Installation guide

Installing Across Multiple Machines
Chapter 2 Installing iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition on Unix 33
To run templatized installation, perform the following steps:
1. In the /.rhosts directory of your local machine, create an entry for each remote
machine where you will install the web server using the format
remote_machine_name username
For example, if the remote machine is
host1 on the domain dogs, and you are logged
in as
root, enter the following information:
host1.dogs.com root
2.
In the /etc/hosts.equiv directory of your local machine, create an entry for each
remote machine where you will install the web server using the format
remote_machine_name
For example, if the remote machine name is
host1 on the domain dogs, enter the
following information:
host1.dogs.com
3. In the /.rhosts directory of each remote machine where you will install the web
server, create an entry for your local machine using the format
local_machine_name username
For example, if the local machine name is
chewbacca on the domain dogs and you are
logged in as
root, enter the following information:
chewbacca.dogs.com root
4. In the /etc/hosts.equiv directory of each remote machine where you will install
the web server, create an entry for your local machine using the format
local_machine_name
For example, if the local machine name is
chewbacca on the domain dogs, enter the
following information:
chewbacca.dogs.com
5.
Create a setup directory on your local machine with a link to server root
ln -s server_root/ setup-directory
6. Change to the directory where setup resides.
7. Open the template.inf file.