Post installation errata

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== After a successful installation, there are a few more tasks that need to be done to get Rivendell up and going.

Configure the output ports: Rivendell needs to know what soundcard and ports to output audio to. Open RDAdmin, Manage Host, Edit, RDAirplay. Set the Main Log Outputs to the appropriate card and port. Both Main Output Log 1 and Main Output Log 2 may be set to the same card/port. Both must be set. Also set the other outputs (Aux Logs, Soundpanel and Audition/Cue) as appropriate.

Configure ALSA: See /usr/share/doc/packages/rivendell/ALSA.txt for details

Configure Jack: If you're using Jack, see /usr/share/doc/packages/rivendell/JACK.txt.

Enable template editing rights:The default user in Rivendell (not to be confused with the user you're logged into Linux as) doesn't have the 'Modify Template' right. In most cases the users don't need that right, but there should be at least one user set up with that ability in order to create and edit clocks, grids and events in rdlogmanager. Without it, 'Generate Logs' and 'Manage Reports' buttons will be active in rdlogmanager, but 'Edit Events', 'Edit Clocks', and 'Edit Grids' will not be.

To remedy that, go into RDAdmin->ManageUsers and check the box to give the appropriate user the right.

Make the Rivendell Linux user part of the audio group The Linux user that runs the Rivendell programs must be part of the audio group. As root, do the following:

adduser <username> audio

(change <username> to whatever the name of your rivendell user is.)

Backing up the database

The account Rivendell is using to access mySQL may be lacking the right to lock tables (needed before a backup can be performed), which causes an error. To add the privilege:

1) Open up a shell on the system running mySQL (any user -- doesn't have to be root).

2) Enter the following:

mysql -u root -p mysql

The system will prompt for a password. Enter it. (The password is for the root account on the *mySQL* server, and may be different from the one set for the machine account of the same name.) The system should reply with something like:

Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 2 to server version: 4.1.10a

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

Next, enter the following, *exactly* as shown (the double quote marks and the case are significant!):

update user set Lock_tables_priv="Y" where User="rduser";

You should get back something like:

Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.02 sec) Rows matched: 2 Changed: 2 Warnings: 0

Next, do:

flush privileges;

You should get back:

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Finally, enter:

exit

and that's it. You should be able to backup the database now. (Thanks to Fred G. for the above procedure.) ==

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