[Info-vax] directories other than SYS* on the system disk

[Bart Zorn]

On Friday, January 2, 2015 1:02:58 PM UTC+1, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <eccf4d0e-b92b-4a9b-8c63-893a6c13cbd3 at googlegroups.com>, Bart
> Zorn writes: 
> 
> > I have tried to do that, but I would say, forget it. There is no
> > consistency in TCPIP Services with respect to adherence to logical names
> > and file locations are probably hard coded in many places. There is a
> > logical name TCPIP$COMMON but I have not been able to make sensible use
> > of it. 
> 
> I agree that TCPIP on VMS is a bit of a mess.  I don't know about
> TCPIP$COMMON.  There is TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON.  The default is 
> SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$SMTP].  Usually, one will want the same TCPIP 
> configuration on all nodes booting from the disk, or even from all nodes 
> in the cluster.  I have redefined it as a search list, the first 
> translation being SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$SMTP] and the second being on a 
> non-system disk (where SYSUAF etc are as well).  This seems to work.

I forgot to mention that the logical names TCPIP$CONFIGURATION and the likes DO work. You can see the default values in SYS$STARTUP:TCPIP$STARTUP.COM. You can safely move these files to a cluster common disk and use the logical names to point to them.

Bart