Re: Linux/390 application development

2002-01-11 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Further to my reference of the ISV site. I've been monitoring the site every couple of weeks just to see what's coming out. There seems to be something new everytime. I think that's an important index of acceptance. The more important one, of course, is how well the ISVs do.

Re: swap file alloc

2002-01-18 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Is there really a need to dasdfmt following the CMS FORMAT/RESERVE? -Original Message- #cho Activating swap-devices in /etc/fstab...#wapon -a /dev/nullecho Formatting T-DISK swap partitiondasdfmt -b 4096 -y -f /dev/dasdaecho Creating swap file signaturemkswap /dev/dasda1echo

Washington Post: AOL in Talks to Buy Redhat

2002-01-20 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-19-002-20-NW-RH; AOL Time Warner Inc. is in talks to buy Red Hat Inc., a prominent distributor of a computer operating system, an acquisition that would position the media giant to challenge arch rival Microsoft Corp., according to sources

Re: RedHat 7.2 and LVM

2002-01-22 Thread Ferguson, Neale
We have several CVS servers running on Linux/390 that use LVM and I've not heard of any problems. The network traffic I've seen indicates that they're successfully serving GBs of data. -Original Message- Hi Phil, I'm planning on implementing LVM and wasn't aware that there were an

Re: Why not IBM's Linux

2002-01-22 Thread Ferguson, Neale
People having trouble installing Oracle 9i Developers' on their systems are told that only SuSE SLES7 is what they'll get help with on their Linux Oracle forum. Thus, if you want to evaluate Oracle you can't do it by picking up the freely available 7.0. This may lead to a situation where you need

Re: Problem with DB2 Connect and SLES7

2002-01-24 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I was able to use DB2 with fixpak 3 on SLES7. This is what rpm reports I have: db2cliv71-7.1.0-40 db2cucs71-7.1.0-40 db2cnvj71-7.1.0-40 db2cnvk71-7.1.0-40 db2cnvc71-7.1.0-40 db2cnvt71-7.1.0-40 db2jdbc71-7.1.0-40 db2rte71-7.1.0-40 db2crte71-7.1.0-40 db2cdrd71-7.1.0-40 db2das71-7.1.0-40

Store chain is sold on Linux

2002-01-24 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Another story on Boscov. See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-24-019-20-NW-DP; Boscov's Department Stores , the largest family-owned department store chain in the country with $1 billion in annual sales, began experiencing unexpectedly high costs associated with ongoing

ZDNet: IBM: Linux Can Take on the World

2002-01-31 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-31-018-26-NW-BZ-SV; IBM, having embraced Linux, now is on a mission to convince others that the operating system is worthy of real-world use. To further its cause, IBM put on display at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here four big-name

CA Responding to Customer Calls for Linux IT Answers

2002-02-01 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Okay Ross, this is only because I like you guys... See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-02-01-001-26-NW-HE; Two years ago, just five of Computer Associates International Inc.'s 100 largest enterprise customers were asking President and CEO Sanjay Kumar about the then-nascent

Re: Bistro Maths (was: No more Mr Nice guy

2002-02-01 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Look, if it's good enough for literature prize winners to plagiarize - I'll just claim it as paying homage. Life: loathe it or ignore it, you certainly can't like it.

Re: SUSE install on a OS/390 LPAR

2002-02-01 Thread Ferguson, Neale
What happens with this sequence: insmod dasd probeonly rmmod dasd insmod dasd dasd=4c0-4c4 -Original Message- SuSE Instsys linuxlpar:/root # insmod dasd probeonly Using /lib/modules/2.2.16/block/dasd.o SuSE Instsys linuxlpar:/root # insmod dasd 04c0-04c4 Using

CMS/Compatible disks and s390x

2002-02-06 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I have a s390 (2.4.7) system that registers its DASD as shown below. I now create a s390x (2.4.7) system on X'202' and attempt to use the existing DASD. Swap is able to use 193, ext2fs is recognized on 200-202. However, 192 and 290 are not able to be used. The dasd driver claims they're not

Validating a userland address

2002-02-06 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Is there an API I can call that allows me to validate an address as living within userland (and is known in the vma)? For example, if I'm backtracing through stack frames and the backchain value I retrieve is non-zero but doesn't represent a valid address (i.e. if I were to use it I would crash).

