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When PMDF is installed, the installation procedure creates a file of 
PMDF logical name definitions (OpenVMS) 
SYS$STARTUP:pmdf_startup.com, or a PMDF tailor file of 
option settings (UNIX) /etc/pmdf_tailor, or PMDF entries 
in the NT Registry (see the Registry under 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SOFTWARE, Process 
Software, PMDF, Tailor) establishing PMDF's operational parameters, 
such as specifying the normal names of PMDF's main configuration files 
and specifying on which disk(s) PMDF directories are located. For 
instance, the PMDF_QUEUE logical name (OpenVMS) or tailor 
file option (UNIX) or Registry entry (NT) specifies the location of the 
PMDF queue area.
On OpenVMS, a command to execute pmdf_startup.com should 
be added to the system startup procedure, so that these required PMDF 
logicals are properly defined each time the system is rebooted. On UNIX 
and NT, the tailor values are automatically consulted by PMDF as 
necessary.
Normally the Process Software-supplied pmdf_startup.com 
file, PMDF Tailor file, or NT Registry entries, once generated during 
PMDF installation, should not be site modified.b On OpenVMS, 
if you want to site customize such settings you can create a file 
PMDF_COM:pmdf_site_startup.com containing the settings 
that you want to alter; pmdf_startup.com will 
automatically execute such a site-supplied file, if it exists.
It is sometimes desired to change the values specifying the disk location of directories such as the PMDF queue, table and log directories. This should only be done when a system is running standalone (with no other processes on it). Furthermore, note that due to limitations in the Solaris utilities pkginfo, 
pkgrm, and pkgadd, manually relocating the 
entire PMDF directory tree (/pmdf and everything under it) 
after installation is not supported on Solaris. 
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      b  The one value that is routinely 
        changed is the OpenVMS-only logical name 
    
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