what is dced?

[Ratzie]

How do I disable it?

[Tomek Gryszkiewicz · Accepted solution]

From man dced:
The DCE Host daemon is a process that provides services for the local host, and is also the server used by remote applications to access these host services.

To deactivate, run /sbin/init.d/dce stop

If you want to disable it permanently, set it to zero in /etc/rc.config.d/dce

-Tomek

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Dced and rpcd provide endpoint mapping services for remote procedures. Dced and rpcd are actually the same program -- they are linked -- but the behavior varies with the name used (argv[0]) to invoke the process. To disable it, /sbin/init.d/dce stop; edit /etc/rc.config.d/dce and set DCED=0 and save the file; /sbin/init.d/dce start

[Karthik S S]

Distributed Computing Environment.
Refer the following links,

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B9106-90003/B9106-90003_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B9106-90003/00/00/76-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B9106-90003/00/00/76-toc.html&searchterms=DCE&queryid=20031208-110256

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=716493758+1070906325953+28353475&threadId=4096

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/emse/bin/doc.pl/emse/bin/doc.pl/distrib_redir=1+1070906341|*?rn=25&source=7000&hpl=1&from=forums&searchcategory=ALL&todo=search&origin=0&wpa=forums1.itrc.hp.com%3A80&searchcriteria=allwords&searchtext=dced&esc=us-support.external.hp.com&chkServStor=on&presort=rank


-Karthik S S

[Tim D Fulford]

dced is a replacement for rpcd (remote procedure call daemon). DCE (Distributed Computer Enviromement... I think) is as far as I can tell grid computing before the phrase grid computing came along...

To disable it (double check) at BOOT time
/etc/rc.config.d/dce & edit the START_DCED flag to 0.
I SUSPECT that /sbin/init.d/dce stop would dtop it whilst things are running.

Be aware, that by default dced does not run, so someone has turned it on... find out why. Other wise you may find that users may not be able to log on, run programs or whatever DCE is configured to do (It can do LOTS)

Regards

Tim

[Con O'Kelly]

Hi

Be aware that DCE is used by alot of HP OpenView applications such as OVO and Measureware (OVPA).

As the others have said you should check what applications are using it before shutting it down.

Cheers
Con