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

[Kip]

Thought I'd chime in and share a couple of solutions for logging sessions to the host OpenVMS systems without DECnet:

A little background:

I've used IP Stacks on OpenVMS for past ten years in place of DECnet IV or V, in clustered environments, with both (Up to Versions as follows):

Multinet - V5.3 and 

HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 Version V5.7 - ECO 5
 on an HP rx2800 i2  (1.60GHz/5.0MB) running OpenVMS V8.4   

I no longer run (startup) DECnet in Production Environments - whether that's good or bad, I still sometimes wonder.

At first when no longer running DECnet, I too missed the logging with set host x/log until I discovered I could do the same functionality with the following:

$ telnet 0/log=x.log, or via IP, telnet x.x.x.x/log=x.log or in command files something like:

$ get_username = f$edit(f$getjpi(0,"USERNAME"),"COLLAPSE")
$ pid = f$getjpi(0,"PID")
$ define/user_mode sys$input sys$command
$ telnet  0/log='get_username'_'pid'.audit 
$!...
$ exit

If you have System Detective (Point Secure) that's even better logging as well as extensive security features to boot.

I do very much look forward to running VSI VMS on X86, and would not miss DECnet too much, though it would be cool if it was there as some would find it useful and even I could probably drum up some good use of it alongside the IP-Stack.


Regards
Kip