[Info-vax] What would you miss if DECnet got the chop? Was: "bad select 38" (OpenSSL on VMS)

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In article <enr1bd-atq.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>On 2016-09-17, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'd be seriously tempted to announce the deprecation and eventual 
>>> removal of DECnet, for that matter.
>>
>> Booo!  Hisssss!
>>
>> Ok, we know it's not secure.  Run at your own risk.
>>
>> I'm guessing that DECnet users use it only in house, for FAL and such, so if the 
>> in house environment is secure, then security isn't an issue for DECnet.
>>
>> If it's not going to take up time and effort, then why kill it off?
>>
>> I personally find it can be useful.
>>
>> It sure is handy when you need to shutdown and re-start TCP/IP on a remote (but 
>> in house) system.
>
>I'd certainly miss one or two things that DECnet does:
>
>o - the ability to do a SET HOST 0 /LOG= to get a log / audit trail of software
>    installations and configuration sessions.   Yes, many terminal emulators can
>    do logging, but those logs aren't on the target system.

Not on the top of my list but it would be nice to have about.



>o - using DECnet as a means of placing BACKUP savesets on another node, and
>    restoring them from other nodes (where 'other' can be either local or
>    remote).
>    
>o - DECnet tasks.  Useful but I haven't seen many customers use these.
>
>o - FAL

Seconded!  DCL commands using NODE::<file-spec> are things I use quite often
and rely upon.

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