Doug Clark wrote:
I received an error message trying to run a configure script for LVM. One
message I saw stated that I should Consider using the --with-kernel_dir
flag and I have seen the use with-kernel_dir flag comment is other
documentation.
I have a slight feeling it meant to complain that
Thanks.
I believe that I made it through about half of those, and then gave up. I was just
surprised that GNOME wasn't somehow more 'self-contained' like the MySQL or Webmin
rpm's were.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/03 06:07PM
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 18:08, Post, Mark K wrote:
Welcome to RPM.
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 13:19, Kenneth Illingsworth wrote:
Thanks.
I believe that I made it through about half of those, and then gave up. I was just
surprised that GNOME wasn't somehow more 'self-contained' like the MySQL or Webmin
rpm's were.
Gnome is in many parts for two reasons
1.
Please see the What's New page at:
http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390/whatsnew.shtml
for a change summary of the 2003-03-05 additions and changes to the
Linux for zSeries and S/390 DeveloperWorks pages.
- Performance Hints and Tips
- August 2001 stream:
o
Instead of #cp disconnect use #cp logoff or go to your maint machine and
force the instance off. This will make sure that you are not leaving
anything hanging.
Loren Charnley, Jr.
Tech Support Administrator
Family Dollar Stores, Inc.
Phone: (704) 847-6961 Ext. 2000
-Original Message-
Add to /etc/modules.conf line
insmod_opt=-f
Then try new drivers. If it won't help, get to us your /etc/chandev.conf
WBR, Sergey
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Leland,
The effect of PARMREGS=0-15 on the DEFSYS
is the default for DEFSYS if no PARMREGS was specified,
and the behaviour of your NSS then is similar to IPL from device,
*except* that omitting PARMREGS from DEFSYS sets up an NSS for which
the regs are not zeroed out before filling with PARM
I'm trying to use a TCP/IP VIPA defined as a dummy device
with OSA-express.
The dummy device is up and running.
I can ping it within my Linux;
but I can't do that from outside yet.
I have tried the add_vipa4 command
in the following way
echo add_vipa4 .. /proc/qeth_ipa_takeover #
I sympathize with you. I tried to get Gnome working on an iMac and a G4 Macintosh,
with SuSE Linux. Both were failures.
I didn't have any success with KDE either.
I think this is the main reason people still use Windows. It is just to hard to get
GUI working on Linux.
On the up side, my
Hello from Gregg C Levine
That's decidedly very interesting. And yes, I sympathize with you, as
well. But here, I have gotten a GUI to work on my Slackware Linux
setup. Each time, it has been either a native X-Windows, or that of
KDE, or once, or twice Gnome.
Yes, it is difficult. Tux, wants
What is the problem you were having? My experience has been just the
opposite. With Redhat, SuSE, and Slackware I was able to get a GUI pretty
much 'out of the box'. Some twiddling was needed with Slackware. Nothing
rocket science.
|-+
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On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:35:40AM -0600, Lucius, Leland wrote:
http://www.homerow.net/projects/zlinux/vmparms.htm
Doesn't apply cleanly for me.
My kernel source has the following patches applied, in order:
linux-2.4.19-s390-may2002.diff
linux-2.4.19-timer-may2002.diff
However, patch -F 3 allows it to go on.
Adam
Try that format
add_vipa4 addr:interface
WBR, Sergey
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cc:
Subject:
What is the difference between this commands?
My linux has OSA (eth) and hsi interfaces. And OSA isn't primary router.
So, what should i do, to connect Hipersocket's network with outside LAN
through my Linux eth interface?
WBR, Sergey
On the G4 there was a problem with the video card driver that required a rebuild of
the kernel, which I could not do because there was a problem with the video card
driver that required a rebuild of the kernel... I could not work around this because
the video would not even work in character
What shutdown command are you using? The one I use is:
shutdown -h now
Mark Post
-Original Message-
From: Naoshi Kubo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:54 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NOT disabled wait
I have a question about shutdown linux.
