Starting the SoftBench CM Server

The softcm entry in /etc/inittab starts the SoftBench CM server each time your system is rebooted. You can also start the SoftBench CM server manually. Use the following instructions to start the
SoftBench CM server initially so that you can see that the server has been installed and configured correctly:

Note: SoftBench CM is installed in /opt/softbench for all platforms.

Once started successfully, cmserver disassociates itself from the connecting terminal window (tty) and becomes a background process. It also changes itself to be owned by softcm.

Initialization errors are printed to standard error. After initialization, all messages are printed to the file /var/opt/softbench/cm/msglog. Check this log for any errors, correct them, then restart the server.

Assuming the startup of cmserver was successful, the msglog file contains entries confirming that the cm.mapping and cm.permission files were found and read correctly.