UNIX Install / Upgrade Info Installation ConferenceRoom is presently available for several UNIX platforms. UNIX releases of ConferenceRoom are packaged as compressed tar files. They include an installer but do not facilitate automatic upgrades. Some of the UNIX releases are packed in .gz format, while some are in .Z format. Generally for platforms that always provide GNU gzip, we provide the release in .tar.gz format. Unfortunately, many browsers rename files with long filenames, causing confusion. Please note the full name of the file you are downloading (especially the extension, either .tar.gz or .tar.Z) and restore it to its original name after completion. If the original file ended in .gz, the file is a gzipped tar file. It can be unpacked several ways. If the file's name is file.tar.gz, and you have GNU tar, you should be able to type tar xvfz file.tar.gz and unpack it. If you have GNU gzip, you should be able to type gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xvf -. Alternately, you can unzip it with gunzip file.tar.gz and then unpack it with tar xvf file.tar. If the original file ended in .Z, the file is a compressed tar archive. You must make sure the downloaded file ends in .Z as well. If the file's name was file.tar.Z, you should be able to type uncompress file.tar (notice the .Z is missing) to uncompress it. Then type tar xvf file.tar to unpack it. This should create a new directory containing the ConferenceRoom distribution. Inside this directory will be a README file. Also included is a file called RELEASE with information about this release of ConferenceRoom, and a file called PLATFORM with any special problems or issues with your version of UNIX. To run the installed, cd into the ConferenceRoom directory that was just created. Then type ./install. Simply answer the questions, and ConferenceRoom will be installed and configured enough to get it running.

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Upgrading

Upgrading from 1.x to 3.x

Click on this link for information for upgrading from versions 1.x to 3.x.

Upgrading from 2.x to 3.x

When you wish to upgrade to a newer version of ConferenceRoom, we strongly advise you to use a procedure that protects your previous version of ConferenceRoom. The files that you typically need to copy from your current version of ConferenceRoom into your new one (because they contain your configuration information) are db/confroom.conf, startcr, db/chan.db, db/nick.db, and db/webpass.sav. Don't worry if you don't have any of the last three files.

We recommend you first unpack the new version of ConferenceRoom. It will put itself in a new directory. Then copy over the files listed above (and any others you may have customized). You will then have to edit 'startcr' to reflect the new path in two places. You should then be able to stop the currently running copies of crchat, crws, crldap and crserv and start the new version of 'startcr'.

You can then test the new version of ConferenceRoom. If you notice any problems, you should be able to shut down the new version and restart the old version.

Note that you must not attempt to edit the confroom.conf file while ConferenceRoom is running. It will not work. You also must not kill ConferenceRoom immediately after making configuration changes. You must wait at least two minutes for the changes to be saved. We recommend you use the /DIE command, which is always safe.

Automatic Restart

If you'd like to make sure the various servers remain running even after a reboot or crash, you can add 'startcr' to your crontab. How this is done varies from machine to machine, but a typical way to do this would be as follows:

Create a file called cron containing the line

6,21,36,52 * * * * /full/path/to/startcr
Then type crontab cron. Note that this will wipe out any other cron jobs you (the user you are running as) had scheduled. You may want to check with crontab -l first to make sure you don't have any.

We do not recommend running 'startcr' more often than every five minutes. Also, if you're not using CRServices or not using WMws, you should remove them from the 'startcr' script. Removing the ws will stop the web server from attempting to start and removing the sv will stop services from attempting to start.

Shutting Down

We strongly recommend shutting down ConferenceRoom itself cleanly by use of the /DIE command.

CRServices will shut itself down cleanly when ConferenceRoom dies, so there is no need to do anything special to shut it down. If you just want to stop services, we recommend issuing a /SQUIT command.

You can use kill to shutdown the various servers; however, this is not recommended. Killing ConferenceRoom can result in configuration changes, server bot locked topics, and server bot locked modes not being saved. Killing services can result in recent changes to registered nicknames and channels not being saved. (ConfRoom will shutdown cleanly on a SIGHUP.)

If you do decide to use kill, you can find out the PIDs of the various services by looking at their .pid files in the programs directory. Please beware that those .pid files might be old, and it's always possible another process was created with that same PID. So please be careful not to kill the wrong process! Be doubly careful if issuing a kill command as root. One typo can bring down your system such that it cannot be recovered remotely.

CR supports -stop as a flag to stop a server. With this you can go into the ConferenceRoom directory and type: ./programs/ConfRoom -stop to shut down CR cleanly. The same technique will work for the web server and services. Newer installers create a stopcr script to automate this.

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