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Chapter 11: Starting and Running OpenEdge
Table 63 summarizes the tasks you can perform and the related startup and shutdown
commands to use on UNIX systems.
Table 63: UNIX startup and shutdown commands
Task Command
Start a UNIX character Procedure Editor
and connect to a single-user database
Start a UNIX character Procedure Editor
and connect to a multi-user database
Start a UNIX character client session in
batch mode and connect to a single-user
database
Start a UNIX OpenEdge character client
session in batch mode and connect to a
multi-user database
pro db-name
mpro db-name
bpro db-name
-p procedure-name
mbpro db-name
-p procedure-name
Start an OpenEdge server-group proserve
-servergroup server-group-name
Start a server or broker for a multi-user
OpenEdge database
Shut down a multi-user server or broker for
an OpenEdge database
Start a remote OpenEdge DataServer
broker
Start an asynchronous page writer (APW)
for a database 1
1. Option available only on Enterprise product.
proserve db-name
-S service-name
-H host-name
-N network-type
proshut db-name
probrkr -S service-name
-H host-name
-N network-type
proapw db-name
1
Start a before-image writer (BIW) probiw db-name
Start an after-image writer (AIW) 1 proaiw db-name
Start the OpenEdge Watchdog utility1 prowdog db-name
Shut down a remote OpenEdge
DataServer
Shut down an APW, AIW, BIW, or
Watchdog process 1
proshut db-name
-S service-name
-H host-name
-N network-type
proshut db-name
Choose option 1 (Disconnect a User)
to disconnect the process.
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