[Info-vax] satellite one hour ahead

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <nusmt9$3v3$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> You're trying to run OpenVMS on old and out-of-date hardware, 

Old yes, but supported on the versions I'm running.

> with 
> ancient and ill-patched software, 

7.3-2 was current when patch access was cut off; not much more a 
hobbyist can do.

> and you're not able or not willing to 
> spend the time and effort and budget required.   

Life is short; resources are finite.

> That's inherently 

> As for software reinstallations?   Enterprise servers are not precious 
> pets, they're blunt instruments.   OpenVMS is particularly inept here, 
> as some of these old servers have decades of software accretions and 
> barnacles, and as OpenVMS just isn't very good at repeatable 
> deployments.  This is why reinstallations are increasingly preferred, 
> too.  Your available hardware is also problematic, as the configuration 
> you've forced yourself into for HBVS and related doesn't particularly 
> help with what you want to do with these servers.

It would be nice if fresh installations were possible without requiring 
a huge amount of post-upgrade configuration.