what is dce/dced used for

[Simon Jespersen]

hey i can see that we have the dced running on our hpux, i didnt really understand the usage of it, when reading the man page. Can anyone tell me what it is used for in practis and if it can be closed. We have thme running on nodes in service guard clusters

[Piergiacomo Perini]

Hi Simon,

if i don't go wrong "dce" is Desktop Common Environment i.e. graphical enviroment used in hp-ux.
So "dced" maybe is his daemon.

hth
regards
pg

[Simon Jespersen]

Thank you very much

[Alex Glennie]

DCE = Distributed Computing Enviroment, nothing to do with CDE.

dced is not normally running unless the host is part of a DCE cell. Most systems however will run rpcd in it's place, the processes are the same as you can see from the manapage.

I'd advise leaving it alone, swintsall amongst others use it for communication etc.

[Simon Jespersen]

ok. Well i tried to close the daemon and after that runned swinstall, it was running ok. the rpc (portmapper) are not running.

[Piergiacomo Perini]

Thanx Alex
Simon, i beg your pardon

I GO wrong!

regards
pg

[Dennis Handly]

There is a man page for dced(1m).

[Dennis Handly]

>pg: Desktop Common Environment

You were thinking of CDE, a different English ordering.

[dirk dierickx]

older OVO agents and OVPA agents used to rely on dced to be running.