INFO-VAX Tue, 03 Jun 2008 Volume 2008 : Issue 308 Contents: Re: CVS on VMS Re: CVS on VMS Re: CVS on VMS Encrypting SCSI cards Has anyone done REPLICATION using HSG80's and OVMS?? Re: Has anyone done REPLICATION using HSG80's and OVMS?? Re: Has anyone done REPLICATION using HSG80's and OVMS?? Re: Has anyone done REPLICATION using HSG80's and OVMS?? Re: How to read a damaged TK50 tape Re: Instructions setting up reverse LAT port on RSX11 Re: LBR function result codes still not available Re: OpenVMS and linux, pros and cons Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Re: php with osu 3.10a and openvms 8.3 Re: [GS1280] how to set serial number ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 20:46:40 +0000 (UTC) From: m.kraemer@gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) Subject: Re: CVS on VMS Message-ID: In article <48421171$0$90275$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= writes: > > SVN is the standard today. what's the definition of "standard" in this case ? > But there are still a lot of CVS users out there. Then how can the other thing be "standard" ? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:05 -0400 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= Subject: Re: CVS on VMS Message-ID: <48448d7c$0$90264$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Bob Koehler wrote: > In article <484212f7$0$90275$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= writes: >> If you need a web frontend then you need something newer. >> > I've seen a lot of web front ends rolled around CVS, it's not > a major undertaking. A look around might find one of them > already sitting somewhere for free. Sure. But I don't think I have ever seen one for CMS, which is what I was talking about. Arne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:18:40 -0400 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= Subject: Re: CVS on VMS Message-ID: <48448ddb$0$90264$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Michael Kraemer wrote: > In article <48421171$0$90275$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= writes: >> SVN is the standard today. > > what's the definition of "standard" in this case ? The one you do never get fired for recommending. >> But there are still a lot of CVS users out there. > > Then how can the other thing be "standard" ? I think should be clear now. Arne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:52:27 -0600 From: "Michael D. Ober" Subject: Encrypting SCSI cards Message-ID: Does anyone know where to get SCSI cards that do on the fly encryption/decryption of data going to and from disk? System is an AlphaServer 1200 with an external RAID, so the card would need an external port. Thanks, Mike Ober. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:27:58 -0700 (PDT) From: LenW Subject: Has anyone done REPLICATION using HSG80's and OVMS?? Message-ID: <7a716745-5ac7-498e-b96f-22c1041889b6@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> Want to set up a DR config (Local and Remote) using RA8000's and replication between the two sites. OVMS ver 7.3 running on DS20e's. (Poor man's DR) Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Len ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:49:28 -0400 From: "Richard B. Gilbert" Subject: Re: Has anyone done REPLICATION using HSG80's and OVMS?? Message-ID: LenW wrote: > Want to set up a DR config (Local and Remote) using RA8000's and > replication between the two sites. OVMS ver 7.3 running on DS20e's. > (Poor man's DR) > > Any input would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Len Have you tested your ability to "fail over"? If your primary site gets nuked, you need to be certain that your DR site will pick up the load, or at least any critical portions of the load. After you have failed over to your DR site, can you sync up your primary site and switch back? Are your sites far enough apart that both will not be affected by a common disaster? If the same hurricane can wipe out both sites, you have not accomplished much!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 14:02:20 -0700 (PDT) From: LenW Subject: Re: Has anyone done REPLICATION using HSG80's and OVMS?? Message-ID: On Jun 2, 11:49=A0am, "Richard B. Gilbert" wrote: > LenW wrote: > > Want to set up a DR config (Local and Remote) using RA8000's and > > replication between the two sites. OVMS ver 7.3 running on DS20e's. > > (Poor man's DR) > > > Any input would be greatly appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > > Len > > Have you tested your ability to "fail over"? =A0If your primary site gets > nuked, you need to be certain that your DR site will pick up the load, > or at least any critical portions of the load. > > After you have failed over to your DR site, can you sync up your primary > site and switch back? > > Are your sites far enough apart that both will not be affected by a > common disaster? =A0If the same hurricane can wipe out both sites, you > have not accomplished much!! Hi Richard: I am not at that point yet. I'm still trying to find someone that has set up this type of config. Have you done it?? Thanks, Len ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:21:50 GMT From: "Colin Butcher" Subject: Re: Has anyone done REPLICATION using HSG80's and OVMS?? Message-ID: <2o_0k.2293$E41.561@text.news.virginmedia.com> Hello, When you say "replication", do you mean HSG80 controller based data copying ( a precursor to EVA continuous access), or do you mean OpenVMS host based volume shadowing (HBVS)? HBVS gives you synchronous replication of data at cluster level. DRM in the HSG80 does controller based replication. Assuming