Re: Hurricane webserver

2012-10-31 Thread Alan Cox
And that mindset is how you wind up with excessive server sprawl. In almost every case, a single application running on distributed hardware is going to look cheaper than running on Linux on System z. The question is, which part(s) of the server farm _could_ be run on z/VM or some other

Re: Hurricane webserver

2012-10-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:01:59 +0200 Roger Evans ro...@autodata.no wrote: We are in the process of moving an apache webserver with windows to nginx on zLinux. We use Redis and Memcached already on intel castoff machines. Management is uncomfortable with this situation and wants us to get

Re: Too true to be funny - 51% of the surveyed Americans think that stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the cloud.

2012-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:16:53 -0700 Paul Dembry p...@trifox.com wrote: A few years ago, my father asked me about cloud computing. I told him that it was the same as the old days when we used teletypes and 110 baud rubber cup modems. The equipment is smaller, lighter, and quieter but the concept

Re: Firefox v10 on SLES11SP2 installed in /usr/lib64?

2012-08-01 Thread Alan Cox
We run Nessus security scans on our zLINUX images - SLES11 SP1 and SP2. Our security team found that we have Firefox old version (MozillaFirefox-10.0.2-0.4.1) installed with critical security vulnerabilities. I didn't install Firefox but even on the minimum install, it gets installed in

Re: Cloning SSH keys

2012-07-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:03:09 -0600 Lee Stewart lstewart.dsgr...@attglobal.net wrote: I'd never thought about it before, but a customer pointed out that when you clone a system, each Linux clone has the same Host RSA key fingerprint as it's master. I can't think of anything that would cause

Re: Issues with persistence of Drivers

2012-07-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 11:42:09 -0500 David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: Perhaps it time to rip all that crap out and but in a real network start up script from my Slackware box sigh .. That'll invalidate your support from SUSE. Don't. Instead delete all the routes in rc.local then

Re: zOS translation tables for FTP to linux

2012-05-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 21 May 2012 13:59:49 -0400 Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Monday, 05/21/2012 at 01:39 EDT, Smith, Ann (ISD, IT) ann.sm...@thehartford.com wrote: Is there a standard translation table that can be specified with zOS ftp to a linux server (SITE XLATE = ...) to allow

Re: [OT] TCP/IP Question

2012-03-29 Thread Alan Cox
according to a Wireshark trace, it drives things so hard that Wireshark detects a TCP Window Full condition. Consequently, a few seconds after that condition is recognized we see a RST packet from the Windows side that closes the connection. The TCP window full is quite normal. I noticed

Re: Shared r/w Filesystem

2012-02-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:26:17 -0800 Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com wrote: What is the recommended cluster filesystem for Linux on z that allows multiple servers to have read/write access to the same files? OCFS2 and GFS2 - both have quite different performance patterns so will suit

Re: ext3...

2011-12-15 Thread Alan Cox
How is it possible that i am using ext3 in my production systems and face stuff like: 1. Corrupted FS during normal work that needs to be fixed with fsck or worse restore from a backup You have something wrong with your configuration or hardware eg two systems with the same fs mounted at

Re: Question of UTC vs Local Time

2011-11-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:37:56 -0500 CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) james.chap...@cbp.dhs.gov wrote: Has anyone moved from Local time (EST) to UTC with zLinux?? Any comments or experiences to share? Linux has no real notion of local time in the kernel or system. Local time is a conversion handled in

Re: Question of UTC vs Local Time

2011-11-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:23:37 -0500 CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) james.chap...@cbp.dhs.gov wrote: The sysplex is a big issue at our shop, so this will be interesting, more so than the Y2K eleven years ago ;-). Thanks for responding. If you are doing a review of time handling in your Linux/Unix apps as

Re: Value of TMOUT?

2011-09-20 Thread Alan Cox
I'm wondering if anybody uses the TMOUT environment variable to time out shell users? I have a z/OS background and am used to my interactive TSO session timing out after about 15 minutes of non use. Do UNIX people even care about this? Or do you use some sort of cron to force idle shell users

Re: RSH RPM

2011-09-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:02:33 +0530 saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to configure RSH/RLOGIN into my SUSE 11 z/linux setup. and I am looking for rsh-server-0.17-25.4 rpm, which will help me to run rsh server. You probably want ssh instead - rsh

Re: excellent explanation of cloud computing....

