Re: lx-390] Unsubscribe

On Wed, 22 Jul 2020, Brown, Duncan wrote: > Ok - how do I Unsubscribe from this list? I've sent this a few times now... your mail reader may be hiding the footer: For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message:

Open Source, drug dealers, and time travel

On Mon, 6 Jul 2020, Phil Smith III wrote: > Time Travel Resistant Cryptography > > https://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?m=1336 > > =666070=articleBrowser_id=3713491 rather ignorant of the motivations for __

just: also COBOL

On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Rick Troth wrote: > Bonus package (but not new), Gnu COBOL ... > > rsync://chic.casita.net/opt/gnucobol-1.1/ > > rsync://chic.casita.net/opt/gnucobol-2.2/ > > The 1.1 build gets used from time to time. (32-bit Intel Linux) > The 2.2 build is untested. There was an

Issues trying to install RHEL 8

On Tue, 30 Jul 2019, Martha McConaghy wrote: > Has anyone run into problems getting RHEL 8 to install on Z? I've run into a Interesting suggestions all in this thread. /me waves 'hi' to Smooge ;) I see a couple of moving parts here: 1 missing modules in a virtualization environment

lsmem and chmem moved

On Wed, 10 Jul 2019, Mark Post wrote: > -snip- > > According to the FHS, I contend it should be: > > In the last few years there's been a huge push to move as much as > possible out of /bin and /sbin into /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. No idea why > anyone thought this was a good idea, but no one asked

Re: Communication with z/VM DVM?

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > root@mflnxclef00 ~# yum list fsiucv* To get the 'special' "*" passed in to yum, one has to escape it with a backslash as I recall -- Russ herrold -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Messages booting SLES12 SP3

On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Neale Ferguson wrote: > I added a disk to the system and now when I did a shutdown -r now I am seeing > this message repeated ad infintum at boot time: > > A start job is running for dev-disk...x2dpart2.device (42s / no limit) [OK] > > What have I stuffed up? Did you

clefOS logical volumes

On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Phillip Gramly wrote: > I want to set up a lv, but i find that clefOS does not have any of the > commands installed (pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate) > > do i need to install some package(s) in order to get this capability? yes A general solution to identify the owning package

Re: Advice on indexing PDFs

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > Ugh! Tried 3.3.15: > > checking for MySQL support... no > configure: error: Unknown MySQL directory - unable to find mysql.h > > Okay, so I figure mariadb-devel is not installed: > > # yum info mariadb-devel > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror,

Re: xymon on zLinux anyone?

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, R P Herrold wrote: > form, as it locks in potentially vulnerable library decisions > (I see some compression / decompression libraries which have > had CVE type vulnerabilities in them, so this matters -- a > stale 'carried in the tarball' lzo [YIKES], a st

Re: xymon on zLinux anyone?

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Martha McConaghy wrote: > We use Xymon a great deal, it monitors all of our servers and network > equipment (several thousand items).  We run the server on zLinux (SLES) and > the client runs just about anywhere.  There are even clients for z/VM and z/OS > (thanks Rich!). 

ClefOS setting up guest LAN for HiperSockets

On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Phillip Gramly wrote: > # echo 0.0.204,0.0.205,0.0.206 > /sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/qeth/group > -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument > > I'm missing something somewhere. can anybody help me? Hi, Phillip, Thanks for using ClefOS 1. This is just my OCD talking, but I

Re: dasdfmt assistance

On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Jan Höppner wrote: > just to clear things up, the option -f/--device was deprecated > for quite some time and got removed with s390-tools 1.37.1: > > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.37.1.html hmmm ... a early 2017 removal Perhaps there is a

Re: dasdfmt assistance...next

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > Okay, I'm now stuck at expanding the logical volume (the > whole purpose of this exercise was to expand the /home mount > point). > xfs_growfs /home > xfs_growfs: /home is not a mounted XFS filesystem > > Hmmmnot a XFS, then what is it? 'df'

Re: dasdfmt assistance

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > Good catch...the web page I was using has a '-f', but > perhaps they meant '-F'...or possibly no longer viable. > Without the nonexistent switch, it formats. There is a later s390utils in Red Hat's RawHide archive, with a man page showing a 2006

Re: Alpine Linux 3.8 rc2 on z/VM and KVM

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > I can easily boot that iso image with kvm: > > $ qemu-system-s390x -enable-kvm -nographic \ > -cdrom alpine-standard-3.8.0_rc8-s390x.iso > LOADPARM=[] Hi, Christian, What version of qemu-system-s390x are you running? $

Re: Truth/Troth what is the difference?