Linux for S/390 and zSeries porting hints and tips

2002-02-07 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-02-07-013-20-PS-HE-DV; These Linux/390 hints and tips have been assembled by an IBM technical team responsible for porting applications to Linux/390. Some key areas of Linux/390 porting are addressed such as sigcontext structure on S/390

Re: Linux/390 Community Members

2002-02-07 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Gees, if you wanted Ross Patterson's you only had to go into any Post Office.

Re: Crosspost Question: The Hessling Editor (THE) and ISPF

2002-02-09 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I think that might be a felony in most states. ;-) According to the notes the important differences from ISPF are: The biggest area of conflict/confusion is prefix commands - 'A' in THE is add a line following this one - 'A' in ISPF is a target for moving or copying lines (move/copy the lines

Re: SLES Beta and HiperSockets ? - now MTU size quest ion

2002-02-12 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Don't mix up framesize with MTU. For 16K framesize MTU is 8K. For 24K MTU is 16K etc. -Original Message- Question about MTU sizes, though. I let MFS default to 16k on the CP DEFINE LAN command. And so, in z/VM's MPROUTE CONFIG I specified an MTU size of 16384 and in Linux's

Open Source Study

2002-02-13 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://www.osdn.com/bcg/; Who are the hackers that create all this great free software? How much time do they spend? Why do they do it? Where are they from? Do they think its sustainable? In order to better understand the nature of this dynamic community and provide lessons to the business

Hipersocket problem

2002-02-14 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I've seen a fair bit of traffic recently about gigabit ethernet and hipersocket problems (and eventual solutions). After having great success on our 2064 we've recently updated drivers and microcode. Now the successes have been replaced by abject failures. We're attempting to get a hipersocket

Socket settings

2002-02-20 Thread Ferguson, Neale
In Windows there parameters that allow you to control the number of ports that can be used and the time to wait for sockets in TIME_WAIT state. The former parameter is MaxUserPorts (which can be used to set the value of the uppermost port that the administrator chooses to allow for outbound

Re: top

2002-02-21 Thread Ferguson, Neale
With. -Original Message- With or without VM? (presumably with)

Re: top

2002-02-21 Thread Ferguson, Neale
It's very slow with 8 dedicated processors I think I'll rebuild it with [c|g]prof to see where its slow bits really are. -Original Message- I found even a 'ps -ef' being very slow on a not-so-fast CPU. I'm wondering if maybe the implementation of /proc on Linux for S/390 has

Re: create an ISO from a CD

2002-02-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
For Linux-based CD burners I quite like gcombust which hides all the command line complexities of cdrecord and cdlabelgen in a fairly intuitive gui.

Re: LCS source code for kernel 2.2.16, 2.2.20, 2.4.7, 2.4.17, documentation 2.4, and snipl src_vipa

2002-03-05 Thread Ferguson, Neale
W H!!! linux-2.4.7-s390-6-lcs.tar.gz MD5 recommended (2002-03-04) This patch contains the source code for the lcs device driver. The LCS device driver (formerly available as OCO, only) is now provided in source-code form. This version of the LCS-driver contains the source-code for the

Response to Sun's Reality Check

2002-03-05 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-03-05-016-20-OP-HE-KN; I have been running Linux on the S/390 architecture for two years now and I have yet to see a platform compatibility issue with Linux S/390. In fact, according to IBM Europe, last year - for the first time in a decade -

Re: UDB 7.2 install problems on SuSE 7.2

2002-03-05 Thread Ferguson, Neale
You can just create a symlink to the more current level and things will work fine: /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 - /usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so

Re: Getting close on my CTC ... NOT REALLY!!!!!

2002-03-05 Thread Ferguson, Neale
route add default gw 192.168.1.2? -Original Message- Well I'm at a loss on this Linux-to-OS390 CTC I think I've got everything in place...but I still get these errors: PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) from 192.168.1.2 : 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.1.2: Destination Host

Re: Getting close on my CTC ... NOT REALLY!!!!!

