Re: SuSE 8 on OS/390

2003-12-22 Thread Mark Post
in the Open Source world that will work well in an LPAR environment where things are, ummm, fluid in terms of resource allocation. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ranga Nathan Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Activating a new guest as an LDAP client, SLES8

2003-12-22 Thread Mark Post
I don't know the answer to your question, but I can suggest a method for you to find out (and then educate the rest of us): find / -type f -mmin -5 Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Sammons Sent: Monday, December 22

Re: 2.6 now

2003-12-22 Thread Mark Post
agreement you might have with SUSE? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ranga Nathan Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 2.6 now Anyone upgraded to 2.6 kernel? I just put on sles8 and wonder

New Presentation on linuxvm.org

2003-12-23 Thread Mark Post
is willing to contribute them. Thanks to David for his presentation. Mark Post

Re: RedHat 7.2 install, issue #2

2003-12-24 Thread Mark Post
, such as LCS, CTC, or IUCV, you won't need to do any of this. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Sammons Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RedHat 7.2 install, issue #2 What bothers me is I

Re: PHP4 Suse Linux

2003-12-26 Thread Mark Post
Just how did you try to install PHP? Via the binary RPM provided by SUSE? Or were you trying to compile PHP from source? (It sounds like the latter. If so, why were you trying to compile from source?) Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Source PHP4 Suse Linux

2003-12-27 Thread Mark Post
making sure Linux/390 is a success. I don't think they're going to view things like this as being a bother. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Benjamin White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Source PHP4 Suse Linux

Re: problem to create home directory

2003-12-28 Thread Mark Post
You might try using the -m switch for the useradd command. Or, use YaST to create your new users, which will do all that for you, as well as set initial passwords, etc. man useradd Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alikhani Sent

Re: SCO Christmas Letter

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Post
As well as for your barristers. It might cut down on the amount of time they think they need to devote to research, and save some money. Plus, it might just give them the hiccups from laughing so much. :) Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

LinuxWorld Article: Levanta 2.0 is GA

2003-12-30 Thread Mark Post
. The full article is at http://www.linuxworld.com/story/38289.htm?DE=1 Unfortunately, the author still get things wrong: ...if you're running multiple Linux servers on IBM's zOS virtual server environment... Sigh. Mark Post

Re: Anyone Nagios?

2003-12-30 Thread Mark Post
was going on? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ranga Nathan Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anyone Nagios? Has anyone installed Nagios (http://www.nagios.org/) on SLES 8 ? When I tried (no rpm, so

Re: Anyone Nagios?

2003-12-30 Thread Mark Post
That's what gcc does. Compiling is a very CPU-intensive task. If you have a relatively small slice of a physical CPU, it can take quite a while to get something compiled. For example, it took me about a month to get OpenOffice compiled on one of my small test systems. Mark Post -Original

Re: Anyone Nagios?

2003-12-31 Thread Mark Post
And even if you are using it to monitor systems for a client, the license is very, very cheap. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rich Smrcina Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 9:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anyone Nagios

Re: how to add pam_misc.h , pam_appl.h

2003-12-31 Thread Mark Post
You probably need to install the pam-devel package. If you don't know how to use them in writing new pam modules, you might want to consider doing some lengthy research before trying that. You can really mess up your system if you make a mistake with PAM. Mark Post -Original Message

Re: On-demand Timer Patch for Red Hat 3.0

2004-01-02 Thread Mark Post
Send me the source RPM, and I'll see if I can make one up for you. It will either be very easy, or impossible (for me). Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scully, William P Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 1:27 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: Xvnc server would not 'make'

2004-01-02 Thread Mark Post
The only thing that looks out of whack with that command is the space in the -Dlinux LinuxMachineDefines parameter. Was that space really there? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ranga Nathan Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 5:57 PM

Re: At last some real achiever being recognized by the monarch

2004-01-02 Thread Mark Post
No conflict here. Berners-Lee is being credited with inventing the WWW, not the Internet. Two completely different things, as entangled as they might be with each other. And, Gore's role in the development of the Internet is one of the few things I give him credit (and gratitude) for. Mark

