ASA Database Administration Guide
Database Administration Utilities
The Spawn utility
Running a server in the background using the dbspawn command-line utility
Do not check for a running server (-f) If a database server is already running, the dbspawn command may use it. This option forces dbspawn to start a new database server each time it is run.
Report process ID (-p) The operating system process ID of the database server process. For example:
dbspawn -p dbeng9 -n newserver
reports a message of the following form to the command prompt:
New process id is 306
Operate quietly (-q) Do not display output messages. This option is available only when you run this utility from the command prompt.