12 Apr
2002
12 Apr
'02
5:01 a.m.
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, FLTLT(AAFC) Geoff Roberts wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: <cvisors(a)carnagevisors.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: Free MV3100/80 & Misc (Melbourne, .au)
got it working.. cool..
now to learn vms ;)
I have no idea realy on how to use this system unfortunatly I am quite
used to the way UNIX works (ducks) and VMS is so differnt. does anyone
know a good site for VMS newbies?
Anyway, I am not sure what I am going to do with this machine yet, I may
end up installing Net or Open BSD on the beast, so I can get it talking to
the rest of my network here which is a linux box, a Mac (running OS X) and
My sgi...
anyway thanks for your help.... so far so so good..
Benjamin
I can't seem to change the system password,
here is what I am doing point
out anything wrong...
I am flolowing the directions from:
http://www.vaxarchive.org/swdoc/vms/txt/vmsfaq.txt
(the section MGMT5)
at the >>> prompt I have entered b/1 this gets me to the SYSBOOT> prompt
all good so far.
then I type the followning commands:
SET/STARTUP OPA0:
SET WRITESYSPARAMS 0
CONTINUE
this gets me to the $ prompt then I type
SPAWN
@SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP
And from the VMS faq this leads me to believe that it sould boot up and
leave me logged in to the console. and then I could change the password.
this doesn't seem to occur, it seems to boot up normaly, and then ask for
user/password...
Is there anything I am doing wrong? I am using VMS 6.1 if thats a help
I think that means you may have a console password enabled. Um. Bad karma.
There is an alternate procedure in the VMS System Management Manual
involving SYSUAFALT
you could give that a go.
Cheers
Geoff in Oz