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4.6 Solving Booting Problems . .................................... 4–18

4.7 Writing a New Boot Block on the System Disk . . ................... 4–19

4.8 Shutting Down the System .................................... 4–21

4.8.1 Performing an Orderly Shutdown with SHUTDOWN.COM ......... 4–22

4.8.2 Understanding the Order of Shutdown Events .................. 4–26

4.8.3 Customizing SHUTDOWN.COM to Perform Site-Speciﬁc

Operations . . ............................................ 4–27

4.8.3.1 Deﬁning Logical Names ................................. 4–27

4.8.3.2 Modifying the Site-Speciﬁc Shutdown Command Procedure . . . . . 4–29

4.8.4 Performing an Orderly Shutdown with SYSMAN ................ 4–29

4.8.5 Performing an Emergency Shutdown with the OPCCRASH.EXE

Program ................................................ 4–30

4.8.6 Performing an Emergency Shutdown Using Console Commands . . . . . 4–32

5 Customizing the Operating System

5.1 Adding and Deleting Optional Files . . ............................ 5–1

5.2 Modifying Site-Speciﬁc Startup Command Procedures................ 5–2

5.2.1 Understanding Site-Speciﬁc Startup Command Procedures ......... 5–2

5.2.1.1 Using Template Files ................................... 5–3

5.2.1.2 Rules for Modifying Startup Command Procedures . ........... 5–4

5.2.2 Understanding the Order of Startup Events . ................... 5–4

5.2.3 Modifying SYPAGSWPFILES.COM to Install Page and Swap Files . . 5–6

5.2.4 Modifying SYCONFIG.COM to Conﬁgure Devices ................ 5–7

5.2.4.1 Connecting Nonstandard Devices .......................... 5–7

5.2.4.2 Suppressing Autoconﬁguration of Devices ................... 5–8

5.2.5 Modifying SYLOGICALS.COM to Deﬁne Systemwide Logical

Names ................................................. 5–8

5.2.6 Modifying SYSECURITY.COM to Set Up Security Auditing ........ 5–10

5.2.7 Modifying SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to Perform General

Operations . . ............................................ 5–10

5.2.7.1 Mounting Public Disks .................................. 5–11

5.2.7.2 Mounting Disks That Must Be Available Early in Startup . . . . . . 5–12

5.2.7.3 Setting Terminal and Printer Characteristics ................ 5–12

5.2.7.4 Starting Queues and Enabling Autostart for Queues ........... 5–12

5.2.7.5 Installing Known Images ................................ 5–13

5.2.7.6 Installing Resident Images (Alpha Only) . ................... 5–13

5.2.7.7 Setting Up the OpenVMS InfoServer Client Software .......... 5–13

5.2.7.8 Running the System Dump Analyzer ....................... 5–13

5.2.7.9 Purging the Operator Log File ............................ 5–14

5.2.7.10 Submitting Batch Jobs to Run at Startup Time ............... 5–14

5.2.7.11 Creating Systemwide Announcements . . . ................... 5–14

5.2.7.12 Starting Up and Customizing the LAT Protocol Software ....... 5–15

5.2.7.13 Starting a DECnet or TCP/IP Network . . ................... 5–16

5.2.7.14 Starting the DIBOL Message Manager . . ................... 5–16

5.2.7.15 Deﬁning the Number of Interactive Users ................... 5–16

5.3 Modifying Login Command Procedures to Customize User

Environments. . . ............................................ 5–17

5.4 Customizing Startup Databases with SYSMAN . . ................... 5–18

5.4.1 Understanding Startup Databases ............................ 5–18

5.4.2 Understanding the Layered Product Startup Database . ........... 5–19

5.4.3 Specifying the Current Startup Database . . . ................... 5–20

5.4.4 Showing the Name of the Target Startup Database ............... 5–20

5.4.5 Showing the Contents of a Startup Database ................... 5–21