[Info-vax] Changing SMTP server presented hostname in UCX

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:

> Like I said yesterday, the Unix approach of using text configuration
> files looks very appealing when compared to a half baked interface to
> a binary database.

Well it's not just the "Unix approach".  I have text files such as:

$ ! Define printer forms types
$
$ define/form/width=132/length=66/notruncate/nowrap/margin=(BOTTOM=3) 
DEFAULT 0
$ define/form/width=96/length=66/notruncate/nowrap/margin=(BOTTOM=3) WP 98
$ define/form/width=80/length=66/notruncate/nowrap/margin=(BOTTOM=3) DFE 99
$
AS800> t sys$manager:queues.com
$! Start system queues
$
$ start /queue /manager
$
$
$! Define form numbers
$
$ @SYS$MANAGER:FORMS
$
$
$ initialize -
         / queue -
         / start -
         / batch -
         / job_limit=4 -
         / base_priority=3 -
         / wsdefault=300 -
         / wsquota=500 -
         / wsextent=1500 -
         / cpudefault=INFINITE -
         / cpumaximum=INFINITE -
         SYS$BATCH
$
$ initialize -
         / queue -
         / start -
         / batch -
         / job_limit=4 -
         / base_priority=3 -
         / wsdefault=300 -
         / wsquota=500 -
         / wsextent=1500 -
         / cpudefault=INFINITE -
         / cpumaximum=INFINITE -
         SY_BATCH

I consider the mod way back where, once a queue was set up, in 
subsequent re-boots of the system, re-defining the queues was not 
required, to be a big mistake.  Sooner or later, it's not "if" but 
"when",  something is going to get screwed up, and nobody will know what 
to do to fix it.  With the text files being used on every re-boot, 
that's a test of the commands, and unless you lose the text files, you 
always have a reference on how queues and such are set up.  I've had 
customers print the text files and keep them in a folder.

Tell me it's "too hard" for some sys admins.  I ain't listening ....


> If VSI want to sell systems to new non-existing VMS customers, it's
> going to have to produce something a lot better than this current
> mess. You should not have to shut everything down and reboot the
> system just to update the TCP/IP hostname (which is clearly what
> the intended usage model here is.)

I think we all acknowledge that TCP/IP on VMS could use lots of work, or 
a total re-design and re-write.