Configuration

We recommend that the ProRad software is run by a dedicated UID, and we have chosen to install the software in the home directory of such a user. It may not be what your IT-department recommends, but as soon as you have familiarised yourself with the software you will know what to do to comply with rules and regulations of your organisation.

Once you have built the software, all modules will be present in the 'bin' directory in the directory where you built the software. You may copy these files to wherever you wish.

In the examples to follow we assume you have a dedicated user for running the software, and that the software is installed in this users home directory.

Basic setup

We use the following setup for our installation. Each release of the software is kept in a directory, named after the release:

drwxr-xr-x 29 uid uid 4096 2012-03-02 13:20 prorad-xml-1.3
drwxr-xr-x 29 uid uid 4096 2012-03-14 14:49 prorad-xml-1.3.1
drwxr-xr-x 29 uid uid 4096 2012-03-20 08:54 prorad-xml-1.3.2
drwxr-xr-x 29 uid uid 4096 2012-06-21 10:18 prorad-xml-1.3.2.1

And we use a set of symlinks which can be quickly rearranged if we should detect problems and need to make a quick switch from one release to another:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 uid uid 18 2012-06-21 11:28 prorad -> prorad-xml-1.3.2.1

and then we use this link to setup the symlink to the bin directory

lrwxrwxrwx 1 uid uid 10 2012-01-16 10:06 bin -> prorad/bin

(This may seem a little counter intuitive, and it would be perfectly fine to just to point the bin symlink directly to the directory containing the current ProRad release. Again, this is how we do things. Feel free to deviate from this recommendation if you so wish.)

Data directory

Start & stop scripts