Configuring a Shore Server

This section gives you the bare essentials for using the Shore Server (SVAS -- for Shore Value-Added Server) as it is distributed in the release.

The SVAS is a program that runs as a daemon process. It can be run in many ways, including, but not limited to these variations:

• with or without a controlling terminal and Tcl shell,
• with or without a Shore client RPC service,
• with or without an NFS service and (NFS) mount service,
• to offer its services on Internet ports of your choice, and
• to use TCP or to use shared memory for exchanging data with its clients.

The configuration choices are determined by the values of configuration options (or just options). The values of these options are determined when a server is started by:

• a configuration file containing commands of the form optionname: value, or
• command arguments of the form -optionname value, or
• both, in which case the arguments on the command line override commands given in the configuration file.

The release contains an example configuration file, called options. It is installed in $SHROOT/lib/options. If you installed Shore, you already have an edited copy of this file in /.shoreconfig. If not, follow the instructions in the section Testing Your Installation of the installation manual.

Alternatively, you can name your configuration file anything you like, if your environment variable SHORE_RC is set to the name of the file.

See the manual page options(SVAS) for a description of all the configuration options.

See the manual page environment(SVAS) for a description of all the environment variables used by the SVAS.