DUMB VMS!

From: Jacob Ritorto <jritorto_at_nut.net>
Date: Tue Aug 3 15:13:02 1999

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 allisonp_at_world.std.com wrote:
[snip]

> Dumb huh, it's at least secure!
>
> Ok go to the netbsd site and nose around, the proceedure for breaking into
> VMS is there... if not get me off line and I'll drag you through it.
>
> It's obvious you aren't familiar with VAXen or VMS enough to know that if
> the vax is set up to auto boot you must first get out of that state to
> invoke sysboot for the uafalternate thing. It not all that hard if you
> can find the "break" key or the halt button (MVII).

Sure, sure, I did all that. My system apparently had a second sysuaf.dat.
I only knew the uafalternate method before, so Tim's recommendation was a
very welcome piece of advise. I don't really hate VMS, I was just
throwing a fit.

 thanks for the offer/reply anyway.

>
> Allison
>

jake
Received on Tue Aug 03 1999 - 15:13:02 BST