Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Operations Manual

OBEY

The DNSCOM Commands

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OBEY The OBEY command causes commands to be read from a specified file.

{ OBEY | O }

file name

is a Guardian 90 file name, specifying a file that contains one or more valid

DNSCOM commands.

Examples

OBEY ZDNS.LOAD

O \TESTSYS.$DATA.NEWDNS.DEFS

Considerations

If the

file name

system, volume, or subvolume is not supplied, DNSCOM uses

the defaults supplied by the OBEYSYS and OBEYVOL commands or by the

SYSTEM and VOLUME commands.

Commands are read from the named file and processed until the end of the file, at

which point the OBEY file is closed and command input reverts to the file from

which the OBEY command was read. Additional OBEY commands can appear

within an OBEY file; OBEY files can be nested to a depth of four.

If an error occurs during execution of a command from an OBEY file and the

number of errors occurring in processing the file exceeds the number specified in

the last ALLOW command, the OBEY file is terminated; if it contains any

subsequent commands, they are not executed.