2002-03-06 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Here's my setup: ifconfig ctc0 Link encap:Serial Line IP inet addr:10.20.45.9 P-t-P:10.20.45.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0

Re: sles7 install problem

2002-03-06 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Are you using the FTP method of installing? If so, what platform is the install medium on? -Original Message- I am installing the sles7 beta system under VM and have hit a shag. It has installed all the packages, but can't write out the kernel. YAST gets an error saying file not

IBM's LTC

2002-03-07 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-03-07-001-20-IN-BZ-CY; Three and one-half years ago -- in the middle of '98 -- I was part of a corporate technology team that was looking at emerging technologies. I raised my hand and said 'So what's our Linux strategy?' They said we didn't

Re: zipl

2002-03-12 Thread Ferguson, Neale
What happens if you specify zipl -c /dev/null? Do the rest of your parameters have the effect you're after?

Re: cpint-1.2.2 fails in 64Bit if RAM=2G

2002-03-13 Thread Ferguson, Neale
We'll have to wait until DIAGNOSE 8 is 64-bit enabled. I don't know of anyway to ensure a program lives under the bar (despite having found myself there on several occassions!). When that happens I'll change SAM31 stuff. Neale -Original Message- Hello to all cpint user! / Hello Neale

Re: trying to us OSA/E Gig with

2002-03-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
What level of kernel did you say you were using? Rather than inflict the list with duplicate data (as I couldn't be bothered looking through the archives) would you forward me the logs, chandev.conf and modules.conf you are using please? -Original Message- hello, i am still trying

Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Can anyone do the necessary dig/nslookup to see who really is behind this site: http://www.bigbluesmoke.com;.

Re: Big Blue Smoke

2002-03-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I wasn't implying Sun were hiding. It's just the style of writing is in the vein of The Onion (no reflection on the accuracy or otherwise of the content). I guess I'm not used to reading entertaining stuff coming from the likes of Sun or IBM. I thought it might have been a Sun user group's

Re: Berkeley DB 4.0.1 Config Error

2002-03-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Try this for a spinlock. It's similar to something I coded when I ported Postgresql a couple of years ago. (Have we been doing this for 2 years already?) 31 bit: static inline int TAS(int *lock) { int _res; __asm__ __volatile( lghi1,1\n lg 2,%0\n

Re: can I boot Linux off either cdl or ldl formatted disks?

2002-03-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
My understanding: ldl cdl: Cyl 0 Head 0 Track 2: IPL record ldl cdl: Cyl 0 Head 0 Track 3: Label cdl: Cyl 0 Head 0 Tracks 4-5: DSCBs to make it look like one through four data sets

Re: Samba Strategy

2002-03-16 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I bet the original bit of mail has caused some ripples! Let me add my 2 cents worth here... First of all the account teams need to attend the Top Gun course run in IBM. Then they can form proposals that addressed the problems of a customer rather than layer solutions with extra layers like z/OS

Re: Authentication on Linux using PAM to a z/OS RACF server

2002-03-19 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I ported OpenLDAP 1.2 to OE and submitted the patches to OpenLDAP.org. They've never surfaced. The server is built to use the dbm backend. -Original Message- I didn't mean RACF, I meant DB2 under VM - there is no RACF involved Carlos: I was responding to Phil's question there.

Re: ISO FILES

2002-03-20 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Acquire FDISK. Partition your hard drive and install a Linux system. You can the choose to boot either W2K or Linux. Hercules will run on either. Failing that get VMWare so you can run Linux under W2K or W2K under Linux (but that would affect Hercules performance). -Original Message-

IBM LDP Site

2002-03-20 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I just stumbled across this site: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/;. It's an IBM Linux Documentation Project site. Here's an overview of what's available: Clustering Standardizing Cluster APIs - A presentation by Alan Roberts. (Jan 2002) IBM Linux Clusters -

Re: IBM LDP Site

2002-03-20 Thread Ferguson, Neale
My URL was the LTC's LDP home page. Your URL is the page with the list of pubs. -Original Message- Neale, It took a while, but I finally figured out that you were talking about http://www.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/pubs/ and not the URL you gave.

Re: file extension

2002-03-21 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Use bunzip2 to decompress or tar -xjf xxx.tar.bz2 (the j may be an I on some systems) -Original Message- I have a file that came from SuSE that has an extension xxx.tar.bz2 It looks like some kind of compression algorithm has been done on it. What does the .bz2 extension signify?

