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From: helen@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Helen Rapozo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: No terminate Systartup.com
Summary: Use SET NOON
Message-ID: <2205@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 6 Aug 88 18:42:43 GMT
References: <12419017247.14.DL01@TE.CC.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: helen@uhccux.UUCP (Helen Rapozo)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <12419017247.14.DL01@TE.CC.CMU.EDU> DL01@TE.CC.CMU.EDU (David B. Love) writes:
>
>  When our Systartup.Com hits an error (such as trying to execute an
>  indirect file that someone accidentally deleted), it aborts the
>  rest of the startup file.  Is there a way to make it continue
>  executing ?  Can anyone think of anything particularly dangerous
>  about doing this ?  
>
>
>  David Love
>  DL01@TE.CC.CMU.EDU
>-------

You can put SET NOON at the top of your SYSTARTUP.COM.  Of course 
there might be a danger of the system might be missing something
when it's up and running.  I remember someone changed a few lines
of code that prevented some DECnet device drivers to be loaded
properly thru SYSGEN (that person for some strange reason put a $
in front of those lines).  This cause the DECnet startup to fail
which in turn cause system to fail as a LAT load host and also
caused the system to forget it had remote ports on the LAT.  This
being the case other applications started to complain why it
couldn't find 3 or 4 ports on the LAT.

Luckly this happen doing a time when no one was around so it was
possible to change the SYSTARTUP.COM and restart the system.

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