[Info-vax] Automounting NFS disks (VMS as client)

[JF Mezei]

What is the recomended way to have a DNFSx: device always available ?

(TCPIP Services).  For instance I have a procedure which creates a .PNG
every 10 minutes. I now need that procedure to copy this file to an NFS
share so the web server on another machine can serve it. (until that
procedure is ported to Unix, a big challenge as it uses plenty of VMS'isms).

The procedure which generates the data is strated as a detached process
duyring system startup. Is it as simple as issuing the TCPIP MOUNT
command before it ?

If the other server is down at that moment, I take it the MOUNT command
will fail ?  Does this mean that I need to write a procedure that will
run detached which will attempt to mount it until the mount succeeds ?


OS-X has "automount" which means that you just configure the remote
mount and it gets mounted on demand, and it doesn't matter if the remote
host is down when the OS-X instance is booting. I take it VMS doesn't
have that ?