[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] updated install scripts

[John Schmidt]

On Thursday 21 February 2008, Kermit Jones wrote:
> Just a quick question, and i'm not a scripter so I won't say its obvious,
> but couldn't the script ask (in the beginning) for user names and
> passwords.  That way it is customized without the generics.
>
> I'm not sure how hard interactivity for that is.
>
> Thanks for the work, btw!  It really is awesome all that you have done.
>
> Kermit

Kermit,

I am sure it could.  There are ways to do this and hide several of the 
questions that are asked along the way.  I haven't explored all what would be 
required to achieve that, but it is certainly reasonable thing to think 
about.

As a first pass though I just wanted the simplest thing possible to allow 
people to get their feet wet with Evergreen.  In many respects, the first 
route would be to use the VMware images that Dan provides.  Then the second 
step would be to use my scripts to actually install the system.  Once they 
are comfortable with it, then tweaking the script would be required for a 
production environment.  

I was probably targeting more of those folks that were doing feasibility 
studies of Evergreen than anything else.


John