Re: Tomcat

2002-03-21 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Yes, our developer's got WebDav up and running and interfaced it with our XML database server. Another developer is in the process of using it for another project. -Original Message- Is anyone using Tomcat ( http://jakarta.apache.org/ ) on S/390 Linux? Regards, Jim Elliott

Re: Tomcat

2002-03-21 Thread Ferguson, Neale
We've been using JServ to do things with Tomcat but are now looking at mod_jk. Any tips?

Re: Tomcat

2002-03-21 Thread Ferguson, Neale
That wasn't Jim that was me. Our own product called Tamino. -Original Message- Jim, What XML database server are you using on Linux/390?

ZDNet: Red Hat Revamps, Eyes Large Corporations

2002-03-21 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-03-21-017-26-NW-BZ-RH; Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, has restructured to focus on big customers while cutting jobs elsewhere, executives said Tuesday.

Re: REXX for Linux?

2002-03-25 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Regina comes with SuSE. IBM have Object Rexx available for evaluation. -Original Message- I'm trying to find if there is REXX for Linux available. Yes, I know I should learn Perl. However, Linux is giving me a much higher learning curve than anything had in the last 15 years. So,

CTRL_ALT_DEL

2002-03-26 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I am playing around with automated shutdown and am trying to use the ctrl_alt_del() routine to achieve the halt. If this routine is entered it checks a global variable C_A_D which by default is set on. However, during startup of my SuSE system it is turned off (via syscall sys_reboot). If I force

Re: New copyright bill could mean the death of Linux...

2002-03-26 Thread Ferguson, Neale
From another list... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 23:00:02 -0500 From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC: CBDTPA bans everything from two-line BASIC programs to PCs Just in case folks haven't figured out how sweeping the

Re:

2002-03-26 Thread Ferguson, Neale
The STSI instruction I assume. -Original Message- Diagnose 0 returns up to *5* levels of information. I don't know how Linux gets an additional 3 levels.

IBM and SuSE Offers New Enterprise-Ready Linux Services

2002-03-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-03-27-009-26-PR-EL-SS; Nuremberg, Germany and Armonk, NY, March 27, 2002 - SuSE Linux and IBM today announced a broad services alliance that will enable both companies to jointly provide Linux support and services to corporate customers around

Re: Hostid Value - CPUID

2002-03-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Try reading the /proc/cpuinfo file.

Re: VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

2002-03-29 Thread Ferguson, Neale
sysctl -w fs.fs-max=new value Place fs.fs-max=newvalue in file /etc/sysctl.conf and have one of your boot scripts issue the sysctl -p command. -Original Message- One of my users got the following message while migrating files to his home directory: VFS: file-max limit 8192

Re: strange emails

2002-04-02 Thread Ferguson, Neale
;-) -Original Message- I apologize for the bizarre emails coming from this address. My 5 year old son thought that he would be like daddy. chris

Re: Suse on 390 install problem

2002-04-04 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Don't use a windows box as your FTP server as it won't support the Rockridge extensions that are needed to access all files on the CD (or CD image). (This is not addressing your original problem but will save your arse down the line. Usually for FTP servers under windows - at least the one's I've

Re: GCC file not recognized : file format not recogni zed

2002-04-05 Thread Ferguson, Neale
There was a significant change to a value in the ELF header that makes new programs unable to run on old kernels (the opposite is possible though). You're going to have to upgrade the kernel. /oracle/ora901/rdbms/lib/opimai.o: file not recognized : File format not recognized

Taiwan Securities Firm Selects Acucorp for Linux in IBM S/390 Ser ver Migration

2002-04-19 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-04-19-008-26-PR-BZ-HE; Acucorp, an international provider of application development solutions designed to solve mission-critical business issues, announced that it was selected by the Taiwan Securities Central Depository Co., Ltd. to assist

Re: LinuxWorld Article series

2002-04-20 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Please note that the use of putc in a multithreaded environment under any Linux yields horrible results due to locking/mutexes. Replace with _IO_putc_unlocked() and see the difference. I'm not sure if Bonnie uses pthreads (I ran it some months ago but can't recall). -Original Message-

Re: LinuxWorld Article series

2002-04-21 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Actually, my warning was slightly off beam anyway. putc will use mutex logic irrespective of pthreads or not. If you know you're program will not do so then that's when you use _IO_putc_unlocked().

