[Info-vax] VAXCluster vs. VMSCluster?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

AdeV wrote:
> Paul Sture may or may not have intoned:
>> In article <MPG.25b044d6a3e861b89898fe at news.enta.net>,
>>  AdeV <spam at solutionengineers.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Also, periodically, I'm seeing this error on both consoles:
>>>
>>>   %%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM   7-JAN-2010 19:05:38.89  %%%%%%%%%%%
>>>   Message from user SYSTEM on ASTVAX
>>>   Event: Too Few Servers Detected from: Node LOCAL:.ASTVAX DTSS,
> 
>> That's the DECnet Phase V time service. You are better off disabling it 
>> and if you do want time synchronization with an external server, use 
>> TCPIP's NTP instead.
>>
>> Put this in SYS$STARTUP:SYLOGICALS.COM
>>
>> $!       Disable DTSS
>> $  DEFINE/SYSTEM NET$DISABLE_DTSS 1
>>
>>
> 
> Once again, thanks! Must admit, I'm glad I'm not trying to blag my way 
> into a VMS admin job...
> 

DTSS falls under the classification "Esoterica"!  I've never seen a site 
that actually used it.  At the sites where I was concerned with keeping 
time, we used NTP rather than DTSS.