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

[geze...@rlgsc.com]

On Monday, October 26, 2020 at 9:39:50 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-10-26, geze... at rlgsc.com <geze... at rlgsc.com> wrote: 
> > All, 
> > 
> > STARTUP is a multi-faceted topic, and a fuller discussion is not 
> > appropriate for the forum of a newsgroup.
> Why not ?
> > 
> > As I have observed elsewhere, STARTUP is not a package manager.
> Nobody ever said it was or even implied that. What a startup utility 
> should be capable of doing OTOH is to properly sequence the startup 
> using information supplied with the installed packages (and installed 
> to the correct place by the package manager) and without the user having 
> to manually edit startup scripts.
> > A package 
> > manager is something else, and it would certainly be useful, although 
> > probably more complicated than it might first appear. 
> >
> Other people have managed it and it is something VMS needs especially 
> as VMS moves more towards using third-party libraries. Does VMS really 
> need another HPE SSL fiasco ? Linux handled that situation massively 
> better than VMS did.
> Simon. 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.
Simon,

I endeavor to keep newgroup postings fairly short. Covering this particularly topic is not really feasible in a very short format. 

It is probably too long for a single entry in my OpenVMS blog. A better forum would be the presently-on-pause OpenVMS Technical Journal. Indeed, such an article was on my list to write when I had free time. Unfortunately, life intervened and the Journal paused before I wrote the actual article.

I have put it back on my queue.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com