Re: console-kit-daemon errors on SLES 11

2012-08-31 Thread Scott Rohling
a test system on z available to do some checking.. Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu

Re: Too true to be funny - 51% of the surveyed Americans think that stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the cloud.

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Rohling
This doesn't surprise me - I'm not sure when we started calling data stored on servers a 'cloud' - but I cringe every time I hear it. Is this really any different then not knowing what a catalytic converter is, but driving anyway? Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:39 AM, McKown, John

Re: LGR guest quiesce

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Rohling
left off - it might work.. But you need something to dump and restore memory/pages/etc as well. Sort of like 'hibernate' on a laptop. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Aria Bamdad a...@bsc.gwu.edu wrote: Just curious, could this functionality be used somehow to allow

Re: Too true to be funny - 51% of the surveyed Americans think that stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the cloud.

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Rohling
it is with those bright and shiny objects, sir Chuckie - ;-) Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote: On Thursday, 08/30/2012 at 11:28 EDT, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: This doesn't surprise me - I'm not sure when we started

Re: LGR guest quiesce

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Rohling
backups for latest 'clean' data. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Aria Bamdad a...@bsc.gwu.edu wrote: True, no solution is as safe as shutdown/snapshot/restart in terms of ensuring consistency but I think it would be nice if there was some mechanism within Linux that would alert

Re: console-kit-daemon errors on SLES 11

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Rohling
Maybe this daemon is unnecessary on z - or at least, under z/VM - where the console access is logged in the operator consoles? Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 8/30/2012 at 05:57 PM, Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: I've

Re: zipl

2012-08-15 Thread Scott Rohling
I think you were supposed to remove the dasd= - not the root= Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d...@bcbst.comwrote: Mark, here you go. Original zipl.conf [ipl] image = /boot/image target = /boot/zipl ramdisk = /boot/initrd,0x400

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-09 Thread Scott Rohling
Hmm .. so doesn't sound like she could use 'wget' to just get the iso onto the server. Have to install X-windows and firefox and use VNC or something just to start up a browser on the server and navigate to the right url. Argh... Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mark Post mp

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-08 Thread Scott Rohling
be misunderstanding what you need though.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) ann.sm...@thehartford.com wrote: Yes I am late. Yes I should have paid more attention when others asked in the past. I finally want to upgrade SLES10 SP4 servers on mainframe to SLES11

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-08 Thread Scott Rohling
If the server is an existing zlinux server and you have connectivity to Novell - sure - or even easier - use wget and point to the ftp or http url. If it requires authentication - there are wget options for that as well. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service

Re: SLES11 SP2 install procedures for zseries

2012-08-08 Thread Scott Rohling
I wouldn't use a z/VM minidisk.. you 'could' access it using cmsfs from Linux - but it would be easier/better to just get the iso file into a Linux filesystem. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Smith, Ann (CTO Service Delivery) ann.sm...@thehartford.com wrote: Or directly 'ftp

Re: Red Hat Indeed

2012-07-04 Thread Scott Rohling
I wonder how the red hat ladies do with fedoras? Their conference sounds like a natural for promoting RHEL.. go dutch :) Scott Rohling On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:43 PM, David Kreuter dkreu...@vm-resources.comwrote: Happy 4th to all my U.S. brethren. Here in Canada it is a work day. I'm

Re: RHEL54 zLinux running TSA

2012-06-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Only thing I can think of -- are disks linked MWV on each side? I'm not sure what the recommendation is.. but I know that if you share a RACF DB disk you specify MWV so virtual reserve/release is respected.. would think this is similar to prevent disk clobbering? Scott Rohling On Fri, Jun 29

Re: Start networkadapter without reboot

2012-06-15 Thread Scott Rohling
If you are using VSWITCH's to attach the guest nics -- is this guest authorized for both? Scott Rohling On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:27 AM, van Sleeuwen, Berry berry.vansleeu...@atos.net wrote: Hi All, In a SLES11 SP1 guest I try to activate the second network adapter but it fails. The guest

Re: Start networkadapter without reboot

2012-06-15 Thread Scott Rohling
how this shows us on z/VM with a Q VSWITCH DETAILS -- does it show connected for this 2nd NIC? What does a 'vmcp q nic' show? Are addresses attached to the vswitch? (sort of the same as above).. Scott Rohling On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:54 AM, van Sleeuwen, Berry berry.vansleeu...@atos.net wrote

Re: LGR IPL CMS

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Yep - it was one of the more memorable moments in my working with VM almost 30 years... feels a little magical when you get it to work :)Only way I could tell on the Linux guest was 'vmcp q user' .. Glad you got a chance to see it yourself! Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:08 AM

Re: Run NTP on zLinux or not?