On Thu, 17 May 2018, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > Little help with ClefOS 7.4 install. It seems to execute just fine until: > Starting Device-Mapper Multipath Device Controller... > Ý"Ý32m OK "Ý0m¨ Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen."" > Ý"Ý32m OK "Ý0m¨ Reached target Paths.""

Re: ClefOS yum update error

On Wed, 30 May 2018, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > ...still can't do a 'yum update' (w/o the --disablerepo=epel): > Error: Package: liborcus-0.12.1-2.el7.s390x (@base) >Requires: libboost_iostreams-mt.so.1.53.0()(64bit) >Removing: boost-iostreams-1.53.0-27.el7.s390x

ClefOS yum update error

On Wed, 30 May 2018, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > I have a new ClefOS (7.4) install and when I try ('yum > update'...well actually 'yum -skip-broken update' because of > some dependency problems), I get > > I used the -skip-broken because without it, I get: > snippety ... > Error: Package:

Re: Bug with XFS and SLES 12SP3 kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-default

On Thu, 24 May 2018, Mike Walter wrote: > When I was a young man learning the art of systems > programming sooo long ago, I was taught that the first step > of applying maintenance is to make a physical backup of the > target volumes. That way you have a validated source with > which to return

Re: 7.5 package levels

On Thu, 24 May 2018, Timothy Sipples wrote: > Russ Herrold wrote: > > It may turn out that we (ClefOS) need to fork and offer two > > variants > > I guess I'd call them "streams" rather than "forks." One might, but in Red Hat parlance the 'Z' [a namespace collision here, NOT referring to Arch]

Re: Bug with XFS and SLES 12SP3 kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-default

On Thu, 24 May 2018, Rick Troth wrote: > Explain to me how a KERNEL update relates to a finger-pointing fest > among three user-space packages and the users? > > I DO use XFS on some systems. I prolly fall into the fourth group, but > was already pointing my digits at that second bullet. The

Bug with XFS and SLES 12SP3 kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-default

On Wed, 23 May 2018, Ted Rodriguez-Bell wrote: > Suse just released a new kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-1 > package for SLES 12SP3 with some kernel security fixes. If > you use XFS, don't install it! My condolences There has been an (at least) four way finger pointing contest raging for the

Re: 7.5 package levels

On Wed, 23 May 2018, Timothy Sipples wrote: > There's a new dual build/delivery approach that Red Hat has > introduced with RHEL 7.5. RHEL 7.5 offers an alternate build > stream called "Structure A," One reason for Neale's questions in part are that the ClefOS 7.5 build has been being bitten by

Re: Red Hat/ClefOS configuration file

On Tue, 22 May 2018, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > just one more thing: > > Initial setup of CentOS Linux 7 (Core) ClefOS requires no acceptance of a license -- there is a 'firsttime' configuration tool in some of the sources, which it looks like we missed turning off, along with 'branding'

Re: Red Hat/ClefOS configuration file

On Tue, 22 May 2018, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > Well, I never could get it installed using TEXT mode, so I tried VNC > (graphical) and had no problems. congratulations -- welcome aboard run your updates and boot please ;) -- Russ

Re: Red Hat/ClefOS configuration file

On Tue, 22 May 2018, Neale Ferguson wrote: > My kickstart uses url --url="http://download.sinenomine.net/clefos/7; so I am > not sure why you are not getting anything. > > On 5/22/18, 14:47, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Frank M. Ramaekers" >

Red Hat/ClefOS configuration file

On Tue, 22 May 2018, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > I'm following in the IBM Redbook "The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z > Systems Volume 2: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 Servers", and I'm at step 6: > Where do I find out what the various operands are for each keyword > (especially the ip=)?

Re: ClefOS 7.4 installation (was: RE: Truth/Troth what is the difference?)