that yo umean HSG based replication then this is well worth reading through: http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01150379/c01150379.pdf - it's the DRM operations guide and discusses some of the design issues. Also see the "DRM" bits in the HSG80 CLI manual at http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00309747/c00309747.pdf What's the network connection distance between the sites (not the road distance)? How consistent is the round-trip delay? If you can use HBVS and build a split-site cluster, that's probably the "better" solution, provided that you have the necessary inter-site links (fibrechannel and ethernet) and that the latency is both reasonably consistent and acceptable to the applications. I'd strongly recommend moving to at least OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-2 if you can. Latest HSG80 firmware that does everything is V8.8P (plus patches). There's a whole load of other questions to be considered as well when you're designing and building disaster-tolerant systems. You might find this (from the October 2007 OpenVMS TUD in Utrecht) useful: http://www.downloads.xdelta.co.uk/hp_nl_vmstud_2007/2007_10_01-nl_vmstud_hadt-colin_butcher-v1_0.pdf -- Cheers, Colin. Legacy = Stuff that works properly! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:36:34 -0400 From: JF Mezei Subject: Re: How to read a damaged TK50 tape Message-ID: <48445ac6$0$12273$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > I don't know about the design of the drives but I'm pretty sure they > were manufactured by a third party. Digital designed and built the TK50 (which evolved into TK70 and then onto DLT technology). Same cartridge form factor. As some else stated, in its slash/burn quest, Palmer sold off the tape and disk busines to Quantum. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:18:44 -0400 From: "Richard B. Gilbert" Subject: Re: Instructions setting up reverse LAT port on RSX11 Message-ID: JCamCMKRNL wrote: > Does anyone have examples or instruction for setting up reverse LAT > terminal ports on a PDP-11 running RSX. The HELP in the LATCP program > does not offer any help, but indicates that it is possible? > > I have beaucoup experience doing this in VMS to our multitude of > DECServer 200/MC servers, but I need to get this working on our 4 PDP-11 > systems as well. > > Thanks in advance for any help and suggestions you might offer. > > Jeff Cameron > > It's been a few years since I worked with a terminal server and more than that since I've worked with RSX-11. AFAIK, the setup is specific to the terminal server rather than to the O/S that's using the server. If you can find a DECserver 200 manual, you might find some help there. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:10:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich Jordan Subject: Re: LBR function result codes still not available Message-ID: On Jun 1, 2:35 pm, JF Mezei wrote: > Tom Linden wrote: > > And they should ALWAYS be expressed in SDL and made available through > > starlet. > > I would suspect that resources have been limited ever since the Palmer > days and they never saw any priority to finish the original work of > building the SDL stuff for the library routines which they probably > thought nobody used. > > Note that the routines to get the information about a library (forget > the name) is ill defined and documentation lacks a LOT of the > information necessary to produce the equivalent of LIBRARY/LIST/FULL. > There is documentation on how to get the history, but no documentation > of what the history record formats are. > > Looks to me like they abandonned the "publishing" process of the library > routines halfway through and never came back to it. And these days, > their focus is on supporting new HP hardware, it is very doubtful they > will come back to stuff dating back from late 1980s. The documentation specifies that the return codes are defined in $LBRDEF. I suppose at this point a new bug report would be more likely to get that reference removed from the documentation than getting the startlet files updates appropriately. I'll agree that the LBR function documentation leaves much to be desired. Our task has been redefined to just use the librarian from DCL; it took too much time trying to get the LBR functions working. We're losing a little of the flexibility we wanted but the main functionality will be just fine. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:26:33 -0400 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= Subject: Re: OpenVMS and linux, pros and cons Message-ID: <48448fb5$0$90267$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> johnwallace4@gmail.com wrote: > On Jun 2, 3:14 am, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> He should reply that the virtualization reduced the HW cost and >> that SW and hour reduction cost will require: >> - reduction of number of platforms (and versions of those) >> - reduction of number of apps > > Ah yes, the "let's do everything on one app/one platform" myth. > > How many businesses have come close to disaster when the SAP (or > Oracle Apps or whatever, just that SAP is the most visible) salesfolks > convinced the board, and the reality turned out to be rather different > than the lunches? > > If it really was sensible and practical to do everything on one > application family, "enterprise integration" middleware woudn't be as > trendy as it still is. Not that it's any panacea itself - as a > contributor here pointed out recently iirc, who needs middleware when > you've got sockets and a couple of developers who actually have a > clue. I don't think