About HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7

Notes, Cautions and Warnings Regarding This Release

Administrators should periodically monitor the size of the Security audit logs on the Security server machines. Each audit trail log consists of two files — the actual trail log file and the associated index file. These logs are in:

/var/opt/dce/security/sec_audit_trail /var/opt/dce/security/sec_audit_trail.md_index

Other older audit logs may also be present. These can be found under the same directory, but have a date and time stamp format inserted into the name. As an example:

sec_audit_trail.1995-08-31-15-19-52

sec_audit_trail.1995-08-31-15-19-52.md_index

For detailed information on the DCE Audit Service, see the OSF DCE Administration Guide and Reference. For Audit Service configuration information see Chapter 5 of this manual.

Setting LANG and NLSPATH Environment Variables

English-language users of HP DCE/9000 should set the NLSPATH environment variable to include /usr/lib/nls/C/%N or should set NLSPATH to include /usr/lib/nls/%L/%N and LANG to C. Users who want to use another language should set the NLSPATH environment variable to include / usr/lib/nls/%L/%N and LANG to their preferred language. See the environ (5) and locale (1) man pages for details on LANG and NLSPATH syntax.

dcecp in Local Mode

When you run dcecp in “local” mode (that is, when you start dcecp with the local option) on a host with dced in partial-service mode, there is a possibility that a dcecp ‘acl modify -add’command will not work. The interactive dcecp session may hang or a Bus Error may be returned.

One workaround for this condition is to run dcecp in normal mode on a host that is running dced, also in normal mode, and then execute dcecp again. Alternatively, you can quit out of local mode between acl modify -addcommands, as follows:

dcecp -local

dcecp> acl modify -local foo1 -add ...

dcecp> quit dcecp -local

dcecp> acl modify -local foo2 -add ...

dcecp> quit

Planning and Configuring HP DCE 1.7

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