exact system level (uname -a) and version of the SRPM

Re: Recompiling MySQL

2009-01-29 Thread Kern, Thomas
...@sinenomine.net Subject: Re: Recompiling MySQL On 1/29/09 10:19 AM, Kern, Thomas thomas.k...@hq.doe.gov wrote: make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/mysql-5.0.26/sql' d --debug --verbose sql_yacc.yy make[2]: d: Command not found Looks like some Solaris dtrace stuff has slipped

Re: Swapgen - setting up/installing

2004-10-06 Thread Kern, Thomas
A suggestion to help with future occurances of this single point of knowledge problem. Get to know the other VMers/Linuxers in your area of Minnesota (or the midwest) and arrange to use each other as temporary consultants for problems, illnesses, sudden job changes, disaster recovery. Being on a

FW: Securing VM using LDAP?

2004-09-20 Thread Kern, Thomas
If we could get a skeleton ESM server, it would be a great project to interface VM with an arbitrary LDAP server, not just the specific RACF server. Our management is going toward ACTIVE DIRECTORY as the centralized although incomplete directory for email directory services. I am currently trying

Re: virtual machine vs lpar

2004-08-31 Thread Kern, Thomas
Try this for z/VM security. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/library/techpapers/gm130145.htm l /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Smith Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:12 To: [EMAIL

Re: VDSK Swap - allocation size?

2004-08-12 Thread Kern, Thomas
I give 256MB VDISK swap to each of our customer servers (Webservers(32MB), Samba/FTP/Web(64MB)) and 128MB to infrastructure servers like a firewall. This is definitely over-allocation but I can afford VDISK. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: VDSK Swap - allocation size?

2004-08-12 Thread Kern, Thomas
And CP already has a good mechanism for caching file I/O especially if you can get to sharing Read-Only filesystems (Minidisks) between lots of servers. Let CP cache that file I/O and let each Linux swap his own programs. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390

Re: V-DISK Swap - allocation size - Our VM guy has this to ask:

2004-08-12 Thread Kern, Thomas
I have shared a CMS formated VDISK readonly between several CMS servers. I would not share it read/write with ANYONE, except maybe VSE servers. MVS doesn't understand the FBA architechure but has the read/write locking culture like VSE. CMS and Linux do not understand sharing write-able

Re: V-DISK Swap - allocation size - Our VM guy has this to ask:

2004-08-12 Thread Kern, Thomas
Yes, to be shared a VDISK must be defined in the user directory. Then it can be linked like any other minidisk definition. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 16:32

Re: SSLSERV Enabler Available for Free Download

2004-08-04 Thread Kern, Thomas
This SSLSERV enabler system works great. I have it protecting my test stack's TN3270 port. Hopefully the schedules will allow me to make this production by Labor Day. Now to try some of the other ports. Has anyone protected FTP with SSLSERV? /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original

Re: SSH for z/VM

2004-08-02 Thread Kern, Thomas
With all parts of the transaction protected by the SSL encryption, especially the userid/password that will get validated against the CP directory? Yeah, I could get that passed the security folks for inbound file transfer. But as we migrate more and more toward VM being just a hypervisor, we

Re: For the security weenies

2004-08-02 Thread Kern, Thomas
The same diamond saw we use on the disk platters works wonders on those lead encased transmitters too. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 16:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH for z/VM

2004-07-30 Thread Kern, Thomas
I would like to separate the different NEEDs so that someone might make progress on some part of this. Yes, our cybersecurity folks can only say SSH when they mean encrypted terminal traffic, but I can get around that. For INBOUND communications, SSL encrypted TN3270 would meet their requirements

Re: SSH for z/VM

2004-07-30 Thread Kern, Thomas
-30 at 12:42, Kern, Thomas wrote: Now for OUTBOUND, I need an SCP command I can use inside REXX EXECs as part of my system/application automation that will properly move files to an SSH daemom running on Linux/Aix/SUN/Windows(Cygwin). The data should be transferred as BINARY. Leave

Re: SSH for z/VM

2004-07-30 Thread Kern, Thomas
Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 14:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SSH for z/VM -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Thomas Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SSH for z/VM

OT: Watch Mr. Wizard (was RE: Sine Nomine WWW site revamped)