On Mon, 21 May 2018, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > Can someone tell me where to find what the url below is (root=), > it appears we have some sort of dummy protection on urls. > (If I enter it, in it's entirety, it attempts to download.) > root=live: > junk

Re: Getting verbose output during boot

On Wed, 16 May 2018, Neale Ferguson wrote: > The problem appears to be related to this message during the > build of the initramfs: > > error: Failed to initialize NSS library > > This left initrd.img in a less than stellar state. The initrd [Initial Ram Disk] is generated into an appropriately

Re: Linux "sleep" command not waking up under high CPU utilization

On Wed, 18 Apr 2018, John Campbell wrote: > "This should not happen"... Never confuse theory with practice. The tell-tale give-away is the use of the verb form: should as it indicates the speaker is working from expectation rather than observation -- Russ herrold

RHEL and HMC load from FTP

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, munif sadek wrote: > Now when I am trying to use -RECOVERY -> Load from Removable Media or > Server, I am getting > > "An error occurred while trying to obtain a list of software that can > be loaded. Please verify the information you entered and that the > correct media in

Re: Meltdown/Spectre; Linux on z affected?

Red Hat has been walking through the day, assumedly completing QA qualification on patched builds, and then issuing microcode, and virtualization technologies (qemu first), not libvirt, with updates ** including PPCx and s390x ** , on both their publicly in support '6 and '7 products, and parts of

Meltdown/Spectre; Linux on z affected?

This is the email notification matching the Red Hat link Neale posted a moment ago, this for their '6 series, calling out PPC64 and s390x, and very curiously 'noarch', implying that something ONLY in userspace needed amendment The linked announcement quite explicitly inclides PPC64 and s390x

Meltdown/Spectre; Linux on z affected?

On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, Guest, Darren wrote: > Not sure if people have seen that attached article or heard of the 'intel' > chip issues from elsewhere: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ The defect is that crafted code can cause hardware based 'speculative' execution'

Re: In-place upgrade of RHEL 6.x to 7.x

On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Eric Chevalier wrote: > > I would be interested in seeing a copy ( a private response is > > fine) of: > > rpm -qf `which preupg` > > > > and then: > > rpm -qi (result_from_first_command_above) > [root@zlinux1 ~]# rpm -qf `which preupg` >

Re: In-place upgrade of RHEL 6.x to 7.x

On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, R P Herrold wrote: > Fedora space, called, respectively: preupgrade and > preupgrade-assistant. ... I looked at the 'preupgrade' (RHEL oriented) sources, and there is a missing dependency, getting the package to install once built, on '7 I solved that with a

In-place upgrade of RHEL 6.x to 7.x

On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Eric Chevalier wrote: > We are currently running RHEL 6.9 on top of z/VM. We are contemplating > an upgrade to RHEL 7 in order to support Spectrum Protect 8.1.4. > > RHEL supposedly supports an in-place upgrade from the latest version of > RHEL 6.x to 7, but I'm coming across

Ethernet/VSwitch woes

On Mon, 13 Nov 2017, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > Okay, I have a Fedora release 23 install. Everything work > greatwell that's until I reboot (re-IPL). There is an > inconsistency in the initialization of the Ethernet > interfaces: > 3) Both interfaces come up normally: > ifconfig >

Re: RHEL 7.4 - Difficulties

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 11/7/2017 at 12:36 PM, R P Herrold <herr...@owlriver.com> wrote: > > I don't understand what you are seeking as a change from Red > > Hat here, Mark > > I'm not seeking any change from Red Hat, just telling the

Re: RHEL 7.4 - Difficulties

I guess I 'lost the thread' here. There is no /etc/sysconfig/grub in s390x in a RHEL 7 sources rebuild default install (as with our ClefOS). Here is a long 'point by point' summation, and file and contents dump, for a checklist. As noted, I have not had to trace out how dracut / grubby is

Re: P7zip for RHEL 7 s390x

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Davis, Larry (National VM Capability) wrote: > Thank You this is great help you are welcome -- Russ herrold -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: P7zip for RHEL 7 s390x

responding to myself: On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, R P Herrold wrote: > https://download.sinenomine.net/epel/epel7/s390x/ > > mid-page along with some other p7zip adjuncts (GUI, etc) there is a later one actually -- p7zip-16.02-2.el7.s390x which installed trivially for me with no dependencies