2012-06-06 Thread Scott Rohling
to competent hands are fading... Scott Rohling On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d...@bcbst.comwrote: Last post on my poll, I will not waste further cycles on a non-technical issue here. I appreciate the people that emailed me offline. Rick, thanks for the info. FINAL TOT

Re: Run NTP on zLinux or not?

2012-06-05 Thread Scott Rohling
and others understand the science behind it for the case of z/VM and it's pengins... Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Patrick Spinler spinler.patr...@mayo.eduwrote: I'd suspect that just running ntpd would be a preferably option here. Otherwise, you will get a cron awakened activity

Run NTP on zLinux or not?

2012-06-04 Thread Scott Rohling
so even if z/VM fully supported STP, it doesn't mean the guests would necessarily benefit. I haven't done a lot of research into time synchronization, so I thought I'd ask what others here do and why. Any input would be appreciated! Scott Rohling

Re: LXFMT bug fix

2012-05-15 Thread Scott Rohling
2 1/02/1908 6:36:02 Ready; T=0.01/0.01 07:34:17 What VMARC version do you have, Neale? Scott Rohling On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:08 PM, O'Brien, Dennis L dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.com wrote: Interesting. I downloaded the latest VMARC MODULE from IBM, which is a slightly

Re: swap and RedHat kickstart

2012-04-12 Thread Scott Rohling
Is your kickstart file defining the DASD to be used and which should be used as swap? It needs to.. show us the pertinent statements in the ks file if so.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Rothman, Peter peter.roth...@travelport.com wrote: Our few linux servers have been

Re: Mount an AIX filesystem on zLinux?

2012-03-19 Thread Scott Rohling
Googling around looks like SLES doesn't support it - the utilities are no longer included ... but I believe all you'd need is the jfsutils rpm. Anyway - yes - quite possible. I searched on 'jfs s390x' to find info.. Scott Rohling On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Jerry Park jae...@gmail.com

Re: Cannot add drive to existing LVM SLES 11 SP 1

2012-03-14 Thread Scott Rohling
commands for whatever filesystem.. Hope that helps - not sure about SLES or Yast system tools for this - I always use command line. Scott Rohling On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.comwrote: I have an existing LVM that is near out of space. I created

Re: Cannot add drive to existing LVM SLES 11 SP 1

2012-03-14 Thread Scott Rohling
is - so you may want to do a vgdisplay -v to see if the device did get added to the vg.. Scott rohling On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.comwrote: It's not too difficult to do this on the command line: lsdasd and figure out what the /dev/dasd device is - let's say

Re: ZVM IPL Error

2012-03-07 Thread Scott Rohling
to change the time. Or - reboot shortly after the specified date/time defined in the CONFIG file if you're hankering for a reboot :) Scott Rohling On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com wrote: I had to add the timezone for 2012 in my SYSTEM CONFIG file. I thought (that's

Re: LVM mount points

2012-02-23 Thread Scott Rohling
Likely lots of answers, but here's one flavor: /var /usr /opt /tmp /home Any directory that is prone to 'growth' is a likely candidate to be a separate filesystem.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Mark Workman mwork...@shelterinsurance.com wrote: What are recommended LVM

Re: RACF database during z/VM upgrade

2012-02-21 Thread Scott Rohling
backing off is going to happen - remove the definitions for the old system ids (e.g. 5VMDIR40).. I think rebuilding the RACF database just for a z/VM OS upgrade is madness :)You don't want to start over - you want to 'manage' it. Scott Rohling On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Troy A Slaughter

