PMAS 3.1 RC1 installed
Process.com sent a message that the final release of PMAS 3.1 is at hand – the release candidate was available for download all testers have been asked to install it. So i downloaded the kit, installed it and restarted the package – with the same result as before: It didn’t start because PTSMTP – the controller – and PTSMTPnnnn – the workhorses – were still up-and-running. So I checked the procedure that shuts down these processes.
And found the problem.
PMAS is installed in SYS$SYSDEVICE:[pmas031]. Mind the lowercase name. It’s important.
The shutdown procedure scans the processes on the system, gets the full imagespec and retrieves the path. If it contains “PMAS” it’s a PMAS process and so it needs to be stopped.
But due to the fact that I set my environment to have /PARSE_STYLE=EXTENDED, these processes will never be found. “pmas” is something else than “PMAS”…
The solution is simple: if you get the image specification, turn it all into uppercase. That did the trick. Process has been informed.
No patches yet
no time last weekend to install the latest patches. but since UPDATE 7 is available, I think that will be all to be installed. Makes life a bit easier.
WordPress 2.6.2
I donwloaded and tested it – on VMS since on XP there is a problem since SP3: Files that were installed by unzipping a container, are now blocked for execution. You can unblock them, but you have to do it file by file. I sent a request to Microsoft to complain and ask for a solution but didn’t get a reply yet. I should get one within 24 hours. It’s over 3 days now.
Or Microsoft counts more than 24 hours in a day ?
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center