mq-deadline scheduling?

river allow only mq-deadline? (There's an even newer s390-tools patch for SLES 12SP5 that fixes two other things, and gets one to 18.29.1.) Thank you, Ted Rodriguez-Bell te...@wellsfargo.com<mailto:te...@wellsfargo.com> Wells Fargo, z/VM and z/Linux Company policy requires: This messag

Re: Experience IBM Spectrum Scale

ster (even just the find was much faster) and completely transparent to his users. Ted Rodriguez-Bell z/VM and z/Linux te...@wellsfargo.com Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized

Re: Defined minidisks RHEL 6.0 on z/VM to grow / FS, forgot to Persistently Setting DASDs Online with /etc/zipl.conf and zipl.

tes, but I haven't had to mess with zipl.conf when doing this. Ted Rodriguez-Bell te...@wellsfargo.com Mainframe and Midrange Services, Wells Fargo Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized

Re: Dracut fix is available now from SUSE for problem with SP4 dasd disks

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SLES kernel fixes (Was Bug with XFS and SLES 12SP3 kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-default)

on the 21st, and that for some people it was serious. Ted Rodriguez-Bell Wells Fargo Mainframe and Midrange Services te...@wellsfargo.com<mailto:te...@wellsfargo.com> Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the add

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

"Not Affected". So I don't think waiting for the fix will significantly harm anyone's system security... If anyone cares, our ticket is SR101165092091 Ted Rodriguez-Bell Wells Fargo Mainframe and Midrange Services te...@wellsfargo.com<mailto:te...@wellsfargo.com> Company policy require

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

son who fills the logging disk by starting every line with "* * * * *". It will cause people to curse many generations of your descendants. And please: let us know what you find out! Ted Rodriguez-Bell Wells Fargo, Mainframe and Midrange Services [ Only slightly an opinion of my employer.

Re: Problems with perl after sles 11 sp4 to sles 12 sp2 upgrade

797 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1710088 Nov 3 08:59 /usr/bin/perl5.18.2 (note that the link count is 2 and they have the same inode number), so something got bollixed up in the installation Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization, z/VM and z/Linux, Wells Fargo Company policy requi

Rexx for SLES12?

t; program, but that's unsupported and may not fly with the Powers That Be. Thank you! Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux te...@wellsfargo.com Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the

Re: Bash loop failing

lly, um, interesting interactions between that and ${FILE[@]}. In an empty directory the above with -u throws an error in bash, but not in ksh. Using the indices as Neale does is safe in bash even when FILE is empty. Ted Rodriguez-Bell te...@wellsfargo.com<mailto:te...@wellsfargo.com>, 4

LISA meetup?

Is anyone else going to LISA next week? If so, do we want to get together? If I get any positive responses I'll put something up on their bulletin board by Wednesday morning. (LISA is Usenix's large systems administration conference: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa16 ) Ted Rodriguez

Re: Bash specially-crafted environment variables code injection attack

on this means really, really critical; usually LTSS updates come days or weeks later. Ted Rodriguez-Bell Wells Fargo Company policy requires:  This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.  If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you

Re: zLinux SLES 11 SP3 - Registering the Wrong Kernel Version

If mkinitrd zipl worked, perhaps the :menu stanza in /etc/zipl.conf is hardwired to point to your old kernel. If you change that file, you'll need to rerun at least zipl. Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization, z/VM and z/Linux, Wells Fargo (415) 222-4516 office   (415) 516-7913 cell

Re: Netstat Grep Port Range

}/, but awk's apparently doesn't. One could also use the split function on $4 to split it at the colon and get the port as a number, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the student... Ted Rodriguez-Bell Wells Fargo Co., Linux on zSeries te...@wellsfargo.com Company policy requires

Re: SLES 11 SP3 problems

Mike: Does this also apply to the PTF for the paging kernel bug we found (kernel-default-3.0.101-0.15.1.6580.16.PTF.859225.s390x.rpm)? If it does, the bug is pretty rare; we haven't hit it in a few machine-months of operation... Thanks for warning us! Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise

Re: LINUX-390 Digest - 14 Jan 2014 to 15 Jan 2014 - Unfinished

David: An appropriate sentiment, given what's happening Sunday night. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/features/news/sherlock-season-3-premieres-jan-19-2014/) Ted Company policy requires:  This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information.  If you are not the

Re: LINUX-390 Digest - 14 Jan 2014 to 15 Jan 2014 - Unfinished

David: You wrote: Ø If backleveling the kernel makes the problem go away, then it's clearly a kernel logic problem in the s390x port. Thanks! That was my logic too; it's nice to have it validated by someone who knows more about the kernel than I do. Yours very truly, Ted Rodriguez-Bell

Swap behavior change between SLES 11SP2 and 11SP3?