2nd Hillgang Presentation

2004-01-04 Thread Mark Post
The second (but hopefully not last) presentation from the December 18th Hillgang meeting is now on the web site. It is Chris Geddes' Universal Operating System for Diverse Hardware Architectures. It's 4MB in size, so be warned. http://linuxvm.org/Present/ Mark Post

Re: New Linux User

2004-01-05 Thread Mark Post
638 254:0 -245:244 dasdaaa - dasdzzz 17576 245:248 - 131:148 Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vic Cross Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 7:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New Linux User On Mon, 5

Setting up an APT Server

2004-01-14 Thread Mark Post
on how to set that up? I'm not terribly Debian literate myself, so it would have to be pretty detailed. Thanks in advance, Mark Post

New Mono RPMs on Web Site

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Post
-41.s390.rpm libicu-devel-2.6-41.s390.rpm libicu-doc-2.6-41.s390.rpm libicu26-2.6-41.s390.rpm Available, as always, at http://linuxvm.org/Patches/ Thanks to Neale for his continuing support of this package. Mark Post

New xip2fs patches on the web site

2004-02-24 Thread Mark Post
to retrieve patch #1. So, instead of using file:///d:/webpages/linuxvm.org/Patches/S390/xip2fs_part1.diff.gz as the URL, try file:///d:/webpages/linuxvm.org/Patches/S390/xip2fs1.gz and see if that works better. Mark Post

Re: ovlfs, was: Linux/390 Patches for 2.4.26

2004-05-29 Thread Mark Post
see, you don't add it to the kernel, you just compile it, and install it. The only change I had to make to get it to compile was add a #include errno.h to tools/file_test_getents.c. After that, everything looked good to me. Give it a try, and let us know how you do. :) Mark Post

Slack/390 - Slackware Linux for the mainframe

2004-07-07 Thread Mark Post
. :) Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Slack/390 via rsync

2004-07-18 Thread Mark Post
folks include it in their packages. Another nice tool from Andrew Tridgell, who also wrote ccache. Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Slack/390 Testing Status Query

2004-07-18 Thread Mark Post
you had problems or not. That will help me decide what to do with this platform. Thanks, Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX

Cross-compiler Woes

2004-08-03 Thread Mark Post
will be appreciated. Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

New ImageMagick packages

2004-08-09 Thread Mark Post
-5.5.7_25-s390-1.tgz Slack/390 -current package: 4e04eaf7322c15706106d31e7ee1873f imagemagick-6.0.4_3-s390-1.tgz Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

New sox packages

2004-08-09 Thread Mark Post
.tgz MD5 signatures: +-+ Slack/390 9.0 package: 3143197722705fe5ecdce0e3472b32f5 sox-12.17.4-s390-1.tgz Slack/390 9.1 package: 53d9496a18ca7066961d7ccb70c63d0c sox-12.17.4-s390-2.tgz Slack/390 -current package: b2f72eee9418932e8d66d4f6d25375f7 sox-12.17.4-s390-2.tgz Mark Post

Re: Slack/390 issue: no login prompt on vm console [Virus checked]

2004-08-19 Thread Mark Post
and accepts two things: either login, or a halt command to shut the system down. If you enter login, you are prompted for the root password, and then logged in with root's default shell. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tobias

Re: Slack/390

2004-08-19 Thread Mark Post
Richard, How is gdm being started? And what userid is starting it? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Slack/390 I can get gdm to come up

Re: Slack/390

2004-08-22 Thread Mark Post
Richard, /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, line number 131 needs to be changed to Enable=true and then gdm restarted. Did you ever get xdm to start? If not, I'd like to try to get that problem figured out and fixed. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

S/390 Breakage in 2.4.27

2004-09-21 Thread Mark Post
to just revert these changes back to the 2.4.26 level. I didn't want to do that without checking with someone who might know how to fix these problems, rather than just back them out. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks, Mark Post

Re: SLES9 Install hang

2004-12-06 Thread Mark Post
There is no difference between the evaluation CDs and what you would get if you actually purchased the software. The activation key for support gives you access to maintenance, nothing more. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom

Re: SLES9 Install hang

2004-12-06 Thread Mark Post
Use wget. There are versions for Windows, or Cygwin on Windows. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 3:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLES9 Install hang -snip- Just wondering

Re: SLES9 Install hang

2004-12-06 Thread Mark Post
For the CDs that Novell makes available for download (other than the live CD), they are all the same as the paid-for versions. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: SLACK390 IPL goes into disabled wait state?

