Contents
iv Adaptive Server Enterprise
Stopping Adaptive Server........................................................ 24
Stopping Backup Server.......................................................... 25
Stopping Monitor Server.......................................................... 26
Using the kill command........................................................... 26
Shutdown and shared memory files........................................ 27
CHAPTER 3 Configuring the Operating System........... ................................... 29
Setting environment variables........................................................ 29
Configuring new servers with srvbuild............................................ 30
Using the stty setting...................................................................... 33
Restoring correct permissions........................................................ 34
File descriptors and user connections............................................ 34
For HP-UX............................................................................... 34
For AIX.................................................................................... 34
For Linux................................................................................. 35
For Sun Solaris........................................................................ 35
Displaying current soft and hard limits.................................... 35
Increasing the soft limit............................................................ 35
Increasing the hard limit.......................................................... 36
Sample program...................................................................... 37
Enabling asynchronous disk I/O..................................................... 38
Adjusting the client connection timeout period............................... 41
For HP-UX............................................................................... 41
For IBM RS/6000..................................................................... 41
For Sun Solaris........................................................................ 42
For Linux................................................................................. 42
Checking for hardware errors......................................................... 42
For HP-UX............................................................................... 42
For IBM RS/6000..................................................................... 43
For Sun Solaris........................................................................ 43
For Linux................................................................................. 43
Monitoring the use of operating system resources ........................ 43
For HP-UX............................................................................... 43
For IBM RS/6000..................................................................... 44
For Sun Solaris and Linux....................................................... 44
A sample C shell maintenance script............................................. 45
CHAPTER 4 Adaptive Server Default Configuration........................................ 47
Default settings.............................................................................. 47
CHAPTER 5 Setting Up Communications Across the Network...................... 49
How Adaptive Server determines which directory service entry to use