[HECnet] VMS question

[Hans Vlems]

Johnny, yes I think you can safely move it to another disk. You might set the sysgen parameter that forces (scaled down) dumps to be written in the swapfile though. (how large are page- & swapfile each btw?).
Hans

PS 
Decservers may force dump files at ‎other stages than boot time but usually on their boot host. Which is most likely a pdp-11 when around ;-)

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  Origineel bericht  
Van: Johnny Billquist
Verzonden: maandag 10 augustus 2015 15:32
Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] VMS question

On 2015-08-10 15:26, Hans Vlems wrote:
> You might want to have a l‎ook at the size of accountng.dat (9 characters for the filename ;). It's in sys$manager or sys$system.
> If that is too big try $set acc‎/ new and move the old version off sys$sysdevice:.

It's in SYS$MANAGER. At 25000 blocks (roughly) it is larger than I would 
expect, but it's not enourmous.

> Next have a look at the ‎*.dmp files, if you have decservers.

No DECservers are booting from VMS here. RSX responds before VMS blinks.
But SYS$SYSTEM:SYSDUMP.DMP was impressively large... I wonder if I can 
remove that.

$ dir sys$system:*.dmp/siz

Directory SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]

ERRORLOG.DMP;1 2049
SYSDUMP.DMP;1 2621449

Total of 2 files, 2623498 blocks.

Johnny

>
>
> Verzonden vanaf mijn BlackBerry 10-smartphone.
> Origineel bericht
> Van: Tim Sneddon
> Verzonden: maandag 10 augustus 2015 15:19
> Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
> Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] VMS question
>
> On 10/08/2015 9:13 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> I've way rusty on VMS, so I figured someone here can probably give me an
>> answer way faster than I can figure it out myself.
>>
>> I brought SIGGE:: online two days ago. (VAX 7000-720). Started YCPIP
>> services as well. Now the disk is full. I'm guessing some logging
>> somewhere, as people are crazy about probing and poking. TELNET stopped
>> working, but I can log in fine from DECnet or LAT.
>> Can anyone tell me where logs go, and how to clean it up so I free some
>> disk.
>
> Something like:
>
> $ PURGE SYS$SYSDEVICE:[000000...]*.*LOG*;
>
> After that you might like to use something like DFU to locate large
> files. You can pick DFU up here:
>
> http://www.digiater.nl/downloads.html
>
>> Also, are there some known issue with the telnet server? If I telnet to
>> the machine, it's just constantly spewing out one character. Probably 0xff.
>
> I'm not too sure. Which version of TCP/IP are you using?
>
> Regards, Tim.
>


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