Re: P7zip for RHEL 7 s390x

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017, Neale Ferguson wrote: suggested rebuilding from sources -- we've done that Davis, Larry earlier: > >I am searching for p7zip for processing large files on RHEL 7 and I can > >find the RPM files for Fedora "p7zip-16.02-6.fc28.s390x.rpm" can I We have it in ClefOS already

Re: TERM=linux instead of TERM=dumb

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Why do you want to use TERM=dumb instead of Linux? > I've tried proposing to systemd to not use color in LPAR/ZVM modes, > but that was rejected see > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/3115 ehh? This (accepted) patch appear to accept

Re: OT: Is there a setting that can prevent trash in the LINUX-390 archives?

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Mark Post wrote: > I'm not aware of any email client that will pick and choose > which sections of an email are base64 and decode them on the > fly. I suspect the solution is not going to be on the > LISTSERV side, but on each poster's client. Which makes it > extremely

Re: EPEL

On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Paul Flint wrote: > Quite a collection and contribution. I presume a spell checker is included in > the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux? actually the base OS has a full suite of spelling tools [herrold ~]$ rpm -qa \*spell\* | grep -v devel hspell-1.2-6.el7.x86_64

Typescript on zLinux?

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > Has the typescript environment been ported to zLinux (superset of > JavaScript that 'transpiles' to JavaScript)? I see it in Fedora /var/ftp/pub/nfs/mirror/redhat/fedora/24/os/SRPMS/n/nodejs-typescript-1.4.1-3.fc24.src.rpm -- Russ herrold

Docker on Z

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, PHILIP TULLY wrote: > We are looking to implement Docker on Z, as we have begun the testing > part of the issue is to be able to grow a docker engine and growing it > dynamically based on it's current needs especially when a node in the > Docker cluster fails. > > So the

HyperPAV boot issues on ClefOS 6.7

On Tue, 24 May 2016, Morris, Kevin J. (RET-DAY) wrote: > We have ~20 zLinux systems running in their own LPARs (no zVM) all on RHEL > 6.4 without any issues over the past year. All systems were rebooted weekly, > again without any issues. Is the reboot being trigerred internally (a cron

Re: SLES SP4 and use of the openCryptoki package

On Tue, 3 May 2016, Mark Post wrote: > Well, we can't include what IBM doesn't provide us for > inclusion. I never even heard of this RPM until today. ... [not a] very good option since so few people read the > release notes or pop-ups. it seems to be the topic of a later supplementation to

Re: ? FTP permissions on FEDORA ?

On Fri, 25 Mar 2016, Tom Huegel wrote: > Thank you Grzegorz that information is most appreciated. > I am sure that would have been my next problem. > > Even after your suggested changes I still get this message.. It might make sense to use lftp or such and confirm that you can addess the

ClefOS - Server with GUI

On Wed, 2 Mar 2016, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: > I'm attempting to (re)install ClefOS (7.1.1503) and selected "Server > with GUI", but it is failing with: This is probably a problem in the installation package set available. I don't recall that we expressly test and verify that there is local

Re: RPM build question

On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Mark Post wrote: > Do you have /usr/bin/python3 on your system? If so, you'll > likely have to remove it until after the build is finished. > I've found that even building packages without RPM sometimes > necessitates this because things like ./configure find > packages that

Re: Curious about crash.

On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, John McKown wrote: > ​Or, as one co-worker tells it, they have their CEC up against the back > wall. Unbeknownst to them, on the other side of the wall is a mega-Gauss > electromagnet. ​Magnet on, CEC fails. one of our site design rules is to never wrap the Token Ring

Re: Curious about crash.

On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, Tom Huegel wrote: > Right the kernel appears to be different. * nod * Next diagnostic step would be a reinstall of a registered system, and then after a yum update, but before the reboot, please try the code below, for the phase one to chainload into, to see if it can

Re: Curious about crash.

