Before You Install: Precautions and Required Permissions

Use a UNIX user ID other than root to run your production SPD Server environment. The UNIX user ID of the SPD Server installation should be the UNIX user ID of the SPD Server administrator. For more information and a list of options to use when you are configuring SPD Server, see Notes for SPD Server Administrators.

Install SPD Server in a location that is adequately mirrored and backed up to assure reliability.

General familiarity with UNIX is required to install SPD Server. At a minimum, you should be familiar with basic UNIX shell entities (such as sh, csh, and ksh), Bourne shell scripts, and modifying files using a UNIX text editor.

To create the installation directory for SPD Server, you need appropriate access permissions on the file system on which you install the server software. The owner of the SPD Server installation directory should be the UNIX user ID of the SPD Server administrator.

If you want SPD Server clients to connect to the SPD Server host using name services instead of specifying port numbers at invocation, you need Write access to your server machine's /etc/inet/services or /etc/services file. Name services require you to define registered ports that use the services file appropriate to your machine.

If your SPD Server clients access the SPD Server host using name services instead of specifying port numbers, you need Write access to the services files on the clients, in the path /etc/services or /etc/inet/services.