[Info-vax] Reverse telnet printers (TNAxxxx:) owned by non-existent process

Jilly jilly at stny.rr.com
Wed Jun 2 12:25:45 EDT 2021


In article <456d2d30-e507-4524-ba2f-6dc9c1b9e43an at googlegroups.com>, Scott Snadow <scott at snadow.com> wrote:
> Snipped most of the post
>But intermittently, a printer will have its TNA device decide that it is ow=
>ned by a non-existent process: SHOW DEVICE/FULL will show a non-zero PID, b=
>ut a null process name.  SHOW PROCESS/ID=3Dxxxxxxxx on the PID will give a =
>non-existent process message. 
>
> Snipped the rest
>
>Thanks,
>Scott

Remember that the 'non-existent process message' may not be technically 
correct.  If the SHOW command cannot queue an AST to the process you'll still 
get this message even though the process does exist.  Next time use 
SDA> SHOW PROCESS/INDEX={pid} to look for the process.



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