[Info-vax] Need to set up a special purpose account

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-10-10 kl. 14:19, skrev Tom Adams:
> On Friday, October 7, 2016 at 4:46:24 PM UTC-4, Steven Schweda wrote:
>>> $ tcpip show version
>>>
>>> HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.4 - ECO 7 on a
>>> AlphaServer DS10 617 MHz running OpenVMS V7.3-2
>>
>> Ok.
>>
>>> I was not looking at the run log. Here's what I find:
>>
>> As before, I don't know what "the run log" means to you. I'll guess
>> that it's something like
>> "sys$sysdevice:[tcpip$ftp]tcpip$ftp_run.log".
>>
>>> $ dir [000000]ucx$ftp.dir/prot/owner
>>>
>>> Directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[000000]
>>>
>>> UCX$FTP.DIR;1        [UCX$AUX,UCX$FTP]                (RWE,RWE,RE,E)
>>>
>>
>> Mildly interesting, perhaps, but, as those logical names I offered
>> earlier might suggest, I'd expect TCPIP to use TCPIP names, not (old,
>> obsolete) UCX names.  Around here, for example:
>>
>> ALP $ dire /owne/prot sys$sysdevice:[000000]*ftp*
>>
>> Directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[000000]
>>
>> TCPIP$FTP.DIR;1      [TCPIP$AUX,TCPIP$FTP]            (RWE,RWE,RE,E)
>> TCPIP$TFTP.DIR;1     [TCPIP$AUX,TCPIP$TFTP]           (RWE,RWE,RE,E)
>> TCPIP$TFTP_ROOT.DIR;1 [TCPIP$AUX,TCPIP$TFTP]           (RWE,RWE,RE,E)
>> UCX$FTP.DIR;1        [UCX$AUX,UCX$FTP]                (RWE,RWE,RE,E)
>>
>> You may not have the TFTP directories, but I'd expect that
>> TCPIP$FTP.DIR is being used, and UCX$FTP.DIR is not.  If you're in
>> doubt, then:
>>
>> tcpip show service /full ftp
>>
>> and see whether it's still using *UCX* for anything.
>>
>> And, to continue beating what should be a long-dead horse, stuff like
>> this is why a description like "the run log" can be less useful than
>> an actual file specification.
>
> Actually, there is an [TCPIP$FTP] directory owned by TCPIP$FTP that
> contains the same file.
>
> Directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$FTP]
>
> LOGIN.COM;1         TCPIP$FTP_ANONYMOUS.LOGSAV;1 TCPIP$FTP_RUN.LOG;642
> TCPIP$FTP_RUN.LOG;641 TCPIP$FTP_RUN.LOG;640
> TCPIP$FTP_RUN.LOG;639 TCPIP$FTP_RUN.LOG;638
>
> $ dir sys$sysdevice:[ucx$ftp]*.*
>
> Directory SYS$SYSDEVICE:[UCX$FTP]
>
> LOGIN.COM;1         UCX$FTPD.LOG;57     UCX$FTPD_STARTUP.COM;1
> UCX$FTPD_STARTUP.LOG;57                 UCX$FTP_ANONYMOUS.LOGSAV;1
>
> Not sure how this works.  These 2 directories have some files in common
> but not all files in common.  How can that be?
>
>

Are they realy "the same files"? Not different dates or something?
I'd guess that [UCX$FTP] is a left-over from an earlier TCPIP version
and [TCPIP$FTP] is used by the current (later) TCPIP version.