2004-12-06 Thread Mark Post
First of all, which version of Slack/390? Second, were you prompted to install a kernel? Did you pick one? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Henn Richard D. Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 4:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: SLES9 Install hang

2004-12-06 Thread Mark Post
I downloaded both s390 and s390x versions. Both sets of md5 checksums match what was on the Novell web page. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ledbetter, Scott E Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 6:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: SLACK390 IPL goes into disabled wait state?

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Post
process for you. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Henn Richard D. Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLACK390 IPL goes into disabled wait state? Mark, I'm installing version 9.1 from

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Post
As Alan mentioned, VIPA won't accomplish this. But, there are Open Source packages that will allow you to set up a High Availability (HA) cluster with your Linux/390 guests. Tivoli Systems Automation will certainly do the job, but at a much, much higher cost. Mark Post -Original Message

Re: VIPA and hot standby

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Post
Redbook. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Shilson Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VIPA and hot standby Would you care to mention the names of a few of those packages? thanks Linux

Re: LVM question

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Post
What does the output of cat /proc/lvm/global show you? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LVM question SLES9 for S/390 (31-bit) in an LPAR

Re: LVM question

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Post
Ok, this looks like a difference between LVM and the LVM2 that comes with 2.6. I guess vgdisplay and ls -l /dev/usrdata might tell us something. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 8

Bruce Perens: When open source makes sense

2004-12-07 Thread Mark Post
I liked some of the thoughts from Bruce Perens in this interview. It made a lot of sense to me as to where a company might want to spend its money on software. http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/12/03/49FEopensourceinterview_1.html Mark Post

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 for SLES 8?

2004-12-08 Thread Mark Post
system, it took nearly a month. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brandon Darbro Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 6:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OpenOffice 1.1.3 for SLES 8? Anyone know of a prebuilt OpenOffice 1.1.3

Re: vncserver/vncclient

2004-12-09 Thread Mark Post
. I doubt I ever will. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vncserver/vncclient Rick wrote: Why would one even want to use VNC to a Linux system

Re: Warning - SLES8 DHCP Server now needs fake_ll

2004-12-09 Thread Mark Post
it. But, thanks for the warning. That really was kind of an interesting update they decided to put out. I'm curious as to where the 'fake_ll' parameter gets specified. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Perry Sent: Thursday, December 09

Re: Release of CICS Transaction Server for zLinux

2004-12-09 Thread Mark Post
Hmm. As always with these kind of announcements, I wonder if the CICS offering on the Linux platform will include S/390 and zSeries or not. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Ware Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 9:18 AM

Re: SuSE SLES8 and z/VM 5.1 problem

2004-12-09 Thread Mark Post
on the system. How much virtual storage does this guest have defined, and which installation method (VNC, SSH, whatever) are you using? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wiggins, Mark Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: VMware vs. VM

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Post
Well, I'm sure everyone on that list knows RMS' and Eben Moglen's email address. Why hasn't that been pursued? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christoph Hellwig Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: VMware vs. VM

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Post
SUSE SLES8, SP3. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Gentry Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VMware vs. VM Mark, what are they using to run Lotus Domino? Linux?

Re: Linux /tmp and /var housekeeping recommendations

2004-12-13 Thread Mark Post
architectures are the same, so you'll only need one. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Cox Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 6:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux /tmp and /var housekeeping recommendations -snip

Re: Using VSWITCH and OSA

2004-12-16 Thread Mark Post
to it, due to kswapd trying to deal with too little available storage. It is most definitely a disadvantage that needs to be taken into account. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Perry Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:32 AM

Re: SuSE SLES8 and z/VM 5.1 problem

2004-12-16 Thread Mark Post
to your root file system, and run zipl manually. In any case, if you have a support contract, I'd be using it to get a resolution to the real problem of YaST dying on you. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wiggins, Mark Sent: Monday

Re: LVM, SuSE, going over 26 volumes - ARRGH

2004-12-17 Thread Mark Post
Except /proc/dasd/devices only includes the device nodes, not the partitions. True, the partitions are just +1, +2, and +3 from those, but it bears mentioning. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hall, Ken (IDS DCS PE) Sent: Friday

Re: CPINT RPM for SuSE 2.4.21?

