[Info-vax] IBM nearing deal to acquire Red Hat

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/4/2019 2:22 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 5/4/19 12:53 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> Probably because of concepts.  A reboot is not normally a part of 
>> running VMS.  That might not be so in other environments.
> 
> Another myth that should be put to rest.  When the University was
> still running on VMS it was managed by someone most people here
> would recognize as an authority  on VMS management.  They used
> to reboot the systems regularly and never left them running for
> more than a month with out a reboot.  Just because some people
> let them go longer and even see some value in the bragging
> rights doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea.

Yes. System boot is just like restore of backup. It need
to be tested occasionally.

A well known story is the Irish Railroad VMS system that
had not been rebooted for 17 years.

Imagine the scenario where it got rebooted and
did not startup properly.

Sysmgr A: has anyone done something on the system without
modifying systartup_vms?

Sysmgr B: since when?

Sysmgr A: within the last 17 years.

:-)

Arne