anybody has been talking about running everything on one app i this thread. But reducing the number of apps from the 100-1000 range to the 10-100 range can save a lot of money. Arne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:08:33 -0400 From: "Richard B. Gilbert" Subject: Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Message-ID: <7uydneqty68VqtnVnZ2dnUVZ_hWdnZ2d@comcast.com> Bob Koehler wrote: > In article , "Tom Linden" writes: >> Why is this not like opening someone's mail, from a legal viewpoint? > > Because the laws that protect snail mail are specific to snail mail. > Also note that e-mail is very new compared to snail mail. More than 200 years of legislation and case law apply to snail mail. There is nothing to prevent anyone with System privileges from reading your e-mail. It might even be legal to forward it to "The New York Times" and for the Times to publish it! If publishing your e-mail would sell newspapers, somebody would do it! The moral? Don't commit anything to e-mail that you would not want to see on the front page of the Times! For that matter, you should probably own, and use, a paper shredder. Courts have ruled that a man has NO expectation of privacy in his trash. Do you use wireless Ethernet? If so, you had better be sure it's encrypted and that you change the encryption keys frequently enough to discourage crackers. Also note, that in the case of public officials, courts have held that their e-mail is a "public record". The moral? Well, I'm sure you get the idea. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:19:55 -0700 (PDT) From: AEF Subject: Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Message-ID: <4ab0b8aa-15b4-4464-b87e-e9ae2c1c8c44@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com> On Jun 2, 2:08 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" wrote: > Bob Koehler wrote: > > In article , "Tom Linden" writes: > >> Why is this not like opening someone's mail, from a legal viewpoint? > > > Because the laws that protect snail mail are specific to snail mail. > > Also note that e-mail is very new compared to snail mail. More than 200 > years of legislation and case law apply to snail mail. > > There is nothing to prevent anyone with System privileges from reading > your e-mail. It might even be legal to forward it to "The New York > Times" and for the Times to publish it! If publishing your e-mail would > sell newspapers, somebody would do it! > > The moral? Don't commit anything to e-mail that you would not want to > see on the front page of the Times! Well, that should be easy! I seriously doubt anything I would or have put in an email would even make it to the Style section. The Onion, maybe! :-) > > For that matter, you should probably own, and use, a paper shredder. > Courts have ruled that a man has NO expectation of privacy in his trash. Got one! > > Do you use wireless Ethernet? If so, you had better be sure it's > encrypted and that you change the encryption keys frequently enough to > discourage crackers. > > Also note, that in the case of public officials, courts have held that > their e-mail is a "public record". > > The moral? Well, I'm sure you get the idea. Got it. Thanks. AEF ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:34:21 -0400 From: JF Mezei Subject: Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Message-ID: <48445a43$0$12273$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Tom Linden wrote: > Why is this not like opening someone's mail, from a legal viewpoint? DPI used in a corporare environment does not have the "postal confidentiallity" issue since the corporation essentially owns all the data on its network, including private emails containing sex jokes sent between workers. But when you start dealing with an outfit that has common carrier status, then the "postal confidentiality" issue becomes important. Bell Canada claims it is looking only at the envelope. (it considers the packet payload to be an envelope). (For instance, an HTTP response header would be cosnidered envelope by Bell because the content follows, even though at the network level, the HTTP response header and content are all packet payloads (layer 7 of OSI stack). BTW, I installed Wireshark on my Mac. (GUI and glorified equivalent of Ethermon on VMS). It an an X application. (GTK2 toolkit). Interesting to see form familiar X look-and-feel to it compared to native MAC apps that reside next to it. Bell Canada, in its CRTC filing has already stated that it has the ability to start to favour certain web sites over others. If you want to read how incompetant and clueless powerpoint-driven upper management are, goto http://www.crtc.gc.ca/PartVII/eng/2008/8622/c51_200805153.htm and read the Bell Canada submissions (especially the 2008-05-29). (remember that the service in question is PPPoE frame transport on pointo to point links between the home and a competitive ISP. This is not an INTERNET service. IPs are assigned and managed by the ISPs, not by Bell. warning: Bell Canada has marketing agreements with Microsoft, has outsourced its email to microsoft, and used to have conde on its web site to retract acces to only microsoft users. Don't be surprised by teh fact that a large corporation takes such huge risks by submitting legal dopcumenst in microsoft word formats. The guy who is responsible for those documents doesn't know the difference between bits and bytes. It is a miracle that telephone calls get through. