Hi I have a VAX system that has been running fine for long years. But today it has got a problem during boot. it shows % delete - W- file not deleted. It was indicating that the file: SYS$SYSROOT:[SYS$STARTUP]ESS$LAST_STARTUP.TMP could not be deleted. Also DCL-E_OPENIN, error opening SYS$SYSROOT : [SYSMGR]ESS$LAST_STARTUP.LOG; as input -RMS-E-FLK, file currently locked by another user. I noticed that the protection of the file: ESS$LAST_STARTUP.TMP was (RWED,RWED,RE,RE). I changed it to (RWED,RWED,RWED,RWED). On the next reboot, the Vax normally. How can the protaction of file be changed ?

The question is who was the owner of the file. (System:RWED,Owner:RWED,Group:RE,World:RE) However normally the startup is run by SYSTEM so there would not be a problem with the file protection. Is there a posibility that there where a double ESS$last_startup execution in the startup where one tryed to cleanup the others temporary files ? Se if there are two startup-logs from that time.