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

[Michael Ober]

Put the mount command in your local startup script.  We use a logical that 
we remap to the local VMS file system if the mount fails and then reference 
the NFS server through the logical.

Mike.

"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote in message 
news:00ea70a7$0$6704$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com...
> 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 ?