Stopping Adaptive Server After a Failure

If the installation or upgrade session fails after you start Adaptive Server for any reason, use the shutdown command.

1. Open an MS-DOS Command Prompt window.
2. Start isql and connect to Adaptive Server:

   %SYBASE%\%SYBASE_OCS%\bin\isql -Usa -P -Sserver_name

   where:

   • %SYBASE% – is the Sybase installation directory.
   • server_name – is the name of your Adaptive Server.
3. Shut down Adaptive Server using the shutdown with nowait command. This stops the Adaptive Server immediately, without waiting for currently executing SQL statements to finish:

   1> shutdown with nowait
   2> go

   Note: If you cannot connect to Adaptive Server with isql, or if the shutdown with nowait command fails, use the Task Manager (press Ctrl+Alt+Del) or a Windows process monitoring utility, (for example, the pview.exe program included with the Microsoft Toolkit), to stop the Adaptive Server process.