OSF DCE Administration Guide--Core Components

OSF DCE Administration Guide—Core Components

1.3 Using the DCE Control Program

This section provides a quick look at how to start and stop the DCE control program and

how to perform operations. Additional information about these topics is contained in the

dcecp reference pages.

1.3.1 Starting and Stopping the DCE Control Program

You can enter dcecp operations directly from your operating system prompt or from

within the DCE control program. If you are performing just one or two simple dcecp

operations, you can invoke them directly at the operating system prompt.

If you will be doing several operations, you can invoke the DCE control program and

then enter operations at the dcecp prompt. This method offers several advantages.

• It is more efﬁcient for multiple operations because dcecp is initialized once rather

than for each separate operation.

• The program stores operations in a history facility so they can be recalled and reused.

• You avoid the extra keystrokes needed to precede each operation with the dcecp

command.

The following example shows how to invoke the DCE control program and perform a

directory operation:

% dcecp

dcecp> directory create /.:/hosts/appserver2

dcecp>

When you are through using the DCE control program, use the exit or quit operation to

stop the program and return to the operating system prompt. The following example

illustrates using the exit operation:

dcecp> exit

1.3.2 Invoking dcecp Operations

If you are performing a single dcecp operation, you can invoke it directly from the

operating system prompt. Just precede the desired operation with the dcecp command

and the-c (command-line operation) ﬂag, as follows:

% dcecp -c directory list /.:/subsys -simplename

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