[Info-vax] queue errors

[Tom Adams]

On Oct 16, 5:25 pm, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
wrote:
> On 2012-10-16 19:57:24 +0000, Tom Adams said:
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> > It's VMS 7.3-2 running on a Alpha. The patches are a bit out of date.
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> > Probably not realistic to upgrade to a newer version.
>
> Yeah.  I've heard that one before.  Sometimes it's true, sometimes not.
>
> The plan for upgrades for these "sometimes not" cases can arrives after
> (for instance) somebody suddenly develops a career-preserving need for
> encrypted backups, newer IP security features, or some other such
> requirement.  You know, the sort of upgrades that happen after your
> (unencrypted) backup tapes get lost on the way to the offsite storage
> bunker or such, and your (unencrypted) customer data ends up "loose" in
> the wild, but also somehow not managing to get your CIO fired for sheer
> incompetence.  Not that anything like that has ever happened before, of
> course.
>
> Apply the patches, as a starting point.
>
> Check the Fortran code, too, as that could well be losing the plan.
>
> Plan for an occasional or periodic ANALYZE /DISK /REPAIR, too.
>
> --
> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

Well, not realistic to upgrade to fix this minor issue.  I will update
the patches soon.

We have shadowed disks.