OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Managing Clerks, Servers, and Clearinghouses
2. Enter the following command to see if the dced process is already running:
# ps -e
3. If the dced process appears on the list of active processes, proceed to step 4. If the
dced process does not appear on the list of active processes, enter the following
command to start the process:
# dced
4. Enter the following command to see if the cdsadv process is already running:
# ps -e
5. If the cdsadv process appears on the list of active processes, proceed to step 6. If
the cdsadv process does not appear on the list of active processes, enter the
following command to start the process:
# cdsadv
6. Enter the following command to restart the server:
# cdsd
When the server process starts, it starts all clearinghouses on the system.
17.7 Preserving a Clearinghouse Across a Server System
Upgrade
If you plan to upgrade the operating system software on a CDS server system, and you
want to preserve the clearinghouse (or clearinghouses) on the system, follow this
procedure:
1. Make sure that you disable the clerk and server.
2. Before you perform the system upgrade, back up the following CDS files:
cds_attributes
cds_files
*_ch.checkpointnnnnnnnn
*_ch.tlognnnnnnnn
*_ch.version
cds_cache.nnnnnnnn
cds_cache.version
cds_cache.wan
(See the and the OSF DCE Porting and Testing Guide for the full pathnames of
all CDS files.)
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