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:39:19 -0400 From: JF Mezei Subject: Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Message-ID: <48445b6b$0$12273$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Also note that e-mail is very new compared to snail mail. More than 200 > years of legislation and case law apply to snail mail. Common carriers also have strict confidentiality laws. More than 100 years of legistlation covers a telecom carrier's right to listen or barge into conversations. Remember that at one point, phone operators were paid by some companies to connect callers to them instead of to their competitors when the caller asked for the competitor. Laws had to be passed to prevent that. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:48:19 -0700 (PDT) From: johnwallace4@gmail.com Subject: Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Message-ID: <7dd235f1-ee06-4102-bd74-961b4fcfaed4@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> On Jun 2, 2:20 pm, "Tom Linden" wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:56:48 -0700, JF Mezei > > wrote: > > New technology is now fast enough to provide DPI (deep packet > > inspection) on a large scale. Ellacoya has one box capable of scanning > > 20 gbps "live", with 500,000 customers each having multiple TCPIP > > sessions running (throttling by TCPIP session). It scans your private > > data, able to looks at multiple packets to detects certain applications, > > and will do accounting of what user uses what applications for how much > > data being exchanged. It can also do that on a HTTOP transaction dwon to > > each web site visited per user (which the telco can then sell to > > advertising firms). > > Why is this not like opening someone's mail, from a legal viewpoint? > > -- > PL/I for OpenVMSwww.kednos.com Well, from a logical and commonsense viewpoint, monitoring of internetic traffic content is conceptually remarkably similar to opening someone's mail. But the legal profession have for centuries made well-paid careers out of ensuring that law doesn't necessarily have anything with logic and common sense, or justice. Ellacoya's deep packet inspection mostly looks at packet headers, protocol types, IP addresses, and the like, and uses them fo "traffic management" purposes, flow control, prioritisation, and such, without actually knowing or caring about the details of the content. I'm a customer of an ISP with Ellacoyas and I'm comfortable with it (for now), though I understand that other folks might not be happy; that;s what "choice" is for. I suspect what JF is referring to, for real intrusive monitoring, where all http traffic flowing through your ISP is intercepted, not just headers, and the *contents* of your traffic used to provide "extra targeted" ads isn't Ellacoya at all. Check out Phorm - plenty of coverage on The Register and elsewhere. BT and Virgin (the UK's sole surviving major cable company) were touted by Phorm as being early adopters. Virgin have since said "not yet we're not", but meanwhile they have recently changed their Ts+Cs in a Phorm-friendly way. BT look a more likely candidate, as the former technical director at BT Retail (who was in charge at BT while they were secretly trialling Phorm monitoring/interception, whilst telling customers who noticed strange things that no monitoring/ interception was occuring) is now the technical director at Phorm, and a former Home Office minister is on the board at BT (aiui it would be the Home Office that would have to approve BT/Phorm's scheme as legit). Interesting times. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 00:36:46 +0000 (UTC) From: david20@alpha1.mdx.ac.uk Subject: Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Message-ID: In article <7uydneqty68VqtnVnZ2dnUVZ_hWdnZ2d@comcast.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" writes: >Bob Koehler wrote: >> In article , "Tom Linden" writes: >>> Why is this not like opening someone's mail, from a legal viewpoint? >> >> Because the laws that protect snail mail are specific to snail mail. >> > >Also note that e-mail is very new compared to snail mail. More than 200 >years of legislation and case law apply to snail mail. > >There is nothing to prevent anyone with System privileges from reading >your e-mail. It might even be legal to forward it to "The New York >Times" and for the Times to publish it! If publishing your e-mail would >sell newspapers, somebody would do it! > This depends very much upon the legal jurisdiction. In the UK there are various pieces of legislation (Human Rights, RIP act, Data protection act etc) which cover interception of email. These acts basically provide senders and recipients with protection against covert surveillance of their mail and protection against divulging of personal information to third parties. (There are a number of exceptions for Police and other Government bodies and for monitoring in order to maintain the performance and security of the mail system and for formal investigations into breaches of company policies. More general monitoring is also allowed so long as an organisation has published a policy to all its users advising them that monitoring will take place.) see http://prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/180706Email.htm A system administrator intercepting mail and forwarding it to a newspaper would almost certainly be in breach of the above laws. In a limited number of cases the paper if it published the email might have a defense that publishing the article was in the public interest. The system administrator though might have more difficulty in mounting that defense unless they could show that the interception was in accordance with the above laws since they would only have been able to ascertain that its publication might be in the public interest after having