Starting Servers; Server Start-Up Parameters - Sybase Adaptive Server Configuration Manual

Starting servers

Starting servers

Server start-up parameters

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• The system environment variables discussed in Chapter 1, "Introduction"
• Access to SySAM licenses. For more information, see the Sybase Software
Asset Management User's Guide.
The installation program creates the interfaces file and system environment
variables when you install servers on your computer.
You can start Adaptive Server, Backup Server, or Monitor Server from the
command line by using RUN_server_name files and
You can customize the starting options.
You can also customize the start up options by editing the RUN_server_name.
The default start-up parameters are stored under
$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/install/RUN_server_name, where server_name is
the name of the server you installed.
Backup Server, Monitor Server, and Historical Server server names are
appended with "_back", "_mon", and "_hs", respectively.
Table 2-1 lists the default start-up parameters for Adaptive Server.
Table 2-1: Default Adaptive Server start-up parameters
Switch
$SYBASE/data/master.dat
-d
server_name
-s
$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE
-e
/install/errorlog
$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE
-M
$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/sysam/
-N
<srv_name>.properties
startserver
Description
Location of the master device file
Name of the Adaptive Server
Location and name of the error log file
Directory that stores shared memory files
Location and name of license cache file.
Adaptive Server Enterprise
commands.