On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Wednesday, 12/16/2015 at 02:48 GMT, Tom Huegel > wrote: > > Now the registered machine fails to boot, the other one works fine. > > A gamma ray collided with a 1 and knocked it over, turning it into a 0. > That's the only

Error_139=94?=

On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Vitale, Joseph wrote: ./configure make gcc -pthread -fPIC -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror=declaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/ssl/include -I./Include -I. -IInclude -I/usr/local/include -I/xjp/Python-3.4.3/Include -I/xjp/Python-3.4.3 -c

IP Sprayer

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, Stewart, Lee wrote: Does anyone know of an IP “sprayer” for Linux on Z? (To send arriving requests on to one of several servers, round robin or load balanced.) nginx as the 'go to' tool? Certainly in the RHEL space; also squid as a reverse proxy depending on the

Re: Single User mode Linux Guest

On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Michael MacIsaac wrote: Which Linux are you using? I tried on SLES, but could not get logged in as root without the password. In The Virt'n Cookbook section 26.1.1 Enter single user mode, it states: In single user mode, you are logged in as the root user. But this

Re: vmcp on RHEL 7?

On Thu, 9 Oct 2014, Rick Troth wrote: Good practice to ignore certain errors from 'modprobe', and this is a prime example. ?? 'Good practice to ignore' ?? So if you happen to have a shell script that does a 'modprobe vmcp' before doing a 'vmcp' command, it should re-direct stderr (of the

RHEL 7 installer does not format DASD?

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Michael MacIsaac wrote: It would seem this is the same behavior (coughBUGcough:)) as the RHEL 6 installer (sigh ...). I guess the good news is that you can then go back to the installer after the dasdfmt and it finds the free disk space. it is only a bug to the Anaconda

Exited my PuTTY session while signed on as INSTALL during initial z/Linux install

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, Martin, Terry Contractor wrote: Any suggestions on how to get back to where I was yesterday? a reconnect to the VNC session (if specified -- it is the easiest way, but TUI only is also supported) should be possible; otherwise Anaconda does not run a listening daemon for TUI

Re: VNC JavaSecurity Error

On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Ihno Krumreich wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:48:35AM +, Walters, Gene P wrote: bring up a web page and go to the new instance to start a VNC session, it tells me that my security settings wont let me run the old version of Java that is being downloaded from

Re: openssl CA certificate maintenance

On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Alan Altmark wrote: I'm not concerned about the format of the files, but how you and/or your Linux admins like to manage them, particularly in light of the fact that the bundles of well-known CAs is updated from time to time. We are researching / testing in this space,

Setting up SSL keys and certificates; was: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: vsftpd

connection Connection closed by foreign host. [root@mail certs]# Hope these notes help. They are the product and distillation of much research and testing -- Russ herrold -- end == .-- -... ---.. ... -.- -.-- Copyright (C) 2014 R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com

RPH bugtraq] CVE-2014-2845 - Cyberduck (Windows): Failure validating some certificates (using FTP-SSL) with untrusted root certificate authority (fwd)

After my post about TLS certificate setup, I see that the nominally capable clients need some work as well Subject: Setting up SSL keys and certificates; ... - R -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 05:22:44 From: Micha Borrmann micha.borrm...@syss.de To:

The device stopped operating while being set offline

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014, Pavelka, Tomas wrote: Can anyone think of a way how to tell that the device is really offline (i.e. in DEV_STATE_DISCONNECTED or DEV_STATE_OFFLINE) so that it is safe to detach? And do this from user mode? My current solution is simply to put a short sleep before the

Re: FEDORA F20 boot HCPGIR453W CP entered; program interrupt loop

On Tue, 15 Apr 2014, Dan Horák wrote: Because when I reinstalled the guest with /boot on a regular partition it survived a kernel update (includes rerun of zipl). Rick Troth reported the same problem when he used a kickstart (http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/test/ks/f20-lvm.ks) that also

Re: SLES 11 - Dante server

On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Mark Post wrote: It means the functionality was removed,as stated. It's gone (from SLES) forever unless someone comes up with a very good business case to have it returned. I profess ignorance of the product line and marketing profiles here. What socks proxy server for

