Ingres II HOWTO Ingres II HOWTO Table of Contents Ingres II HOWTO ..............................................................................................................................................1 Pal Domokos, pal.domokos@usa.net......................................................................................................1 1.Introduction...........................................................................................................................................1 2.The Ingres Software Development Kit.................................................................................................1 3.System Requirements...........................................................................................................................1 4.Preparing for the Installation................................................................................................................1 5.The Installation Process........................................................................................................................2 6.First Steps.............................................................................................................................................2 7.Basic System and Database Administration.........................................................................................2 8.Web Access...........................................................................................................................................2 9.Miscellaneous Topics............................................................................................................................2 1. Introduction..........................................................................................................................................3 1.1 Version History..................................................................................................................................3 1.2 Copyright...........................................................................................................................................3 1.3 Aim of the HOWTO..........................................................................................................................3 1.4 Disclaimer..........................................................................................................................................4 2. The Ingres Software Development Kit................................................................................................4 2.1 University Ingres and Commercial Ingres.........................................................................................4 2.2 The Software Development Kit.........................................................................................................4 2.3 The SDK CD......................................................................................................................................6 3. System Requirements..........................................................................................................................6 3.1 Hardware............................................................................................................................................6 3.2 Software.............................................................................................................................................6 3.3 The ingres User and II_SYSTEM......................................................................................................7 4. Preparing for the Installation...............................................................................................................8 4.1 Ingres Environment Variables...........................................................................................................8 4.2 II_LOG_FILE and II_DUAL_LOG..................................................................................................9 4.3 Database Locations............................................................................................................................9 4.4 The iidbdb database.........................................................................................................................11 4.5 II_DATABASE................................................................................................................................11 4.6 II_CHECKPOINT............................................................................................................................11 4.7 II_DUMP.........................................................................................................................................12 4.8 II_JOURNAL...................................................................................................................................12 4.9 II_WORK.........................................................................................................................................12 4.10 Other Ingres Environment Variables.............................................................................................13 5. The Installation Process.....................................................................................................................13 5.1 Starting the Installation Program.....................................................................................................14 5.2 Express Install..................................................................................................................................15 5.3 Manual Install..................................................................................................................................15 5.4 Completing the Initial Configuration...............................................................................................16 5.5 Re−installation.................................................................................................................................17 5.6 Command Line Install.....................................................................................................................17 5.7 The Installer's Log...........................................................................................................................18 6. First Steps..........................................................................................................................................18 7. Basic System and Database Administration......................................................................................19 7.1 Starting and Stopping Ingres............................................................................................................19 7.2 New Ingres Users and Locations.....................................................................................................20 i Ingres II HOWTO Table of Contents 7.3 Creating and Destroying Databases.................................................................................................20 7.4 Collation Sequence..........................................................................................................................21 7.5 Backup and Recovery......................................................................................................................21 7.6 Configuring Ingres...........................................................................................................................22 7.7 Monitoring Ingres............................................................................................................................22 7.8 Message Files...................................................................................................................................22 8. Web Access........................................................................................................................................23 8.1 ingvalidpw.......................................................................................................................................23 8.2 Configuring Apache.........................................................................................................................23 8.3 ICE Setup.........................................................................................................................................25 9. Miscellaneous Topics.........................................................................................................................25 9.1 Automatic Startup and Shutdown....................................................................................................25 9.2 ingmenu...........................................................................................................................................27 9.3 Circumventing Ingres Net................................................................................................................27 9.4 Forms−Based Development Tools...................................................................................................28 9.5 Ingperl and Perl DBI........................................................................................................................28 9.6 Ingres links.......................................................................................................................................29 ii Ingres II HOWTO Pal Domokos, [email protected] v1.01, 23 December 1999 This document helps install the Ingres II Relational Database Management System on Linux.