Use this to create a sim that links into Infinite Grid from Linux. It's only been tested on Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, and 12.04, YMMV. This is also a WIP, use it at your own risk. It's been used to set up two freshly installed Ubuntu servers though. Follow these steps. ------------------- Go to - http://wiki.infinitegrid.org/index.php/Howto_Link_your_Opensim_region_to_Infinite_Grid and follow the directions to create an admin user account. You can skip that bit if you already have a suitable user with sudo access. Note that these scripts pretty much follow that above wiki description, with some exceptions. The configuration information per sim has been rearranged so that there is only ONE copy of the OpenSim installation. 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 - ./install_opensim.sh DatabasePassword This will do most of the work for you, except for creating sims. There is a final step that needs to be done manually for now. Edit /etc/rc.local, make sure it has the following line in it somewhere, probably at the end - /opt/opensim/setup/fix_var_run.sh Creating sims. -------------- A separate script is here for sim creation, you can use it to create many sims. You will need - Your host name, or it could be your IP, we will use "sims.example.net". 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". You can use the Infinite Grid web based map to poke around and find a good location. Choose an empty spot. Once you have all that information sorted out, run this script - ./create_sim.sh "My new sim" "1234,5678" "sims.example.net" Or this if you want to override the detected IP address - ./create_sim.sh "My new sim" "1234,5678" "sims.example.net" "1.2.3.4" Running sims. ------------- Now you can go to /opt/opensim/config/sim01 and run the following script to start it up - ./start-sim You will see the screen console. You can run the screen console again by running that command once more, or running the sim-console command. You can stop the sim with - ./stop-sim You can backup the sim with - ./backup-sim Though they all get backed up every six hours anyway. Finishing up. ------------- Once it's all tested, you can use this to finish things off (back in this setup 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. 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. I'm not at all certian if that data can be shared. For the same reason, so far I've not been able to get to the point where we can make the OS directory read only. This complicates things during upgrades.