This chapter describes how to install Desktop On-Call to Linux. 2 types of packages are prepared. One is rpm format package, the other is tar.gz type format package.
Install by following steps;
Note | Commands described here should be type in a terminal of Linux. Audience should have knowledge about Linux Operating System and the basic operation. |
Proceed installation job from the package installation.
Type in following command in order to mount your CD-ROM.
#mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
or,
#mount /mnt/cdrom
You can install rpm format package.
Type in following commands;
#cd /mnt/cdrom/linux
#rpm -ivh edtoc-5.0-1.i386.rpm
You can install tar.gz format package.
Type in following commands;
#cd /usr/local
#tar -xzvf /mnt/cdrom/linux/edtoc-5.0-1.tar.gz
Then the Desktop On-Call Linux version has installed on /usr/local/edtoc.
You need to customize configuration files and it's parameters setting, such as the PATH environment parameters.
Login using your userid of the Linux host
pc and perform following;
Start and End commands are placed on /usr/local/edtoc/bin directory. Therefore you need to
include this directory as PATH.
$echo $PATH
You got your current PATH.
You need to add following lines at the bottom of $HOME/.bashrc.
export PATH=/usr/local/edtoc/bin:$PATH
export DTOC_PATH=/usr/local/edtoc
You need to add following lines at the bottom of $HOME/.cshrc
setenv PATH /usr/local/edtoc/bin:$PATH
setenv DTOC_PATH /usr/local/edtoc
Desktop On-Call Linux version uses text based
the configuration files instead of properties
panels.
Desktop On-Call refer the configuration files at the starting time.
The original Desktop On-Call configuration files(setenv DTOC_PATH /usr/local/edtoc) are stored under following directories;
/usr/local/edtoc/etc
Copy these files to $HOME/.dtoc directory using following command;
Dtocuser
This command(shell) is doing followings;
mkdir -p $HOME/.dtoc
cp -p $DTOC_PATH/etc/* $HOME/.dtoc
Desktop On-Call allows two userids. One is your Linux userid, and the other is "guest".
The password is stored in .upasswd(for Linux
userid) and .gpasswd("guest" id)
under HOME/.dtoc as cryptographic format.
Type in as shown below;
dtocpasswd USERIDID PASSWORD
Type in as shown below;
dtocpasswd guest PASSWORD
You can customize by editing the environment configuration files stored in $HOME/.dtoc/user. The configuration file for "guest" is stored under HOME/.dtoc/guest
Delete $HOME/.dtoc/.upassw or .gpasswd, and and do "dtocpasswd USERID PASSWORD"
You have done the installation task.
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