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       SAWMILL 6 RELEASE NOTES FOR UNIX, LINUX, BEOS, AND OS/2
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Thank you for using Sawmill!  If you have any questions, comments or
suggestions about Sawmill, please send email to support@sawmill.net, or
call us at +1-831-426-6384.

This file contains the following sections:

  INSTALLATION
  THE ONLINE DOCUMENTATION
  TECHNICAL SUPPORT


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                                INSTALLATION
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(NOTE: If you are installing a new version of Sawmill over an existing
version, install it in a different directory/folder, and then copy the
LogAnalysisInfo directory from the old installation to the new one.
This will ensure that the new Sawmill can access all your old
configurations, databases, and other data.)

Sawmill ships in a gzipped tar archive.  You can uncompress and untar it
with the following command from the command line (the Terminal in BeOS)
(you will need to change "sawmill.tar.gz" below to the actual name of your
.tar.gz file, which is longer):

  gunzip -c sawmill.tar.gz | tar xf -

This will result in a directory called sawmill, containing the sawmill
executable program (whose name starts with "sawmill") and this README file.

If you plan to use Sawmill in web-server mode (recommended), you can start
using Sawmill immediately by executing the file (type the name of the
sawmill executable program on the command line, and press return).  Sawmill
will establish itself as a web server on some port (8987 by default), and
will print a message describing how to access it from your web browser.  You
will access it using an URL something like this:

  http://my.hostname.com:8987/

In BeOS, you can also double-click the icon to start the program, but keep
in mind that the BeOS version of Sawmill is not a graphical program, so
there will be no visible sign that it's running unless you run it from the
Terminal.  You'll still be able to access it using the URL above, though.
You can use the Team Monitor to terminate Sawmill.

If you plan to use Sawmill as a CGI program, instead of using web-server
mode, then you need to move the sawmill executable program file to your web
server's CGI directory, and run it as a CGI program, something like this:

  http://my.web.server.com/cgi-bin/sawmill

To determine where your CGI directory is, and other details about how
Sawmill interacts with your web server, it may be useful to consult the Web
Servers section of the online documentation (see THE ONLINE DOCUMENTATION,
below).

In either case, when you access the URL from your web browser, Sawmill will
lead you through the startup process (which is simpler in web server mode
than in CGI mode).


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                          THE ONLINE DOCUMENTATION
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During installation, it may be useful to consult the online documentation.
Since you can't use your own copy of Sawmill's online documentation until
Sawmill is actually up and running, we have provided an Internet-accessible
copy on our web server:

  http://www.sawmill.net/cgi-bin/sawmilldocs?ho+docs-toc


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                             TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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If you have any problems, questions, or suggestions about Sawmill, you can
send email to support@sawmill.net, or call us at +1-831-426-7602.  You may
also want to visit our web site at <http://www.sawmill.net/>,
especially the FAQ section, to make sure you have the latest version of
Sawmill, or to see if your question has already been answered in the FAQ.

