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19-Dec-2006 09:27AlphaWiki
New Wiki about Alphas
I was just alerted by a posting on the AlphaNT mail list to the presence of a new Wiki on the web. This one is specific to the Alpha processor, and is called, appropriately enough, the AlphaWiki.
I diligently went to visit, with high hopes I dug down through the menu to the Operating System category, and lo, there was no entry for OpenVMS. *sigh* So, I created an account (took about 10 seconds) and created the OpenVMS category (took a few minutes to figure out the categories involved). Now, we'll need some folks to help populate it with info!
Any volunteers??? Create your account here.
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13-Dec-2006 19:41Taking control
Special characters you should know
There's a whole plethora of control characters that can be used to make life easier for you when working in a command-line environment. Every OS is different, so here is a summary of those OpenVMS supports.
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12-Dec-2006 17:54Hobbyist PAK cleanup
Getting rid of terminated PAKs
My system just rebooted, and I saw a bunch of entries in the
Operator.Log file about expired PAKs. I thought I'd cleaned those up, but realized it was on another system. Looking for an easy way to clean the LMF up, I found this article on
HP's Ask the Wizard. Unfortunately, the article's not complete, nor is it entirely correct.
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07-Dec-2006 10:24Re-versioning
Avoiding 32,767 problems
When the version number of a file hits 32,767, no additional versions of that file can be created. That's not a big deal for user-created files as users can easily find and fix the problem. But what about services that run and create log files every time they get launched? What about temporary data files created by a program? You can set version limits, but that only restricts the number of copies saved, not the max limit on the version number itself.
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18-Nov-2006 17:10Flushing it
or how to get something out of the logs
Well, it turns out the procedure I've been using for a couple years to flush the access_log files on this system weren't exactly complete. Sure, it worked sometimes, but there were a lot of other times when the flush just wouldn't release all the log entries.
The release notes weren't exactly complete, as it turns out. I found this reference in comp.os.vms that solved my problem. Not only do I have to do a httpd -k flush, but prior to that, it helps to run @Apache$Root:[000000]Apache$Setup -- that preps the environment for the flush to, well, flush.
Boy, that explains a lot of weird behavior I've seen since upgrading to 2.x!
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15-Nov-2006 11:11Finding the size of open files
A quick pipe hack
Here's a one-liner that will allow you to search for open files on a disk, then display the file size. Note that the parameter for findp can be altered to restrict the search to specific file types that are open (e.g., ".log").
$ pipe sh dev /file | findp " [" | eachline file -
"pipe file = f$extr(24,99,file) ; dire/size=all &file"
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14-Nov-2006 14:14My new blog
Just a quick note to start off my new blog. Stay tuned, I'll be adding content about this server and all the software I've got loaded on it.
OpenVMS rules!
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