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Configuring the CACHE.DAT for Linux.

I have heard a lot of talk about the VA switching to Linux, but there is no evidence of any such switch in the VistA software. When I do the full installation on Linux, it is necessary to make the changes on this page much earlier than at step 97. I have the Cache on Linux install steps documented, and will put them on this site also. For now, I created the VistA CACHE.DAT on Windows, and made these changes so it would run on Linux. Hopefully the VA will someday add a Cache/Linux option to the FOIA release. As with all these web pages, my input is BOLD.

newtower > pwd
/home/witkop
newtower > csession CACHE -U VISTA

VISTA>do Q^DI

VA FileMan 22.0

Select OPTION:     1     ENTER OR EDIT FILE ENTRIES

INPUT TO WHAT FILE: DEVICE//     3.5     DEVICE (38 entries)
EDIT WHICH FIELD: ALL//

Select DEVICE NAME:   CONSOLE      CONSOLE      |TRM|
NAME: CONSOLE//
LOCATION OF TERMINAL: CONSOLE//
Select MNEMONIC:
LOCAL SYNONYM:
$I: |TRM|//   /dev/pts
VOLUME SET(CPU):
SIGN-ON/SYSTEM DEVICE: YES//
TYPE: VIRTUAL TERMINAL//
SUBTYPE: C-VT100// ^

Select DEVICE NAME:    TELNET      TELNET      |TNT|
NAME: TELNET//
LOCATION OF TERMINAL: TELNET//
Select MNEMONIC:
LOCAL SYNONYM:
$I: |TNT|//   /dev/tcp
VOLUME SET(CPU):
SIGN-ON/SYSTEM DEVICE: YES//
TYPE: VIRTUAL TERMINAL//
SUBTYPE: C-VT320// ^

Select DEVICE NAME:    HFS      Host File Server     C:\TEMP\TMP.TXT
NAME: HFS//
LOCATION OF TERMINAL: Host File Server//
Select MNEMONIC:
LOCAL SYNONYM:
$I: C:\TEMP\TMP.TXT// /tmp/hfs.tmp
VOLUME SET(CPU):
SIGN-ON/SYSTEM DEVICE: ^

Select DEVICE NAME: NULL
1 NULL NT SYSTEM //./nul
2 NULL-DSM Bit Bucket _NLA0:
CHOOSE 1-2:    1    NULL     NT SYSTEM     //./nul
NAME: NULL//
LOCATION OF TERMINAL: NT SYSTEM//
Select MNEMONIC:
LOCAL SYNONYM:
$I: //./nul//    /dev/null
VOLUME SET(CPU):
SIGN-ON/SYSTEM DEVICE: NO//
TYPE: TERMINAL//
SUBTYPE: C-VT100// ^

Select DEVICE NAME:

Select OPTION:
VISTA>