[Info-vax] strange cluster behaviour: 2

[Bob Koehler]

In article <ij8e46$5sv$2 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> When setting up new satellites, I get the standard message that global 
> sections is too low for DECwindows to start, and get asked whether 
> AUTOGEN should be run to correct it.  If I say yes, it doesn't get 
> corrected, i.e. after the automatic reboot the same message comes again 
> and would do so forever if I didn't correct it by hand.  There is no 
> change made to MODPARAMS.DAT after the initial creation when setting up 
> the satellite.
> 
> If I add a line to MODPARAMS.DAT for the correct value of GBLSECTIONS, 
> then of course it works. 
> 
> Why is this automatic correction not working?

   AUTOGEN is exceedingly conservative, and probably would not complete
   that correction for many, many reboots.

   I've never had the patience to find out how many.