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On Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:11:00 PST Ken Sletten - Code 331A said:
>Jeff wrote after HP wrote:
>>>2. Choose one: you would prefer to control this feature
>>>               via sysgen or online via a command.
>>Given current sysgen methodology I would prefer online via a command,
>>else I'll have to reboot to set it.  Anything to save reboots.
>
>Our site concurs with Jeff's comments.  Especially the "Anything
>to save reboots" part.  I.e:  even if something is changed only
>rarely, unless there is some technical reason that it needs to be in
>SYSGEN, then SYSGEN - NOT.......
 
This seems to me to be another case where a Global Variable (like HPSYSNAME)
could be
 set by ONLY the System Manager (perhaps with its own password also) so that
this kind of switch
 could be toggled _without_ rebooting the whole system.
 
This kind of facility seems to becoming a necessity on the system and along
with it the need for a sort
of "WORM" (Write once, Read many) global variable/register-like facility (as a
non-destructive alternative
to message files) which would allow multiple users to receive some data set by
a separate process and
would save a considerable amount of CI programming among other things.
 
Any comments ?
 
Cheers,
John Dunlop ([log in to unmask])