Re: Thoughts on multiple certificates for Apache host

On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Martha McConaghy wrote: now has it working, without having to mess with IPs! I appreciate the advice, Russ! * nod * a pleasure I _still_ need to write that blog post up about the easy way to build and test the files. I blame the turkey I ate -- Russ herrold

Thoughts on multiple certificates for Apache host

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Martha McConaghy wrote: Now, from what little I understand of certs, there can be only 1 per IP address. formerly true, but not so any more for quite some time see: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3546.txt for the standard , called SNI -- Server Name Indication (section 3.1

Disabling SELinux

On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Chase, John wrote: What else must be done to get the RHEL vm to come up with SELinux showing disabled instead of permissive in response to a 'getenforce' command? adding a line to the relevant grub stanza comes to mind. Something like this title SE-Linux Test System

Disabling SELinux

On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, R P Herrold wrote: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-selinux-2003040709 ro root=/dev/hda1 nousb enforcing=0 as: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-selinux-2003040709 ro \ root=/dev/hda1 nousb enforcing=0 (no backslashes are handled by grub, and the root device

Disabling SELinux

On Wed, 2 Oct 2013, Chase, John wrote: Part of the problem is that SELinux is not writing any messages anywhere we can see In a Red Hat derived environment, when enabled SELinux uses one of two possible file locations when in enforcing, or permissive modes: /var/log/messages -or-

Re: Strange problem with vsFTPD

On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Mark Post wrote: On 9/20/2013 at 01:04 PM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: No change. I'm beginning to dislike this SELinux stuff. a. dont be a hater ;) b. set a test box (you are not working on a production instance, right) to 'permissive' in

Attention: PuTTY users - serious security flaw

On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, John McKown wrote: Workaround == There is no known workaround at this time. This had a update notice a week or two ago and was patched back in July. I read the changes then, and by and large, the author (Simon) was doing a code audit with 'coverity' as well as

Re: Red Hat Linux-based Job Scheduler

On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Larry Ploetz wrote: earlier: We're bringing in an application that will have between 11 and 14 servers running Red Hat linux. The vendor is recommending a job scheduler. GNU's parallel has job scheduling capabilities, as long as you can set up ssh

Re: Java in RHEL 6.3 on z/VM

On Fri, 22 Mar 2013, Chase, John wrote: *+ 1 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java Getting Java to behave is a challenge all right The answer has changed over time but this: http://www.trading-shim.org/faq/?java and I see that this page has been update 58 times since it was

Re: oracle java

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, David Boyes wrote: There oughtta be an international Java Proliferation Treaty. Or a plain REXX port (not Object REXX) that used the JVM standard pseudomachine. The problem with any port effort is that the certification test kit to which one needs to conform to be able

Excel replacement for linux on z

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Herczeg, Zoltan wrote: Our operators run many excel vb macros for production on a windows pc. I wanted to move this workload to a virtual linux machine on our ifl. Does anyone have any suggestions for an excel replacement that will run on a linux virtual machine under

Re: Excel replacement for linux on z

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Ejnar Z Rath wrote: Unless something has changed lately the use of Java is an option not a dependency for OOo/LO As I noted, the answer varies by Linux distribution in play ... the problem is more an artifact of solving the build requirements than of function after it is

Putty security

On Wed, 6 Mar 2013, Melancon, Ruddy wrote: I have a security officer that has raised the issue regarding free [Putty] software. Has anyone encounterd security issues with Putty beyond the Release 0.60? I am looking for documented problems. Putty is a 0.62 in Red Hat's 'rawhide' It has no

Re: Virus software?

On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Mark Post wrote: Yes and no. Most people I've ever talked to about this seem to agree that such a tool is needed/desireable only when a LInux system is acting as some type of a file server for Windows clients. heh -- yeah -- PCI / CISP assessors are really literal minded

Re: Really IBM/Tivoli?

