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From: ewilts%Ins.MRC.AdhocNet.CA@UNCAEDU.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Print symboints
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Date: 24 May 88 20:39:08 GMT
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Recently, while testing a new print symbiont, all of our batch and print
queues were deleted and the queue manager stopped.  The only thing we got
was a JOBCTL.DMP file in SYS$SYSTEM.  Contains only a condition signaled
as "%SYSTEM-F-PRIVINSTALL, shareable images must be installed to run privileged
image".  This was a modification to an existing symbiont (LASER, for the
Apple LaserWriter).  Since we obviously do not want to experience this
again (a lot of users were sure %^& mad at us!), does anyone have suggestions
as to what we can do?  The basic symbiont was written in C, but we added
subroutines written in Fortran if this impacts anything.

Also, does anybody know how to debug a print symbiont?  If it is compile/linked
in debug, it does seem to run.  Suggestions?

We are new to symbionts but certainly not new to VMS...

        .../Ed

p.s. we are running VMS4.6 on an 11/785.