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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-12-28 kl. 09:12, skrev 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.
> 

What was "fixed" in VMS? I do not remember anything that was
fixed that has any bearing on the issues with running SHUTDOWN.COM
from an interactive telnet or ssh session. Just do not do that.
And it is easy to avoid.