Which coincidentally is a show where the animators use RHEL systems to do their
work. Joel Cohen, of The Simpsons, was one of the keynote speakers a few years
ago at the Red Hat Summit.
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony
Considering that sudo stands for super user do (or substitute user
do), I agree it would definitely be the latter.
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Rich Smrcina
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:09 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Red Hat has a pretty good site for this purpose. It's RHEL specific of
course. Here's the link:
https://www.redhat.com/apps/isv_catalog/results.html?pgqty=10criteria=;
page_view=by_rhelplatform_code=240platform_code=150platform_code=140
platform_code=90platform_code=70sort=5pg=0
-Sam
This is probably the closest to what you're trying to do without getting
too fancy:
declare -a cooked_list=$(ls /clamscan/servers/)
for server in [EMAIL PROTECTED]; do
if [ $server == $target_system ]; then
parm_1=valid
break
else
parm_1=invalid
fi
done
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or, of course, you could go the direct route:
[[ -f /clamscan/servers/$target_system ]] parm_1=valid
Yea, that's probably what I'd do. Although I think his path actually
terminates with a directory since his comment said it was a list of
mountpoints. In which case he'd want:
[[ -d
I'm not sure we can criticize Red Hat for not responding on a community
mailing list to their customers support issues. There are actual Red Hat
lists and official support channels for that purpose. I'm guessing those
Red Hatters that do occasionally pipe in here are doing so not because
it's
Well if you couldn't derive it based on Rob's comment, it is:
Seksueel Overdraagbare Aandoening (Sexually Transmitted Disease)
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Steve Mitchell
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 9:00 AM
To:
That's because on Linux, /bin/sh is typically just a symlink to
/bin/bash. I would imagine if you were to use bash on your Solaris
machine the result would be what you were expecting. And vice versa, if
you were to actually use the real bourne shell on Linux, it would fail.
-Sam
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:11 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Philosophy: connecting to a Linux server
On Apr 3, 2007, at 5:43 PM, Kielek, Samuel wrote:
That's because on Linux, /bin/sh is typically just a symlink to
/bin/bash. I would imagine if you were to use bash on your Solaris
machine the result
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Adam Thornton
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:04 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Philosophy: connecting to a Linux server
On Apr 3, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Kielek, Samuel wrote:
I guess all I was trying to indirectly point out was that this
behaviour
There are a couple of perhaps saner options - an old PPC mac (new ones
are x86-64), or a current Sparc box (very nice but not cheap) and
some will run latest Linux stuff
Actually, the entry level SPARC boxes really don't cost all that much.
At least when compared to similar Itanium2 and POWER
Red Hat has had updated packages for the US now about a year now. You
can get more details at:
RHEL 3 - https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel3es-errata-updates.html
RHEL 4 - https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel4es-errata-updates.html
Search for tzdata under Enhancements..
-Sam
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David,
You should submit this to the opensolaris-discuss list so that it can
become an approved project and listed on the communities portal. I
believe that should help drive up interest and participation.
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/
-Sam
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From: Linux
I believe under GPL v3 this is not a problem, but last I checked Linus
and many in the kernel devel community had put the kibosh on that. Of
course Sun could dual license ZFS.. Or, someone with far too much free
time could port OpenSolaris to zSeries... ;)
-Sam
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From:
Ohh, do you know something I don't?? Do tell! :)
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Rich Smrcina
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:32 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: zLinux experience
Careful what you wish for...
Kielek
Google is sponsoring the ZFS port to Linux, details are here:
http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/
and here:
http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE
And GNU/OpenSolaris already has it and info on that distro is here:
http://www.gnusolaris.org
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390
OTOH I suspect Spanish is probably more useful in most of the world.
Perhaps, but Welsh is far more cool!
My wife and I spent a Christmas in Cardiff a few years back and fell in
love with the place. We're planning another holiday next year to see
more of the country. I actually bought a self
. Telling your
sales people this doesn't hurt either.
