Starting servers
18 Adaptive Server Enterprise
• 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.
Starting servers
You can start Adaptive Server, Backup Server, or Monitor Server from the
command line by using RUN_server_name files and startserver commands.
You can customize the starting options.
You can also customize the start up options by editing the RUN_server_name.

Server start-up parameters

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 Description
-d $SYBASE/data/master.dat Location of the master device file
-s server_name Name of the Adaptive Server
-e $SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE
/install/errorlog Location and name of the error log file
-M $SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE Directory that stores shared memory files
-N$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/sysam/
<srv_name>.properties Location and name of license cache file.