On most UNIX and Linux systems, the acushare utility program is provided to handle ACUCOBOL-GT runtime and AcuServer license management, as well as shared code segments used by the ACUCOBOL-GT runtime. On these systems, acushare runs as a background server process that responds to requests from various client runtimes (a daemon in UNIX terminology). See the Getting Started Guide for a description of acushare's role in extend license management. See Using Shared Memory for a description of acushare's role shared memory management.
acushare has several command-line formats. They include:
acushare -start [ -p portnumber ] [ -e errorfile [ -g ] ] acushare –kill acushare –clean acushare –version acushare
These formats are described in the following sections.