Re: Addressing problems using asm embedded in C

2002-04-24 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Are you using relative jumps? Can you post a sample? -Original Message- I'm trying to write some assembler embedded in C via __asm__ __volatile__(). A couple hundred lines or so. Compiler doesn't complain, but linker gives relocation truncated to fit errors on any instruction

Re: FW: Addressing problems using asm embedded in C

2002-04-24 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Hi, Like I indicated in my first reply and subsequently (and eloquently) expanded upon by Uli, you should use relative addressing rather than base-displacement. Here's a quick reworking of your example. Scan the .h files in /usr/include/asm for examples of using S/390 assembler inline. asm (

Re: Subject: Kernel panic: It's fixed, Linux is ali ve!

2002-04-25 Thread Ferguson, Neale
They do: It's called Beer!! -Original Message- Watching the console scroll by on your very first boot of your very first 390/Llinux system is a very good feeling .. Wish I could bottle it ;-)

Re: Is there a cpint for kernel 2.4.7?

2002-04-26 Thread Ferguson, Neale
What errors are you getting? I did 1.1.2 specifically to support 2.4.x kernels. -Original Message- I have source for one called cpint-1.1.2 but it won't compile on 2.4.7. I also have cpint-2.2.16-2.s390.rpm but it has a versioning problem and won't install.

read

2002-04-30 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Strange situation: #!/bin/sh a=1.2.3 echo a=$a b=`echo $a | tr -d .` echo b=$b echo $a | tr -d . | read -e c echo c=$c I'd expect: a=1.2.3 b=123 c=123 but I get: a=1.2.3 b=123 c= The builtin function read is supposed to read from standard input which should be the output stage of the pipe.

Re: read

2002-04-30 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Thanks Malcolm! -Original Message- It's because the read is getting executed in a separate process. Excerpting from http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part3/section-8.html Right, take the next example: foo=bar echo bletch | read foo echo foo is

Linux Jockeys, Meet Mainframe Mavens

2002-04-30 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-04-30-012-26-NW-HE-SV; One can hardly imagine two more different groups of people in the world of computing. In the glass house, where the mainframe reigns in air-conditioned splendor, mainframe jockeys running Cobol batch jobs keep the core

SuSE Ships Enterprise Server 7 for 64-bit IBM eServer zSeries

2002-04-30 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-04-30-020-26-NW-EL-SV SuSE Linux AG has announced the shipment of the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for 64-bit IBM eServer zSeries. According to the company, 'this release shows SuSE's continuing commitment to deliver the broadest range of

Re: Linux Guest apparently locked?

2002-04-30 Thread Ferguson, Neale
You certainly won't be allowed to logon to TCPIP if you're using a TN3270 screen (what would happen if you put the virtual machine in CP READ - how would it get out of that state?). Use #CP SET SECUSER TCPIP * on, for example, MAINT and use the SSEND CP TCPIP command to send commands to TCPIP (or

Re: CPINT error

2002-05-01 Thread Ferguson, Neale
How did you load cpint? The cpint_load script will create entries in /dev. -Original Message- I have CPINT installed but when I issue a command it comes back with OPEN: No such device. On the the Linux console the following error message is displayed: modprobe

z900 Turbo

2002-05-01 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Interesting material at: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/os/linux/turbo.html; relating to the new Turbo models of the z900 and Linux support. The FCP stuff is quite interesting.

posix_spawn wait

2002-05-01 Thread Ferguson, Neale
For those who are so inclined I'd be interested to see what you get when you compile and run the following testspawn.c: #include stdio.h #include spawn.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { char *prog = ls; pid_t pid; int fdmap[3]; extern char **environ; int status;

Re: posix_spawn wait

2002-05-01 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Thanks Mark, The APIs came at a later level of glibc than you must have. I have 2.2.4-21. BTW I made an error with waitpid() anyway. The 3rd parameter shouldn't have been 1 in the 1st place. -Original Message- I can't get it to compile at all. On most of my systems, I don't have a

Re: CPINT error

2002-05-01 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Please try the following: - lsmod - ksyms -a | grep cp - uname -a What distro? -Original Message- The trace file has the following lines: open(opem/etc/ld.so.preload,O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/cpcmd,O_RDWR)= -1 ENOSYS (Function

