[Info-vax] Howto make OpenVMS remember "SET CONFIGURATION MAP"

[Marco Beishuizen]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, the wise Paul Sture via Info-vax wrote:

> Depending on version (all of them?), TCP/IP Services isn't very good at 
> understanding clusters.
>
> It also has version 1 hard coded for the filenames in various places, so 
> e.g. restoring from a backup using /NEW_VERSION will leave version 2 or 
> greater, waiting around to be ignored.
>
> Is your system clustered?  If not, was it previously a member of a 
> cluster?

No, no clusters. OpenVMS is installed on a single computer (PWS600au), 
connected to my home network of BSD and Linux computers.

> What does the following give?
>
> $ set def sys$system $ dir/da/siz=all tcpip*.dat
>
> Look for
>
> a) stuff in SYS$SPECIFIC which is getting picked up in one place
>   but not another. b) TCPIP*.DAT filenames with version number greater 
> than 1
>
> FWIW on my non-clustered VAX (running under SimH), all my TCPIP*.DAT 
> files are in SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE], and are version 1.

$ set def sys$system
$ dir/da/siz=all tcpip*.dat

Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]

TCPIP$CONFIGURATION.DAT;1
                          112/112      10-FEB-2017 22:39:23.32
TCPIP$EXPORT.DAT;1       272/272      10-FEB-2017 22:55:44.56
TCPIP$HOST.DAT;1          96/96       10-FEB-2017 22:39:22.14
TCPIP$NETWORK.DAT;1
                           96/96       10-FEB-2017 22:39:22.54
TCPIP$PROXY.DAT;1        288/288      10-FEB-2017 22:39:23.03
TCPIP$ROUTE.DAT;1        112/112      10-FEB-2017 22:39:22.78
TCPIP$SERVICE.DAT;1
                          112/112      10-FEB-2017 22:39:21.84

Total of 7 files, 1088/1088 blocks.


Regards,
Marco

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