On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Rick Troth wrote: I would like to publicly ask RedHat to work harder at interoperability. Some older scripts seem to work, but I/we cannot invoke them the old way. Breakage. The advent of 'systemd' and other fixing-the-wrong-problem solutions have made it more difficult to

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Mark Post wrote: I was about to say correct but I couldn't let it go at that. It turns out that you can do it via wget or curl. Anyone who wants to spend the (inordinately large amount considering the real level of difficulty) time to figure it out on their own will

Re: Kernel ring buffer date stams missing

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Aria Bamdad wrote: by default on s390x. I also found some stuff online hinting that it is off on Red Hat also. Not just a hint -- the Red Hat kernel configuration appears not to enable it -- but it may be trivially turned on: # echo 1

ejabberd or Erlang binaries for s390?

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Eric Chevalier wrote: Does anyone know if pre-compiled versions of ejabberd or Erlang for s390 exist anywhere? Red Hat's Fedora seems to have solved such on s390x /mnt/nfs/var/ftp/pub/mirror/s390/fedora/F-14/updates/s390x/SRPMS/ejabberd-2.1.6-2.fc14.src.rpm -- Russ

Re: cio_ignore

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Mark Post wrote: On 3/30/2012 at 11:31 AM, Lee Stewart lstewart.dsgr...@attglobal.net wrote: I've been trying to think of any reason to ever have cio_ignore in a VM guest. I can see real use for it in an LPAR where you may have thousands of devices that have nothing to

Re: SAS

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, David Boyes wrote: I wish. Many people have lobbied for it, and so far, no dice. It seems a natural for SAS ans an ISV, to conform it ot the minimal strictres of the LSB and so ship one binary on all architectures It's been a long, long time since I touched (and tech

RPM install by date

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Mark Pace wrote: Is there a way to get a list of packages installed by date? rpm -qa --queryformat :date Did not do it. check out the --last suboption, and your friend, 'tac' if you need it reversed -- Russ herrold

Re: Duplicate rpm packages s390 - s390x, can one of them be removed?

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Richard Troth wrote: In the case of libraries, it is normal to have both architectures installed. Desirable even. So ... again ... check what is supplied, and if they are libs, don't sweat it. Not sure about 'Desirable' actually. If a file is not needed, or useful, it

BASH scripts are a trade secret?

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, McKown, John wrote: Most weird. At least to me. Well, I guess it is possible to use a BASH script where most would use C code. But a trade secret that you distribute in source form? http://www.clustermonkey.net//content/view/308/1/ It is a footnote, buried down in the

Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Richard Troth wrote: The FTP server on the EBCDIC system should handle translation of text files. Let the EBCDIC side do the translation. heh -- easily said ;) I had a situation where I was receiver and sender as a counterparty on credit card clearance data, in EBCDIC

Re: Shared root and shutdown

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Richard Troth wrote: Russ --- YOU ... are ... SPOOKY How can you remember a date so accurately. 'sent mail' archives and grep, on the confirmation on that lunch -- at Damon's of the Olentangy River Road, with the midrange global Linux architect for another firm here in

Re: Shared root and shutdown

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Edmund R. MacKenty wrote: I'm still wondering what RPM issues with read-only filesystems have been solved. Russ, are there any docs you can point us to on that? I ended up doing essentially what you suggested: letting an admin maintain software on one system using RPM,

Re: Shared root and shutdown

On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Michael MacIsaac wrote: The first time we wrote about it, based on the work of Rick Troth, Steve Womer, et al, (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4322.html) /etc/ was bind-mounted, and glancing through the paper quickly, I don't see anything specific to umount it

Graphviz - Graph Visualization Software on SuSE SLES10 zSeries ?

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Marco Bosisio wrote: I have a request to verify if Graphviz http://www.graphviz.org/ runs on zLinux [herr...@centos-5 ~]$ ssh ibm.owlriver.net Last login: Wed Jun 9 15:18:04 2010 from (elided) [herr...@ibm ~]$ uname -a Linux ibm.owlriver.net 2.6.9-42.EL

zPDT usage

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: Anyone using or plan on using IBM System z Personal Development Tool (or ITC zPDT)? http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247721.html?Open hmmm; new text Starting with the E41.18 release of zPDT (spring 2010) the 1090 installation process

Re: Download Centos

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, David Boyes wrote: Suggestion: download the RHEL 4 for s390x starter image from your fave RH mirror, use the kernel and initrd to get a working system up, install yum, and point it at the centos repository. Yum update, yum upgrade and a lot of network traffic later, you have

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