Re: CPINT error

2002-05-01 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Do you have a file /sbin/cpint-post-insmod? If so, invoke it. -Original Message- The trace file has the following lines: open(opem/etc/ld.so.preload,O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/dev/cpcmd,O_RDWR)= -1 ENOSYS (Function mot implemented)

Re: HELP-2.4.18 Kernel upgrade

2002-05-02 Thread Ferguson, Neale
CP Programming Services manual available online off the z/VM website. X'00' - Store Extended-Identification Code X'04' - Examine Real Storage X'08' - Virtual Console Function X'0C' - Pseudo Timer X'10' - Release Pages X'14' - Input Spool File Manipulation X'18' - Standard DASD I/O X'20' - 370

Re: Correlating device numbers to dasd devices under linux

2002-05-03 Thread Ferguson, Neale
cat /proc/dasd/devices -Original Message- Is there anything similar to FSTAB that indicates what s/390 device address dasda1, dasdb1, dasdc1 etc map to? Since Yast likes to make swap dasda1 regardless of what you really want, Im sort of at a loss to map my physicals to my linux

Samba 2.2.4 Released

2002-05-03 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-03-011-26-NW-SV-SW; The Samba Team has released Samba 2.2.4. This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the version that all production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes. See the WHATSNEW for a list of bug

Using 1.3.1 JNI

2002-05-09 Thread Ferguson, Neale
We're porting an app. that uses the JNI of the 1.3.1 JDK. It works under other platforms but we are having problems with Linux/390. We get a SEGV with the following (abbreviated) backtrace: #0 0x44e6be5a in xeRunJniMethod () from /opt/IBMJava2-s390-131/jre/bin/classic/libjvm.so #1

Re: send messages to vm console

2002-05-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Install syslog for OpenEdition (sorry OpenExtensions) and set the syslog.conf file up to pass messages to designated users. (See the Porting UNIX Applcations to OpenEdition for VM/ESA redbook). -Original Message- From: Mats Westlund (GIS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,

Mainframe Linux is Dead. Long Live Mainframe Linux

2002-05-15 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-15-015-26-OP-HE-SV; Here's something you don't see every day. Two reputable and veteran IT research outfits --- Giga and META --- taking diametrically opposite positions on an issue. The META Group has released a stinging report that

Re: Kernel commentary/books

2002-05-16 Thread Ferguson, Neale
- Understanding the Linux Kernel - Bovey Cesati - O'Reilly - The Linux Kernel Book - Card, Dumas, Mevel - Wiley - Linux - Michael Kofler - Addison Wesley - Linux Device Drivers - Rubin - O'Reilly -Original Message- Has anyone read a book on the Linux kernel that they would recommend

Re: Request for help on floaing point timing

2002-05-17 Thread Ferguson, Neale
You should check http://www.linuxvm.org/present/index.html for Klaus Bergmann's presentation on Linux for zSeries performance. It helps dispel the often cited mantra that Linux won't scale past 8 processors. You may also find information on this site or pointers to artciles regarding: - SIE -

Re: Even more strangeness...

2002-05-22 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Are you running under z/VM? If so, use #CP TR STOR INTO address.length to trap overwriting of the area in question. -Original Message- The first mprotect() is to allow the jump tables to be rewritten by the run-time linker. The second is to protect the text segment so that nobody

Re: mprotect() doesn't not even work...

2002-05-22 Thread Ferguson, Neale
It appears mprotect is setting the write protect bit of the storage key, but this is being undone shortly after: - 00031F1E' SSKE B22B001300060CF0D203CC 1 --- Write okay when storage got by mmap - 00400790 ST50102000 40018000CC 1 --- 1234 stored V40018000

Re: mprotect() doesn't not even work...