2004-07-27 Thread Kern, Thomas
Watch Mr. Wizard with Don Herbert premiered on March 3, 1951 on the Chicago affiliate of NBC. It was cancelled by NBC on September 5,1965. NBC later revived the series for September 1971 through September 1972. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Dirt Simple Monitor

2004-07-21 Thread Kern, Thomas
Once you have started with PIPELINES as your driving mechanism, why not stay with it. Try feeding multiple commands into a CP stage and the output from that into your CONSOLE stage instead of calling another EXEC. PIPELINES also has a stage for driving a 3270 screen that you might look at. I

Re: Backups - CDL Via Z/os or options under VM itself.

2004-07-14 Thread Kern, Thomas
The byte-for-byte backup function in zVM is called DDR (DASD Dump/Restore). It works very well and has the same restrictions about backing up ACTIVE data that DFDSS has. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James

Re: Linux under VM and Cloning

2004-07-08 Thread Kern, Thomas
I do not run a very complicated linux subsystem, but I do use a shared read-only /usr minidisk. This one disk is 2500 cylinders and is shared by 3 production machines. My simple savings is 5000 cylinders, but the basic calculation for savings would be (Nservers - 1) * 2500 = total cylinders saved

Re: Linux under VM and Cloning

2004-07-08 Thread Kern, Thomas
The production copy of the /usr minidisk is NEVER linked RW by anyone. I have a separate maintenance instance where I install and maintain the linux system. It has a /usr minidisk of the same size as the production /usr minidisk. Both minidisks are OWNED by a placeholder named LNXDASD at virtual

Re: Linux under VM and Cloning

2004-07-08 Thread Kern, Thomas
Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Thomas Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux under VM and Cloning The production copy of the /usr minidisk is NEVER linked RW by anyone. I have a separate maintenance

Re: Linux under VM and Cloning

2004-07-08 Thread Kern, Thomas
I don't get to buy DASD. I get to use whatever the MVS group doesn't want today. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 12:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux

Re: Linux under VM and Cloning

2004-07-08 Thread Kern, Thomas
I am not enough of a linux sysadmin to have everything automated. Somethings just must be done by hand. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levy, Alan Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 13:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PARM and such [was: Linux under VM and Cloning]

2004-07-08 Thread Kern, Thomas
It would be nice if an installation could use both LOADPARM and PARM. Use LOADPARM to select from previously prepared configurations (PROD, TEST, RESCUE, INIT-1, etc), and use PARM to override individual settings within that configuration. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message-

Re: Slack/390 - Slackware Linux for the mainframe

2004-07-07 Thread Kern, Thomas
Before I get started with this I want to ask for a clarification. Is the free UTS Global Claw driver included in the distribution and is it usable for initial network connectivity? /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Is there is an editor

2004-06-29 Thread Kern, Thomas
I have had to use ed several times to fix some files before I could get the network working. It isn't as bad as people make it out to be, especially if you can remember what it was like to use the original CMS EDIT on a tty connection. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message-

Re: OpenSSH on the z/OS platform

2004-05-25 Thread Kern, Thomas
I got TWO versions of the announcements summary this morning. The first one had this in it. The second (30 minutes later) did NOT list this announcement. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Post, Mark K Sent:

Re: VM linux console and @ symbol

2004-04-15 Thread Kern, Thomas
#cp terminal chardel off Or Echo 12@34(using the terminal escape character which is usually the double-quote /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Daniel Jarboe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 13:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VM

Bastille ?

2004-04-15 Thread Kern, Thomas
Our linux/86 people have added Bastille to their security plan and I need to look at it for Linux/390. Has anyone installed the latest Bastille on their Linux/390? Does anyone have a source RPM for it? /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211

Re: Bastille ?

