Getting Started

Before shipping and installing the code on your computer you will need to create one account with name ``cdsno''. This account will host the SNODB code and will run the database server to process updates. We strongly recommend that you adhere to the following steps in creating this account. If you don't, it may be very difficult to include your institution in the networked version of the database. Many of the items below must be done by the system manager.

• Create an account with name ``cdsno''. This is the account under which the various database management servers will run, and will be used for database maintenance purposes.

• Create a ``sno'' group (or some other name of your choosing) which will be used to control who gets read access to the SNO database. Every account owned by someone affiliated with SNO should probably be in this group. ``cdsno'' should also be a member of this group.

• On UNIX systems, create a ``snodbw'' group which will be used to control who gets write privileges to the SNO database (on VMS systems, this is done using ACLs). ``cdsno'' should be a member of this group. Only people officially responsible for putting data into the database should be members of this group. Others, in general, should not be allowed to write to the SNO database in order to protect the integrity of your local database.

• Create a ``hepdb'' directory (owned by ``cdsno'' with permission 0750) somewhere with at least a few hundred MB of space (0750 corresponds to o:rwe,g:re,w: permissions in VMS). This is the directory which will contain all of the files and directories required by the HEPDB database servers. This directory is referred to as the parent directory.

You are now ready to ship and install the programs.