[Info-vax] Logging systartup_vms.com progress to operator.log VMS 7.3-2

[Marc Van Dyck]

Dave Froble formulated on Wednesday :
>>
>
> I'll just mention my practice.
>
> SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM does the minimum necessary, then, one or more batch jobs 
> are run to do the rest of the startup.  Network startup and such. Additional 
> queues.  Terminal setup.  Application startup(s).  Most things that are not 
> required in SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM.
>
> Of course, the batch jobs produce logs.

Same here.

In addition to producing logs, it also runs faster because running in
processes that can have much larger quota than those of the startup
process.

It also frees up the console faster, allowing sysadmins to login while
startup batch jobs are still executing, which can be useful for
troubleshooting. Of course SET LOGIN/INTER=xxx is only executed after
all startup jobs are finished, so normal users can't login before the
startup is complete.

The startup jobs execute in a dedicated queue with job limit=1.

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Marc Van Dyck