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In article <1992Jul21.103543.939@beckman.com>, dsroberts@beckman.com writes:

| Has anyone tried using spawn/nowait in their startup?
| 
| I don't think it's a very good idea, 

No, it's not a good idea.

| since the spawned process could be killed
| by the spawning process completing, and I don't see how it can be that much
| less overhead than queuing such that it would make that much difference. 

Exactly.

Here's a *good* idea (at any rate, it's what I've been doing for years):

$ RUN/DETACH SYS$SYSTEM:LOGINOUT.EXE /INPUT=your-comfile.com -
  /OUTPUT=your-comfile.log

One nice thing about this approach is that it leaves fun-to-read logfiles
lying around on disk, so that you have some record if you had errors in
your startup, rather than having the stuff go to OPA0.

Batch queues are OK too, I guess, but this will work even if the queueing
system isn't up.

Best,

Aaron

Aaron Leonard (AL104), <Leonard@Arizona.EDU>
University of Arizona Network Operations, Tucson AZ 85721
|>   If it ain't broke, break it.