DEC 4000 AXP Service Manual page 186

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Table A–1 (Cont.)
Environment Variables
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Variable
Alpha AXP SRM-Defined Environment Variables
09
boot_reset
0A
dump_dev
0B
enable_audit
0D
char_set
Key to variable attributes:
NV - Nonvolatile. The last value saved by system software or set by console commands is preserved
across system initializations, cold bootstraps, and long power outages.
W - Warm nonvolatile. The last value set by system software is preserved across warm bootstraps
and restarts.
RO - Read-only. The variable cannot be modified by system software or console commands.
A–4 Environment Variables
Attributes Function
NV,W
Indicates whether a full system reset is performed
in response to an error halt or
Defined values and the action taken are:
OFF—warm boot, no full reset is performed.
ON —cold boot, a full reset is performed.
The default value when the system is shipped is
OFF.
NV,W
The complete device specification of the device to
which operating system dumps should be written.
The default value when the system is shipped
indicates a valid implementation-dependent
device.
NV,W
Indicates whether audit trail messages are to be
generated during bootstrap.
OFF—Suppress audit trail messages.
ON —Generate audit trail messages.
The system is shipped with this set to ON.
NV,W
Indicates the character set encoding currently
selected to be used for the console terminal.
0—ISO-LATIN-1 character encoding
The default value when the system is shipped is 0.
boot
command.
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