Re: Linux and VSAM

2003-07-23 Thread Ceruti, Gerard G
Thanks all , I will chat to the Capman and see what the plan might be. regards Gerard -Original Message- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 July, 2003 17:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux and VSAM On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Ceruti, Gerard G wrote: Hi All I

Re: More on the latest SCO efforts to destroy open source

2003-07-23 Thread Phil Payne
And a generous offer from Microsoft: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2137959,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage It's hardly generous, unless you were being ironic. It's perfectly normally for suppliers to indemnify customers, with the twin provisos that the customer notifies the supplier

Re: Updating SuSE Kernel

2003-07-23 Thread Loren Charnley, Jr.
Mark, Thanks for the reply. For the first time, SuSE had a good response time. The whole problem started with a mix up on the proper key to register. It did not raise it's ugly head until we attempted a kernel upgrade for a specific install. All is good again after registering the proper key

Re: Problems with sysstat package on Debian

2003-07-23 Thread Hodge, Robert L
I built the Debian Linux 2.4.21 kernel with Leland's patch, and sar and iostat are now reporting I/Os. Thanks very much for your help. --Robert -Original Message- From: Lucius, Leland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 9:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Known problems with HSI, QETH, configurations during RedHat 7 .2 install?

2003-07-23 Thread Eric Sammons
OK I have reviewed the procedures and I have implemented them. The thing that concerned me right away was the kernel version numbers. My current redhat.img and initrd.img files are based on kernel 2.4.9-37. The procedures are for 2.4.9-17. I went ahead and made the initrd_oso.img file and

SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-23 Thread Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission
Go Aussies! http://www.theregister.com/content/61/31910.html In that splendid Australian way, OSV is inventive with the invective, likening SCO's bid to make Linux users pay up as the IT industry equivalent of a Nigerian scam or Internet extortion ploy. Peter Webb Technical Support

Re: Problems with sysstat package on Debian

2003-07-23 Thread Lucius, Leland
I built the Debian Linux 2.4.21 kernel with Leland's patch, and sar and iostat are now reporting I/Os. Cool, glad to be of help. Leland

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-23 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission wrote: Go Aussies! http://www.theregister.com/content/61/31910.html In that splendid Australian way, OSV is inventive with the invective, likening SCO's bid to make Linux users pay up as the IT industry equivalent of a

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-23 Thread McKown, John
I really liked: http://www.osv.org.au/index.cgi?tid=29 in particular, the paragraph: quote SCO's suggestion that these end users would somehow be at legal risk through using Linux is a wholly disingenuous statement, and is akin to the hypothetical situation of General Motors suing owners of

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-23 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, McKown, John wrote: I really liked: http://www.osv.org.au/index.cgi?tid=29 in particular, the paragraph: quote SCO's suggestion that these end users would somehow be at legal risk through using Linux is a wholly disingenuous statement, and is akin to the hypothetical

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-23 Thread Fargusson.Alan
Actually this kind of thing was common in the early days of the automobile industry. There was even a patent granted on the car. GM and Chrysler paid royalties to someone for years, but Henry Ford refused. The case went on for several years. The patent holder died, and his family decided to

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-23 Thread Phil Payne
Have you noticed that most cars look like they were designed by the same guy? Most cars move through the same air, using the same fuel, and carrying the same passengers with the same baggage. Most computers are rectangular boxes. Things are different under the covers, which is where the

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-23 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 16:53, Fargusson.Alan wrote: Actually this kind of thing was common in the early days of the automobile industry. There was even a patent granted on the car. GM and Chrysler paid royalties to someone for years, but Henry Ford refused. The case went on for several

German Linux community strikes back at SCO

2003-07-23 Thread Lionel Dyck
Very interesting: http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/ScoSource-19-Injunction_Story01.html Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information Technology 25 N. Via Monte Ave Walnut Creek, Ca 94598 Phone: (925)

Problem(s) with gcc 3.3

2003-07-23 Thread Post, Mark K
I compiled gcc 3.3 on my LCDS instance. When I ran the make check command it failed on the gctest. This seems to be a test of the Boehm garbage collector. I then re-compiled gcc 3.3, using gcc 3.3 as the compiler. The same part of make check failed. The error message is spectacularly

Re: Known problems with HSI, QETH, configurations during RedHat 7 .2 install?

2003-07-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Eric, If you're interested, I can set up an account on my LCDS system for you to upload the initrd. I'll try taking a look at it to see what might be wrong. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Eric Sammons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-23 Thread Joe Poole
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 12:08, you wrote: Have you noticed that most cars look like they were designed by the same guy? I think he's the same guy who designs all the sneakers, too.

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-23 Thread paultz
Have you noticed that most cars look like they were designed by the same guy? I think he's the same guy who designs all the sneakers, too. I thought my Chuck Converse's were starting to look an awfull lot like Nikes! ;-) pct

Re: Known problems with HSI, QETH, configurations during RedHat 7 .2 install?

