SYSRUTH@utorphys.BITNET (01/08/88)
At our site, on our Administration MicroVAX-II (currently at 4.4
due to some 3rd-party software which isn't up to coping with 4.5 yet),
we define group logical name tables on startup by submitting a batch
job under the ownership of some member in the required group. The
command file it uses simply defines whatever logical names are needed
since, thanks to the existence of the batch process, the table
has been created. It only takes about 5 seconds of CPU, and has the
advantage that the rest of system startup can go on in parallel. Of
course, you do have to set up your batch queues and start the queue
manager *before* submitting these jobs, but we do this fairly early
on since we use this technique for a number of layered-product startups,
in particular ALLIN1.
Hope this gives you some ideas.
Ruth Milner
Systems Manager
University of Toronto Physics