2011-09-14 Thread Alan Cox
Cloud computing: you put your data up in thin air and it rains down on other people ;) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or

Re: Regina on SLES 11 SP 1

2011-09-01 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:40:58 -0500 Tom Duerbusch duerbus...@stlouiscity.com wrote: Thanks Mark That was it. I would have thought that my current directory would be searched prior to searching the path. Nope - it's called security The old Unixes did use to put . at the start of the path by

Re: Email server

2011-08-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:01:09 -0600 Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 8/29/2011 at 02:19 PM, Helio Mario Neves Pimentel de Oliveira h...@engepel.com.br wrote: Hello Mark Thank you for this information. I didn't know these systems are included in SLES. In fact, we started a plan to

Re: Novell Netware to Samba

2011-08-29 Thread Alan Cox
When I look at the properties for the Netware FileServer, IPX: is shown as N/A. IP: had an IP address associated with it. I'm guessing that means we are doing authentication over IP. Netware 5 defaults to NCP and the other proprietary protocols over IP. And with the success of these

Re: Novell Netware to Samba

2011-08-26 Thread Alan Cox
Somewhere, we have a Novell Netware File Server (apparently NetWare 5.70.05). The person that really knew and installed this server, left over a year ago, and there is really not going to be a replacement for the job function/title, or for that matter, the position will not be filled either.

Re: zLinux kernel architecture

2011-04-27 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:42:37 + Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote: Good book. Extremely obnoxious ads on website. Well perhaps you should get it from the proper source ? http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005658 (and install an adfilter, if people deployed Adblock Plus in their default

Re: multipl cpu's

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Cox
One of the problems with Java Garbage Collection is that it halts other work in the JVM for the duration of the GC (because you're moving stuff around, you can't have people trying to use it). While GC has improved over time to reduce the amount of objects handled during each scan, my

Re: multipl cpu's

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Cox
Schoeberl and Puffitsch for one produced a mostly non blocking garbage collection for Java which only blocks the threads it needs and only at the points it has to. Rather useful for multi-threaded systems. If it is non-blocking, why would one be concerned about the elapsed time of GC and

Re: cleaning up /tmp

2011-03-11 Thread Alan Cox
industry standard is. One thing mentioned by a person boiled down to delete all the files in /tmp which belong to a specific user when the last process which is running with that UID terminates (rephrased by me). This got me That I wonder consider as brave. There are cases where things

Re: Ten years of Linux on the mainframe

2010-06-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 08:26:47 -0500 Neale Ferguson ne...@sinenomine.net wrote: http://blogs.computerworld.com/16284/ten_years_of_ibm_mainframe_linux I see Jim Elliott has already commented on the article. Ah the fuzzy revisionism of corporation polished history. I'm glad its all come out well

Re: Linux for System z T-shirts

2010-05-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 3 May 2010 10:22:39 -0500 Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com wrote: With a Red Fedora? You may get rude letters from lawyers if you get too close to vendor marks ;) My other Linux box is a PDA ? or perhaps a tuxosaurus ?

Re: Sorting in Linux

2010-03-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:03:08 -0500 Stock, Roger W rst...@bu.edu wrote: We are considering a sort product to replace the Linux sort, but we need to get a handle on how much sorting we do. All of our SUSE 10 Linux guests (under VM 5.4 on z10-BC IFLs) are servers and any programs that run on

Re: When does SLES10 SP3 actually write data from memory to disk?

