ATSlog - documentation. Software setup.

The ATSLog updating information is located in the file UPDATING.

Requirements

Your system should meet following requirements

POSIX compatible *nix. Checked for Linux and FreeBSD. Most probably will work with other UNIX OS as well.
GCC compiler
MySQL (checked for 4.xx and 5.xx) or PostgreSQL
Perl 5, Perl modules DBD-mysql or DBD-Pg modules for MySQL or PostgreSQL.
If you plan to use the web interface - http server (checked for Apache HTTPD) with PHP support installed (4.3 +).

Installation

The FreeBSD port of atslog is available from www.freshports.org.

Download and unpack atslog-2.1.1.tar.gz:

$ fetch http://www.atslog.com/download/atslog-2.1.1.tar.gz
$ tar vzxfmp atslog-2.1.1.tar.gz

Check the options of the configure script.
```
$ ./configure --help
```
Run the configure script either without parameters or with parameters of your choice.
```
$ ./configure 
```
Install the program issueing make install
```
# make install
```
Edit the program config file $PREFIX/atslog.conf (for example, /usr/local/etc/atslog.conf). Pay special attention to the parameters $port, $speed, $fastwrite, $model.
```
# $EDITOR /usr/local/etc/atslog.conf
```
Launch your SQL server (PostgreSQL or MySQL). Create the atslog database with
```
$ make install-sql
```
This prompt automatically creates the atslog database with all necessary tables.

To enable the web interface add corresponding lines into httpd.conf, for example:

    Alias /atslog/ "/usr/local/www/atslog/"
    <Directory "/usr/local/www/atslog/">
        Options none
        AllowOverride Limit
        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.1 .example.com
    </Directory>

Web interfe settings are located in the file www/include/config.inc.php. Copy the SQL password from atslog.conf into this file.

Read carefully the section Using atslog ATSlog and launch atslog with atslogmaster start.

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