Re: Prestart & Autostart

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 15:46 05/12/1999 , David Gibbs wrote:
>Can anyone point me to a resource on setting up prestart & autostart jobs
>and what they are good for?

Well, I can take a whack at what they're good for. Autostart jobs are great
for things like subsystem monitors and data queue monitors - any job that
needs to start when a subsystem starts and execute autonomously. An
autostart job entry will start exactly one job. Prestart jobs are more
suited to servers that will be used exclusively by a single user, but may
be needed by multiple users simultaneously (like Telnet, FTP or ODBC). You
can start a predetermined number of them so that a user can attach to an
idle server without waiting for program initialization to complete. The
system will manage the number of active jobs on a prestart job entry so
that if there aren't enough, or if there are too many, the active job count
is adjusted. There's some stuff in the work management guide about them. I
suppose you could call that a "resource".


Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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