Start the P4 Server

After you set the P4PORT and P4ROOT environment variables, start the server by running p4d in the background with the command:

p4d &

Although the example shown is sufficient to run p4d, you can specify other flags that control such things as error logging, checkpointing, and journaling.

Example: Starting the P4 Server

You can override P4PORT by starting p4d with the -p flag (in this example, listen to port 1818 on IPv6 and IPv4 transports), and P4ROOT by starting p4d with the -r flag. Similarly, you can specify a journal file with the -J flag, and an error log file with the -L flag. A startup command that overrides the environment variables might look like this:

p4d -r /usr/local/p4root -J /var/log/journal -L /var/log/p4err -p tcp64:[::]:1818 &

The -r, -J, and -L flags (and others) are discussed in Backup and recovery. To enable SSL/TLS support, see SSL/TLS connections between client and server. A complete list of flags is provided in the P4 Server (p4d) reference.

For information about the files that have been installed, see Installed files.