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Quickstart
Follow these steps to get you up and running:
- Follow the download instructions.
- Start rld. If successfull, you will
see something like this:
Welcome to rld.
Type 'help' for help.
>
- Create an administrator account for yourself (-1 means: all
privileges):
adduser mylogin mypassword -1 mynick
- Create a guest account for other users (with no privileges
whatsoever):
adduser guest
- Put the files that you want to serve in the files directory.
- People should be able to connect to your server now. Now is the
time to fine tune the permissions for the guest account. The easiest
way to do that is of course by simply using rl to login to your server
using your admin account.
- Give your server a name and a description, by typing the following
lines at the console:
set server.name My server
set server.description All my stuff.
- To register your server with a tracker, create a textfile called
trackertable in the ~/.redlight
directory. For example, to track your server on dmp.fimble.com and
darksidetracker.dhs.org, put the following lines in the trackertable
file:
dmp.fimble.com
darksidetracker.dhs.org
After a few minutes, your server should start to appear on those
trackers.
- If you run into problems, see if the messages in
~/.redlight/rld.log are any use.
How to start rld depends on your operating system. If you are on Unix
and have done 'make install' from source (or installed a binary
.rpm package), a simple
$ rld
should suffice. On Windows / MacOS X, you should get the .jar file and
open a Command Prompt / Terminal:
java -classpath location of .jar file redlight.server.Main
You can do this on Unix derivatives, too, of course, should the rld
wrapper script fail.
If none of this works, then most likely you need to install a Java
runtime (sun.com). You may want
to make sure that java is in your PATH.
25 october 2001
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