[Info-vax] %MAIL-E-UAFOPNERR, error opening user authorization file

[David Froble]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <7df73776-4ebb-4e85-b22c-0141a39cb776 at googlegroups.com>, John
> Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> writes: 
> 
>> On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 11:49:16 AM UTC-4, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
>>> <> writes: 
>>>
>>>> Was it a one-of error? Have you rerun the job? Can you force
>>>> the error again?
>>> One off.  This command has run half a million times in the batch job.
>>>
>>>> As the help /mess for UAFOPNERR says, "User Action: Take action based
>>>> on the accompanying message"... :-)
>>> No accompanying message.  :-(
>> Somebody doing a CONVERT or other file maintenance?
> 
> Nope?
> 
> Of course, more than one process can read the SYSUAF at the same time.  
> What would cause such a conflict?  Someone writing to the SYSUAF?  On 
> the same record?
> 

I would expect, remember, "I know nothing", that most access of the SYSUAF would 
be read only, and perhaps even read regardless.  It's not often that there are 
updates.  At login and logoff I believe there are updates.