[HECnet] Small trouble with RSX11M 4.6

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-07-11 18:14, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
Hi,

After reading the real experts discussing about the difficulties one has to expect generating a 11M (no plus) system I wanted to test it first hand and I've (almost) successfully sysgene'd from scratch a RSX11M 4.6 system from its tape distribution. I said "almost" because I've run into 2 little problems, one of those probably coming from my lack of knowledge about RSX itself...

Heh... Isn't it fun...? :-)

1) I get no "REMove" task built. I've tried a SYSGEN3 and it doesn't get built either. I wonder if that task is absent from the "standard function" system and I will have to do a fully customized SYSGEN.

REMove is not a task. It's a built-in command in MCR.

2) Even being logged on a privileged account I can't write anything under [1,54] unless I SET /UIC first. I get a privilege violation error when I try to PIP something if I have any other default directory. That   causes installation scripts to fail (I've tried to install F77 and it aborts when it tries to copy the OTS and the compiler task. My SYSUID is set to [1,54]. I guess I'm missing something but have no clue about what is it.

That is because when you do a SET /UIC in 11M on a privileged terminal, it always changes both your protection uic and default uic.

Privileges are somewhat different in concept and implementation in RSX to what you would think and expect in other OSes.

This is a slightly longer story than I feel like writing here on the spot. Suffice to say that your above description is correct, and that is the expected behavior.

I'll try and write something up later, and post here if people really want to know...

If I can overcome these problems I plan to publish the installation log to help anyone wanting to do the same...

Excellent!

	Johnny

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