Starting/Stopping AFD

Starting AFD is done via the executable afd. There are several ways you can use it to start AFD. The most common way is via the following command 'afd -a'. There are also two conditional ways to start an AFD. One is with -C parameter. This will only start AFD if it is not already running. The other way is via the -H parameter. Use the -H check if you are using a shared file system and you do the check from another node.

Stopping AFD is done via the command 'afd -s'. The output will look as follows:

        afd@idefix:~$ afd -s
        Starting AFD shutdown ...
        Done!