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Re: SLES 11 SP3 problems

this at all.) In a way, it's remarkable that this little script ever finishes. We would never be able to go so far into swap space if we were swapping to physical disk on a PC. Thanks for all the suggestions! Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization, z/VM and z/Linux, Wells Fargo (415) 222

Re: SLES11 and java 1.6

The packages have had a -32bit in their name, as in the SLES 10 java-1_6_0-ibm-32bit-1.6.0_sr10.1-0.11.1. I don't see any -32bit packages for 11 either. Ted Rodriguez-Bell te...@wellsfargo.com Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information

TCP performance

at? (If this has been discussed, an approximate date or header would help me go through the archives.) Thank you, Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux te...@wellsfargo.com, 415-243-6291 -- Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged

Re: Mounting a filesystem *really* read-only

As the poser of the original question, I'd like to thank everyone who took the trouble to answer. There were far more answers than I expected and a lot of things brought up that I hadn't thought of. Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux te...@wellsfargo.com, 415-243

Mounting a filesystem *really* read-only

to think this might be unsafe? Would Novell support be a better forum than this one? (And we don't want to mess with a clustered filesystem if we don't have to; they'd work but for this it would be overkill.) Gratefully yours, Ted Rodriguez-Bell te...@wellsfargo.com -- Company policy requires

Re: automatic email?

seriously: it's really not hard to configure Postfix for this. You basically have to set the myhostname and relayhost variables in /etc/postfix/main.cf. Be kind to your mail group and accept bounces. Yours very truly, Ted Rodriguez-Bell te...@wellsfargo.com, 415-477-6891 joa...@swbell.net

Large (multi-TB) filesystems

I start arguing. Does anyone have any interesting experiences, good or bad? If you reply directly to me I'll summarize, but I expect that any good stories will entertain the whole list. Ted Rodriguez-Bell z/VM Systems Programming, zSeries Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED], 415-243-6291 -- Company

Reserved blocks on ext2/ext3 filesystems?

%?), but we're also wondering if we have any performance-related time bombs. Thanks for any help! Ted Rodriguez-Bell z/VM Systems Programming, zSeries Engineering, Wells Fargo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

FCP with NPIV

that a WWPN of 0 is a sign that the zoning on the switch is bad. But if I can see it from VM that isn't the problem. Is it? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Ted Rodriguez-Bell WFS Enterprise Hosting Services - z/VM z/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED], 415-243-6291 -- Company policy requires

Re: Informix on z/Linux ?

Our DBAs have tested Informix on SLES 9 and the testing went smoothly. They want to test a newer version under 10. We're not using it yet for anything real, though Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM z/Linux Enterprise Hosting Services, Wells Fargo [EMAIL PROTECTED], 415-243

Re: Applying updates to multiple servers

that); I don't know about SLES. Personally, I have fond memories of ZENworks but I gave it up a year ago to learn VM... The VM group is probably going to go to our own yum repositories as we get out of Levanta, but that's a different discussion. Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Hosting Services - z

Re: Philosophical: Linux vs. AIX

over all the time. Ted Rodriguez-Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Company policy requires: This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based

Re: Trimming a File

to the file closes it before you start, or all the writes will go to an unlinked file that you'll never know is there unless it fills up the disk. On all the above your mileage may vary, use at your own risk, et cetera. Ted Rodriguez-Bell Enterprise Hosting Services - z/VM and z/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED

FW: [LINUX-390] Wrapper around SSH to run command on mutliple Linuxes?

on each system like radmind or cfengine. Then you get into authentication and security issues, or your scripts run more when the daemons feel like it rather than when you need an answer. Cfengine is a brilliant piece of work, but this isn't quite the problem for which it was built. Ted Rodriguez