Mark Post
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Kielek, Samuel
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:28 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: SLES vs RHEL
-snip-
Well I think what
In general, companies that already have significant relationships with
RH appear to be the major population of RHEL users on Z due to
expanding
the existing enterprise support contracts being easier than dealing
with
a new vendor. SuSE has consistently been faster to the mark and shown
more
I have successfully upgraded from RHEL3 to RHEL4 under z/VM using the
upgrade option presented by the Red Hat installer. One thing to note is
that if you're using LVM, your PV's will still be LVM version 1 after
the upgrade.
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL
Yes, they do.
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/details/eval/
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Mel Payne
Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 8:59 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: The Virtualization Cookbook is published on the IBM
Real-root-dev has been deprecated, check the pivot_root man page for
more info on how to change the root file system. 'df -i' is going to
show inode utilization for each file system. These are totally different
things...
What exactly is it that you're trying to do?
-Sam
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Many times when it works like that for a little bit and then freezes up,
you're experiencing a thermal issue. There could be any number of
reasons for that and a couple of the common ones it seems you looked at
(fans, heastink).
And yes, the Athlon is not in the same class as the Opteron. :)
Here's my take on some of the points..
1 - A mainframe CPU is about as fast as a PIII
Ok, so what? Even if they are comparable, who is saying that they are
not? I've never heard IBM claim otherwise nor market the mainframe for
CPU intensive operations.
3 - Linux is Linux, running on PC Linux is
Certainly more than one, but not necessarily lots. The Google File
System (GFS), not to be confused with Global File System, was written by
Google and is a fully distributed filesystem. Each 64MB data block is
replicated to 3 other servers, with each server being connected to
physically separate
Well from what I understand about how Google works, virtualization is
not the thing to focus on. They use a distributed processing model where
a master server(s) sends jobs to any available node that has enough
available CPU cycles. Think MOSIX if you're familiar with that.. They
has have their
I'm not sure if the real numbers are public information. A quick search
did turn up this interesting blog entry however:
http://blog.topix.net/archives/16.html
Which seems to indicate that they have upwards of 100,000 servers.
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port
Does anyone know if there is a NetBackup client available that is
compiled 64bit? It seems that they only have versions compiled against
31bit shared libs.
I'm also going to open a ticket with Symantec, but if anyone knows off
the top of their head I'd appreciate the info.
Thanks,
Sam
Up2date is fully yum capable, so there is no need to install the yum
client on RHEL. Simply add your yum repository to the
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file.
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
John Summerfied
Sent: Thursday, April 13,
Well I don't think installing software from sources other than an RPM is
all that bad, as long as you're not installing over top of RPM owned
files. Install your own stuff into /opt or /usr/local and you'll be
fine.
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL
Alan, you beat me to the punch. I was just typing up essentially the
same thing.. :)
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Alan Cox
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 1:07 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Xen
On Iau, 2006-02-16
Slightly off-topic, but I wonder how long until someone decides to port
OpenSolaris to s390? I read that the port to PPC reached an operational
state in the last week.
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
David Boyes
Sent: Thursday,
Phil,
My personal experience has been that most vendors certification programs
are either far too easy where you can make intelligent guesses to pass
(multiple choice question types) or too broad in focus (jack of all
trades, master of none..). The one exception has been the RHCE. The RHCE
exam
of such things? :)
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Christoph Hellwig
Sent: Fri 1/6/2006 5:48 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: z/Linux to p/Linux
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:57:16AM -0500, Kielek, Samuel wrote:
Actually, it's running on top of a stripped-down
Rick, I have never actually tested this, but vmware ESX runs directly on
the hardware (no host OS required) and may be able to run an instance of
vmware as a guest. I'm struggling to come up with a reason why this
would be a useful thing to do however..
-Sam
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From:
Steve,
For a Red Hat system the preferred way it to set it in your
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 interface config file. Add the
following line:
ETHTOOL_OPTS=speed 100 duplex full autoneg off
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Adam Thornton
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:50 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: z/Linux to p/Linux
On Jan 5, 2006, at 8:07 AM, Kielek, Samuel wrote:
Rick, I have never actually tested this, but vmware ESX
Of
Carsten Otte
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:25 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: z/Linux to p/Linux
Kielek, Samuel wrote:
That is incorrect. ESX does not run on Red Hat or any other Linux
based
OS. I think you are referring to the service console which is based
off
of an older
Carsten,
Using the same thread you are referencing, please read the responses
from Paulo Meireles and I think you will see that he is very clearly
stating the opposite of what your are saying. The use of Linux is done
as a convenience, not a requirement. BTW, I don't believe these are
VMWare
Well, to be fair, this does not affect VMware ESX Server which is the real
competitor. And the vulnerability is in the NAT component of the affected
products, so if you're not NAT'ing then there are no immediate worries.
