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• Darwin Installation Instructions
  • Download and Install
    • Download Linux Package (for Fedora Core 4 or later, that's us) from:
      http://dss.macosforge.org/
      At that site, scroll down to Related Links at the bottom, and follow Previous releases.
      At the Previous Releases page, under Linux installer (v5.5.5), follow Streaming Server.
      At this point an Apple ID login or account creation, and license agreement is required before the download is started. Download to any tidy location. The download will install into proper standard locations.
    • Once downloaded, unpack it:
      tar -xzf DarwinStreamingSrvr5.5.5-Linux.tar.gz
    • Change location into the unpacked directory and invoke the installation script:
      ./Install
      • You will be prompted for an administrator user name and password.
      • If you get errors from /usr/local/bin/qtpasswd make sure that you have the required i686 libraries then rerun the installation script:
        yum install glibc.i686 libstdc++.i686; ./Install
    • Make the Darwin log path readable for Variations statistics scripts:
      chmod a+rx /var/streaming /var/streaming/logs
  • Installing Darwin as a Service
    To make Darwin start on boot and be accessible as a service in /etc/init.d/ follow these steps:
    • Download the init.d script to /etc/init.d/
    • Set permissions on the script:
      chmod 755 /etc/init.d/dss
    • Set dss to run as a service on boot:
      chkconfig dss on
    • At this point, you can start dss manually:
      /etc/init.d/dss start
      The dss script has five possible actions:
      /etc/init.d/dss option

      Option	Action
      start	Starts the server
      stop	Stops the server
      status	Provides current running status for streaminaadminserver and DarwinStreamingServer
      restart	Does a stop and then a start
      condrestart	If Darwin is running, does a stop and then a start
      reload	Forces Darwin to reread configuration files without disconnecting users

  • Configuring Darwin
    First, edit /etc/streaming/streamingserver.xml to bind the streaming server to its assigned IP address:

    Code Block
    xml xml
    <PREF NAME="bind_ip_addr" >your streaming IP address</PREF>

    You will need to restart the Darwin Streaming Servers for this change to take effect.
    /etc/init.d/dss restart
    Point your browser to http://localhost:1220/ to access the Darwin management tool.

    Note
    If you do not have terminal access to this machine and port 1220 is not open, you can try forwarding an X connection through SSH: ssh -Y hostname. This approach requires that X11 is installed on both the server and client of the the SSH connection. Once connected launch the browser of your choice, ie: firefox localhost:1220.

    The only settings that need to be changed for Variations are:
• the Media Directory
  /home/dmlserv/content/streaming
• enabling Port 80 streaming
  Port 80 streaming should be turned on as a fall back for the Variations client in case firewalls or NAT devices prevent it from receiving RTSP (TCP and UDP) traffic properly.

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