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3: <TITLE>LON-CAPA Installation</TITLE>
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6: <H1>LON-CAPA Installation</H1>
7: <H3>Current Installation Procedure</H3>
8: <P>
1.4 harris41 9: Scott Harrison
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1.7 ! harris41 12: Last updated: 11/21/2000
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! 14: <P>
! 15: This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation. These steps have
! 16: been tested.
! 17: <OL>
! 18: <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by
! 19: <UL>
! 20: <LI>Using a RedHat 6.2 CD
! 21: <LI>Downloading a RedHat 6.2 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and burning a CD
! 22: <LI>Or, alternatively do a network install from a <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource">
! 23: RedHat 6.2 CD source tree</A>. You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image;
! 24: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/bootnet-20000407.img">
! 25: bootnet-20000407.img</A>. (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a
! 26: command similar to: <TT>dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</TT>). For installation, you
! 27: need to specify <TT>hobbes.lite.msu.edu/~loninst</TT> as your download URL, and <TT>/3.1/currentcdsource</TT>
! 28: as the source location.
! 29: </UL>
! 30: <LI>Install RedHat 6.2
! 31: <UL>
! 32: <LI><B>Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages</B>
! 33: <LI><B>Important: Make sure you add a user "www"</B>
! 34: </UL>
! 35: </P>
! 36: <P>
! 37: After installation, restart the computer. Login as root. Enter these two commands:
! 38: <OL>
! 39: <LI><TT>lynx -source http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/postinstall.pl>postinstall.pl</TT>
! 40: <LI><TT>perl postinstall.pl</TT>
! 41: </OL>
! 42: </P>
! 43: <P>
! 44: As postinstall.pl runs, you will be asked various questions. Follow the instructions to correctly
! 45: enter in the appropriate parameter values.
! 46: </P>
! 47: <HR>
! 48: <H1>Old steps; do not use these...</H1>
1.5 harris41 49: Last updated: 11/01/2000
1.4 harris41 50: </P>
51: <P>
1.1 harris41 52: This is the current list of steps to support LON-CAPA installation. These steps have
1.3 harris41 53: been tested.
1.1 harris41 54: <OL>
55: <LI>Get Redhat 6.2 on a CD by
56: <UL>
57: <LI>Using a RedHat 6.2 CD
1.2 harris41 58: <LI>Downloading a RedHat 6.2 <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdimage">CD image</A> and burning a CD
59: <LI>Or, alternatively do a network install from a <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource">
1.1 harris41 60: RedHat 6.2 CD source tree</A>. You need to burn a boot floppy disk with a network boot image;
1.2 harris41 61: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/currentcdsource/images/bootnet-20000407.img">
1.1 harris41 62: bootnet-20000407.img</A>. (Download the image file; insert a blank floppy disk; and type a
63: command similar to: <TT>dd if=bootnet-20000407.img of=/dev/fd0</TT>). For installation, you
1.6 harris41 64: need to specify <TT>hobbes.lite.msu.edu/~loninst</TT> as your download URL, and <TT>/3.1/currentcdsource</TT>
1.1 harris41 65: as the source location.
66: </UL>
67: <LI>Install RedHat 6.2
68: <UL>
69: <LI><B>Important: Do a "GNOME Workstation Install" and go with their default list of packages</B>
70: <LI><B>Important: Make sure you add a user "www"</B>
71: </UL>
72: <LI>After installation, install extra RPMs/upgrades by downloading all files from
1.2 harris41 73: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS/">
74: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/SupplementalRPMS</A>.
1.1 harris41 75: <UL>
76: <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>.
77: </UL>
78: <LI>Remove extra RPMs by downloading and running the script
1.2 harris41 79: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh">
80: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/scripts/remove_extra.sh</A> as root.
1.3 harris41 81: <LI>After installing the supplemental RPMS, install a final RPM set by downloading all files from
82: <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS/">
83: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/FinalRPMS</A>.
84: <UL>
85: <LI>Use this command to install the RPMs you download: <TT>rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm</TT>.
86: </UL>
1.1 harris41 87: <LI>Configure needed files.
88: <UL>
89: <LI>Currently, reconfiguration must be handled manually and involves an administrator
90: altering configuration files present throughout the system. For a list of these
1.3 harris41 91: files and their descriptions, visit <A HREF="http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html">
92: http://install.lon-capa.org/3.1/loncapafiles/loncapafiles.html</A>.
1.5 harris41 93: </UL>
1.1 harris41 94: <LI>Important files are /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf, /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/krb.conf,
95: /home/httpd/lonTabs/spare.tab, /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab (if setting up a cluster different
1.3 harris41 96: than MSU's).
1.5 harris41 97: <LI>Unshadow passwords
98: <UL>
99: <PRE>You can do this by these 5 steps:
100: 1. enter the system command, as "root", pwunconv
101: 2. enter the system command, as "root", grpunconv
102: 3. Set the following to be the /etc/pam.d/login file on your system
103: #%PAM-1.0
104: auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
105: auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
106: auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
107: account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
108: password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so
109: password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so nullok use_authtok
110: session required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
111: session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so
112: 4. Set the following to be the /etc/pam.d/passwd file on your system
113: #%PAM-1.0
114: auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
115: account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
116: password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
117: password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok
118: 5. Set/reset passwords. As "root" use 'passwd', and 'passwd www'
119: to change the important passwords. This creates crypt-processible
120: passwords in /etc/passwd.
121: </PRE>
122: </UL>
123: <LI>Run, as root, <TT>ln -s /etc/mime.types /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types</TT>
124: <LI>Run, as root, <TT>/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start</TT>.
1.3 harris41 125: <LI>Run, as root, <TT>/etc/rc.d/init.d/loncontrol start</TT>.
1.1 harris41 126: <LI>After 10 minutes, you should be able to check the file <TT>/home/httpd/html/lon-status/index.html</TT>
127: to see if your machine has been successfully set up.
128: </UL>
129: </OL>
130: </P>
131: <H3>Future Installation Procedure (not yet implemented)</H3>
132: <P>
133: In the future, LON-CAPA Installation will be distributed on a CD complete with a
134: customized interface. Many elements for doing this have been coded, and are in place, but
135: it awaits completion.
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