Re: chicken and egg: shadowing and licenses

From: Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply (helbig_at_astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:49:50 +0000 (UTC)

In article <a98cd882.0402090632.484a9b4f@posting.google.com>,
Bart.Zorn@xs4all.nl (Bart Zorn) writes:

> The LICENSE facility is started during the CONFIG phase of system
> startup. This is after SYLOGICALS has been executed during the DEVICES
> phase.
>
> On my systems, I mount all disks, be it shadow sets or plain disks,
> from SYLOGICALS.COM, way before the LICENSE facility is started. I
> have the cluster wide LMF$LICENSE.LDB file on a shadowed, non-system
> disk. The cluster wide logical name LMF$LICENSE points to this file.
>
> And I get no license warnings during startup!
>
> From your description I do not see what you are doing different. It
> must be some detail.

I don't see the difference either. Which behaviour seems correct to
you?

I mount the cluster-wide disk from SYLOGICALS.COM and mount other disks
later on.

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