I
Thanks Sergey. I am not sure where the parm below would be added to
modules.conf andI tried a couple of different things but I still do not get
the QETH interface. I also tried an insmod -f qdio and insmod -f qeth and it
still gave the version mismatch message but it appeared to be more a warning
How many are sharing DASD between Linux and OS LPARs rather than having a
few volumes dedicated to the Linux LPAR?.What effects of the Linux
autosensing all shared devices and causing sharing problems that IBM warns
about have you seen? Is just having something like
dasd=192-194,200
in the
Hi,
During a fresh linux install, the installation program seems to generate
a key for SSH and perhaps other applications. If I use this install and
to clone multiple linux images, how do I or do I need to re-generate this
key? It seems to me that if I don't, then they cloned systems would all
I am about to do a trial with Websphere. Do I also need to go ahead and
download the IBMJava2 JRE also or is a JRE included with Websphere?
Thanks.
Mark D Pace
Senior Systems Engineer
Mainline Information Systems
1700 Summit Lake Drive
Tallahassee, FL. 32317
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office:
Yes, that would be a problem. What you should do is delete the ssh key
files after the cloning has been done. The first startup of the daemon
should generate new key files.
Mark Post
-Original Message-
From: Aria Bamdad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:53 PM
Good question!!
Strictly speaking,
to be able to connect, you do not have to re-generate these keys.
But that results in the same key fingerprinting multiple hosts,
which is really not what you want: each host should have a
unique fingerprint.
Re-creating them is easy: ssh-keygen
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:52:33PM -0500, Aria Bamdad wrote:
During a fresh linux install, the installation program seems to generate
a key for SSH and perhaps other applications. If I use this install and
to clone multiple linux images, how do I or do I need to re-generate this
key? It
Yes, DB2 was installed. I do not remember the screen now to know if I had an
option, but it did get DB2 installed. We have Websphere, and were told to
install DB2 for websphere, and not use the DB2 which comes with websphere.
In V7.x DB2Connect EE, the administration server (DAS) was installed, I
Here's how it works:
The SSH package's startup script, (/etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd on Red Hat),
runs the following:
KEYGEN=/usr/bin/ssh-keygen
RSA_KEY=/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
...
if [ ! -s $RSA_KEY ]; then
echo -n $Generating SSH2 RSA host key:
if $KEYGEN -q -t
The patch seems to work, although I tend to get junk at the end of the
parm line if I specify it, and the capitalization all goes away.
For example, if I do
ipl deb24m parm line VMPOFF='IPL CMS'
what shows up is
Kernel command line: root=/dev/dasd/0150/part1 ro noinitrd
dasd=0150-015f
Delete the key members from /etc/ssh, and reboot. The init script will regenerate
new keys.
-Original Message-
From: Aria Bamdad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [LINUX-390] SSH key and cloning linux images
Hi,
Mark,
JRE needs to be installed prior to the WAS install. I'm going through the
same process. I am following the silent install method which is based on
a RESPONSEFILE.TXT in which all the install options are coded. I had some
problems with the install.sh and firststeps.sh scripts.They
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:45:29 -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
I think this is the main reason people still use Windows. It is just to hard to
get GUI working on Linux.
Oh, please. Try www.knoppix.org - download a CD-image, burn a CD, then
boot your system from CD. Works fine.
A couple of weeks ago,
On Wednesday, 03/05/2003 at 07:54 ZE2, Sergey Korzhevsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the difference between this commands?
My linux has OSA (eth) and hsi interfaces. And OSA isn't primary router.
So, what should i do, to connect Hipersocket's network with outside LAN
through my Linux eth
A JVM comes with WebSphere.
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 01:07 pm, you wrote:
I am about to do a trial with Websphere. Do I also need to go ahead and
download the IBMJava2 JRE also or is a JRE included with Websphere?
Thanks.
Mark D Pace
Senior Systems Engineer
Mainline Information
JRE needs to be installed prior to the WAS install. I'm going through
the
same process. I am following the silent install method which is based
on
a RESPONSEFILE.TXT in which all the install options are coded. I had
some
problems with the install.sh and firststeps.sh scripts.They are
A JVM comes with WebSphere.
