Upgrading Peach
Steps to follow when upgrading the system
These steps are similiar to the installation steps.
- Download the Peach package (Peach.tar.gz)
- The software is available at the Peach
website.
- Extract the Package
- Unzip Peach.tar.gz using tar: tar
-xvzf Peach.tar.gz
- The package will be written to a directory called Peach in your
current directory.
- Run the Installation Script (install.pl)
- Change to the directory called Peach: cd Peach
- This directory called Peach will be refered to as the
installation directory from now onwards
- The directory in which Peach was installed to is the program
directory
- Type: ./install.pl
program_directory
- Example: install.pl
/home4/EMprogs/Peach where
/home4/EMprogs/Peach is on a shared disk that is accessible to all
participating computers
- The installation script will copy all the new program files
over the previous files.
- The installation script will prompt you if you would like to
overwrite the previous configuration files or to keep the same settings.
- Use pview to shutdown the server.
- Log on to the computer which is used for the server.
- Launch the new server by typing: /progam_directory/pserv
-verbose
- Finally,
use pview to upgrade the job daemons by typing u all
It is very important that the order of these steps is followed
otherwise the job daemons may be shutdown due to them not receiving the
updated checksum codes.
Updated 2005-02-18, Peter Leong