Re: Error when trying to install CentOS 4.x on s390

2011-12-31 Thread Scott Rohling
Did 'you' format the DASD on this guest or was it perhaps already formatted when it was on a bigger minidisk (and so wasn't re-formatted during install)? Scott Rohling On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Cameron Seay cws...@gmail.com wrote: This is an error I get when going through

Re: Running top on second level RHEL5

2011-12-15 Thread Scott Rohling
for the guest - it's not. Scott Rohling On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Shumate, Scott scshum...@bbandt.comwrote: Quick question. When you run top on RHEL5 linux on systemz, is it accurate or is it a best guess? Thanks Scott

Re: VDISK Swap

2011-10-31 Thread Scott Rohling
No - you must IPL CMS and issue it .. usually in the PROFILE EXEC .. and then IPL the right Linux disk. Scott Rohling On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d...@bcbst.comwrote: Oh, so stupid question, can I just take off the cp part? As: 'SWAPGEN 203 409600 ( REUSE FBA

Re: Install tape driver error on zlinux

2011-10-19 Thread Scott Rohling
You're making too much sense here, David :) Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 6:40 AM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: You also have to rebuild the thing after each kernel update. Kind of a pain. Especially if you forget and it's not functional anymore :) Look into DKMS

Re: VDISK Swap

2011-10-06 Thread Scott Rohling
It's that new silicon smell :) Scott Rohling On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:55 AM, David Stuart david.stu...@ventura.orgwrote: Now, how do you tell Fresh zeros from stale zeros that may be past their shelf life? Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA

Re: VDISK Swap

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Rohling
Are they defined as VDISK? If so - you have to mkswap them each boot.. or use SWAPGEN to create them... if they are on DASD you shouldn't have to do this after initial formatting - so not sure what's up. Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d...@bcbst.comwrote

Re: VDISK Swap

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Rohling
You would IPL CMS first - have the PROFILE EXEC issue SWAPGEN to create one or more swapdisks -- and then IPL the Linux disk from the PROFILE EXEC. Note that SWAPGEN is from SineNomine and offered as a free download.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d

Re: VDISK Swap

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Rohling
You can just do SWAPGEN - you don't need mkswap since SWAPGEN writes the swap signature. I think SWAPGEN will create the vdisks if they don't already exist or will use the one in place if it already exists.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d

Re: FW: VDISK Swap

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Rohling
Actually - the bit checking for a userid() EXEC will see RC0 and try and execute every time -- the rc ^= 28 is checking the rc of the SET CMSTYPE RT - not the STATE. Use PIPE (e.g. PIPE CMS STATE . | HOLE) and forget about CMSTYPE ;-) Scott Rohling On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:18 PM, David

Re: Remote HMC access

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Rohling
Try port 443 - the https port... Scott Rhling On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Mike Myers mhmy...@earthlink.net wrote: Doug: I now have the needed access to the University's network. Once in, I can PING the IP address that is supposed to be that of the HMC. However, I don't get the login

Re: parmfile with vlan definition

2011-10-02 Thread Scott Rohling
Do you mean the z/VM SYSTEM CONFIG file (answer is yes) - or Linux network config files? (again answer is yes) or something else? Scott Rohling 2011/10/1 Rogério Soares rogerio.soa...@gmail.com Hello list, it is possible set vlan parameters on parm file ? Tia, Rogério Soares

Re: Window question

2011-09-26 Thread Scott Rohling
As I recall:DIR Z: Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Eddie Chen ec...@nyx.com wrote: Does any know the command in WINDOW where I can list every files/directories Under my Z drive. Similar to the Linux command of ls -lR where I can list all the files/directory

Re: RH NFS Server

2011-09-20 Thread Scott Rohling
Nothing special about z in this respect -- here's a good page to view: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s03.html#config_server_setup Scott Rohling On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com wrote: I would like to nfs mount a filesystem that resides on a vm/Linux

Re: Ubuntu on z?

2011-09-08 Thread Scott Rohling
cool. Scott Rohling On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net wrote: http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2011090700941OSHWUB -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Ubuntu on z?

