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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.
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SNOMAN Account
2/14/1998