2004-04-15 Thread Kern, Thomas
its functions properly... On the other hand, they are running it in strict mode at least. YMMV, though. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kern, Thomas Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LINUX-390

Re: Linux Administration tools

2004-04-06 Thread Kern, Thomas
The problem with monitoring only in one place (for Linux under VM) is that you are missing half the picture. Find good bosses who will spring for the cost of properly monitoring all sides of your system. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Gene Walters [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-04-05 Thread Kern, Thomas
The real source of my problem was an incorrect port number on the lcs device specification. chandev=noauto allows it to work even with an incorrect port number, but then screws up the qeth initialization erroneously giving the IDX TERMINATE code 0x22 message. Removing the chandev= allows the

Re: Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-04-02 Thread Kern, Thomas
Can someone in IBM or someone with the source code for QETH, please tell me what IDX TERMINATE and cause code 0x22 mean? This is a RHEL system build during the Taroon beta. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 ifconfig eth1 10.0.1.1 qdio: loading QDIO base support version 2 ($Revision: 1.145 $/$Revision:

Re: Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-04-02 Thread Kern, Thomas
Swapping the order of qeth-1 and add_parms doesn't change it. cat /etc/chandev.conf chandev=noauto lcs-1,0x3ad0,0x3ad1,0,3 qeth-1,0x0e04,0xe05,0x0e06,0,0 add_parms,0x10,0x0e04,0x0e06,portname:VMLAN01 Q NIC DETAILS Adapter 0E04 Type: QDIO Name: UNASSIGNED Devices: 3 Port 0 MAC:

Re: Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-04-02 Thread Kern, Thomas
This virtual machine is LNXRHFW. It is authorized to connect its virtual NIC E04 to guest lan VMLAN01. During these tests it is the ONLY server connecting to VMLAN01. The virtual NIC is currently defined and coupled in the PROFILE EXEC, eventually to be done in the user directory. The eventual use

Re: Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-04-02 Thread Kern, Thomas
I modified the /etc/chandev.conf to be explicit about lcs0 and qeth1 to match the /etc/modules.conf aliases that are set up for eth0 - lcs and eth1 - qeth. After reipling, I get the same IDX TERMINATE cause code 0x22 error. This is a RHEL 3 system, but through trial and error, I know that the

Re: Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-04-02 Thread Kern, Thomas
On an MP3000-H50, which chpid is used by the virtual QDIO nic that I define for a virtual machine? I have 3 persistant LANs defined, VMLAN00, VMLAN01, VMLAN02. VMLAN00 is meant as a backbone connection between VM, OS/390, and 2 separate linux firewall servers. Each firewall server will then

Re: Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-04-01 Thread Kern, Thomas
The Q NIC shows E04/E05/E06 and the original CHANDEV.CONF reads E03/E04/E05 because I changed from 3/4/5 to 4/5/6 to see if that would fix it and then I did the Q NIC to respond to Mark. Last night I took out the chandev= string and rebooted. The LCS driver failed to come up but the QETH driver

Re: Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-04-01 Thread Kern, Thomas
I removed JUST the chandev= string preserving the rest of the line. The LCS code attempted to initialize but failed saying it could not find any LCS capable cards. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004

Re: Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-04-01 Thread Kern, Thomas
to a semicolon(;). Michael A. Geiger Sr. Operating Systems Programmer CommerceQuest, Inc. 5481 W. Waters Ave. Tampa, FL 33634 Tel. 813.639.6516 -Original Message- From: Kern, Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 11:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Adding

Re: Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-04-01 Thread Kern, Thomas
All drivers fail on that one, Mark. This level of Liunx/LCS really wants the 'chandev='. This is the latest that allows at least the LCS driver to come up: chandev=noauto lcs0,0x39eo,0x39e1,0,0,1,1 add_parms,0x10,0xe00,0xe02,portname:VMLAN00 qeth1,0xe00,0xe01,0xe02,0,0

Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-03-31 Thread Kern, Thomas
I am trying to add a QDIO guest lan to replace the IUCV connection between a firewall server and a web server. The firewall server has a 3172 connection to the real network. I tried to mimic the configuration from another server I have that has a claw device to the network and a guest lan to our

Re: Adding QDIO guest lan to server

2004-03-31 Thread Kern, Thomas
, the cause code 0x22 -- try another portname messages you got are a result of the portname specification not matching what other systems are using. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Thomas Sent: Wednesday, March 31

Re: NJE functionality using a linux server?

2004-03-24 Thread Kern, Thomas
Linux was NOT meant as the source or target of any of the data I wish to transfer via NJE. I was looking to use a linux server virtual machine as a replacement for RSCS/NJE functions. Do you have an SSH client and daemon running in your z/OS and CMS servers? /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211

Re: NJE functionality using a linux server?

