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<title>Zebra Server - Administrators's Guide and Reference
<author><htmlurl url="http://www.indexdata.dk/" name="Index Data">, <tt><htmlurl url="mailto:info@index.ping.dk" name="info@index.ping.dk"></>
-<date>$Revision: 1.25 $
+<date>$Revision: 1.26 $
<abstract>
The Zebra information server combines a versatile fielded/free-text
search engine with a Z39.50-1995 frontend to provide a powerful and flexible
<tag>-w <it/working-directory/</tag>Change working directory.
-<tag/-i/Run under the Internet superserver, <tt/inetd/.
+<tag>-i <it/minutes/</tag>Run under the Internet superserver, <tt/inetd/.
+
+<tag>-t <it/timeout/</tag>Set the idle session timeout (default 60 minutes).
+
+<tag>-k <it/kilobytes/</tag>Set the (approximate) maximum size of
+present response messages. Default is 1024 Kb (1 Mb).
</descrip>
A <it/listener-address/ consists of a transport mode followed by a
During initialization, the server will negotiate to version 3 of the
Z39.50 protocol, and the option bits for Search, Present, Scan,
NamedResultSets, and concurrentOperations will be set, if requested by
-the client. The maximum PDU size is negotiated down to a maximum of 1Mb.
+the client. The maximum PDU size is negotiated down to a maximum of
+1Mb by default.
<sect2>Search
with reason=FINISHED, no matter which protocol version was negotiated
during initialization. If the protocol version is 3 or more, the
server will generate a Close PDU under certain circumstances,
-including a session timeout (ca. 60 minutes), and certain kinds of
+including a session timeout (60 minutes by default), and certain kinds of
protocol errors. Once a Close PDU has been sent, the protocol
association is considered broken, and the transport connection will be
closed immediately upon receipt of further data, or following a short