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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-12-28 kl. 02:26, skrev 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.
> 

As I have always done for VMS servers. I do not see what
Unix "got right" here that is different from VMS.

As long as you do not run SHUTDOWN.COM interactivily
from a TCPIP based termninal session, you are fine,
but that is easy to avoid.