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Starting Up and Shutting Down the System
4.5 Booting with Controlled Startup
You can also perform site-specific startup events by adding commands to the
site-specific startup command procedures. For more information, see Section 5.2.
How to Perform This Task
1. Follow the instructions for performing a conversational boot in one of the
following manuals:
• On VAX systems, refer to the most recent versions of the OpenVMS
VAX Upgrade and Installation Manual and the upgrade and installation
supplement for your VAX computer.
• On Alpha systems, refer to the most recent version of the OpenVMS
Alpha Upgrade and Installation Manual.
2. Enter the following command to show the current startup file:
SYSBOOT> SHOW/STARTUP
3. Enter a command in the following format to specify the alternate site-
independent startup command procedure:
SET/STARTUP file-spec
where file-spec specifies the entire file specification for the startup file to be
used, including the device and directory. For example:
SYSBOOT> SET/STARTUP SYS$SYSTEM:XSTARTUP.COM
If the startup file specified as file-spec does not exist, the system displays the
following message:
Error opening primary input file SYS$INPUT
File not found
Check the file name you entered. Make sure you specified it correctly.
4. Enter the following command to verify the change:
SYSBOOT> SHOW/STARTUP
5. Enter the following command to continue booting:
SYSBOOT> CONTINUE
To make your alternate site-independent startup procedure the default startup
procedure, see Section 4.5.2.
Example
SYSBOOT> SHOW/STARTUP
Startup command file = SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP.COM
SYSBOOT> SET/STARTUP SYS$SYSTEM:XSTARTUP.COM
SYSBOOT> SHOW/STARTUP
Startup command file = SYS$SYSTEM:XSTARTUP.COM
SYSBOOT> CONTINUE
4.5.2 Specifying an Alternate Default Startup Command Procedure
The default system startup procedure is SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP.COM. However,
in special environments, you might want the system to perform special startup
commands. If you frequently require a startup command procedure other than
SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP.COM, you can specify that the alternate procedure be
used by default.
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