OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

Managing the DCE DST

seconds. A negative TDF of 5 hours and an inaccuracy of 3 milliseconds are included in

the timestamp.

25.3 Reconﬁguring DTS on Nodes

DTS is initially conﬁgured during the overall DCE conﬁguration procedure for a node

(see the ). The DCE conﬁguration procedure automatically creates and activates DTS

servers and DTS clerks on designated nodes. You can, however, reconﬁgure DTS on a

node at any time. If you choose to do this, you must perform the following steps:

1. Stop the clerk or server process (DTS daemon) that is currently executing on the

node.

2. Run the dce_conﬁg script to restart the DTS daemon on the node as a clerk or

server.

3. Set any clerk or server attribute values as needed.

The following subsections provide detailed instructions for performing each of the

reconﬁguration steps just listed.

25.3.1 Stopping an Existing Clerk or Server

To stop the existing DTS clerk or DTS server on a node, use the dcecp dts stop

command. Execution of this command ﬁrst deactivates the clerk or server (that is,

disables the function by which the clerk or server synchronizes the system clock), then

stops the process. You enter the dts stop command as follows:

dcecp> dts stop

The dts stop command calls the dcecp dts deactivate command to deactivate the clerk

or server process. This is the command that you should use whenever you want to

deactivate a clerk or server process, but not stop it. You enter the dts deactivate

command as follows:

dcecp> dts deactivate

25.3.2 Creating a New Clerk or Server

To create a new clerk or server on the node, use the functions of the dce_conﬁg script

that conﬁgure additional DTS clerks and servers (see the ). The dce_conﬁg functions for

conﬁguring additional clerks and servers restart the DCE daemon (dtsd) as either a clerk

or server.

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