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Customizing the Operating System
5.2 Modifying Site-Specific Startup Command Procedures
5.2.6 Modifying SYSECURITY.COM to Set Up Security Auditing
SYSECURITY.COM runs prior to starting the security audit server process. You
can add commands to this file to mount or define any disks that you want to hold
security auditing log files or local security archive files. For more information
about security auditing, see Section 20.7.
Ordinarily, the system turns on auditing in VMS$LPBEGIN just before
SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM executes. However, you can change this behavior
by redefining the logical name SYS$AUDIT_SERVER_INHIBIT.
To inhibit the automatic startup of auditing, edit the
SYS$MANAGER:SYLOGICALS.COM command procedure to add the following
line:
$ DEFINE/SYSTEM/EXECUTIVE SYS$AUDIT_SERVER_INHIBIT YES
Then you can initiate auditing during another phase of system startup, perhaps
at the end of SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM, by editing the command file to add the
following line:
$ SET AUDIT/SERVER=INITIATE
For information about editing SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM, see Section 5.2.7.
5.2.7 Modifying SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to Perform General Operations
To perform any site-specific command not performed by another startup command
procedure, you can add or modify commands in the general-purpose, site-specific
startup command procedure, SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM.
Compaq recommends that you edit this procedure to modify or add commands
that perform tasks such as the following ones:
Task For More Information
Mounting public disks Section 5.2.7.1
Setting the characteristics of terminals and printer devices Section 5.2.7.3
Starting queues and enabling autostart for queues Section 5.2.7.4
Installing known images Section 5.2.7.5
‡Installing resident images Section 5.2.7.6
Setting up the OpenVMS InfoServer Client software Section 5.2.7.7
Running the System Dump Analyzer Section 5.2.7.8
Purging the operator’s log file Section 5.2.7.9
Submitting batch jobs that are run at system startup time Section 5.2.7.10
Creating systemwide announcements Section 5.2.7.11
Starting up the LAT protocol software Section 5.2.7.12
Starting a DECnet or TCP/IP network Section 5.2.7.13
Starting up the DIBOL Message Manager Section 5.2.7.14
Defining the number of interactive users Section 5.2.7.15
‡Alpha specific
How to Perform This Task
To modify SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM, perform the following steps:
1. Invoke any editor to edit the file.
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