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12-20-2006 09:45 AM
12-20-2006 09:45 AM
How to force prompt to enter current time, at system startup?
Is there a boot flag or some other manual intervention that will require the current time to be entered when VMS is booting (like Standalone Backup always does)?
I have an email in to SRI about possibly deleting CHARON.DAT (where the TOY clock is kept), but I'm not sure that's a good idea (I thought of it ;-) I believe other items such as default boot device are also in that file.
Cheers,
Art
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12-20-2006 10:49 AM
12-20-2006 10:49 AM
Re: How to force prompt to enter current time, at system startup?
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12-20-2006 03:28 PM
12-20-2006 03:28 PM
Re: How to force prompt to enter current time, at system startup?
See also TIMEPROMPTWAIT - depending on the setting I think it can override SETTIME (ie: if TIMEPROMPTWAIT=0?)
You also have the fun of working out what a uFortnight is :-)
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12-20-2006 08:40 PM
12-20-2006 08:40 PM
Re: How to force prompt to enter current time, at system startup?
"The time unit of micro-fortnights is approximated as seconds in the implementation"
and a discussion if what happens if the value is 32768 or more.
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12-21-2006 03:52 AM
12-21-2006 03:52 AM
Re: How to force prompt to enter current time, at system startup?
you need to set SETTIME = 1 and TIMEPROMPTWAIT to a 'negative' value (i.e. 32768 through 65535). This combination will cause SYSINIT to prompt forever, until a valid time has been entered. This will (most likely) not work in a cluster, as the system time is taken from another node in the cluster.
Deleting CHARON.DAT is not such a good idea, as it also stores the 'NVRAM' parameters (like boot device, root, HALT settings). But deleting that file WILL cause OpenVMS to ask for the time during boot.
Volker.
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