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CHAPTER 3
Configuring the Operating
System
This chapter discusses the operating system configuration settings that
you can adjust after installing or upgrading Adaptive Server. Unless stated
otherwise, the information pertains to all supported UNIX platforms.
Setting environment variables
Note As part of the installation, the installer creates SYBASE.sh and
SYBASE.csh files in $SYBASE directory for user to source to setup all the
environment variables.
It is crucial to the operation of Sybase products that the system
environment variables be set correctly. Environment variables are set in
the user’s environment either interactively or by including them in the
user’s .login and .cshrc files (for C shell) or .profile file (for Bourne shell).
Only the file owner or the “root” user can edit a user’s .login, .cshrc, or
.profile file.
Topic Page
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
Enabling asynchronous disk I/O 38
Adjusting the client connection timeout period 41
Checking for hardware errors 42
Monitoring the use of operating system resources 43
A sample C shell maintenance script 45