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Install and Administer a Dienst system

Installing Dienst

Any problems with your installation? Please check our FAQ for installers. And if you still are confused, don't hesitate to contact us at help@ncstrl.org.

• Installing a Basic Dienst System

  • Pre-installation Information - A little background before you start.
  • Autoconfiguration Installation Instructions - How to download and install a Dienst server and document database that contains and indexes bibliographic files.
  • Adding content - How to make the content of documents available from your server.

  
  

  Installation of Additional Features

  • Install the LibMgt tools - How to configure and use the tools for adding new documents to your document database and manage that database.
  • Install FTP capability using auto_config.pl -How to interface to an anonymous FTP document repository. (For NCSTRL-standard sites using the Dienst 4.0 standard document database structure.)
  • Install page level zoom - How to add the zoom feature for close-ups of page images.
  • Install WAIS search engine - How to install WAIS-sf search engine [preferred for large databases]

• Advanced customization

  • Define your own document database and document formats - How to customize the Dienst configuration files.
  • Install FTP capability to a customized document database - How to interface Dienst to an anonymous FTP document repository.
  • Replace the built-in search engine - A description of the search engine interface and how to replace the simple search engine shipped with Dienst.
  • Use a different bibliography format - How to use a bibliographic format other than RFC 1807.

Administering a Dienst system

• Dienst Administration - How to keep Dienst and your repository clean and running smoothly.
• LibMgt tools - an overview of tools to keep up your document database. See each utility below for specific useage information.
• • build-inverted-indexes.pl - a tool to index or reindex the documents in the database.
  • db_build - a document format building tool.
  • db_check - a database checking tool.
  • withdraw_tr - a tool to withdraw a tech report from the database.

We have tried to make this documentation as complete and as useful as possible. We welcome any comments from you that will contribute to the quality of this software. Don't hesitate to contact us at help@ncstrl.org.

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