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Configuring gated
Starting gated
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Starting gated
To start gated, complete the following steps:
1. Set the environment variable GATED to 1 in the file
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf to start gated automatically upon
system startup.
2. Reboot your system, or issue the following command to run the
gated startup script:
/sbin/init.d/gated start
You can also start gated by running the command gdc start. The
following message appears to indicate that gated has started:
gated started, pid 29777
where 29777 is the process ID (pid) of the gated process. You can specify
the command-line arguments for starting gated with the GATED_ARGS
environment variable in the file /etc/rc.config.d/netconf. Table 3-4
lists the commonly used command-line options for gated.
Table 3-4 Command Line Options for gated
Flag Effect
-t When used alone, -t causes gated to log all error messages
and route changes. It turns on the general trace option
automatically. When -t is followed by one or more trace
options, only those options are turned on. (See “Specifying
Tracing Options” on page 92 for more information.)
Multiple trace options are separated by commas. The -t
flag must immediately precede the other flags.
-C Specifies that the configuration file will be parsed for
syntax errors. gated exits with a status of 1 if there are
any errors and 0 (zero) if there are no errors.
-c Specifies that the configuration file will be parsed for
syntax errors. A dump file /var/tmp/gated_dump is
created if there are no errors. Only the trace option
general is logged. See “Specifying Tracing Options” on
page 92 for a detailed description of all the tracing options.