Document revision date: 19 July 1999

Chapter 4
4	Starting Up and Shutting Down the System
4.1	Understanding Booting and System Startup
4.1.1	Booting and Startup Processes
4.1.2	Deferring Memory Testing on AlphaServer 4100 Computers
4.1.3	Types of Booting Operations
4.1.3.1	Nonstop Boot: The Most Common Booting Operation
4.1.3.2	Conversational Boot: For Special Booting Functions
4.1.4	System Startup and STARTUP.COM
4.1.5	Messages Indicating Booting and Startup Progress
4.2	Booting with Modified System Parameter Values
4.2.1	Booting After Showing or Modifying Individual System Parameter Values
4.2.2	Booting with an Alternate System Parameter File
4.3	Assigning Port Allocation Classes with SYSBOOT
4.4	Booting in an Emergency
4.4.1	Booting with Default System Parameters
4.4.2	Booting Without Startup and Login Procedures
4.4.3	Booting Without the User Authorization File
4.5	Booting with Controlled Startup
4.5.1	Booting with an Alternate Site-Independent Startup Procedure
4.5.2	Specifying an Alternate Default Startup Command Procedure
4.5.3	Booting with Minimum Startup
4.5.4	Booting While Displaying Startup Procedure Commands
4.5.5	Displaying Startup Procedure Commands with SYSMAN
4.6	Solving Booting Problems
4.7	Writing a New Boot Block on the System Disk
4.8	Shutting Down the System
4.8.1	Performing an Orderly Shutdown with SHUTDOWN.COM
4.8.2	Understanding the Order of Shutdown Events
4.8.3	Customizing SHUTDOWN.COM to Perform Site-Specific Operations
4.8.3.1	Defining Logical Names
4.8.3.2	Modifying the Site-Specific Shutdown Command Procedure
4.8.4	Performing an Orderly Shutdown with SYSMAN
4.8.5	Performing an Emergency Shutdown with the OPCCRASH.EXE Program
4.8.6	Performing an Emergency Shutdown Using Console Commands
Chapter 5
5	Customizing the Operating System
5.1	Adding and Deleting Optional Files
5.2	Modifying Site-Specific Startup Command Procedures
5.2.1	Understanding Site-Specific Startup Command Procedures
5.2.1.1	Using Template Files
5.2.1.2	Rules for Modifying Startup Command Procedures
5.2.2	Understanding the Order of Startup Events
5.2.3	Modifying SYPAGSWPFILES.COM to Install Page and Swap Files
5.2.4	Modifying SYCONFIG.COM to Configure Devices
5.2.4.1	Connecting Nonstandard Devices
5.2.4.2	Suppressing Autoconfiguration of Devices
5.2.5	Modifying SYLOGICALS.COM to Define Systemwide Logical Names
5.2.6	Modifying SYSECURITY.COM to Set Up Security Auditing
5.2.7	Modifying SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to Perform General Operations
5.2.7.1	Mounting Public Disks
5.2.7.2	Mounting Disks That Must Be Available Early in Startup
5.2.7.3	Setting Terminal and Printer Characteristics
5.2.7.4	Starting Queues and Enabling Autostart for Queues
5.2.7.5	Installing Known Images
5.2.7.6	Installing Resident Images (Alpha Only)
5.2.7.7	Setting Up the OpenVMS InfoServer Client Software
5.2.7.8	Running the System Dump Analyzer
5.2.7.9	Purging the Operator Log File
5.2.7.10	Submitting Batch Jobs to Run at Startup Time
5.2.7.11	Creating Systemwide Announcements
5.2.7.12	Starting Up and Customizing the LAT Protocol Software
5.2.7.13	Starting a DECnet Network
5.2.7.14	Starting the DIBOL Message Manager
5.2.7.15	Defining the Number of Interactive Users
5.3	Modifying Login Command Procedures to Customize User Environments
5.4	Customizing Startup Databases with SYSMAN
5.4.1	Understanding Startup Databases
5.4.2	Understanding the Layered Product Startup Database
5.4.3	Specifying the Current Startup Database
5.4.4	Showing the Name of the Target Startup Database
5.4.5	Showing the Contents of a Startup Database
5.4.6	Adding Startup Files to a Startup Database
5.4.7	Changing Information Associated with a Startup File
5.4.8	Deleting a Record from a Startup Database
5.4.9	Preventing a Startup File from Executing
5.4.10	Allowing a Previously Disabled Startup File to Execute
5.5	Registering Images that Have System Version Dependencies
5.5.1	Understanding System Version Dependency and the Image Registry
5.5.2	Using the Image Registry Facility
5.6	Customizing the Help Message Database
5.6.1	Accessing $STATUS Values for Uninstalled Messages
5.6.2	Creating System-Level Database Search Paths
5.6.3	Deleting Compaq-Supplied Messages from the Database
5.6.4	Adding Comments to Compaq-Supplied Messages
5.6.5	Changing Compaq-Supplied Data
5.6.6	Adding Messages to Compaq-Supplied Database Files
5.7	Customizing Mail
5.8	Setting Up the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) Utility
5.8.1	Defining a Foreign Command
5.8.2	Initializing the MIME Utility
5.8.3	Creating Optional MIME Utility Files
5.8.3.1	MIME$MAILCAP.DAT File Processing
5.8.3.2	MIME$FILETYPES.DAT File Processing
5.8.4	Adding Preamble and Epilogue Text
5.9	Setting Correct Time Zone Information on Your System
5.9.1	Understanding Time-Setting Concepts
5.9.1.1	Coordinated Universal Time
5.9.1.2	Time Differential Factor
5.9.1.3	Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time
5.9.1.4	Time Zones
5.9.2	Determining Your System's Time Differential Factor
5.9.3	Using UTC$TIME_SETUP.COM
5.9.3.1	Setting the Time Zone on Your System
5.9.3.2	Setting the TDF on Your System
5.9.4	Adjusting for Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time
5.9.5	Setting Time in an OpenVMS Cluster Environment
5.10	Setting Time Using the Battery-Backed Watch (BBW) (Alpha Only)
5.11	Choosing Languages, and Date and Time Formats
5.11.1	Specifying Languages Other Than English
5.11.2	Invoking LIB$DT_STARTUP.COM
5.11.3	Defining System Default Date and Time Formats
5.11.3.1	Defining Your Own Format
5.11.3.2	Using Predefined Formats
5.11.4	User Definitions of Language, and Date and Time Formats
5.12	Saving Your Customization

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