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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rsbc8v$oiv$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> 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.

I think that at some point that was fixed on VMS.