intercepted and read it. Most of the above acts are based upon EU legislation which has been incorporated into UK law and hence similar acts apply in the rest of the EU. David Webb Security team leader CCSS Middlesex University ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:12:08 -0400 From: JF Mezei Subject: Re: OT: Net Neutrality is far more serious than people realise Message-ID: <4844b7b1$0$7257$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> johnwallace4@gmail.com wrote: > Ellacoya's deep packet inspection mostly looks at packet headers, > protocol types, IP addresses, and the like, and uses them fo "traffic > management" purposes, flow control, prioritisation, and such, without > actually knowing or caring about the details of the content. I am affraid to tell you that you have drunken the kool-aid. I am quite surprised that you would believe the above. BitTorrent does not use well known ports. It does not use any special IP or TCP options. So pray tell how your magic Ellacoya boxes can detect a "flow" of BitTorrent without looking at the packet payload ? In fact, Ellacoya prides itself in being able to detect BitTorrent flows on well known ports such as 80. (for legal purposes, they don't have the guts to say "BitTorrent" because they are affraid of being sued by that corporation so they use "P2P". > I'm a > customer of an ISP with Ellacoyas and I'm comfortable with it (for > now), though I understand that other folks might not be happy; that;s > what "choice" is for. "for now" is the big key here. They have hooked and brainwashed you. And slowly, they will morph their service offering to a point where if you wish to connect an Xbox you need to pay extra and they will configure your ellacoya profile to allow Xbox traffic through. (yes, ellacoya works on an individual basis can captures data on an individual basis down to what applications you are using for how long). Want VoIP ? Well your telco ISP will block VoIP by default. (well not totally block it, but they will give you such a low throughput as to make it unusable). You want assured quality ? then you pay an extra $20 per month to have SIP protocol unblocked. Of course, most people will then look at the $20 + Vonage fees and decide to stay with the telco's landline service. YOU HAVE TO NIP THIS IN THE BUD. IF YOU LET THOSE BOXES TAKE ROOT, THE INTERNET WILL BECOME LIKE CABLE WHERE THE ISP WILL SELL YOU "CHANNELS" AND YOU CAN ONLY WATCH THOSE CHANNELS. Ellacoya isn't about managing traffic, it is about segregating it so that the ISP can make more money by making various applicatiosn "optional extras". What's the point of setting up your own web site when most users won't be able to access it ? You'll then be forced to go to facebook or whichever popular web site has paid to be made available on ISP's "basic access" packages, and you then have to be limited by what facebook gives you. No more freedom to create you own web sites. In essence, it is moving the internet from democratic media to corporatised media. Read about it. I didn't believe about this until Bell started to mess withj my traffic (I am not a customer of Bell, Bell is messing with a competitor's traffic) and the more I read about it, the more serious I see the issue. > I suspect what JF is referring to, for real intrusive monitoring, > where all http traffic flowing through your ISP is intercepted, not > just headers, and the *contents* of your traffic used to provide > "extra targeted" ads isn't Ellacoya at all. Do you seriously believe that Ellacoya's boxes are not able to record an individual's HTTP requests ? Think again. Read up about it. And if they were so angel like, why would they make so damned sure there is not a trace of documentation on the net about how their boxes work ? But they sure like to brag about their capabilities. Bell Canada is desperate to control media and get advertising revenus. They wasted a LOT of money during .com trying to emaulate the AOL-Time/Warner fiasco by buying media/tv in canada. They had to sell it all off because they were nearly bankrupt. And now, they see an opportunity to use the internet to get their foot into content again. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:15:11 -0400 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= Subject: Re: php with osu 3.10a and openvms 8.3 Message-ID: <48448d0a$0$90264$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote: > In article <97498c8b-0588-494d-aeaa-7bcd9b501b9c@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com>, Rob writes: >> HP is working on a PHP v5 release, hopefully available towards the end >> of this year. They haven't said anything officially, but a few of us >> on the VMS ITRC have been pushing them to port PHP 5 over. > > Excellent news! Sure is. And hopefully 5.2.x ! Arne ------------------------------ Date: 2 Jun 2008 21:42:06 +0200 From: peter@langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER) Subject: Re: [GS1280] how to set serial number Message-ID: <4844692e@news.langstoeger.at> In article <484447d8$1@news.langstoeger.at>, eplan@langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER) writes: >We had a problem with setting the serial# of a GS1280 and I thought I ask >here before I dig into it (or let HPQ do it ;-): > >>>>SET SYS_SERIAL_NUM AYxxxxxxx >sys_serial_num protected from attempted operation Must be MBM> SET SYS_SERIAL_NUM AYxxxxxxx Thanks for reading -- Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER Network and OpenVMS system specialist E-mail peter@langstoeger.at A-1030 VIENNA AUSTRIA I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2008.308 ************************