Safeguard User's Guide (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)
Working With SAFECOM
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Checking Your Progress
Checking Your Progress
In an interactive command session, SAFECOM executes each complete command as 
you enter it. It is advisable to check your progress periodically and verify the results of 
the commands executed during the session. Three commands—the ENV session-
control command, and the SHOW and INFO security commands—allow you to check 
your progress. Use ENV at the start of a session to check the default environment. Use 
SHOW to check the current default attributes for specific types of objects. Use INFO 
during a session to verify the results of a previous command. The examples in this 
section illustrate the use of these commands. SHOW and INFO are discussed more 
thoroughly in Section 4, Securing Subvolumes, and Section 6, Obtaining User and 
Alias Information.
Entering More Than One Command on a Line
To enter more than one SAFECOM command on a single command line, separate the 
commands with a semicolon:
=LOG logfile; ASSUME diskfile; ENV
This display shows:
The command line in this example cont
ains these three SAFECOM session-control 
commands:
•
The LOG command opens a log file named logfile and sends a copy of the input 
and output of this SAFECOM session to that file.
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The ASSUME command defines DISKFILE as the default object type.
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The ENV (environment) command verifies the results of the previous two 
commands.
? (Question mark) Displays a specified command that you previously entered 
during the current SAFECOM session.
! (Exclamation point) Displays and executes a specified command that you 
previously entere
d during the current SAFECOM session.
-- (Two hyphens) Delimits comment
s in SAFECOM command lines.
& (Ampersand) Indicates that the command is continued on the next line.
SYSTEM \LA 
VOLUME $DATA.SALES 
OUT \LA.$TIM -- Interactive, OUT = IN -- 
LOG $DATA.SALES.LOGFILE 
ASSUME DISKFILE
Table 7-1.  SAFECOM Session-Control Commands  (page 2 of 2)
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