Before You Begin; Preliminary Actions; Changing The Default Startup Action (Auto_Action); Default Startup Actions - DEC 4000 600 series Owner's Manual

Before You Begin

Before You Begin
Preliminary Before changing any environment variables, you should have
Actions done the following:
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Changing the Default Startup Action (auto_action)

Default Startup The setting of the auto_action environment variable determines
Actions how your system reacts when you power up the system, or press
the Reset button, or when the system crashes. There are three
possible settings:
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The default setting is halt.
4–4 Setting Environment Variables
Placed your system at the console prompt.
If your system is not displaying the
Invoke Console Mode in Chapter 1.
Determined which variables, if any, you wish to set.
Each of the following sections in this chapter describes a
particular environment variable. For information about why
you might want to set a variable, refer to the section that
describes that variable.
Read a summary of the
variables in set in Chapter 3.
Read Chapter 2 and the rest of this chapter.
halt
boot
restart
>>> prompt, refer to
command and the environment
set