Re: Ontape Error

Mark D. Stock wrote: > You can change the tape parameters using tbmonitor/onmonitor, without > bouncing OnLine. If you make ANY changes to parameters in your > tbconfig/onconfig file, you must bounce OnLine before they become > effective. > I'm not sure if I'm reading the above right, but you *can* change the TAPEDEV & LTAPEDEV and SIZE parameters in the ONCONFIG file, and they *will* take effect the next time you run `ontape`. However, beware a bug: If you change the TAPEDEV or LTAPEDEV parameter to "/dev/null" in the ONCONFIG, then run `ontape`, then change the TAPEDEV parameter back to a real device, the next time you try to run `ontape`, it will keep telling you that you may not archive to "nul", even though your TAPEDEV is pointed to a perfectly legitimate path. The problem is that the Reserve Pages do not get properly rewritten. To get back to archiving to a real device, w/o bouncing the engine, you must run `onmonitor` to change the tape parameters. > > I do not believe it is necessary in v 7.x. > > It isn't. > > -- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ADDRESS ALTERED TO FOIL SPAMMERS: Remove "*NO-SPAM*" to reply. Cosmo Lee Multi-User Computer Systems Brooklyn, NY "JUST SAY 'NO' TO SPAM" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *