[Info-vax] Device with owner that doesn't exist.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-10-23 kl. 14:38, skrev VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG:
> In article <qopgai$h92$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> On 2019-10-23, Volker Halle <volker_halle at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> The OpenVMS Freeware V8 tool CLRREF may help as well:
>>>
>>> https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/clrref/
>>>
>>> Use at your own risk.
>>>
>>
>> On the plus side however, if it goes wrong, Jan-Erik will get the
>> reboot he needs to clear the reference in a supported way. :-)
>>
>> Seriously however, it's probably indeed best to make sure the system
>> is idle and not in the middle of doing something important before
>> running this tool just in case.
> 
> I've done this in the past using DELTA.  Of course, this requires a bit of
> VMS internals knowledge, SDA knowledge, DELTA knowledge and the privileges
> to do so.  Certainly, a dood VMS system manager would know all of this. ;)
> 

A good? Or a dead (as a dodo) VMS system manager ? :-)