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.TH GEAS 1 "02 June 2002" "GNUe Application Server"
.SH NAME
geas \- GNUe Application Server
.SH SYNOPSIS
.ll +8
.B geas
[
.I options
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
GNUe Application Server is a data and business rules server. It 
provides a backend to forms and reports. In an n\-tier environment, 
GEAS holds all business rules/logic and provides data access to 
various database backends.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-\-configuration-options
Displays a list of valid configuration file entries, their purpose, 
and their default values.
.TP
.B \-\-connections <loc>
Specifies the location of the connection definition file. <loc> may 
specify a file name (/usr/local/gnue/etc/connections.conf), or a URL 
location (http://localhost/connections.conf). If this option is not 
specified, the environent variable GNUE_CONNECTIONS is checked.
.TP
.B \-\-database <name>
Set the Database to use for loading and storing data to <name>. 
Appserver will search for it in connections.conf.
.TP
.B \-\-debug-file <file>
Sends all debugging messages to a specified file (e.g., 
"\-\-debug\-file trace.log" sends all output to "trace.log")
.TP
.B \-\-debug-level <level>
Enables debugging messages.  Argument specifies the level of 
messages to display (e.g., "\-\-debug\-level 5" displays all 
debugging messages at level 5 or below.)
.TP
.B \-\-generate-man-page
Generates a groff\-formatted man page as a file in the current 
directory.
.TP
.B \-\-help
Displays this help screen.
.TP
.B \-\-interactive-debugger
Run the app inside Python's built\-in debugger
.TP
.B \-\-no-detach, \-Z
Do not send the server into the background. For a POSIX system, this 
option keeps the server process from forking and detaching from its 
controlling terminal.
.TP
.B \-\-password <password>, \-p
Set the password for the used database.
.TP
.B \-\-profile
Run Python's built\-in profiler and display the resulting run 
statistics.
.TP
.B \-\-rpc-type <type>
Set the GNURPC connection type. The currently supported values for 
<type> are 'xmlrpc' and 'pw_xmlrpc'. For more information on GNURPC 
connection types have a look at common/doc/RPC\-abstraction.
.TP
.B \-\-username <user>, \-u
Set the username for the used database.
.TP
.B \-\-version
Displays the version information for this program.
.SH AUTHOR
GNU Enterprise Project <info@gnue.org>
.SH BUGS
Please report any bugs to info@gnue.org.
Include a complete, self-contained example
that will allow the bug to be reproduced,
and say which version of this tool you are using.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2000-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.LP
geas is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
version.
.LP
geas is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
for more details.
.LP
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with geas; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.