2010-03-01 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:00:56 -0700 Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 2/25/2010 at 12:07 PM, Ron Foster at Baldor-IS rfos...@baldor.com wrote: Everyone, The following explains why I might want to know this. Ron, The delay between the application issuing the write, and the I/O

Re: Linux file system cache

2010-02-12 Thread Alan Cox
more than once - and got nowhere. Maybe Alan Cox will offer a comment. The kernel takes the view that free memory is waste memory. The page cache therefore isn't turned into free space as pages are not needed but instead the vm makes sure most of it is 'clean' - ie correct on disk. That means

Re: OOM-Killer shut down SSh

2010-01-25 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:14:34 -0700 David Kreuter dkreu...@vm-resources.com wrote: My experience is with the effects of the OOM killer. Perhaps with Linux on a desktop it is ok as it may pick on non critical processes but in a virtual machine server environment it represents a drastic out of

Re: Linux software development question

2009-12-03 Thread Alan Cox
As to options, I just like the GNU --english version. For some standard options, I may use the UNIX norm of a single dash with a single character. I'll also see if there is a Java version of getopt. GNU uses a thing called getopt_long which is an extended getopt. They were ported to GNU Java

Re: FatELF killed

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Cox
FatELF was rejected because it wasn't actually useful. One of the important jobs in keeping the kernel clean and sane is exactly that - refusing stuff best solved in other ways. FatELF was a very nice implementation of a solution without a problem. Alan

Re: ch-0.0.0e21 (TX in ch_action_txretry): Busy

2009-11-09 Thread Alan Cox
It is most unfortunate that people like yourself who want simply want to *learn* about System z for little or no cost are victimized by those who would take advantage of a more liberal licensing policy to use such a license for financial gain, and by those who don't respect our efforts and

Re: ch-0.0.0e21 (TX in ch_action_txretry): Busy

2009-11-09 Thread Alan Cox
I think what was meant is that IBM fears that if they allow z/VM and z/OS licenses for personal, non-commercial, educational use that many businesses would try to get such a license and use it to run their businesses. I know that Yes but if they dont care about the license presumably

Re: Query: What is 'best-fit' to run on Linux for z ?

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Cox
Sun evangelists over there to hear us say it. On modern x86 boxes the smallest systems we can buy are grossly overspecced in the number of cores required. This means that while the hardware is cheap (a couple of boxes for a production RAC, a couple of boxes for a DR RAC, Stress and PPTE

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:00:18 -0600 Marcy Cortes marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com wrote: You can restrict them up the wazoo but if someone has written a security law that says remove unnecessary accounts, you'd like them to stay removed when you remove them. And it's pretty darn hard to convince

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:21:37 +1300 Rodger Donaldson rod...@diaspora.gen.nz wrote: Marcy Cortes wrote: Thanks Scott. I started to answer that question earlier but apparently didn't hit send. Userdel is what I used to remove them from the golden image. I suspect is was maintenance.

Re: Where does games come from?

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Cox
No one has actually answered Paul's question about why it has to exist. I'm curious about that too for my own edification. Just because its always been there and things *might* expect it isn't a very good reason in my opinion. Historically so that games could run as their own user so they

Re: Universal Binaries on Linux?

2009-10-25 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:11:54 -0600 Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see a relationship... Isn't LSB about reducing differences between different Linux distros? How does that relate to packaging binaries with different architectures included? It doesn't. Instead it

Re: Fall 2009 NEUVM.org meeting tomorrow 09.25.2009 Reminder

2009-09-28 Thread Alan Cox
First running Bigfoot kernel was July 1999, I recall. Neale had a mostly running libc and some userspace apps along with that mid-August. Fall, 1999: IBM releases joint study technology preview project with Marist (late Sept/October, IIRC) About a week after I announced I was going to merge

Re: OT (was Re: RHEL 5.4 Beta is out in the wild)

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 20:33:41 +0800 John Summerfield deb...@herakles.homelinux.org wrote: Agblad Tore wrote: Funny this thing with words. The word stool meaning chair in english, you know the swedish word for chair is 'stol' ! Don't imagine that stool means chair in modern English. One

Re: OT (was Re: RHEL 5.4 Beta is out in the wild)

2009-07-02 Thread Alan Cox
I see no real reason why someone at ITSO would get his proboscis out of joint concerning the meaning of words such as these Personally I liked the way some vaxen and pdp's reported failed unibus transactions. One thing reported was the failed address. Naturally enough it was reported in the

Re: Logging of activities for userid in su mode to root ...?