2004-03-24 Thread Kern, Thomas
We have gotten an SSH client to run under USS. In batch jobs, you need to use key files rather than passwords because it really is meant to be used by unix system administrators typing away at their terminals. We have not gotten SSH to work as a daemon under MVS. Again, linux was not meant to be

Re: NJE functionality using a linux server?

2004-03-24 Thread Kern, Thomas
I picked up a nice button at SCIDS a few years ago. If all the people who are tired of hearing (Vendor/Manager of your choice) say Soon were laid end-to-end... They'd be more comfortable. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Alan Altmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: NJE functionality using a linux server?

2004-03-24 Thread Kern, Thomas
According to a presentation I just looked written by an IBMer but presented by a third-party called RSCS Communicates with everything (except possibly your teenagers), the UFT outbound process is part of the base RSCS functionality and the UFTD inbound process is part of the licensed part of RSCS

Re: Scheduling on z/VM

2004-03-23 Thread Kern, Thomas
SCHEDULE is a nice tool for functions I want to run in my own virtual machine. For disjointed, unassociated functions that cover the entire zVM system, I prefer to use the VMUTIL server built from Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] RXSERVER kernel that is available from the IBM Downloads webpage.

NJE functionality using a linux server?

2004-03-23 Thread Kern, Thomas
Since the NJE functionality of RSCS cannot be licensed for an IFL installation, has anyone used a linux server to replace this functionality? CTC/ESCON connectivity would still be available as would TCP/IP since our MVS server does do TCPNJE to other systems. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211

Re: NJE functionality using a linux server?

2004-03-23 Thread Kern, Thomas
Okay, This is what I get for not have at least 3 mugs of coffee before listening to my MVS officemate. Our MVS system has something called Anynet SNA over IP that we use to communicate with other MVS sites. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: new distribution(Tao Linux) for s390

2004-03-15 Thread Kern, Thomas
I don't think you should list any distribution until you can also list a user report on a successful installation (a test install will suffice). Then you should list a link to the distribution AND the user report. There should be some indication of a support level, vendor, third-party, paddle

Re: SSH for CMS,z/OS, UNIX System Services

2004-03-01 Thread Kern, Thomas
Our MVS guy got OPENSSH from this site and got it working under OS/390 2.10 USS. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1ty1.html /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Rosti, Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 09:32 To: [EMAIL

Re: Use of DIrmaint

2004-02-23 Thread Kern, Thomas
I have always used DIRMAINT even when we paid for VM/Secure as part of the VM/Center package. We have never been such an active, volatile, complicated site that VM/Secure does better than DIRMAINT. DIRMAINT is cheap enough for my bosses to not want to get rid of yet. It does what little I need it

Re: overwrite user direct c from a linux guest

2004-02-23 Thread Kern, Thomas
Does the DIRMAINT server respond to SMSG commands? If it does then with proper authorization an hcp SMSG DIRMAINT DIRECTXA ... could work without bothering with the SCIFed console. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Bruce Hayden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Use of 3490 tape

2004-02-05 Thread Kern, Thomas
If Amanda gets ported to the Windows platform, then a shop that doesn't want or need all of the fancy/expensive features of Tivoli Storage Manager could have a much cheaper alternative. Federal budget crunching is around the corner, and Tivoli could be a nice target for cutting. /Thomas Kern

Re: Use of 3490 tape

2004-02-05 Thread Kern, Thomas
/301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 16:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Use of 3490 tape On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 04:08:10PM -0500, Kern, Thomas wrote: If Amanda gets ported to the Windows platform

Re: Use of 3490 tape

2004-02-05 Thread Kern, Thomas
I have been reading through this for a few minutes now. http://www.backupcentral.com/amanda.html /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: James Melin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 16:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Use of 3490 tape

Re: Linux userid?

