THE BIG BROTHER SYSTEM AND NETWORK MONITOR
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This program is Copyright (c) 1997-2001
BB4 Technologies Inc.
All Rights Reserved

      Questions? Contact:
      BB4 Technologies Inc.
      E-mail: info@bb4.com
      Tel: +1 (514) 996-INET

If you were reasonable ;) and are reading this README.FIRST file
before untarring the product file (bb<ver>.tar) then you should
have 2 files:

README.FIRST
bb<ver>.tar		where <ver> is the version of BB

Untarring the bb<ver>.tar file will produce this directory structure

bb<ver>/
bbvar/acks/
      data/
      disabled/
      hist/
      histlogs/
      logs/

Notes on installation of BB:

First create a BB account (bb, bbuser, whatever).
Login into that account.
Copy the downloaded BB archive into the home directory of the BB account.
Then temporarely switch to the root account (su root).
It is recommended to install BB using the root account
(***but don't run BB itself as root***).  The installation
process needs to copy some scripts into the cgi-bin
directory of your web server and your own account
may not have permissions to do so.  Don't forget
at the end of the installation process to
"chown -R bbuser:bbgroup bb<ver> bbvar" from
the install directory (replace bbuser by the real BB account)
such that BB has the proper permissions in its directory tree.

To proceed with the installation of Big Brother:

change directory to the BB home directory (assuming
you copied the downloaded archive there(

tar xvf bb<ver>.tar
cd bb<ver>
vi README	   to familiarize yourself with BB
vi README.INSTALL  and follow the instructions

have fun !
