Starting the Network Server Daemon

The Network Server Daemon is only needed if you are using the API. Most applications will not need this. When just getting started you will want to run the Texis daemon in its simplest form as follows:

   texisd -a -- -n

This will start it on the default port of 10002 (which clients will also use by default) and allow anyone to login as the default anonymous user. With this setup, clients will have the same permissions as the user running the Texis daemon. On a unix system you should not run the daemon as root. Because root has permission to do anything on the system, so when run as root the daemon is very restrictive about what it will allow.

A good way to run the daemon is to create a texis user id that only has permission on databases you want to make public. Then run texisd as that user.

The daemon will run and accept connections until it is killed. Kill it using:

   texisd -k

See Part V, Chapter  for full documentation on the daemon.