[Info-vax] A 5 minutes hang during early stage of a shutdown.

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

John E. Malmberg wrote 2013-01-23 01:39:
> On 1/22/2013 8:50 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>
>> Earlier, before TCPIP, the LTA ports was created at boot-time and
>> never re-created. I guess that they (before me) saw some troubles
>> and decided to add port re-creation when the COM files was
>> ported from LAT to telnet.
>>
>> Now, I'm not sure that this is needed. I have to run more
>> tests/simulations with restarting terminal servers and
>> use the /timeout=(noidle,recon=hh:mm:ss) switch in the
>> telnet create command and see what happens.
>
> The last time I did this stuff with TNA devices was over a decade ago.
>
> Back then, if the network connection to the TNAnnn: port through reverse
> telnet was lost, the only way to get that TNAnnn: port working again was to
> delete it and then recreated it.
>

I guess that you do not remember if you at the time used
the "/timeout=" switch with the reconnect option, right ? :-)

> But there probably is no reason to delete the TNA ports as part of the
> system shutdown.  They will get deleted.

Yes, of course.

>
> One configuration error I have seen is to put application and layered
> product shutdown commands in syshutdwn.com.

Oh well, there are a lot of *other* things to fix on this system.
Complaints about installed images when disks are dismounted.
Always runing a shadow merge after reboot for an hour.
And so on. :-)

Jan-Erik.

>
> Application shutdowns should be run before invoking the shutdown.com.
>

I hear you. :-)

Jan-Erik.

> Regards,
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.network
> Personal Opinion Only
>
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