[Info-vax] "proper" ownership for high-level system files

Michael Moroney moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
Thu Jan 1 15:27:14 EST 2015


helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:

>What is the "proper" ownership for 

>   SYS$SYSDEVICE:[000000]*.*
>   SYS$SPECIFIC:[000000]*.*
>   SYS$SYSDEVICE[VMS$COMMON]*.*

>Whether it matters whether it is [SYSTEM] or [1,1] or whatever is a 
>separate, but also interesting, question.

$ INIT/SYSTEM will make the top level files (in particular 000000.DIR)
owned by [1,1].

Most of the other files normally are owned by [SYSTEM] or [1,4].  
Depending on how the system disk was created, the files may wind up
being owned by [1,1] as files created in a directory often wind up being
owned by the same owner as the directory, going back to the owner of 
[000000]000000.DIR.  $ BACKUP to clone disks without /OWNER=ORIGINAL will 
do this.

I don't think it matters.



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