2009-06-30 Thread Alan Cox
A good record log format is like that obtained using sudo (with log enabled) : Jun 30 14:22:16 : it32673 : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/it32673 ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/df -h ...where it32673 is the user that has launched the COMMAND=. The sudo log gives you some basic ideas and for very

Re: NX (was Re: Install of db2 v9.5 on sles11)

2009-06-16 Thread Alan Cox
I just looked at what I could find about NX and learned that the company ships only binaries and obviously not for s390x ;-) And my attempt to build FreeNX failed because it claims a dependency on NX ? http://freenx.berlios.de/ Alan

Re: NX or FreeNX

2009-06-16 Thread Alan Cox
Yes sure... I picked up the source rpm and built it (after xorg-x11-devel required a load of silly things like the spell checker and dictionaries...) and the resulting binaries says it has a dependency on NX Packaging or distro bug by the sound of it - check what the srpm is trying to add as

Re: Install of db2 v9.5 on sles11

2009-06-15 Thread Alan Cox
My round-trip was around 160 ms. When I clicked on a radio button in the DB2 installation GUI, it typically was 20 seconds before it showed the graphical effect of that. With VNC it was less than 2 seconds. Maybe I should have a look at the X11 protocol and see why it was so slow. X is very

Re: Linux Boot Verification

2009-06-01 Thread Alan Cox
Alas, the contract for the product was not renewed and now we need to find a replacement method other than logging onto each server. Just script a connection to some service on each box. In some ways actually checking services are up (eg that you can pull the index web page) is better anyway.

Re: Stateless Linux for zSeries

2009-05-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 May 2009 12:16:58 -0700 Alan Ackerman test_acker_...@bankofamerica.com wrote: Someone here says we should not do Linux on zSeries because you cannot do stateless computing on zSeries. There is nothing in any of the concepts or implementations stopping you doing it on Z. Nobody may

Re: Sun JDK on Linux on Z

2009-04-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:44:21 -0500 Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: David, Is Java without a JIT compiler really of much practical use? In a memory constrained environment a JIT is frequently a lose. There are in fact lots of cases where straight interpreting is better. It is also of course

Re: Hipersockets on Redhat

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:18:03 -0400 Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] baue...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Seems Redhat doesn't have 'hwup' or /etc/sysconfig/hardware however the 'lsqeth' did not know about the hipersocket addresses. Red Hat equivalent is ifup and I would guess that

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-03-26 Thread Alan Cox
I consistently see this complaint, and it really rubs me wrong. Why does everyone compare rpm to apt? Wouldn't rpm to deb be the correct comparison, and then compare yum to apt? Yes - rpm is a file format. apt, yum, package-kit and various other tools then install rpm and or dpkg files.

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-03-25 Thread Alan Cox
dtrace analogue in Linux. Dtrace is just too cool to be without -- I hope that if IBM does buy Sun that they contribute the dtrace code to open-source. It'd save a lot of time. ZFS, too. I've yet to come across something that I couldn't do with systemtap (on x86 at least that dtrace could have

Re: Solaris v. Linux

2009-03-25 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:27:00 -0500 Carey Tyler Schug sqrfolk...@comcast.net wrote: IIRC, when Linux390 first came out, parts of it were object only, closed source. Has this changed? If not maybe complaints about closed source in Solaris are not so reasonable. Oh it changed - a mix of arm

Re: Windows an linux under z/VM

2009-03-24 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:31:39 -0600 Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 3/23/2009 at 11:46 PM, Shane Ginnane sginn...@isi.com.au wrote: -snip- No doubt Mark is correct re the usability of the z KVM at present, but one would imagine that has to improve. I wasn't speaking about KVM on any

Re: Posting etiquette

2009-03-14 Thread Alan Cox
ANZ Bank (anz.com.au) has just announced its sending lots of jobs tO India. I'm an ANZ customer. I'm wondering what that implies for my privacy, Indian laws are not Australian laws. I'm sure they're not as good as Australian laws, and enforcement is problematic. I don't like the idea of most

Re: Security question and using scp

2009-01-19 Thread Alan Cox
In a previous life I worked at a University that omitted sidewalks from a large campus expansion. Sidewalks were added later, on the most well-worn trails.. :-) The masses don't always get it right. A warning story to go with that one. Locally a planned path ran along a ridge of ground.

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2008-12-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 12:59:55 -0800 O'Brien, Dennis L Dennis.L.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have been informed by an Oracle rep that Oracle does not certify its programs on any Virtualization Software (to include VMware and zVM.)

