Project:HUGnet Software Installation
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General Notes
Database
We need a good way to make the database portable so that we can install it other places. Right now it is a manual operation that requires access to the HUG internal network.
Firmware
The firmware database should be updated with all of the latest firmware if a new database is created. This can be done by dumping all of the data from the firmware table in the HUG database and putting it into the new database. This should be done when the database is created.
Note: I am not sure how to push out all the latest firmware to a non HUG database. This will have to be considered if we ever do this again.
Starting the Polling Scripts
The polling and updatedb scripts need to be started in a manner that will restart them if they should die. For posix operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD) this can be accomplished by putting things into the /etc/initteab file.
I am not sure how to do this best in Windows or MacOS. MacOS might be like Linux and FreeBSD.
Starting the Analysis Script
The analysis script should be run periodically. It needs to be run daily at least.
MacOS X
Installing Software Requirements
To install the required software the easiest way is to use Fink, Open Darwin or some other collection like that. It should allow for all the software to be installed easily.
This requires Xcode to be install. It is a about a 1G download. It can be downloaded from http://www.apple.com/ .
Fink
- Fink
- Go to http://fink.sourceforge.net and download the binary release of Fink.
- FinkCommander
- Go to http://finkcommander.sourceforge.net and download the binary release of FinkCommander. This is a Graphical user interface for Fink.
Install Fink Install FinkCommander
FinkCommander can be used to install all software listed here.
Open Darwin
Gentoo on MacOS
This is not mature enough yet to install all of the required programs. It is getting there.
Installing the HUGnet Software
See the generic install section
Windows
Linux
Using /etc/inittab
Use 'openvt -e -c <tty #> -- <command>' to open a command in a virtual terminal. This doesn't seem to be necessary when busybox is doing the init stuff. It seems to automatically open things in a virtual terminal if they are in init.
Gentoo
The following will duplicate a world (/var/lib/portage/world) file:
# emerge -va --noreplace $(cat old_world_file)
FreeBSD
Common Stuff
The User Interface
The user interface gets installed through the Joomla component. Please see the Joomla help for more information on the installer.
The Scripts
The scripts should be installed in /home/hugnet on FreeBSD or Linux. It should be installed in /Users/hugnet on MacOS X.
Where in Windows?
The whole script tarball should be extracted into this directory. The scripts should be run from their respective directory.
