OPERATOR COMMAND PROCEDURE -------------------------- Submitted by: Chris Doran Date: April 1988 Sira Ltd., South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5EH, England. Tel: +44 1 467 2636, Telex: 896649, FAX: +44 1 467 6515 This is a command procedure intended to be run from the operator's console, giving authorised persons the ability to perform certain operator functions, like doing backups, shutting down the system, starting and stopping queues, etc., without having to think about it to much. (The System Manager (me) likes not having to think too much too!) The whole thing is menu driven, although it will allow you to issue some VMS commands. Everything it does is logged, along with the name of the person who did it, so you know who to clobber. This is based on an equivalent in KMSKIT (I think), but, like that version, is very site-specific, and will need modifying. OPERATOR is set up in the system account file as a no-password account. It needs certain privileges listed in OPERATOR.COM. The people listed in OPERATOR.DAT are allowed to act as operators. OPERATOR.COM asks them their password, but since I haven't yet worked out how to check a password, this is currently a dummy. (Yes, I know "It's in the microfiche", but until the people who keep saying that also say precisely where, and what to do with the subroutine when you've typed it in, it will stay there.) CHANGES THIS RELEASE:- ---------------------- Added VOLPRO privilege to media test command procedures, so that they don't give up on attempting to reinitialise a previously used volume. CAUTION!! Added BACKUP YESTERDAY, ACCOUNTING, and ERROR_LOG. Bug fixes to printer control. OPERATOR.COM The main command procedure. OPERATORS.DAT List of people (usernames) allowed to use the OPERATOR account. SWITCHOFF.TXT Instructions on how to switch off the machine. This is TYPEd when you select the SHUTDOWN option. DAILY.COM Procedure SUBMITted by the B I option to do a backup of all files modified today on all disks that are currently mounted. WEEKLY.COM Procedure SUBMITted by the BACKUP FULL option to do a full backup of the system and users' disk, plus any other things done once a week. BACKACC.COM Backs up the ACCOUNTNG.LOG file onto tape, deletes it, and creates a new one. Selected by the B A menu option. Note: uses DECUS program LZCMP to compress the file. BACKERR.COM Ditto, for ERRLOG.SYS, selected by B E. DISKCHECK.COM Procedure SUBMITted by the CHECK disk option. TAPECHECK.COM Ditto, for magtape. TU58CHECK.COM Ditto, for console DECtape.