2011-09-08 Thread Scott Rohling
as well. Scott Rohling On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Sergey Korzhevsky s_korzhev...@iba.bywrote: Hi, A little bit offtopic, but i can't resist to ask, why you use Ubuntu and not Debian on server? Thanks. WBR, Sergey Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com Sent by: Linux on 390

Re: Question - listserv mail management

2011-08-30 Thread Scott Rohling
Wouldn't you just look for sender LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu? Scott Rohling On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com wrote: I changed my subscription to digest as I could find no way using Lotus Notes to filter incoming messages to put them into a unique folder. Can

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Scott Rohling
? Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:54 AM, saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: I deleted NETWORK parameter from this file . and I restarted netork from service network restart command but still i am not getting my ip address in ifconfig and network is not up

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Scott Rohling
Yes meant for that to be broadcast - thanks Edmund - had a brain hiccup :) Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Edmund R. MacKenty ed.macke...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: On Thursday, August 25, 2011 10:48:51 am you wrote: in the suggested ifconfig command, what is the third ip

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Scott Rohling
Looks to me like no attempt is made to bring up eth0 at all.. If you manually configure with ifconfig - are you able to use the network? If so - I would ssh in and then use 'yast' to setup the network.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:41 AM, saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Scott Rohling
You should not have to restart the network, no ..what does 'ifconfig' and 'route' show after manually configuring? Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:20 AM, saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: no.. after manually configure ifconfig. also I am not able to use

Re: Mount error - Network config problem

2011-08-25 Thread Scott Rohling
know the problem is somewhere in the network config files. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:24 AM, saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: This command works but , when I am restarting network service usnig below command service network restart again , I dont see

Re: Mount error

2011-08-24 Thread Scott Rohling
what logical volume you can mount. If you already use LVM on the system you are linking the disks from and use the same names -- then you won't be able to mount since they are duplicates. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:18 PM, saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Mount error

2011-08-24 Thread Scott Rohling
You had indicated 300-304 were the sles10 disks.. are they all linked and active? If so - the pvscan and vgscan should pick them up.. if not -- not sure what to say -- you need to get all the disks that are part of the LVM for sles10. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:43 PM, saurabh

Re: Mount error

2011-08-24 Thread Scott Rohling
Sorry - try 'vgdisplay -v system' -- this should show the logical volumes and also the disks that make up the volumes. And there is also 'lvscan' to see logical volumes. Let's say that you see there is a 'root' logical volume -- then to mount: mount /dev/system/root /mnt Scott Rohling On Wed

Re: patching frequency

2011-08-18 Thread Scott Rohling
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Re: patching frequency

2011-08-18 Thread Scott Rohling
of patches in that context. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Clovis Pereira gclo...@br.ibm.com wrote: Scott, only to feed this discussion: Apply 5 patchs by month looks better than 15 by quarter or 30 by half-year. Less corrections is faster, easy to analyze and less

Re: BASH scripts are a trade secret?

2011-08-17 Thread Scott Rohling
Yeah - very strange... 'copyright' - ok. Trade secret in a glass jar? no.. by definition, not a secret. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:48 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Most weird. At least to me. Well, I guess it is possible to use a BASH script where

Re: Annoyances with lsdasd and/or /proc/dasd/devices

2011-08-10 Thread Scott Rohling
it in a pinch because the /sys route is more complicated.. Hopefully - lsdasd is stabilizing it's output now and you can more reliably count on the output.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Patrick Spinler spinler.patr...@mayo.eduwrote: Okay, please accept an 'I'm stupid

Re: NFS Mount

2011-08-04 Thread Scott Rohling
I think you want to drop the -o after ver=2 ? mount is thinking the nfs address is an option -- and so thinks you want to mount just /mnt... and doesn't know what should be mounted to it. Scott Rohling On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com wrote: On z1.11 I have

Re: disabled IPV6, now down.

