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                         SAWMILL 7 RELEASE NOTES
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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 +1-831-425-1758.

This file contains the following sections:

  WEB BROWSER SUPPORT
  INSTALLATION
  SOLARIS NOTE
  TECHNICAL SUPPORT


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WEB BROWSER SUPPORT
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Sawmill works with Safari, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6.0.
Other browsers may not be supported.  Versions of Internet Explorer
before 5.5, in particular, are not supported.


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                                INSTALLATION
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(Note: if you are upgrading an existing Sawmill installation, back up
your existing LogAnalysisInfo folder, and after you install the new
one, copy the following files from your old LogAnalysisInfo folder to
the new: profiles to keep your profiles (but not default_profile.cfg),
Databases to keep your databases, users.cfg to keep your users, and
licenses.cfg to keep your licenses.)

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.

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/

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, and the LogAnalysisInfo folder, to your web server's CGI
directory; rename the executable to sawmill.cgi, and run it as a CGI
program, something like this:

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

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 documentation.

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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                             SOLARIS NOTE
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If you're running Sawmill on Solaris, an you don't have the g++ compiler
installed, you'll need to copy the shared libraries (*.so) from the
Sawmill distribution directory to /usr/lib.  If you don't have permission
to do that (i.e. root access), you can also set the environment variable
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the location of the Sawmill installation directory,
before running Sawmill.


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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 +1-831-425-1758.  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.

