Language | EaseChat Installation Guide |
| PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE DOCUMENT BEFORE PERFORMING THIS INSTALL!!! Thank you for your interest in Edgenet's Ease technology. This file will guide you through the installation steps necessary to get the easechat services running on a Linux or Solaris platform. First, you will need a working Java Runtime Environment. The JRE for Solaris or WinNT can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/jre/ or for Linux, ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/ DO NOT INSTALL ANY JRE NEWER THAN 1.1.8. We are working on porting easechat to 1.3, but as of this release, only the 1.1.x distributions are guaranteed to work. Once you have installed the JRE, make sure that there is a link to it in /usr/local called jre. You can do this with ln -s /path/to/jre /usr/local/jre Replace /path/to/jre with the path to where you installed the jre. Now that you have a working JRE, we can install easechat. This package is composed of several class files, the start-up script and config files. The default location for ease and all related packages is /usr/local/ease. So, copy the easechat tarball to /usr/local/ease and unpack it. This can be done with the following command; #>tar -xzvf easechat-x.x.x-x.tar.gz SOLARIS USERS: Due to a bug in the solaris tar program, you will need to use gtar to perform the unpack. Once this is done, you will need to edit your rc scripts to start the server on boot. Adding the following line will accomplish this. /usr/local/jre/bin/jre -cp /usr/local/ease/chat ChatServer > /dev/null 2>&1 & Or, if you are on a RedHat Linux system, you can copy the easechat script which is in /usr/local/ease/chat to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and run the following command. #>chkconfig easechat on This will cause easechat to start any time a multiuser run level is started. Finally, you can start the server from the command line by issuing #>/usr/local/jre/bin/jre -cp /usr/local/ease/chat ChatServer > /dev/null 2>&1 & If for some reason easechat won't start, make sure that you have linked the jre in /usr/local and that you aren't running a jre later than 1.1.8. Additional support is available at http://www.easeforum.com/forums.ez. |
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