Re: Add a swap file to a running z/Linux guest

2008-11-27 Thread Alan Cox
But another view to the swap problem - or should we say the problem of sharing real memory: Can't we live without swap at all and use the cooperative memory management technique? You just define enough real memory for each linux instance to handle every peak (well, maybe almost) and they

Re: Add a swap file to a running z/Linux guest

2008-11-27 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:35:03 +0200 Juha Vuori [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, with x86 virtualisation systems, do you mean VMware and/or Xen? KVM and Xen. I've no idea how the innards of the proprietary Vmware product works although I know they do use an ancient Linux trick (that never made it

Re: How to virtualize Windows under SLES Linux on zSeries - PJBR

2008-11-11 Thread Alan Cox
Simple arithmetic: Emulation normally takes an order of magnitude more cycles. Thus a workload that consumes 10% of a 2Ghz intel processor would consume 1/2 of a z10 IFL. Even Good JIT engine emulation these days is a lot lot better than that. You do need a lot of memory to make that

Re: I just can't git it

2008-10-06 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:49:19 -0400 Michael MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, A developer told me I could git his code at a certain URL. Not wanting to admit that I've never used git, I decide to try it. -) I log onto a SLES 10 SP2 s390x Linux (with application development RPMs

Re: I just can't git it

2008-10-06 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:35:39 -0400 Michael MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian, Thanks for your help. I think I got it :)) -) I was able to install some of the missing RPMs via zypper: # zypper install openssl-devel curl-devl sgml-skel ... -) I got the git tar file from

Re: curiosity: pronouncing sudo

2008-09-24 Thread Alan Cox
Some of you will have heard of CICS? Here, in .au, it's generally pronounced Kicks. Well if it was pronounced the other some people would confuse it with vi... Alan -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: question on PGP for Linux ......

2008-09-20 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:22:05 -0400 Terry Spaulding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not worked with this product and no real knowledge of PGP, 'Pretty Good Privacy', that I am told comes with some Linux distributions. PGP these days is a commercial product. GPG is the free equivalent most folks

Re: Differece in RED Hat and Suse

2008-08-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:35:57 -0600 Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/27/2008 at 11:02 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Rohling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SUSE tends to be more 'bleeding edge' and RH tends to be more 'stable' (please - no flame wars on that - it's just my

Re: Kinda OT: Something to reflect...

2008-08-27 Thread Alan Cox
The penguins would be fairy penguins, a big one would reach as far as my shin. The same, I think, as the one Linus met. Yes - I've met the same raft of penguins at that zoo. They are fairy penguins and tiny. I think Linus rather over-dramatises being bitten ;)

Re: Linux version

2008-08-20 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:44:23 +0800 John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! Well for my Slackware Intel system, I have listed in there, Slackware 11.0, the command was: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# cat /etc/slackware-version Slackware 11.0 John is right. Of all

Re: Linux version

2008-08-20 Thread Alan Cox
If A is different to B then B is different to A ! Mathematically, yes. However, slackware has been doing things its way longer than those who chose to do those differently. Most other Linuxes use the rc.d style of init for example whose basis is SYS5 Unix which predates Linux entirely 8)

Re: Distribution ages, was: Linux version

2008-08-20 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:05:50 -0600 Mark Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/2008 at 2:44 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- I may be wrong, but I think Slackware predates the other current distros. See http://lwn.net/Distributions/

Re: Distribution ages, was: Linux version

2008-08-20 Thread Alan Cox
1: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development/msg/a32d4e2ef3bcdcc6 2: http://www.knoppix.net 3: http://www.skolelinux.org 4: http://www.ubuntu.com/ Now if anyone has some dates of when they were started for Slackware, SuSE, or RedHat we can know which is the

Re: Distribution ages, was: Linux version

2008-08-20 Thread Alan Cox
Red Hat trundles along in 1994. Check out http://futurist.se/gldt/ I've seen it - its inaccurate in many places and missing key distributions that form the links - eg BOGUS. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: Interesting article on IBM Mainframes (and zLinux) and market trends

