[Info-vax] New installment in The OpenVMS Consultant: Shutdowns using STARTUP.COM

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-12-27, David Jones <osuvman50 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The biggest hazard to an orderly shutdown is that you terminal session goes when the network is shut off, leaving your system in a partially shutdown state.
> I changed my shutdown symbol from "@sys$system:shutdown ..." to "$SYSMAN SHUTDOWN NODE /minutes=..." (appending /auto/save as needed).

That's another thing that Unix got right big time.

I routinely reboot Linux servers from a SSH session to the server
and never have to worry about this.

Simon.

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