Megatest

				    (set! res (send-receive uconn (conndat-hostport cdat) cmd params)))
				  "send-receive thread")))
      ;; (thread-start! th1)
      ;; (thread-join! th1)   ;; gratuitious thread stuff is so that mailbox is not used in primordial thead
      ;; since we accessed the server we can bump the expires time up
      (conndat-expires-set! cdat (+ (current-seconds)
				    (server:expiration-timeout)
				    -10)) ;; ten second margin for network time misalignments etc.
      res)))

;; db is at apath/.db/dbname, rid is an intermediary solution and will be removed
;; sometime in the future.
;;
;; Purpose - call the main.db server and request a server be started
;; for the given area path and dbname