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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-12-29 kl. 14:34, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
> In article <rset47$lue$1 at dont-email.me>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
> writes:
> 
>> OK. Back on track, what was "fixed" around the issues with a lost
>> terminal session when doing a shutdown using a telnet or ssh session?
> 
> If I recall correctly, the current process was taken off the list of
> processes to be killed.
> 

OK. But the problem was (is?) that the TCPIP communication is lost,
not that the process was killed (even if the lost network link
might indirectly cause that).

I has for a very long time been possible to shut down using a LAT
connection (since LAT stays up longer then TCPIP), so that process
"fix" must also have been a very long time ago.

Anyway, the supplied SHUTDOWN.COM routine could very well be changed
into a detached shutdown, so that everyone gets happy. Or you just
add that 10 lines of DCL code and you can be happy anyway.