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USAIL: Installing the Archive

The Unix Workstation Group has made a gzipped tar archive of the pages developed for the Unix System Administration Independent Learning project avaliable. These pages are provided with certain restrictions.

From the start of this project it was designed to be on online course, so there is a bunch of, we hope, valuable information for system administrators of all experience levels. However, we are not including working versions of the programs we developed a to provide special on-line features, most notably the quizes, but also the glossary. The signposts will only function if you are, in some way, network connected as they reference our server.

We wish to make this archive useful to you, so please direct any comments or suggestions to us at usail@indiana.edu.

Prerequisites

To make use of this data you need at least a web browser that can interpert local files, such as netscape or lynx.

Optionally you can add these to the pages to your local web server. Note we are using server-side includes until something better is provided.

Installation package

The package provided is a gzipped and tarred archive of the single directory usail. All the files reference /usail so this structure should be preserved for correct references between pages. The disk space required for the distributed archive is just over 2M, after uncompression it is around 8M. Here is a sample download session. 


$ cd location_of_your_choice
$ gunzip usail-1996.10.tar.gz
$ tar -xf usail-1996.10.tar

Accessing the local USAIL pages

Using a Web Browser accessing USAIL pages
Once you have unziped and untarred the archive, simply point your web browser to the location. Here is an example using lynx. 

 $ lynx file://home/leighg/doc/usail/index.html
Configuring a Web server for USAIL pages


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