System Managers toolbox or Miscellaneous junk I wrote that SOMEONE will find useful Submission prepared by: Kent C. Brodie Sr. Systems Manager Medical College of Wisconsin 8701 Watertown Plank Road Wauwatosa, WI. 53226 +1 414 257 8769 brodie@mis.mcw.edu AUTH DCL for automating the UAF account creation process. Used in an environment where many UAF accounts are created. The setup includes "unique" UIC calculation (next highest available) and ease of use. This procedure DOES require some modification to suit your own environment. An excellent example for new system managers. LASER_DAEMON A nifty combination of two dcl procedures (one starts the other) that utilize the detached process mechanism and the f$getqui lexical function to watch for a stalled SERIAL printer queue. Normally, when serial printers stop, the queue gets stalled, but no operators ever get notified. This fills the gap. REPLY_USERS A utility used for being able to send REPLY messages to users found on a VMS mail distribution list. Good for sending broadcasts to special CLASSES of users (for example, all ALLIN1 users, etc) VMS$SECUREPWD The VMS V5.0 (and up) tapes contain a nifty little image called VMS$SECUREPWD.EXE that is used to check the "security" of the (SYSTEM, FIELD, SYSTEST) accounts. I have written my own dcl that lets you utilize this same image on ANY user account, or even scan the UAF for ALL accounts. Checks for stuff like username=password, as well as being able to check against other passwords you, the system manager, feel are too easy to guess. (NOTE: VMS V5.0 - V5.3-2 only. VMS V5.4 security features more or less render this procedure completely obsolete) VT100 demo The VT100.FEATURES and VT100.CHARDEMO files are used to test any/all VT100 video attributes. A good "torture test" of sorts. I *did not write these*, these came from the IBM-PC KERMIT distribution. I only include them here as a tool.