2002-05-22 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Is this the same bit of logic in 2.4.7: good_area: write = 0; si_code = SEGV_ACCERR; switch (error_code 0xFF) { case 0x04:/* write, present*/ write = 1; break;

Re: Clearing the 3270 terminal

2002-05-28 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Diagnose instructions require that you be in supervisor state. Thus, you'd need to have it occur in a device driver. Are you operating as a 3270 or in the line-mode (3215) emulation of a virtual machine console? -Original Message- Hello, I am working with Linux/390 and I am trying to

Re: Oracle on linux/390

2002-05-30 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Do you access the Oracle Linux forum? http://www.oracle.com/forums/homepage.jsp -Original Message- The internal Dba's are working with Oracle on this. As to a non multipart dump, I will ask the Dba's

Re: Suse

2002-05-30 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Are items 1 2 related? What do you mean you can shutoff all the programs but not the machine? Are you using shutdown -h now? When does (2) occur? -Original Message- 1. Is there anyone able to tell me how to shut down my machine under SUSE LINUX ? I am able to shut off all the

Re: Kernel 2.4.17 May 2002 stream recommended

2002-05-31 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I didn't see any reference in the Whats New stuff but I have a patch for 2.4.7 that supports automated shutdown of the Linux system when: 1. CP SHUTDOWN (z/VM 4.3) 2. CP SIGNAL SHUTDOWN (z/VM 4.3) 3. LPAR shutdown is encountered. It uses the SERVC facility to tell VM/LPAR that it is interested

IBM 'Signs Linux Deal with Germany'

2002-06-03 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-06-03-009-26-NW-DP-PB; Germany is on the verge of giving IBM a major public sector computer contract - and dealing a blow to software giant Microsoft in the process. According to the Wall Street Journal, IBM will shortly announce a deal which

[OT] Sharp Zaurus - Linux PDA

2002-06-03 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Does anyone have any experiences with the Sharp Zaurus 5500 PDA? Anything you can pass on? There are varying reports as to whether the Voyager CF/VGA card can be used to provide connection to VGA devices. The device uses Linux 2.4.x as its operating system on a StrongARM CPU. It has a JVM,

SnapVantage

2002-06-04 Thread Ferguson, Neale
I was just skimming through the latest eWeek publication and saw an article on StorageTek's SnapVantage product. I don't recall seeing anything on the list about it: StorageTek's SnapVantage software, a member of the Virtual Power Suite solutions, facilitates the rapid deployment of multiple

Re: What's needed with z/VM?

2002-06-04 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Or come along to SHARE in SF and attend the sessions that will qualify you for the Linux on S/390 Certificate and/or the z/VM Systems Programming Certificate. -Original Message- On Tuesday, 06/04/2002 at 11:32 AST, Kittendorf, Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're currently have

Re: [OT] Neale's effective use of irony and sarcasm

2002-06-05 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Fair suck of the sav! Don't come the raw prawn with me sport. (With apologies to Barry McKenzie). -Original Message- No, Neale, we've just gotten used to it. (All very embarassing, I'm sure.) What we were all actually hoping for was for you to stop using very strange Aussie-isms

Re: Questions about TSM client for linz

2002-06-07 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Phil, Have you checked out the System Management Redpiece that Jim referred to in an early post? Chapter 11 is devoted to Tivoli. On page 195 there is a note: Important: The TSM 4.2.0 client can only recognise ext2 and nfs filesystems. If you are using other types of filesystems (e.g. ext3,

Updated auto-shutdown patch for 2.4.7

2002-06-07 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Here's an updated patch to the latest 2.4.7 kernel source as it comes from SuSE: --- ./arch/s390/kernel/smp.c2002/06/04 13:09:38 1.1 +++ ./arch/s390/kernel/smp.c2002/06/04 13:11:12 -55,10 +55,12 spinlock_t kernel_flag = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; unsigned longcpu_online_map;

Re: Updated auto-shutdown patch for 2.4.7

2002-06-07 Thread Ferguson, Neale
With z/VM 4.3 the service processor signal that tells the operating system the LPAR is about to power down has been virtualized. Using the SERVC instruction (the relevant parameter lists etc. have been opened to the public) you can register that you interested in receiving such a signal. Thus

Re: Querying software levels

2002-06-12 Thread Ferguson, Neale
rpm -qa will list all the packages in the database. -Original Message- From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LINUX-390] Querying software levels I'm running the Suse distribution of Linux on a

Re: SuSe/Oracle Linux JVM error

2002-06-13 Thread Ferguson, Neale
What levels of Linux and JDK? -Original Message- Our user is getting the following error: **Out of memory, aborting** *** panic: JVMST018: Cannot allocate memory for initializeMarkAndAllocBits( allocbits1) ./wytest.ksh: line 161: 26190 Aborted java -Xms10m

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