Running Fileshare as a Background Process

Note: This process is applicable to Fileshare Servers on UNIX only.

The Fileshare Server uses the Enhanced Accept/Display syntax (Adis module) for its screen displays and keyboard handling. Consequently, the Fileshare Server uses much more processor time if you start it as a background UNIX process. To avoid this overhead, you should configure the Fileshare Server using the -b option. This disables all Fileshare displays and keyboard reading.

Since Fileshare does not read the keyboard in background mode, you cannot close it down in the normal manner using the Esc key sequence.

CAUTION:

Do not kill the Fileshare process because this results in the corruption of any data files which are open.

Because you can only shut down the Fileshare Server remotely, the Fileshare Server must have been configured to use a password file. See Password File Maintenance in the Security section for details.

There are two methods you can use to shut down the Fileshare Server remotely:

Use the FSVIEW commands server set, admin password and server shutdown to identify the Fileshare Server, provide the admin password, and request shutdown. The server will only shut down when you have terminated the FSVIEW session using the exit command.
Write a program that calls Fileshare Manager, and issues the appropriate commands. Refer to the Fileshare Manager topic for details.

The Fileshare Server does not start in background mode unless you start it with a password file.

In background mode, any messages the Fileshare Server would normally display on the screen are written to the file fsscreen.lst in the Fileshare Server's current directory.

The following is an example configuration file:

-s server-1
-pf password.fil
-cm ccitcp

This configuration file specifies:

Fileshare Server name is server-1
Password file is password.fil
Communications protocol to use is CCITCP
-b option invokes running in background mode

On UNIX, you can now start the Fileshare Server in background mode by entering:

fs -b &

Output from this command is directed to fsscreen.lst.