Installation and System Requirements

Platforms supported by Templeton

In order to run Templeton, you should have the correct executable for your operating system. Please select your operating system and platform from the list below:

OS/2
Windows 95 (Not yet available.)
Linux for an x86 processor
SunOS or Solaris for a Sparc station

Other operating systems, such as IRIX, HP-UX, DOS with Windows 3.1, or Windows NT, may be supported in the future depending upon customer demand.

Templeton's interface has been designed for compatability between operating system; you do not need to learn a new interface when changing operating systems. The current revision of Templeton is text-only (no graphical user interface). If there is a show of support, then I will create a GUI in future releases.

Note: Hard disk requirements are not listed. The Templeton executable is relatively small. However, the data copied from remote WWW sites may be large and you should probably have between 2 and 50 Megs of disk space for mirroring (depending on your usage).

OS/2

System Requirements: OS/2 3.0 (Warp) or later, TCP/IP 2.0 or the IBM Internet Connection for OS/2. HPFS prefered, but it runs fine under FAT -- just truncate all names to 8 characters. For example, templeton.exe becomes templeto.exe.

Required Files:

The Templeton executable: templeton.exe. This file should be placed in the tcpip/bin directory.
The Templeton configuration file: Templeton.cfg or Templeto.cfg. The file with the system defaults should be placed in the tcpip/etc directory.
The EMX runtime libraries version 0.9a or later. This is available via anonymous FTP from Hobbes or OS/2 CD-ROM from the os2/unix subdirectory. Templeton was compiled using:
```
EMX : revision = 50
EMXIO : revision = 50
EMXLIBC : revision = 50
EMXLIBCM : revision = 50
EMXLIBCS : revision = 50
EMXWRAP : revision = 50
```
Please make sure your libraries are revision 50 or higher, using the emxrev.cmd command. Older libraries may cause Templeton to abort.
ANSI display support enabled. To determine the current display status, run ANSI.EXE at the command prompt. To enable the ANSI display, either run "ANSI.EXE ON" at the command prompt or place "DEVICE=ANSI.SYS" in your config.sys. ANSI support comes standard with OS/2.
The testcfg.sys device driver. This comes with OS/2 and should already be installed in your config.sys file.
termcap.dat is no longer required by Templeton.

To run Templeton, type templeton.exe at the command prompt.

Windows 95

System Requirements: Windows 95, TCP/IP support. May work with other network protocols. A 32-bit winsock DLL, usually called wsock32.dll (comes with Win95).

Currently there is no installation script for Templeton. This will be added in later releases.

Required Files:

The Templeton executable: twin95.exe. This file should be placed within a directory in your path.
The Templeton configuration file: Templeto.cfg. The file with the system defaults should be placed in the the same directory as the executable.

To run Templeton, type twin95.exe at the command prompt. Under Windows 95, Templeton does not support long file names. Registration currently is supported for specific machines only, not IP addresses or subnets.

Release notes:

Registration for IP addresses and subnets is not yet implemented. Only specific machine registration is currently permitted.
twin95.exe may work with Windows NT (untested) but will probably not work with Windows 3.1 or Win32s.
Long file names are not supported.

Not yet released.

Linux

System Requirements: Linux Slackware version 3.0 or later (1.2.13 kernel or later). ELF support required.

Required Files:

The Templeton executable: tlinux. This file should be placed in the /etc/bin or /etc/local/bin (or your own favorite BIN) directory. You may also wish to create a symbolic link from tlinux to templeton.
The Templeton configuration file: templeton.cfg. This file should exist in the /etc directory for the system defaults.
Individual users may use a .templetonrc configuration file in their home directories.

Release Notes:

For single machine registration, this executable must run with effective super-user access, otherwise, it will only run in unregistered mode. This can be done either by setting the effective user ID or effective group ID of Templeton to match the ownership of /dev/mem.
Technically, the hostid of a Linux system is the IP address of the primary network interface. Because this "hostid" may change without notice (moving the computer, installing/removing new interface cards, dynamic IP addresses over PPP, etc.) Templeton must access /dev/mem in order to register a unique host ID. This requirement is only necessary for single host registration, not for registering an IP address or subnet.
Because Templeton may be used to start other applications, it is not recommended to run Templeton as root or from a privileged account. After determining the registration, Templeton sets the effective user and group IDs to match the person who started the program. This is an effort toward system security. Applications started by Templeton run as the user, and not as a privileged user or group.

To run Templeton, type tlinux at the command prompt. Optionally, the executable may be renamed to templeton.

The Pwd64 executable is called pwd64 in the Linux 1.2.13 distribution.

SunOS and Solaris

System Requirements: SunOS version 4.1.3 or Solaris 2.5 in SunOS compatability mode.

Required Files:

The Templeton executable. For SunOS or Solaris in SunOS compatability mode, use tsunos. For a Solaris-native application, use tsolaris. You may also wish to create a symbolic link from tsunos (or tsolaris) to templeton. (Release note: tsolaris is currently unavailable due to a curses bug.) The executable should be placed in the /etc/bin or /etc/local/bin directory (or somewhere in your PATH)
The Templeton configuration file: templeton.cfg. This file should exist in the /etc directory for the system defaults.
Individual users may use a .templetonrc configuration file in their home directories.

To run Templeton, type tsunos at the command prompt. Optionally, this executable may be renamed to templeton.

The Pwd64 executable is called pwd64 in the SunOS 4.1.3 distribution.

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