2004-12-17 Thread Mark Post
I believe SUSE provides one as part of their distribution. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CPINT RPM for SuSE 2.4.21? We have

Re: alias in SLES9

2004-12-17 Thread Mark Post
I'm guessing it's because the script is being executed in a subshell, not in the main shell. I put personal aliases in ~/.bash_profile, and that works for me. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wolfe, Gordon W Sent: Friday, December

Re: VMware vs. VM

2004-12-10 Thread Mark Post
Interesting. I'm supporting a client that is running 4 Lotus Domino server instances on a single 8-way x445. They're also happy, and even happier to be off Windows. They didn't like the fact that they had to reboot the Windows systems every two weeks. (Among other things.) Mark Post

Re: Linux /tmp and /var housekeeping recommendations

2004-12-12 Thread Mark Post
not checking dates, so they may have just been created when your scan runs. While the contents of /tmp aren't guaranteed, I don't think that kind of behavior is expected. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco

Re: SLES 8 and Vswitch

2004-12-13 Thread Mark Post
on what he did to set it up, but that hasn't happened yet. If you'd like, I can ask him to get in contact with you so you can share information. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martha McConaghy Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 11:39 AM

Re: LVM woes in SLES 9

2004-12-14 Thread Mark Post
system non-IPLable. It's not a given that this will happen, since /boot is not very volatile, so you may not run into it for a while, but it has happened to a number of people on the list. The zipl command should be the last command executed when making kernel, parmfile, or initrd changes. Mark

XLiveCD - A no-cost X Server for Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Mark Post
. http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/ Mark Post -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: Using VSWITCH and OSA

2004-12-15 Thread Mark Post
Plus, if you have two network interfaces on each guest, that doubles the amount of real storage that gets used (and _fixed_) by the network driver. The number of pages that get fixed is configurable, but then that's just one more thing to have to do for each guest. Mark Post -Original

Re: ibmtape specific driver: IBMtape.1.3.6

2004-12-16 Thread Mark Post
I don't see a 1.3.6 version for any platform. It looks like the earliest available version is 1.4.11 for a 2.4.21 system at ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Linux/SLES8/ Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Giancarlo Rodolfi

Re: SLES 8 and SLES 9 in one VM Lpar, is that okay?

2004-12-19 Thread Mark Post
There shouldn't be, but then you didn't say exactly what was concerning your VM guy. If there was something specific, we might have information that will defuse the concern. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Patrick B. O'Brien Sent

Re: Where did cpint_load go? (in SLES9)

2004-12-19 Thread Mark Post
and cpint_unload as part of their packages. As a first attempt at experimentation, you could try replacing the calls to cpint_load with insmod cpint and see what happens. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lior Kesos Sent: Sunday, December 19

Re: SLES 8 and SLES 9 in one VM Lpar, is that okay?

2004-12-19 Thread Mark Post
more (or _less_) danger to the z/OS partition than SLES8 does. If you follow the rules of only letting Linux have access to DASD that you're willing to have Linux _write_ on, then there shouldn't be any exposure for z/OS. And vice versa. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 5e:01

2004-12-20 Thread Mark Post
The contents of /var/lib/rpm/. But, you should be able to get YaST to re-install them anyway. Just set the filter to all updates instead of installable, I think. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter E. Abresch Jr. - at Pepco

Re: OSA GigaBit Ethernet Adapter

2004-12-21 Thread Mark Post
In short, yes, GbE does have different cables/connectors. Doug Fairobent's reference should provide all the information you need. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 12:27 PM

Re: Can't Resize Root Disk

2004-12-21 Thread Mark Post
I didn't see any mention of an initrd in there. Do you have one for your existing system(s)? Which version of SLES is this? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Shilson Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 12:13 PM To: LINUX-390