2011-08-03 Thread Scott Rohling
Does a 'modprobe ipv6' have any effect? Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.comwrote: I've been getting the MARTIAN SOURCE 192.168.195.255 FROM 192.168.193.176, ON DEV ETH0 on one of my test machines for two months. So I decided to check

Re: Showing a process running in BG

2011-08-01 Thread Scott Rohling
The 'jobs' command lists all active or stopped jobs (in the current shell).. also - ps -aux shows a '+' under the Status field if it's running in the foreground. With ps -ef the PID and PPID fields may help in determining who called what. Hope this helps. Scott Rohling On Mon, Aug 1, 2011

Re: Xterm, Cygwin, etc

2011-08-01 Thread Scott Rohling
vnc is what I use..startup vncserver on zLinux .. use a vnc client ( tightvnc.org has a free one) to connect. You can also use a web browser and the 58xx port. Need the firewall to allow 59xx and/or 58xx ports. Scott Rohling On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Gentry, Steve steve.gen

Re: tar with tape drives

2011-07-29 Thread Scott Rohling
Strange - almost sounds like tar is getting a '' appended and running in the background.. which doesn't seem possible if it's just being executed as part of a script. I need a beer too. Scott Rohling On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.comwrote: And another

Re: Poor man's top

2011-07-22 Thread Scott Rohling
everything top does - but does show the 'top cpu users'. Now that I've written that - did you mean - how does it work? That's a different answer :) Scott Rohling On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com wrote: For us new to linux can anyone explain what this does? Tks Matt

Poor man's top

2011-07-21 Thread Scott Rohling
I found this buried in some notes.. thought others might enjoy it. Much less overhead then top.. : watch -n 10 -d 'ps aux --sort -%cpu | cut -c1-0 | head -20' Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Poor man's top

2011-07-21 Thread Scott Rohling
Just ensure 80 amount of characters are displayed on each line .. you can certainly leave it out -- it's been too long for me to remember why that was stuck in :(I'm not sure now what the rationale was.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue

Re: Poor man's top

2011-07-21 Thread Scott Rohling
Ah .. I think I remember -- we were running this at the z/VM console on a Linux guest... so wanted to limit the output so it didn't wrap and mess up the displayed tasks.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.comwrote: Just ensure 80 amount

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2011-07-08 Thread Scott Rohling
Monty Python: spam spam spam spam spam Scott Rohling On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Rob JACKSON rwjackso...@msn.com wrote: I invite you to visit my first site! It’s important for me!.. http://www.soleholiday.com/sites.friend.php?zyqCID=16iw4

Re: Linux backups and restores to/from tape

2011-07-08 Thread Scott Rohling
.. everything from rdiff (as I recall - an rsync based backup with delta archiving) and things like bacula. You could perhaps combine this solution with physical backups to tape of the archive data on disk? Scott Rohling On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Frederick, Michael michael_freder...@ibi.com wrote

Re: Linux backups and restores to/from tape

2011-07-08 Thread Scott Rohling
Didn't mean to imply TSM required tape - only that it's supported... Scott Rohling On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Harder, Pieter pieter.har...@brabantwater.nl wrote: Just a remark. TSM does *not* have a tape requirement. You can have a disk only installation just fine. Do your first level

Re: RHEL 5.6 adding LUNs and mkinitrd

2011-07-02 Thread Scott Rohling
to mount root. Scott Rohling On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Donald Russell russell@gmail.comwrote: I have RHEL 5.6 running on zVM 6.1. The RHEL userid has several FCP devices dedicated in the cp directory. When I add LUNs to the system to create a new file system, or expand an existing one

Re: Another Layer 2 question.

2011-06-28 Thread Scott Rohling
Give us a hint :-) Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Chuck Tribolet trib...@almaden.ibm.comwrote: I've got a similar problem to Dave Jones, converting from real OSA ports to a Layer 2 VSWITCH. I've successfully done SLES 10 and RHEL 5, but I'm having trouble with a SLES 11

Re: Layer 2 question

2011-06-27 Thread Scott Rohling
You need to either remove the specification of the MAC in ifcfg-eth0 -- or specify it in the z/VM directory entry for the guest so that it matches. It's likely best to just remove it and let it default unless you have a real need to specify it. Scott Rohling On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:25 PM

