OpenVMS reboot evidence...

[Jon Pinkley]

smsc,

It appears you have a monthly job that renames the current errlog.sys file. Restore what is probably called ERRLOG_MONTH_04.SYS given the naming convention you are using.

If you don't have backups, you need to get that fixed so you won't have other problems.

If you are using a recent version of 64 bit VMS, then you can use the following command to find entries related to startups.

$ pipe analyze/error/elv translate/one_line sys$errorlog:errlog.sys/include=control_entries | search/nowin sys$pipe start

For a bit more info you can use

$ pipe analyze/err/elv translate sys$errorlog:errlog.sys /include=control_entries | search/nowin sys$pipe control_entries,seconds

This will give you information on seconds since boot for each entry.

Replace sys$errorlog:errlog.sys with the error log file you want to look at.

Use the above commands with your existing errlog.sys file so you can see what the info looks like.

Jon

[Peter Weaver_1]

You asked about using ACCOUNTING, if you still have the data available you can try ACCOUNTING/TYPE=SYSINIT.

[smsc_1]

Thanks to all... I learn a lot of OpenVMS usefull commands.

Thread closed and points assigned! ;)