3Com 09-0704-001 manual Command Options, Database Conversion

3-4 CHAPTER 3: ACCESSBUILDER NAME SERVER

3.3.Command Options

With Name Server Release 1.2, the ‘dbserver’ can run from ‘/etc/rc’ file without user interactions. This makes it possible for the ‘dbserver’ to run automatically when UNIX boots up.

The command options for dbserver are:

dbserver [-d] [-p password] [-n/-y]

where:

-d -- The -d option enables the Name Server to print out trace information on the standard output and to save trace information into the log file ‘dbserver.log’.

-p password -- is used as the encryption key by the Name Server to encrypt messages between Name Server and AccessBuilder. This password has to be the same as the ‘Security Parameter’ of the AccessBuilder. The default password is ‘3com’.

-y/-n -- The -y option allows the user to change the user password, while the -n option disables changing the user password. The default is ‘-y’.

3.4.Database

Conversion

The following information applies only to users having an existing Name Server 1.0 database. If you do not have an existing version 1.0 database, skip this section.

Because Name Server release 1.2 produces the ‘password.db’ file in a different format from the previous release, it is necessary to convert your existing version 1.0 ‘password.db’ file into the new file format. The command ‘dbcnvt’ is provided for this purpose.

Before running the dbcnvt command, make sure that the dbcnvt command resides in the same directory as the ‘password.db’ file, or the environment variable DBPATH is set to the name of the directory where the ‘password.db’ file is located. To run dbcnvt, enter the command name the UNIX SHELL prompt and follow the prompt to enter the database password.