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

[Dave Froble]

On 12/27/2020 8:26 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

How much of a network was there in 1978 when VMS was released?

Regardless, VMS did get it right.

$ SHUTDOWN  == "@SYS$SYSTEM:SHUTDOWN 0 SHUTDOWN YES NO LATER NO NONE"
$ REBOOT == "@SYS$SYSTEM:SHUTDOWN 0 SHUTDOWN YES YES LATER YES NONE"


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