2008-08-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:33:44 -0500 Ryan McCain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something strong had to power that opening ceremony. I see a sharp decline next quarter. :) Umm yes ... http://rivercoolcool.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D6F05428A2B8CB48!1570.entry

Re: Committed Memory

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:57:12 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, we are running RHAT Enterprise Advanced Server 5.2 in an LPAR and we see a huge amount of Committed Memory (18'446 Exabytes). $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Committed Committed_AS:

Re: I need a source for a good quantity of the foam Tux penguins

2008-06-10 Thread Alan Cox
Too expensive at $2.99 each, but here: http://www.kleargear.com/2102.html Keychain with Tux statue on it: $1.99 each at http://www.kleargear.com/2013.html If you want 75 you can probably negotiate far better deals, especially from a small provider. There ought to be a rule against paying RRP

Re: [OT] Re: SSL CERTIFICATE

2008-05-23 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:43:33 -0400 David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/05/finlands-roadside-toilets-now- accessible-only-by-sms/ On the other hand, as government sponsored programs go, that's actually not a half-bad idea...beats having to look for change.

Re: RHEL first install

2008-04-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:56:04 +0200 Ceruti, Gerard G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have just completed the first RHEL 5 install, does RHEL have the same as SuSE's yast ?, look in the net there seems to be a control-center is this correct ?. There are a collection of

Re: questions regarding /proc/buddyinfo

2008-04-28 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:49:32 -0700 Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The DMA limit depends on the hardware. On 32 bit Intel DMA is limited to 16M. On 64 bit Intel there is no limit. On Z the DMA limit is 2G. Note: the ISA bus isn't really the problem. The problem is that the DMA

Re: questions regarding /proc/buddyinfo

2008-04-28 Thread Alan Cox
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go find a TCP/IP stack for my 68030 Mac LC 550. My Mac68K always ran Linux, that way TCP/IP just worked. And of course most Mac68K boxes never had DMA - in fact Apple claimed the lack of DMA was a feature ;) [Mac tech note #221 'Nubus interrupt latency (I

Re: curiousity question: Linux usage: many or few

2008-03-26 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:06:38 -0700 Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most placed I know of put multiple applications on one Linux. This is true even on Intel. It usually happens because once you have a Linux system you can add applications to it without having to buy another server,

Re: curiousity question: Linux usage: many or few

2008-03-26 Thread Alan Cox
Cost savings. On discrete boxes (Intel or LPAR) run multiple applications on one Linux. Adding another box costs money. Adding an application to an existing box costs zero. On virtual systems (z/VM or VMware) run one application per Linux. It doesn't cost anything to define 2GB PC

Re: Java and Sun

2008-03-17 Thread Alan Cox
PS: Annd now, a message from my sponsor. All can feel free to ignore if they prefer: Sun is far and away the largest contributor to Open Source of any institution, and including technology core to our products I'll chuckle amusedly instead and point out that various independant studies don't

Re: hipersocket address versus regular address

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Cox
Absolutely DO NOT do this. Each interface needs a unique address (and IMHO, a unique DNS name). The whole premise of IP routing and network function is based on this concept. You don't have to have a per interface IP address or DNS (or indeed MAC address), but they must be at least per host

Re: hipersocket address versus regular address

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Cox
O I'd argue that you will have more problems trying to make this work reliably than just doing it the way I described. If you've got time to debug this and all the paths have equivalent permissions and usability characteristics, then yes, it's technically possible. You just have to have a lot

Re: web crawling problem

2008-01-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:24:29 -0500 Levy, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a server that gets about 1M hits per day. Over the past week, this has exploded and the server is using about 80% of the cpu. We figure that someone is using a webcrawler since when we analyze the tomcat logs,

Re: web crawling problem

2008-01-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:04:53 -0500 Levy, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't a robots.txt only for apache (which I do not use) ? The robots.txt file is just a text/plain file. The robots W3C stuff says a properly behaving robot should pull /robots.txt and honour the contexts if it is found. It

Re: Bugzilla anyone?