NaSPA Article: Managing and Deploying Software in a Linux Environment

2004-12-21 Thread Mark Post
there are obvious benefits associated with the implementation of Linux and Open Source software, this type of environment also presents businesses with unique deployment and management challenges, especially for those used for mainframe management. http://www.naspa.com/PDF/2004/1004/T0410002.pdf Mark

Re: Red Hat Ent. Linux AS for zSeries Licensing Question

2004-12-21 Thread Mark Post
Yes, it is. If you have one IFL or standard CP in the LPAR where RHEL3 is running (whether using z/VM or not), then you pay for one subscription. If you have two IFLs or standard CPs, you pay for two subscriptions, etc. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto

Re: Can't Resize Root Disk

2004-12-21 Thread Mark Post
Well, it means you think that you don't need it, and that you have all the DASD and file system drivers the kernel needs compiled into the kernel, and not as modules. If you're using the kernel that SUSE ships, that is not the case, and you do need an initrd. Mark Post -Original Message

Re: z/VM and Linux Guest VIPA routing?

2004-12-21 Thread Mark Post
Moving this type of routing outboard of the Linux/390 guests is what VSWITCH was intended to do (if I remember Alan Altmark's and Vic Cross's presentations correctly). I strongly recommend taking a look at implementing VSWITCH, regardless. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux

Re: MEMO XMASGIFT: ansitape (a utility for creating and manipulating ANSI and IBM labeled tapes on Linux)

2004-12-21 Thread Mark Post
The man -l doesn't work on Slackware, either. Is that a Debian mod? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 6:23 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: MEMO XMASGIFT: ansitape (a utility

Re: SUSE kernel 2.4.21-266 qeth driver problem

2004-12-22 Thread Mark Post
Michael, You should also have an add_parms line for that card. Do you? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Lambert Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:57 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: SUSE kernel 2.4.21-266 qeth

Re: OT: Routing Daemon Names (was: Re: z/VM and Linux Guest VIPA routing?)

2004-12-22 Thread Mark Post
Not entirely. Since quagga took over the zebra code to continue development, I guess it's appropriate that they named it after an animal that resembled a zebra. Whether they're regressing or not depends on which direction you're traveling through time, I guess. (Shades of Merlin.) Mark Post

Re: Problem solving z/VM and Linux

2004-12-22 Thread Mark Post
: 1. Guests are defined with way too much virtual storage. 2. z/VM SRM parameters are not tuned properly. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ING. A. Neij Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:10 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject

Re: SUSE kernel 2.4.21-266 qeth driver problem

2004-12-22 Thread Mark Post
/opensource/linux390/docu/lx24ju n03dd04.pdf says that the 0x10 value Identifies the device as an OSA-Express CHPID in QDIO mode or a HiperSockets CHPID. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martha McConaghy Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 2

Samba 2.2 has reached end of life

2004-12-27 Thread Mark Post
developers. Your Linux distribution provider may or may not backport the fix, depending on what version of Linux you're running. The decision to not put out more 2.2 releases was documented in the release notes for 2.2.12: http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-2.2.12.html Mark Post

Re: SWAP on VDISK not mounting at boot.

2004-12-27 Thread Mark Post
You need to rebuild your initrd and make sure that the dasd_diag_mod is included, and being loaded by /linuxrc. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Shilson Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 5:47 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Linux install via NFS

2004-12-27 Thread Mark Post
Did you read the RELEASE-NOTES.en.html in the /docu directory on CD1? This documents what needs to be done to set up an installation server. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 5:37 PM

Re: SUSE kernel 2.4.21-266 qeth driver problem

2004-12-28 Thread Mark Post
Sounds like a bad kernel update got released. In your position, I would downgrade to the prior known good kernel, and report the problem to SUSE (or whomever is your support provider). Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL

Re: Experiences with Oracle 10g Database on Linux for zSeries

2004-12-28 Thread Mark Post
I was pretty sure that Oracle 10g was going to be 64-bit only. Does anyone have any information to confirm or refute this? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 5:26 PM To: LINUX-390

