Bhaskar, Thanks for this good information.
Kevin --- "Bhaskar, KS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With GT.M, the first process to open a database file > sets up the control structures to manage it, and the > last one out turns out the lights and cleans up. > Mupip rundown is not required for normal operation. > > Mupip rundown was designed so that in the event a PC > was powered down with processes accessing the > database, and there is no database damage, then a > rundown cleans up certain fields in the database > file header. It is not needed when journaling is > used. > > Another use for mupip rundown is to see whether any > processes are accessing a database before shutting > down a computer system. Another way to do this is > to execute "ps -ef | grep mumps". > > Note that it is not a good idea to shut down VistA > by issuing a mupip stop to all mumps processes. If, > for example, the processes are Taskman processes. > there is information in the database about their > process ids, etc. It is better to shut them down > cleanly from inside VistA, and they will clean up > the database before shutting down. > > If you find yourself needing to rundown databases > routinely, let's review what you are doing in order > to find out what you should do differently. Using a > medical analogy, if you find a patient using > bronchdilators or nitroglycerine frequently, you > would try to find and treat an underlying condition, > even if what they are doing gives them relief. > > -- Bhaskar > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > on behalf of Kevin Toppenberg > Sent: Tue 3/8/2005 6:52 AM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: > Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] set HL COMMUNICATION > SERVER PARAMETERS fails > Bhaskar, > > Superstition perhaps? > > Actually, it seems that when the database has not > been > rundown properly, that attempting to access globals > is > unsuccesful. Thus if one has code that depends on > this variable, it will fail. So it seems that I > have > had programs that just drop out, or act funny--only > to > start working properly when the database was > rundown. > > Kevin > __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members