About Startup Options

GroupWise® has optional commands that you can use when you start the program. Some of these options are for your convenience, and others are necessary to run GroupWise on your particular hardware. For a complete list of startup options, in the shell window type: /opt/novell/groupwise/client/bin/groupwise.sh -h

-@u=?

Displays a login dialog box whenever you open GroupWise, allowing you to supply any necessary login information.

-@u=user_ID

Lets you use your GroupWise user ID to open GroupWise as yourself on another user's computer. The other user remains logged on to the network.

-ipa=ip_address_or_hostname

Lets you specify the IP address (x.x.x.x) or the name of the IP address when you are running in client/server mode.

-ipp=port_number

Lets you specify the IP port number when you are running in client/server mode.

-l=xx

Applies only if you have two or more language versions or language modules. This option instructs GroupWise to override the default environment language (under GroupWise Environment in Options) with the language specified by the language code (XX). The language codes are listed below.

Language

Language Code

Arabic

AR

Czech

CZ

Chinese - Simplified

CS

Chinese - Traditional

CT

Danish

DK

Dutch

NL

English

US

Finnish

SU

French

FR

German

DE

Hebrew

HE

Hungarian

MA

Italian

IT

Japanese

JP

Korean

KR

Norwegian

NO

Polish

PL

Portuguese

BR

Russian

RU

Spanish

ES

Swedish

SV

-ph=pathname

Lets you specify the path to the post office.

-pc=path_to_caching_mailbox

Opens GroupWise in Caching mode. GroupWise must be restarted when you change from Online to Caching.

-ui=xxx

Lets you specify which user interface "Look and Feel" to use.  This switch is currently only available on Linux*. The supported values are:

Value

Description

gtk

Uses the GTK look and feel for the GroupWise client. This only works properly if you are using the GNOME desktop manager.

-r

Lets you start multiple copies of GroupWise.

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