Re: Moving root to a new volume

2004-12-28 Thread Mark Post
/zipl.conf to remove the /mnt from the directory paths. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Shilson Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 11:34 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Moving root to a new volume Here is a list

Re: Moving root to a new volume

2004-12-28 Thread Mark Post
Oh, and: 5.5 Re-run mkinitrd if needed as well I guess it may be time to update the HOWTO to take that into account. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Mark Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 3:03 PM To: 'Linux on 390 Port' Subject: RE: Moving root to a new

Re: Moving root to a new volume

2004-12-29 Thread Mark Post
Not exactly. It makes it available to CP for that z/VM guest. To make it accessible to CMS, you would do an access command (if it were CMS formatted). To make it available to Linux, you would need to go through the echo add device range=xxx /proc/dasd/devices routine. Mark Post

Re: basevol/guestvol w/ Reiserfs or ext2 opinions

2004-12-29 Thread Mark Post
and strange-looking errors. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fargusson.Alan Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 4:36 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: basevol/guestvol w/ Reiserfs or ext2 opinions It looks like your root

Re: Another question..

2004-12-30 Thread Mark Post
up the total amount of storage you want. It's then up to you to aggregate them into larger chunks using software RAID or LVM. Sometimes you'll run into a storage administrator who's willing to set up the LUNs to be the size you really need, and give you that. Mark Post -Original Message

Re: Suse9 Installation

2005-11-21 Thread Mark Post
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=sit0+linuxbtnG=Google+Search It's used for tunneling IPv6 over IPv4. You could try updating /etc/modprobe.conf (or is it still /etc/modules.conf?) to alias off the ipv6 module. I suspect that won't work though since qeth/qdio requires it. Mark Post

Re: Having Linux tell VM that it has shutdown correctly

2005-11-21 Thread Mark Post
It can be done with the same shutdown interface, but with a twist. Before issuing the actual shutdown command, issue a signal shutdown command to your Linux guests.When your last Linux guest logs off, issue the actual shutdown command to CP. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux

Re: Dynamically making NFS shares available/unavailable

2005-11-22 Thread Mark Post
Adam's suggestion will certainly work, but I wouldn't bother. I would make the NFS export available to the one IP address that will be scanning it and forget about it. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Melin Sent: Tuesday

Re: setting up a patch server

2005-11-23 Thread Mark Post
portal server. You can't just mirror an entire directory with wget. Or, I'm just not able to figure out how to do it yet. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 11:46 AM To: LINUX-390

Re: Samba

2005-11-23 Thread Mark Post
GUIs, ugh. You can do something like this: rpm -ivh ftp://your.ftp.server/path/to/rpms/new.rpm \ ftp://your.ftp.server/path/to/rpms/second.rpm Or you can share the CD, do an smbfs mount on your Linux system, and just cd to the directory. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux

Re: setting up a patch server

2005-11-23 Thread Mark Post
the source RPMs for all the versions of all the packages. This can take up a _tremendous_ amount of space. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Mark Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 12:54 PM To: 'Linux on 390 Port' Subject: RE: setting up a patch server

Re: setting up a patch server

2005-11-23 Thread Mark Post
or ...) working on it. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:34 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: setting up a patch server That would be great! I just got a new PC. I'm not sure about

Re: Websphere

2005-11-24 Thread Mark Post
Gerard, Those are for Intel only, and he's looking for mainframe Linux versions. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ceruti, Gerard G Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 3:22 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Websphere

Re: Websphere

2005-11-25 Thread Mark Post
downloads. Bummer. While I was there, I noticed that the Get Linux for zSeries by downloading a commercial distribution link went to a page that has out of date links to Red Hat, SUSE, and Turbolinux. Someone should take a look at that. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port

Re: Websphere

2005-11-25 Thread Mark Post
If you ordered the DVD off that same page, I'm pretty sure that is for IA32, not zSeries Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ADAMS Steven Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 1:45 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Websphere I

Re: MySQL PHP

2005-12-06 Thread Mark Post
If you can wait, fine. If not, you can use the RHEL SRPMs (source RPMs). They are freely available from Red Hat, and should compile and work with whatever glibc and tool chain you currently have installed. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

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