Chapter 2. Installation
This chapter describes how to install TUX.
2.1. Installation Instructions
1. For optimal performance, create a separate RAID partition as the document root for
TUX.
2. Configure and install the kernel with TUX support built-in, if it has not already been
provided with TUX configured.
3. Install the TUX package with the command rpm -Uvh tux-2.1.0-2.i386.rpm (mod-
ify as necessary for new versions...)
4. Create an index.html file in /var/www/html, the default document root directory.
5. Start TUX with the command service tux start (or ./tux.init start on Linux
systems not running Red Hat Linux), and test the URL http://localhost/with lynx
or any Web browser.
The latestTUX releases canbe downloaded from http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/TUX-
patches/. To install a TUX patch use the following instructions:
1. Download the latest TUX patch and userspace utilities from
http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/TUX-patches/.
2. Apply the TUX patch to a vanilla 2.4.2 kernel tree with the command patch -p0 <
tux2-full-2.4.2-X6 (where tux2-full-2.4.2-X6 is the TUX kernel patch).
3. Use make oldconfig to enable TUX in the kernel config, compile it, and boot into the
TUX kernel.
4. Compile and install the userspace utilities, where tux-2.0.25 is the version of TUX
you want to install:
tar xzvf tux-2.0.25.tar.gz
cd tux-2.0.25
make
make install
5. Create an index.html file in /var/www/html, the default document root directory.
6. Start TUX with the command service tux start (or ./tux.init start on Linux
systems not running Red Hat Linux), and test the URL http://localhost/with lynx
or any Web browser.
2.1.1. Log Files
For each request, TUX logs theaddress of the requestor, a date andtime stamp accurate to at
least one second, specification of the file requested, size of the file transferred, and the final
status of the request.
The log files for TUX are stored in /var/log/tuxin binary format. In this binary format, the
log files are approximately 50% smaller than standard ASCII text log files. To view log files
use the command /usr/sbin/tux2w3c /var/log/tux. The tux2w3c program converts the
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