2004-01-30 Thread Kern, Thomas
You should be able to it with HCP except by parsing the response from an INDICATE USER command. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# hcp indicate user USERID=LINUX1 MACH=ESA STOR=64M VIRT=F XSTORE=NONE IPLSYS=DEV 0591 DEVNUM=00035 PAGES: RES=00 WS=00 LOCK=00 RESVD=00 NPREF=00

Re: linux seeing windows files

2004-01-20 Thread Kern, Thomas
Does /etc/fstab have to be world-readable? Will a linux system boot up if /etc/fstab is set to 0500 and owned by root? /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Richard Troth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Question on Backups

2004-01-06 Thread Kern, Thomas
We use the Tivoli Storage Manager server running on OS/390 as the backup target for our Windows servers/workstations and my Linux/390 systems. I haven't had to use the TSM client under Linux very often but I have restored a single file, a sub-directory, a filesystem without problems. My advice is

Re: quick vm question

2003-12-16 Thread Kern, Thomas
Yes, Get a tool like DUSERX, DIRENT, VMXUND (if you have VM:Secure), then get a read-only link to the 2nd level sysres volume, then run the tool either for the specific userid or for the entire 2nd level directory. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Little, Chris

Re: quick vm question

2003-12-16 Thread Kern, Thomas
- From: Kern, Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: quick vm question Yes, Get a tool like DUSERX, DIRENT, VMXUND (if you have VM:Secure), then get a read-only link to the 2nd level sysres volume, then run

Re: database I/O intercept package

2003-11-25 Thread Kern, Thomas
If VPARS is intercepting the VM I/Os on a minidisk basis, you could try doing the same thing to minidisks defined for linux virtual machines to use as database filesystems. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Ken Vance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November

Re: maintenance strategy

2003-09-30 Thread Kern, Thomas
One important assumption is that NONE of your servers share any DASD through VM's read-only minidisk mechanism. This would work well for a penguin colony that has lots of DASD, but can it work for colonies that are short on DASD and already sold management on the idea of read-only DASD sharing?

Re: Far 3390-mod 9's

2003-09-16 Thread Kern, Thomas
I know that the mysql.sock will be created when MySQL starts up on the new system. I have this every time I clone a system and MySQL always starts up fine. I suspect that the nscd.socket is the same sort of an ipl to ipl entity. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: James

Re: Web Server Chargeback/Cost Recovery Methods

2003-09-11 Thread Kern, Thomas
I have not looked too hard for a chargeback mechanism. We use Apache's virtual host mechanism to provide multiple websites in one linux instance. None of them are really large enough to collect money from. If we did have to charge one particular customer, our plan is to give them their own linux

Re: Possible enhancement idea for dasdfmt

2003-09-05 Thread Kern, Thomas
Actually, it would be nice to have an OS/390 program that could READ a Linux filesystem. There is a fair amount of data collection I could do using our Apache/PHP webservers. Then instead of another FTP type process to move the data to OS/390 for inclusion in larger databases, the database update

Re: Possible enhancement idea for dasdfmt

2003-09-05 Thread Kern, Thomas
Is there anything in the filesystem control blocks to indicate that a file is open for write/update? A routine to read a linux filesystem from VM or OS could have a special return code for 'Yes, I can find it, but someone else is writing it'. Then it would be up to the user to decide to stop or

Re: CDL backup and copying the IPL record

2003-09-04 Thread Kern, Thomas
We did our Disaster Recovery test last week and recovered 3 production linux instances and a test instance in addition to the standard zVM and OS/390 instances. We do all of the full-volume DASD backups under OS/390 using DFDSS. The DR vendor's floor system is used to restore all the DASD and then

Re: CDL backup and copying the IPL record

2003-09-04 Thread Kern, Thomas
I am a VM sysprog, I don't need to remember all of OS extend acronyms. :) Two of our production Linux instances are VERY UN-busy at the time of our backups, and the third is brought down for the duration of the backup job. It is submitted from VM and returned to VM for post-processing. If the job

Attempting to use a VM Guest LAN

2003-08-25 Thread Kern, Thomas
I am attempting to use a guest LAN within our zVM 4.3 system. The Linux I am using is the RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3 Beta. I am cross-posting this to the Linux-390 and the tarron-beta lists. I have tried to follow theexamples given in the redbooks and in emails posted on the Linux-390 list but

Re: STK tape in Linux

2003-08-14 Thread Kern, Thomas
We used to have STK's Nearline 4800 silos with their 3490 equivalent tape drives. The VM:Tape product did an excellent job of managing our VM tape library with VM:Backup to backup/restore CMS and non-CMS minidisks. STK does have a software component called HSC that is used to interface with the

Re: How to simplify uploads of text and files to web server?

