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