2003-07-23 Thread Eric Sammons
Mark, Thank you for the offer, I actually figured out the issue and resolved it. First, as I was building my new initrd.img file and ftping it around I forgot to set locsite fix 80 on the client (z/VM). Then I discovered that if I look at the 2.4.9-37 oco tarball there is a ocord.img. If I

zipl log message

2003-07-23 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Here's a trivial update to zipl (s390-tools) to get it to write an audit message to syslog to report all writes of the bootloader. It simply provides some of the parameters used to invoke it. I wrote it to provide me with a record of when the kernel/parameters may have changed. ---

Re: Known problems with HSI, QETH, configurations during RedHat 7 .2 install?

2003-07-23 Thread Karsten Hopp
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:00:58PM -0400, Post, Mark K wrote: ... Now I am attempting the install, It seems I may not have the FTP site laid out correctly. Any advice on how best to set up the FTP directory structure. I have /ftp/RedHat/CD1 and /ftp/RedHat/CD2, is there another way to

Re: Suse 8.0 under 9672 G4

2003-07-23 Thread Carlos A. Bodra
Nilson, I have suse 7.2 running without problems in a G4 machine. About 8.0, I4m looking for cd4s, since suse didn4t make it available to download. :-( Nilson Vieira escreveu: Hi All Does any one know if suse 8.0 for s390 runs on 9672 G4? Whenever i try to tape ipl i get disable wait end the

Any of you not seen a kernel OOPs wanna see one?

2003-07-23 Thread Lucius, Leland
!!!DO NOT DO THIS ON A PRODUCTION IMAGE!!! This is probably a know issue, but thought some of you more sadistic types that have never seen one, might like to see a pretty little kernel OOPs. (This is a fairly lame one though...) Just modprobe any of the dasd_*_mod disciplines and then rmmod it.

Re: Any of you not seen a kernel OOPs wanna see one?

2003-07-23 Thread Post, Mark K
Leland, Not for me. I issued the command, and it worked just fine. No errors in dmesg or anything. # cat /proc/s390dbf/dasd/sprintf 00 01055273287:534983 0 - 00 00212336 debug area created 00 01055273287:535076 1 - 00 002122f6 Registered successfully to major no 94 00 01055273287:535131 1 -

Re: Any of you not seen a kernel OOPs wanna see one?

2003-07-23 Thread Lucius, Leland
Ah, bummer! And I was having so much fun. I'm running a 2.4.19-4suse-SMP kernel. You running a 2.4.21? I looked at the source for 2.4.21 and it looked like it would have the same problem. You did the rmmod before catting? Weird. Now, I'm gonna have to go and try a stock IBM kernel to see

Re: Any of you not seen a kernel OOPs wanna see one?

2003-07-23 Thread Post, Mark K
No, I'm running a 2.4.19. I did manage to miss the comment about doing an rmmod on the module. Sorry. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Lucius, Leland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 6:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Any of you not seen a kernel OOPs

Re: Any of you not seen a kernel OOPs wanna see one?

2003-07-23 Thread Lucius, Leland
No, I'm running a 2.4.19. I did manage to miss the comment about doing an rmmod on the module. Sorry. Did you get the OOPs? I have a nice collection of multi-colored AND multi-textured pocket lint for the first person to figure out why it happens. :-) Leland

Re: Any of you not seen a kernel OOPs wanna see one?

2003-07-23 Thread Lucius, Leland
Before anyone yells, I should note that this is NOT a MAJOR problem and fairly obscure. But, depending on what route is taken, the fix could require too many changes to make it worthwhile to pursue by IBM. So, now that you know HOW to make it happen, the easiest fix is simply NOT to do it. :-)

Re: zipl log message

2003-07-23 Thread Richard Troth
Here's a trivial update to zipl (s390-tools) to get it to write an audit message to syslog to report all writes of the bootloader. ... Fabulous, Neale! The wonderful thing about SYSLOG is that it can be directed to a network sink, not just a file. On CMS, one could watch the traffic with

Re: SCO not playing by Aussie Rules

2003-07-23 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 16:53, Fargusson.Alan wrote: Actually this kind of thing was common in the early days of the automobile industry. There was even a patent granted on the car. GM and Chrysler paid royalties to someone for years, but Henry Ford

Re: Known problems with HSI, QETH, configurations during RedHat 7 .2 install?

2003-07-23 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Eric Sammons wrote: Mark, Thank you for the offer, I actually figured out the issue and resolved it. First, as I was building my new initrd.img file and ftping it around I forgot to set locsite fix 80 on the client (z/VM). Then I discovered that if I look at the

Re: Any of you not seen a kernel OOPs wanna see one?

2003-07-23 Thread Lucius, Leland
You can make it happen other ways: echo /proc/dasd/devices add range asdf cat /proc/s390dbf/dasd/sprintf or echo /proc/chpids asdf cat /proc/s390dbf/cio_msg/sprintf Looks like the lcs driver may also be plagued by the problem as well. The tape driver looks clean though.

large volume support

2003-07-23 Thread Alex Leyva
Hi all, did somebody is using large volume support with linux 390? is it recommended to use it with z/vm with volumes of 32760 cyl? how do i enable it on z/vm 4.3? thanks -- Alejandro Leyva Rabinovich. Jefe de la Unidad Departamental de Soporte Ticnico (Administracisn de Mainframe). Direccisn