Rich
JRE needs to be installed prior to the WAS install.
rob
Best 2 out of 3? ;)
Mark D Pace
Senior Systems Engineer
Mainline Information Systems
1700 Summit Lake Drive
Tallahassee, FL. 32317
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: 850.219.5184
Fax: 850.219.5050
My kernel source has the following patches applied, in order:
linux-2.4.19-s390-may2002.diff
linux-2.4.19-timer-may2002.diff
linux-2.4.19-s390-1-may2002.diff
linux-2.4.19-s390-2-may2002.diff
linux-2.4.19-s390-3-may2002.diff
That's weird. I just rebuilt a source tree using the patches
Hall, Ken (ECSS) wrote:
Delete the key members from /etc/ssh, and reboot.
Well, for ssh. You will probably find more. I think you should
clone your system earlier in the process, before anything has
been running. That will also prevent last logon dates of the
wrong system, syslogd files of
I'm doing a silent install.
./install.sh -options /RESPONSEFILE.TXT
Before JRE was installed on my instance I get the following errors.
InstallShield Wizard
Initializing InstallShield Wizard...
Searching for Java(tm) Virtual Machine...
This is what I wrote (and reading is equally hard I see ;-)
vipa () {
hx=$(echo obase=16;$2 | tr '.' ';' | bc | \
sed 's/^\([0-9A-F]\)$/0\1/' | tr -d '\n')
echo $1 ${hx}:$mydev /proc/qeth_ipa_takeover
}
We call the thing where $mydev is eth0 or such.
ifconfig
Some people get lucky. That does not make for a system that is easy to install for
everyone.
-Original Message-
From: Per Jessen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Gnome
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:45:29 -0800,
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:34:20PM -0500, Alan Altmark wrote:
On Wednesday, 03/05/2003 at 07:54 ZE2, Sergey Korzhevsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the difference between this commands?
My linux has OSA (eth) and hsi interfaces. And OSA isn't primary router.
So, what should i do, to
Richard,
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by sharing, in this case. Is it simply
having the same DASD in the I/O gen for each LPAR, as opposed to trying to
actually share the data? If the latter, don't do that, there's no means to
insure data integrity. If the former, I would still advise
Or, you could say that some people get unlucky. That doesn't make for a
system that is difficult to install for everyone.
A few weeks ago, I got handed a Compaq Armada 7800 laptop. I grabbed my
Slackware CD, booted up with it, did the install (including KDE) and had
things working in about an
Adam Thornton wrote:
This must be that new extra-strong cough sirup...
WHY, oh WHY can we not have something that's a *DUMB* OSA?
Our CPU's are too expensive to be bothered with ARP. I don't want to wake
up otherwise idle penguins to ask whether they have recent knowledge about
MAC addresses
Are you telling me that you can guarantee that this will work on any system?
Also, I think you missed the part ware I said I was installing on a Macintosh, which
knoppix does not support.
-Original Message-
From: Per Jessen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 2:40
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:13:03 -0800, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
Some people get lucky. That does not make for a system that is easy to
install for everyone.
But knoppix does /just/ that. What can be easier than placing the CD in the tray,
hit load, then reboot ? No HDD partitioning, no install, no
How do I, within a program, get the full pathname of the program I'm
executing? argv[0] will have the command name but not necessarily the full
pathname.
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 18:14, Fargusson.Alan wrote:
On the G4 there was a problem with the video card driver that required a rebuild of
the kernel, which I could not do because there was a problem with the video card
driver that required a rebuild of the kernel... I could not work around this
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:46:55PM -0500, Ferguson, Neale wrote:
How do I, within a program, get the full pathname of the program I'm
executing? argv[0] will have the command name but not necessarily the full
pathname.
You can also look at /proc/pid/exe or if argv[] only has partial
There is no reliable way. This is true of Unix, and Linux.
Tell me what you are trying to do and I will probably be able to tell you a better,
and safer way to do it.
-Original Message-
From: Ferguson, Neale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:47 PM
To: [EMAIL
Ferguson, Neale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I, within a program, get the full pathname of the program I'm
executing? argv[0] will have the command name but not necessarily the full
pathname.