2003-08-14 Thread Kern, Thomas
To make thing easier for our web content managers, and satisfy the security folks, we use a program called WinSCP2. This uses the SCP function of OpenSSH. Each uploader needs a valid userid and password/private_key and appropriate authorization to the directories. I, as the sysadmin/root can

Re: ssh connect no password

2003-08-04 Thread Kern, Thomas
That sounds like openssh-3.4p1-77 is defaulting to Protocol 2 only. My security people made me make that switch. Now I secify DSA when I do a keygen and put the public keys in authorized_keys2. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Wolfe, Gordon W [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: ssh connect no password

2003-08-04 Thread Kern, Thomas
ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. - Admiral Hyman Rickover Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 VM Enterprise Servers, The Boeing Company -- From: Kern, Thomas Reply To: Linux on 390 Port Sent: Monday, August 4, 2003 1:12 PM

Re: os390 Linux GnuPGP

2003-08-01 Thread Kern, Thomas
One of our MVS people recently installed a port of OpenSSH into the USS portion of our OS/390 v2.10 system. Using an ssh key pair that was generated under my Linux/390 system, we have been able to use SCP to pull data from Linux into USS and then use the MV command to move it into a real MVS

Re: An update to the little script I post the other day...

2003-08-01 Thread Kern, Thomas
And it was UPHILL in both directions and 3 feet of snow all year round. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Lucius, Leland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 13:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: An update to the little script I post the other

Re: CDL backup via DFSMSdss

2003-07-22 Thread Kern, Thomas
Are these minidisks defined as FULL volume (cyl 0-end) or do you start the linux minidisk at cylinder 1? I have my linux minidisks starting at cylinder 1 (being a longtime VM person, the label and allocation bitmap are stored on real cylinder zero). So when I have our OS/390 system use DFDSS to

Re: WTHOT: cinnamon rolls

2003-03-19 Thread Kern, Thomas
Will you be supplying them for next week's Hillgang meeting? I will be there and need to know if I should eat before arriving or waiting for some of your cinnamon rolls? /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 18,

Re: WTHOT: cinnamon rolls

2003-03-19 Thread Kern, Thomas
I have an Outlook folder labeled 'GOOD Stuff', that is where this has been filed. /Thomas Kern /301-903-2211 -Original Message- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WTHOT: cinnamon rolls LOL. This

Re: Linux userid administration (use of Linux-PAM, with LDAP, wit h RACF)

2003-02-14 Thread Kern, Thomas
We had heard about a PAM interface to CA-ACF2. CA sent us a copy. The linux part is supposed to be open-source with the MVS interface to ACF2 being proprietary. We were not up to the level of ACF2 that was needed for this PAM interface. Since then, our management has indicated that Active

Re: IBM Moves Key Applications To Linux

2002-08-16 Thread Kern, Thomas
VMSHARE was originally hosted by Tymshare. It was moved to McGill later. /Thomas Kern /(301)903-2211 -Original Message- From: Jim Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 11:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM Moves Key Applications To Linux Neat

Re: Can Linux disks on VM be shared read-only?

2002-08-16 Thread Kern, Thomas
I tried to add the (ro) flag to the parmfile, but it interfered with a vdisk that I had later in the parameter. I have a 205 minidisk as the last in my list (dasd=591-597,205 for the maintenance server) and I tried dasd=591-592,593(ro),594-597,205 for my production servers. This did get an extra

Re: transition to VM

2002-08-14 Thread Kern, Thomas
Your current use of DASD is at the FULL volume level. This can be continued when running under VM. You do not NEED to define minidisks if you can afford to assign DASD to server virtual machines at the FULL volume level. If you do want to give some server a smaller allocation like the 500MB /

Re: Use of z/VM (and the story of our trial to date...)