2007-12-18 Thread Alan Cox
Both. Bugzilla is enormously end-user-hostile, and difficult to manage. It is also primarily written in Perl, making heavy use of arrays in memory, which makes it somewhat of a pig. The user hostility is really down to the UI, some of the bugzillas have very nice front ends. On a PC it runs

Re: Linux.com article on swap space

2007-12-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:39:44 -0500 Kim Goldenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an article posted this wee on Linux.com about swap space: http://www.linux.com/feature/121916 Humm, very confusing in places and missing a key detail. A lot of stuff isn't swapped. Any page that came from an

Re: Linux community, was Re: Demo of OpenSolaris running on Systemz

2007-11-30 Thread Alan Cox
accumulator patterns in the proper DEC colors. Includes REAL Emacs, and most of the DEC languages (Bliss, C, COBOL, Fortran, etc) that survived. As they used to say Bliss is ignorance ;) I have it running on my handheld -- full-on OPCOM and Galaxy batch in a shirt pocket. Now that's personal

Re: ZFS presentation on YouTube

2007-10-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:58:23 -0700 Fargusson.Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want ZFS on System z you will probably need to port FreeBSD or OpenSolaris. There seem to be problems with the license that are keeping ZFS from being ported to Linux. And also the fact Sun seem very keen not

Re: Changing password on multiple zLinux servers

2007-10-26 Thread Alan Cox
Is there a way to apply without using LDAP, or to issue a series of commands like passwd across multiple servers either through SSH or other method from a single server. Where should I point my learning curve to There are - the cluster computing people have a pile of tools for issuing the same

Re: Linux VServer

2007-10-25 Thread Alan Cox
Advantage: It's free, or close to it. Disadvantages: It doesn't take any advantage of the hardware it's running on. It doesn't need to If an application manages to crash the system, it has crashed all the systems And if an app crashes the hypervisor down goes the box (console scrolling

Re: Linux kernel version.

2007-10-24 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:47:40 -0700 Clark, Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am reading an article in the Oct 22, 2007 edition of InformationWeek titled The Relentless Pace of Linux on page 43. The article makes a reference to Kernel 2.6.23 and I am trying to make some sense of that

Re: Fedora and Opensuse for System z

2007-10-10 Thread Alan Cox
O world. While good will does show up on the balance sheet, that's only there because the accountants couldn't figure out what other bucket to put it in, and the management certainly doesn't concern themselves much about increasing it. Thats not entirely fair - some companies work very hard

Re: occasional martian source messages

2007-08-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 05:47:57 -0500 Harold Grovesteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you care? Unless you have emperical evidence that this is causing a problem, you are trying to control something that does not need to be controlled. martian packets are normally frames which have invalid

Re: Linux Laptops

2007-08-06 Thread Alan Cox
Try again now. A lot of work on laptop support has been done in Linux since then. Much more fundamentally laptops have given up using most of the proprietary parts they used to, except for stupid gimmick items like fingerprint readers. Today there are very few laptops on the market, the rest

Re: IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes | NetworkWorld.com Community

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Cox
Does that mean that potentially that 1 mainframe has the equivalent of at least 130 network cards? I can see how most of the hardware is virtualized, but the networking I don't quite see, yet. How does that part work? They are virtual - how many network cards do want - just write some more

Re: Wrapper around SSH to run command on mutliple Linuxes?

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:12:02 -0400 Michael MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, No licence? I'm not allowed to use it? I guess it's public domain by default. The default is no permission at all, not public domain. Also be aware in some jurisdictions public domain doesn't imply no

Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:13:38 -0700 David Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 'trade press' doesn't help, either. Every article has a different definition. Every 'consultant/analyst' report/insert your favorite color here -paper says everyone should be doing 'it', and if you're not, you're

Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info

2007-06-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:47:53 -0500 Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” George Santayana History repeats itself, it has to as nobody is listening -- For

Re: Humor? Microsoft declares: The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007.

2007-05-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Thu, 17 May 2007 07:47:03 +0800 John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Cox wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:18:42 -0400 Evans, Kevin R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand it only too well, but it isn't Microsoft's business model. How much did you pay for your copy

Re: Humor? Microsoft declares: The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007.

2007-05-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 16 May 2007 05:40:44 -0400 Evans, Kevin R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it really shouldn't surprise anyone that a company that is in business to make money doesn't want to discuss giving their software away g. Ah.. someone else who doesn't understand it 8) If you make more money

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