Stopping and Starting Services

Sybase recommends that you perform all of the steps after installing Adaptive Server on Windows platforms.

Perform these steps as the "sybase" user that installed the Adaptive Server product. Verify that the "sybase" user is a member of the Windows system-defined group "Administrators" so the user has the access privileges to perform these steps.

  1. Stop all Adaptive Server services.
    From the Windows task manager, select Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services. Select each of the Sybase Adaptive Server entries and stop them. There are separate entries in for Sybase Adaptive Server, XPServer, BCKServer, and SYSAM.
  2. Identify the drives and folders where the Adaptive Server software is installed, and identify the Adaptive Server disk devices. Use Windows Explorer or cacls (a Windows command line utility) to set access permissions on the identified drives and folders.

    Sybase recommends that you grant full control to the user "sybase" and deny access to others on all identified drives, files, and folder hierarchies.

    If users other than "sybase" need access to files (configuration files, programs, libraries, and so on) in the folder hierarchy, limit their access to read and execute. The administrator should carefully review this access, and any other further permissions, to ensure they are required.

  3. Specify Adaptive Server services to start as the user "sybase":
    • From the Windows task manager, select Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services. Select each of the Sybase Adaptive Server entries installed.
    • Set the "Log On" properties for each of the entries to use "sybase" and the password for this account. This action results in the user "sybase" being granted "log on as a service" rights by Windows.
    • Select each of the Sybase Adaptive Server entries that you stopped in the first step, and start them.
Parent topic: Postinstallation Tasks