Re: Layer 2 question

2011-06-27 Thread Scott Rohling
Drop the TYPE= and VSWITCH= as well as HWADDR= .. Scott Rohling On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: Hi, Mark. I've tried it without the HWADDR value and now the error is eth0 does not seem to be present. Thanks. DJ On 06/27/2011 02:32 PM, Mark

Re: How to get into single user mode - RHEL 5.6

2011-06-25 Thread Scott Rohling
one. (if the lvm consists of more than the 100 disk - you need to link and activate those too..) Sounds like you did a zipl -X at some point, which eliminates the startup menu.. Good luck! Scott Rohling On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Donald Russell russell@gmail.comwrote: RHEL 5.6

Re: How to get into single user mode - RHEL 5.6

2011-06-25 Thread Scott Rohling
minidisk. avoid volume group name conflicts completely. Only bring it up when needed. Scott Rohling On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Donald Russell russell@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Scott There are other files systems that also use LVM, but I know the root file system is all on the 100

Re: How to get into single user mode - RHEL 5.6

2011-06-25 Thread Scott Rohling
sorry - bad wording.. you needed to mount it as an LVM -- not a dasd device.. Scott Rohling On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.comwrote: I meant unmount it from the system you were trying to recover it from -- cuz you needed to mount is as an LVM

Re: CMS commands from Linux

2011-06-22 Thread Scott Rohling
Yes - good point.. and Linux does have an rexec client. You may want to use a private lan, depending on the network setup, but it's doable. Keeping it internal may fend off any restrictions.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.comwrote

Re: CMS commands from Linux

2011-06-22 Thread Scott Rohling
That can work -- BUT -- not much good for capturing/seeing the response... sort of like pushing a button and not knowing if it worked or not. Scott Rohling On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Eddie Chen ec...@nyx.com wrote: Have you try setup secondary userid and issue the vmcp send cmsuser

Re: CMS commands from Linux

2011-06-21 Thread Scott Rohling
. If what the EXEC does is benign - then maybe it's no big deal... it can be a great way to easily make z/VM application output available to Linux. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Agblad Tore tore.agb...@volvo.com wrote: setup a webserver in z/VM, and allow the Linux to run

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-17 Thread Scott Rohling
.. so why not wait until it is? I'm sure there's a good explanation - just wondering... Scott Rohling -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Performance Toolkit can show you the paging load for users (menu option 22 - FCX113).. how much in XSTORE, how much on DASD ... but it doesn't identify the paging volume(s) the pages are stored on, if that's what you want to do. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Nelson, Gene C

Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
Did you use 'ebcdic' or 'ibm' for conversion type on the dd command? Whichever you used, you might want to try and use the other and see if results change. Scott Rohling On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Sundaram, Parthasarthy parthasarthy.sunda...@eds.com wrote: Hi Team, Very good

Re: ASCII to EBCDIC conversion

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
I'm not sure this will make a difference -- I misread the table .. and the LF characters are the same in ebcdic or ibm.. You may need to use 'tr' or some other translate function after the dd. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.comwrote: Did you

Re: Performance toolkit - HCPMOG6556E

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
HELP HCPMOG6556E will show you several different ways to approach. Increasing the size of the MONDCSS segment is likely the quickest. An example: CP DEFSEG MONDCSS 2000-2BFF SC RSTD CP SAVESEG MONDCSS You need to ensure no other segments are defined in the address range you specify.. Scott

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
This is for SPOOL -- not PAGE! Completely different allocation types, etc.. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Clovis Pereira gclo...@br.ibm.com wrote: Friends, Please, take a look at SPOOLCHN http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/ Follow the announce: (c) Copyright

Re: Set Share Relative

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
the access, etc. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d...@bcbst.comwrote: Is there a rule of thumb on setting relative shares for zVM users? Default has them at 100, we have increased important ones to 200. I noticed the system users have very high shares

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
/allocated correctly. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Sam Bass sam.b...@mclaneco.com wrote: Alan, Do you think IBM will think about adding a 'page delete' feature so you can migrate page volumes to another disk subsystem so you don't have to shutdown all of the guest and z/VM

