Use this to create a sim that links into IG or MG grids from Linux. Or to run your own grid. It's only been tested on Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, 12.04, 16.04, as well as Debian 8, Devuan 9, and Devuan 9. YMMV. This is also a WIP, use it at your own risk. It's been used to set up a few freshly installed servers though. It should work on recent Debian based Linux distros. You may want to use the latest Mono, you can get it by following the instructions at - https://www.mono-project.com/docs/getting-started/install/linux/ For those in a hurry. --------------------- On a recent Debian based Linux (Debian, Devuan, Ubuntu, Mint, ...) terminal, run the following command - ./InstallItAll.sh This will install the prerequisites (MariaDB, monit, MONO, tmux, uuid-runtime); create a database in MariaDB called opensim_SC and a database user called opensim_SC with a random password; add a Linux user and group to your system called opensimsc; create the /opt/opensim_SC directory to run it all from; copy everything to /opt/opensim_SC/opensim-SC_0.9.0.1; setup the directory structure needed to run it all; create some default configuration files; build opensim-SC; and finally change ownership and file permissions for everything. You will likely need to login your user again, so you get the new group assigned to it. Otherwise the tmux stuff in start-sim might fail. Next go to /opt/opensim_SC/current/scripts/install and run - sudo ./create_sim.sh This will create a randomly named sim at a randomly chosen position. Or for something less random - sudo ./create_sim.sh "My new sim" "1234,5678" At this point /opt/opensim_SC/config/config.ini will be a symlink pointing to config_localhost.ini, which is for a standalone sim. If you want your new random sim to be part of IG or MG grids then you'll have to change that syml/ink to point to config_IG.ini or config_MG.ini respectively. There is no point doing that unless you are a member of those grids. /opt/opensim_SC/config/sim01 now contains the actual configuration of your randomly created sim. Edit the .ini file to make that sim a little less random. You can even rename the .ini file to match your sim name. If you are running a grid run - cd /opt/opensim_SC/config/ROBUSH ./start-sim Then to actually startup your sim - cd /opt/opensim_SC/config/sim01 ./start-sim And if you want to see the console of your sim run - cd /opt/opensim_SC/current/scripts ./show-console The directory layout. --------------------- The various directories are - .git Used by git for it's internal accounting, and the older versions. .nant Used by the obsolete nant build tool. OpenSim OpenSim source code. Prebuild Used by the build system. ThirdParty For third party OpenSim modules. ThirdPartyLicenses addon-modules Also for third party modules. Don't ask me why there's two. bin The OpenSim binaries, and other files. doc Supposedly for documentation, which I wish OpenSim devs would write some. example An example of how to set this all up. scripts Various Linux scripts for managing OpenSim. share No idea really. Also, the installation script copies the following directories from the example directory, to outside of this main directory, they are all used for writing various things. Makes it easy to upgrade, and separates them from actual executable stuff. AssetFiles Stores assets if running in grid mode. backups All sim and inventory backups are stored here. caches Various cached things. config All your configuration files. db If you are not using MySQL, your data lives here. logs Log files get stored here. web Web files go here. You can edit them to change the background image for example. Follow these steps. ------------------- First you need to have a user on your computer with sudo access. Next you need to figure out what password you want to use for OpenSims access to the database. We will call this "DatabasePassword". Run the following script, from inside the OpenSim directory - ./InstallItAll.sh DatabasePassword This will do most of the work for you, except for creating sims. Creating sims. -------------- A separate script is here for sim creation, you can use it to create many sims. You will need - A name for your sim, we will use "My new sim". It should be unique on the grid. A location for your sim, we will use "1234,5678". Choose an empty spot. Once you have all that information sorted out, run this script from the scripts/install directory - ./create_sim.sh "My new sim" "1234,5678" "sims.example.net" Also, you can create a varregion with something like - ./create_sim.sh "My new sim" "1234,5678" 512 Note that the size has to be a multiple of 256, so 512, 768, 1024, etc. 8096 is the maximum size, 2048 is about the biggest that is decently manageable. Running ROBUST. --------------- If you are running your own grid, you need to start up ROBUST, which is a bunch of common services sims use. Go to /opt/opensim_SC/config/ROBUST and run the following script to start it up - ./start-sim You will see the tmux console. You can run the tmux console again by running that command once more, or running the show-console script. Running sims. ------------- Now you can go to /opt/opensim_SC/config/sim01 and run the following script to start it up - ./start-sim You will see the tmux console. You can run the tmux console again by running that command once more, or running the show-console script. You can stop the sim with - ./stop-sim You can backup the sim with - ./backup-sim Running it all at once. ----------------------- You don't have to run ROBUST, then each sim, you can run the lot at once. Go to /opt/opensim_SC/current/scripts and run - ./start-sim It'll wait a minute between sims to give things time to settle down, and not over work your computer. Finishing up. ------------- Once it's all tested, you can use this to finish things off (back in the /opt/opensim_SC/current/scripts directory) - ./go_live.sh Which sets up the monit control file/s, though you should double check it all, and you still have to do the basic configuration and enabling of monit yourself. This is in case you already have monit set the way you like. This step is entirely optional, and some versions of monit might not work so well. NOTES - This attempts to use only one copy of the OS install for all sims. We are running one instance of OS for each sim though, as this prevents one sim crashing from bringing down the others. OS however really wants to write data to directories within it's own bin directory. The preferred way to update opensim-SC is to download a fresh copy, run BuildIt.sh, delete the installed copy, then copy this new one to where the old one used to be. I'll write an update script in the next version.