How You Prepare Your Installation for General Use
After Ingres is installed, you must complete additional tasks so that users can access and use the new installation.
To prepare Ingres for general use, you must complete all or some of these tasks:
• Enable recovery of your master database.
To help recover your master database (iidbdb) if it becomes corrupted, make sure that iidbdb has been checkpointed and journaling enabled (the default). For details, see the Database Administrator Guide.
• Add an automatic startup command.
• Authorize users to start and stop servers.
If you want users other than the Ingres system administrator to be able to start and stop the Ingres servers, you must make changes to the config.dat file. For details, see the System Administrator Guide.
• (UNIX and Linux only) Allow access on systems using shadow passwords.
• Allow users to access tools and databases.
• Create databases. For details, see the Quick Start Guide or Database Administrator Guide.
Note: You do not need to create the iidbdb master database because it is created during installation.
• (OpenVMS only) Maintain the installation history log file.
Note: Check the Readme file for any additional tasks necessary for your platform.