Documentation
AUTONIC: V3.0
System Requirements
- Ability to run cronjobs
- Perl 5
- Sendmail or Qmail
- Telnet access recommended
Preliminaries
- Determine the path to PERL 5 on your web
server host. Note that some web hosting companies run both PERL 4 and PERL 5.
Make ABSOLUTELY sure you are not setting this up under PERL 4. Ask your
administrator if you are not sure.
- Download the tarfile for this program and
save it to your desktop.
- Unpack the tar archive on your desktop using a
program that unpacks UNIX TAR ARCHIVES. If you don't have such a program then download
WINZIP FREE from SHAREWARE.COM.
- After you have unpacked the TAR archive you
will have a collection of folders and files on your desktop. Now you have to do some
basic editing of each of these files (or at least some of them). Use a text editor
such as wordpad, notepad, BBEdit, simpletext, or teachtext to edit the files. These
are NOT WORD PROCESSOR DOCUMENTS they are just simple TEXT files so don't save them as
word processor documents or save them with extentions such as .txt or they will NOT WORK.
Note that there may be a some files inside of folders which are "blank".
This is normal.
Preparing the CGI scripts
Define Path To PERL 5
The first step is to open up each and every
file that has a .cgi extention and edit line number one of each script. Each of the
cgi scripts is written in perl 5. For your scripts to run they must know where perl 5 is
installed on your web server. The path to perl 5 is defined to a cgi script in the first
line of the file. In each of the cgi scripts the first line of code looks something like
this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
If the path to perl 5 on your web server is
different from /usr/bin/perl you must edit the first line of each cgi script to reflect
the correct path. If the path to perl 5 is the same no changes are necessary. If you do
not know the path to perl 5 ask the webmaster or system administrator at your server site.
Configure the .cgi files
autonic.cgi
This is the entire cgi. There are
several variables to edit, all of which should be pretty straightforward.
- $domainlist = "/full/path/to/domains.txt";
$mailprog = Path to
sendmail on your server
$email = Your email
address (include backslash)
$nicemail = NIC
email address (include backslash - don't change this though)
$organization = "your organization name";
$address = "your street address";
$city = "name of city";
$state = "your state";
$zip = "your zip code";
$countrycode = "ISO Country code (or US for USA)";
$nichandle = "your NIC handle";
$purpose = "Expansion of Content Services";
$primaryhostname = "ns1.yourdnsserver.com";
$secondaryhostname = "ns2.yourdnsserver.com";
$primaryserveraddress = "111.111.1111";
$secondaryserveraddress = "222.222.2222";
Upload Your Edited CGI and Database
Files
- Upload all of the cgi files (.cgi) into your
cgi-bin
- Upload the domains.txt file into your cgi-bin
- If you are also using domain vulture install
both files in the same directory as the vulture cgi files
File Access Permissions
File access permissions must be set correctly
for this program to run. You must set the access permissions for each of these
files. Set autonic.cgi to 755. Set the domains.txt to 777.
Running from Command Line
Login via telnet and type
perl autonic.cgi
Automating with Crontab
There is a sample crontab file (crontab)
which shows the entries to run this every morning when internic reboots every 5 minutes
beginning at 5 am (server time) until 7 am (server time). Internic reboots around
5-6 am EST but this varies from day to day. You will want to customize this somewhat
depending on your time zone. Make sure you know what time zone your SERVER is on -
not the timezone YOU are on since cron only cares about the server time.