SCal Server Setup Directions

Last updated March 9, 2002.

If you want to run an SCal server, then this document is for you. I'm going to assume the following:

  1. You know how to get source code from SourceForge with cvs.
  2. You have PostgreSQL installed.
  3. You either A) know how to program or B) are not afraid to try. There isn't any serious programming involved. You just have to modify one or two things for you system.

NOTE: I've only run this code on Red Hat Linux 7.2 with PostgreSQL version 7.1.3. I don't know of any reasons why other versions wouldn't work, but I haven't used them yet.

Now lets get started.

  1. Get the source code from the cvs server. Go here to find out how.
  2. Setup a database for yourself. First, create a directory that will hold your database data files. Then, set the PGDATA environment variable to be the absolute path to the directory. Then, run initdb. Then, run createdb.
  3. Setup the database for SCal. First, go to the scal/db directory. Then, run psql -f scal_schema.sql. You will see a lot of messages from psql, but you can ignore them as they are only informational messages (not errors).
  4. Go to the scal/src directory and open scald.c in a text editor. At the top of the file you will see serveral #defines that have CFG_ in the name. These are system specific settings so you should set the for your own system. These options will be read out of a configuration file at some point. Probably the only option you will have to change is CFG_DATABASE_USER. You should know that the scal server cannot connect to a database with a password. The code change for this is VERY easy. Unfortunately, I am VERY VERY lazy. If you want to change the code look in the db_connect function in database.c.
  5. Go to the scal/src direction and run make. If you have any problems at this point then I hope you know how to program.
  6. Ok, you are all setup now. All you have to do is start the server like this: ./scald. The server does not run as a daemon, but it will in the future.

If you still need help after reading this document please post your question to the appropriate form at the scal project page.

If you find any errors in this document or bugs in SCal let me know. I appreciate all feedback.

I hope you enjoy using SCal.
Doug