Neale,
In general, you have to know the name of the program (argv[0]
may be incorrect) and
I'm doing stack backtracing and lookup of return addresses per stack frame
(using __builtin_frame_address and __builtin_return_address). I use dladdr()
to get the name of the object a given entry point is in. I then use the
bfd_ routines (part of binutils) to locate the symbols within the
How does the command 'which' work? The symbolic link /proc/self/exe will
point to the absolute path.
-Original Message-
In general, you have to know the name of the program (argv[0]
may be incorrect) and then have to look at the users PATH
environment to find it...
That is - you
The which command uses the PATH, after checking for builtins, and aliases.
-Original Message-
From: Ferguson, Neale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 4:35 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: API to get fullpath name
How does the command 'which' work? The
This approach does not work if the program is being exec'd
and the exec() call sets argv[0] to something strange.
Leaving argv[0] set to the original command (then exec())
or setting it to something strange are very useful features
of the UNIX API. Good stuff. (But doesn't help
Sorry, I took so long to get back. Real work go in the way of all my fun
today. I hate when that happens. ;-)
The patch seems to work, although I tend to get junk at the end of the
parm line if I specify it, and the capitalization all goes away.
For example, if I do
ipl deb24m parm line
Lucius:
The string provided by z/VM is terminated by a byte of binary zero, at
least according to the CP Command and Utility Reference. If it is, it
should be easy to find the end of the values supplied on IPL.I would
recommend ensuring the high-order byte of GR0 is zero when the SAVESYS
command
Ferguson, Neale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does the command 'which' work? The symbolic link /proc/self/exe will
point to the absolute path.
'which' looks at your PATH environment variable - looking
for the file name you gave it as a parameter as in,
If I were to execute this
Richard Troth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This approach does not work if the program is being exec'd
and the exec() call sets argv[0] to something strange.
Leaving argv[0] set to the original command (then exec())
or setting it to something strange are very useful features
of the UNIX
I've always done the WebSphere 4.0.n installation from a Linux workstation
with X and SSH into the z/linux box, so I was able to use the clickey X
installer thing. You will want to have that set up to run the admin console
from anyway, unless there is some kind of command line admin tool I'm not
Take a look at the source for 'lsof' -- you might find some help there.
Based on observed behaviour, there's usually an open file descriptor
that points to the binary that's being executed.
Not a *nix internals guru,
-dan.
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ferguson, Neale wrote:
How do I, within a program,
Hey All,
Here's the request: I'd really like to get some performance perspective
from those individuals that have used WAS under linux, AIX and or MVS.
We are getting ready to use WAS and would like to get a view on which
platform should yield the best performance from those that have used it.
-Original Message-
From: Romney White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel patch to add VM IPL PARM support
Lucius:
The string provided by z/VM is terminated by a byte of binary zero, at
least according to
The string provided by z/VM is terminated by a byte of binary zero, at
least according to the CP Command and Utility Reference. If it is, it
should be easy to find the end of the values supplied on IPL.I would
recommend ensuring the high-order byte of GR0 is zero when the SAVESYS
command is
This is one that is looking to be all over the map. If you have data entry or
transactional type workload on WAS, Linux for zSeries is a great fit. Fast,
small transactions that do some database activity on the back end and send
back a web page. We have one customer on the west coast that has
Leland:
If you don't specify PARMREGS then you don't get a trailing X'00'. And,
you only get a trailing X'00' if the PARM is shorter than the size that
the PARMREGS value implies. The documentation doesb't say this, but the
code does.
Romney
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:00:38 -0600 Lucius, Leland
Post, Mark K wrote:
wrote a document on how to write the 3 starter files to disk so that you can
IPL without using a tape, though. Take a look at
http://linuxvm.org/Info/l390link.html
and see if you can find the one that points to
http://www.rvdheij.com/linuxipl.html
Post, Mark K wrote:
One can only hope. It's made life miserable for a number of people, myself
included, over time.
But have you looked at it recently? Last time I looked I found support
for a second initrd image for the starter system to make adding the OCO
modules fairly easy.
PS With SuSE you
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