2002-08-12 Thread Kern, Thomas
I have a lot of trouble without the ISO images because my test linuxes are not allowed ftp access to the unprotected internet. I have to use special systems to download all of the files, then move them to a server that can be reached from my test linuxes. This is not a process that is enjoyed by

IUCV between Linux systems

2002-07-16 Thread Kern, Thomas
I am trying to get two TurboLinux 7.0 (2.4.7 kernel) virtual machines to communicate with each other via IUCV. I have added the IUCV ALLOW to both directory entries. I have updated each servers' parameter file with iucv= using the name of the OTHER server and ZIPLed and rebooted. I have updated

Re: IUCV between Linux systems

2002-07-16 Thread Kern, Thomas
PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 15:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IUCV between Linux systems Tom, I believe you also need IUCV ANY in the directory. The /etc/modules.conf entry should read alias iucv0 netiucv options netiucv iucv= Mark Post -Original Message- From: Kern

Re: cpint install question

2002-07-12 Thread Kern, Thomas
Are the cpint and km_cpint packages only applicable to the SLES7 distribution or can they be used for a TurboLinux 7.0 system (2.4.7 kernel)? /Thomas Kern /(301)903-2211 -Original Message- From: Bishop, Peter G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 22:49 To: [EMAIL

Re: Monitoring console output messages from Linux virtual machine s

2002-06-12 Thread Kern, Thomas
The facility within VM/ESA and z/VM for directing console traffic to an alternate user is called SCIF. This alternate user can be specified on the CONSOLE statement for the linux server virtual machines to be monitored. It can also be set dynamically via the CP SET SECUSER command. There are

Re: Multiple System Automation Tools? (was RE: behaviour of tar )

2002-05-14 Thread Kern, Thomas
Yes, the 3745 doen't really do TCP/IP. And our Multiprise/3000 doesn't have serial ports except in the IBM section of the OS/2 psuedo-simulated processor manager. Our MVS system USED to have an asynchronous dial-out port on an even older 3725/3705. I am still interested in system automation

Multiple System Automation Tools? (was RE: behaviour of tar)

2002-05-13 Thread Kern, Thomas
Let me broaden this inquiry a bit. Given multiple servers of multiple varieties (ie Linux/390, Linux/x86, HPUX, zVM, OS/390 and z/OS), are there system automation tools in the Linux world that should be imported into the zVM, z/OS environment to allow the Linux automation to control aspects of

Re: Multiple System Automation Tools? (was RE: behaviour of tar )

2002-05-13 Thread Kern, Thomas
Sorry, but our 3745 doesn't handle that kind of communications and the network security folks have already outsourced the modem type of communications for everyone to our firewall provider because dialing into the firewall is the ONLY approved use of modem technology. Everyone really is already

Re: Is there a cpint for kernel 2.4.7?

2002-04-30 Thread Kern, Thomas
I had not rebuild this kernel yet, so I did the make menuconfig and exited as soon as possible. I tried to build cpint again and got the same error. No extra copy or link of rwsem.h was made by TurboLinux's make menuconfig. I manually copied the file to /usr/include/asm-s390 and tried again. This

Re: Is there a cpint for kernel 2.4.7?

2002-04-29 Thread Kern, Thomas
This is what I get when I try a 'make' under a TurboLinux 2.4.7 system. Script started on Mon Apr 29 13:36:48 2002 [root@xx cpint-1.1.2]# make cc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -Wall -O1 -I/usr/include -c -o main.o main.c In file included from /usr/include/asm/semaphore.h:17, from

Re: Is there a cpint for kernel 2.4.7?

2002-04-29 Thread Kern, Thomas
After updating the Makefile, I have this INCLUDEDIR statement: INCLUDEDIR = /lib/modules/2.4.7/build/include (I tried the /'uname -r'/ but got the same thing) and this is the result of a make; [root@xxx cpint-1.1.2]# make cc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -Wall -O -g -DCPINT_DEBUG

Re: Is there a cpint for kernel 2.4.7?

2002-04-29 Thread Kern, Thomas
I have it in two places and diff doesn't say they are different. [root@xxx cpint-1.1.2]# find / -name rwsem\.h /usr/include/linux-glibc/rwsem.h /usr/src/linux-2.4.7/include/linux/rwsem.h /Thomas Kern /(301)903-2211 -Original Message- From: Dennis G. Wicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

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