-Sam
-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of
I'm pretty sure that was Gandhi who came up with that statement...
Although, I would not be surprised if Mandela quoted Gandhi.
-Sam
-Original Message-
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Carsten Otte
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 3:37 AM
To:
I agree.. Bash is also available on most if not all modern Unix systems
I've worked with. If it is not installed by default, it is at least
available from the vendor as an optional package.
Also, unless you are using an advanced feature of bash, the scripts will
most likely run unchanged in
Tom,
I recommend that you place your environment settings in the oracle
user's .bash_profile. Presumably, the oracle user is using bash (which
is the default). Or you could use the bash profile to source a separate
file containing the settings if you like.
-Sam
-Original Message-
From:
Alan,
z/VM 5.2 changes the way CP views memory and the need for CP to keep
dragging pages below 2GB is eliminated.
So does that mean with 5.2 CP was re-written to be completely 64bit? If
so, that is awesome! If not, is there anything else we need to know and
what are the gotchas if any?
-Sam
Hmm.. I'm not sure the Intel analogy is a fair comparison. Intel could
care less about the specifics of what is being done at a software level
with Linux. At the end of the day they are just happy that it is running
on their chips. IBM on the other hand is in a very interesting position
when it
If you do a getent on an LDAP user, does anything come back?
Example:
# getent passwd some_user
# getent shadow some_user
If both of these return the proper values, then LDAP is configured
correctly and it is most likely your PAM configuration that has an
issue. If they do not return the proper
Actually, this leads to an interesting idea. How about a Xen VMM for the
zSeries. z/VM aside, I'm talking about an open source VM implementation
to run inside an LPAR. I wonder if IBM would assist in that project? ;)
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
I don't think that it is fair (nor easy) to compare distributed systems
to mainframes in an apples to apples style comparison. One was designed
to scale horizontally, the other vertically. Modern Unix and even
Intel/AMD based systems with fiber attached DASD can be rather
competitive in I/O
Is that a mainframe in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Hall, Ken (IDS DCS PE)
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:03 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Some comments on the new XBox
How
You know this reminds me, I recently had lunch with a friend who works
for a company in the Fortune top 20. He said that their security team
did an audit of their build and saw pam_cracklib, they demanded that
this hacker (cracker) software be removed from the build
-Sam
-Original
The SGI Altix line perhaps?
http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/
-Sam
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
John Campbell
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:26 AM
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Fw: [LINUX-390] Why Zseries
Stupid
But of course those are all Itanium based...
-Original Message-
From: Kielek, Samuel
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 11:33 AM
To: 'Linux on 390 Port'
Subject: RE: [LINUX-390] Why Zseries
The SGI Altix line perhaps?
http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/
-Sam
-Original
It is important to also understand that Linux is not capable (at least
today) of directly exploiting many of those hardware benefits,
especially in terms of the mainframes RAS features. That is to say,
there can be instances where the mainframe is up and chugging along, VM
is doing just fine, but
Like many others on this list, we also have Windows desktops enforced by
corporate policy and managed by a specific group for that purpose. Got
to love the pop-ups in the middle of the work day that say they have
applied some new patch and my workstation will be rebooting in 2
minutes... *sigh*
If you implement kerberos, you could continue to use rexec, rsh, rcp,
telnet, ftp, etc. and it would be secure since the kerberized versions
encrypt the traffic. This is sometimes easier to implement and control
than a ssh approach as it is familiar to the users since they get to
continue doing
I have always used regedit to do it. Click Start - Run and enter
regedit. Search for Putty and right click on the Putty folder and
select export. Then copy the file it creates (.reg) to the other machine
and use the import option in regedit. That's it..
-Sam
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