OSF DCE Administration Guide--Introduction

Customizing the dce_config Processing
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# You may pick one of these three server types
#config dfs fldb # file Location Database server
#config dfs fs # File Server
#config dfs privatefs # Private File Server
# Any of the above can be a SCM.
#config dfs scm # System Control Machine
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# Client must be configured after server
#config dfs client # DFS Client
10.2 Setting Environment Variables
The dce_config script and the dfs_config component script recognize and use a number
of environment variables. You can use these variables to supply information to
dce_config instead of typing the information in in response to prompts.
You can set the variables in any of the three following ways:
• As shell environment variables
• In an environment file that you create for use with the -e option of the dce_config
script
• In a file named dce_config.conf that you create (in the /etc directory) for use by the
dce_config script
If you invoke dce_config with the -e option and provide the name of the environment
file, dce_config sources this file. If you invoke dce_config without the -e option,
dce_config tries to source the file named dce_config.conf. If the file does not exist, it
uses your shell variable settings to provide answers to the prompts. If you have not set
your shell variables, dce_config prompts for information it needs.
The dce_com_env file sets the internal variables for the dce_config and for the
dfs_config component script. The dce_config_env file describes the variables you can
set, Note that the log file produced by the message logging facility also lists the current
settings of the environment variables.
The following subsections describe the dce_config and dfs_config variables.
10.2.1 The dce_config Environment Variables
Table 10-1 lists the environment variable names and their values. In the table, the term
default refers to the setting assigned to the environment variable by OSF.
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