Re: z/VM page space

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
window to reclaim drained volumes. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Nelson, Gene C. gcnel...@fedins.comwrote: We ran into the same issue. Our page space got up to 70% - 80% and we saw performance go down the toilet. Our page volumes were on MOD-9's but only a third of each volume

Re: Set Share Relative

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
by 'political' .. and annoyed at the statement that the defaults are just flat out wrong. Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: Depends on how granular you want

Re: Set Share Relative

2011-06-14 Thread Scott Rohling
No worries, Sir Rob - I seem to be especially cranky today. Excellent paper and explanation of relative share - and a much better answer then the simplistic HELP explanation. I'll refer to this in the future... Thank you! Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Rob van der Heij rvdh

Re: mvsdasd working for SLES11 someone ?

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Rohling
are completely benign. Note that none of us has really contributed to answering Tore's question. Scott Rohling On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote: On Thursday, 06/09/2011 at 04:15 EDT, Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: Implementing the driver

Re: CMS commands from Linux

2011-06-10 Thread Scott Rohling
or not. There are many ways to do it -- it's just capturing results and knowing when it's done that's the problem. REXEC is one way, but is usually frowned up security wise. Scott Rohling 2011/6/10 Fábio Paim fabaop...@gmail.com Thanks for all response, I have one bash script on Linux

Re: Why does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry?

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Rohling
'mount -a' to check each time you update fstab. And -- error recovery is there.. you are put into a shell so you can try and correct it :-) Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: I recently had a typo in fstab for a new file

Re: Why does zLinux die on a bad fstab entry?

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Rohling
coded. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Dean, David (I/S) david_d...@bcbst.comwrote: I would bet it just has to time out. I know NFS and SMBFS can hold on for quite a while before giving up the ghost. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390

Re: mvsdasd working for SLES11 someone ?

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Rohling
(or should be) - the ability to read a z/OS volume or CMS disk is not. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.comwrote: On Thursday, 06/09/2011 at 01:10 EDT, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 6/9/2011 at 11:23 AM, Agblad Tore tore.agb...@volvo.com wrote

Re: bad entry in fstab

2011-06-02 Thread Scott Rohling
I always keep a copy of the old file when working with Linux on z - for key files like /etc/fstab especially. That way I can issue single command from the 3270 terminal to get things back and not worry about vi/sed/etc. Next time maybe ;-) Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Brent

Re: bad entry in fstab

2011-06-02 Thread Scott Rohling
chccwdev -e 2201 (activate it) lsdasd (find out what dasd 2201 is) mount /dev/dasdx1 /mnt This assumes 2201 contains a single filesystem.. if it's part of an LVM, there's more to all this.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote

Re: bad entry in fstab

2011-06-02 Thread Scott Rohling
linked and activated: pvscan vgscan vgchange -ay volume_group(make volume_group active) mount /dev/volume_group/logical_volume /mnt Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Thanks Scott, could I ask for the steps for LVM

Re: Using CPFORMAT exec

2011-05-29 Thread Scott Rohling
It's in the cookbook -- section 4.6.1 -- and the subsection 'Using the CPFORMAT EXEC' ... try 'CPFORMAT ?' for help.. Scott Rohling Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Cameron Seay cws...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have a clearer description of how to use the CPFORMAT exec for formatting DASD

Re: cmsfs-fuse package in RHEL 6.1

2011-05-28 Thread Scott Rohling
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.9.0.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.9.0.htmlDoes this help you see it as *good* ? Scott Rohling On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Shane G ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: H - and why isn't

Re: cmsfs-fuse package in RHEL 6.1

2011-05-28 Thread Scott Rohling
Oops - thanks Phillipp, I was pointing to older release at developerworks -- 1.13.0 is the latest, so your url is better.. Scott Rohling On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:21:04PM +1000, Shane G wrote: H - and why isn't

Re: cmsfs-fuse package in RHEL 6.1

2011-05-28 Thread Scott Rohling
It is from IBM .. here's a helpful overview of s390-tools .. and indicates CMS write was added in s390-tools v1.11.0: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-overview.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-overview.htmlScott Rohling On Sat, May 28,

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