Starting AcuConnect on a UNIX Server

Specifies the name and path of the server configuration file. The -c must be followed by a space and then the path and name of the server configuration file.

When -c is not used, acurcl looks for the configuration file in its default location: /etc/acurcl.cfg for UNIX or \etc\acurcl.cfg for Windows.

Starts AcuConnect on the server machine in debug mode. AcuConnect runs in the foreground. Note that you are limited to one UNIX client connection when you use this option.

• If -e is not specified, acurcl attempts to direct error output to /dev/console.
• If /dev/console cannot be opened, acurcl attempts to append to a file named acurcl.err in the current directory.
• If the acurcl.err file doesn't exist, or the file append fails, acurcl prints the message acurcl: can't open error output file to standard output, and acurcl terminates.

You can use -ee to redirect the contents of stderr into the new error file. You can use +-e to append error output from acurcl to the named file.

By default, acurcl runs in the background. Use the -f option to run acurcl in the foreground. When run in the foreground, the acurcl process traps normal keyboard signals, such as Ctrl+C.

If combined with the --t option, the -f option causes acurcl to display tracing and transaction messages directly to the screen. However, if the -e switch is used, all messages are placed in the named log file.

Causes a listing of the server configuration file to be printed to standard error output. This can be helpful when you are debugging problems that may be related to configuration variables.

When this option is combined with the -e option, the listing is captured in the error output file.

Assigns a port number to one instance of the acurcl daemon. The -n must be followed by a space and then an integer, for example, 5633. This overrides the ACURCL_PORT value set in the server configuration file.

Thin client applications can be assigned to a particular instance of the acurcl daemon via the <server:port> notation on the acuthin command line. Thin clients launched from a Web page can have the port number specified by the atc-port variable in the thin client command-line file. See Thin Client Command-line Files for more information.

The acurcl daemon can work with privileged port numbers (from 0 to 1023), and with non-privileged port numbers (1024 and higher). Privileged port numbers are useful for external, secure applications.

acurcl -start -n 5632 -c
c:\etc\config1 [other options] 
acurcl -start -n 5633 -c c:\etc\config2 [other
options]

Turns on the tracing function. When combined with the -e option, trace information is placed in the named error file. The # symbol represents the type of tracing or logging to be performed, as described below:

• 1 provides information about access file match attempts. The trace information buffer is flushed to the error file when the buffer is filled or acurcl terminates.
• 2 provides information about runtime requests. The buffer is flushed to the error file when the buffer is filled or acurcl terminates.
• 3 provides the information described for 1 and 2.
• 5 is equivalent to 1, but the tracing buffer is flushed to the error file each time an access file match is requested. (File trace flushing can also be controlled with the FILE_TRACE_FLUSH server configuration variable. See Creating a Server Configuration File for more information.
• 6 is equivalent to 2, but the tracing buffer is flushed to the error file each time a runtime is requested.
• 7 provides the information described for 5 and 6.