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Comments and suggestions concerning this book should be mailed to gmourani@videotron.ca © Copyright 1999-2000 Gerhard Mourani and Open Network Architecture ® 403 Linux FAQ-O-Matic Overview As explained in the Faq-O-Matic web site: A mailing list archive is even better, because it lets thoughtful people with Frequently Asked Questions search for an immediate answer, and avoids bothering the people who have answers. Unfortunately, the answers in a mailing list archive become stale over time, are disorganized, and are hard to sift from the conversational noise of the mailing list.   A Frequently Asked Questions list (FAQ) is even better, because the people with questions can be a little lazier and still find their answer right away. Unfortunately, maintaining a FAQ list requires effort; if the people with the answers become lazy, the FAQ list becomes stale. The Faq-O-Matic is a CGI-based system that automates the process of maintaining a FAQ (or Frequently Asked Questions list). It allows visitors to your FAQ to take part in keeping it up-to- date. A permission system also makes it useful as a help-desk application, bug-tracking database, or documentation system. These installation instructions assume  Commands are Unix-compatible. The source path is “/var/tmp” (other paths are possible). Installations were tested on RedHat Linux 6.1. All steps in the installation will happen in superuser account “root”. FAQ-O-Matic version number is 2.709 Packages FAQ-O-Matic Homepage: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jonh/ff-serve/cache/1.html The most recent version of the FAQ-O-Matic is always available at: ftp://ftp.cs.dartmouth.edu/pub/jonh. You must be sure to download: FAQ-OMatic-2.709.tar.gz Prerequisites u Apache web server should be already installed in your system to be able to use FAQ-O- Matic software. u Revision Control System (RCS) file version management tools should be already installed in your system to be able to use FAQ-O-Matic software. · To verify if the RCS package is installed in your system, use the following command: [root@deep /]# rpm -qi rcs package rcs is not installed · To install the RCS package in your Linux system, use the following command: [root@deep /]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/ [root@deep /]# cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/ [root@deep RPMS]# rpm -Uvh rcs-5.7-10.i386.rpm rcs                         ################################################## [root@deep RPMS]# cd /; umount /mnt/cdrom/ NOTE: For more information on the require softwares, see their related chapter in this book.