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Installing Big Sister
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## Installing Big Sister

### Paths to files

Big Sister puts its binaries and data in specific directories. Depending on your installation the paths pointing to these directories will differ. If you build Big Sister from source you are free to move most of these directories to the location you prefer. The Windows packages allow you to relocate the whole Big Sister package (the Root directory) but not each of the directories with special meanings. The RPM packages come with predefined Big Sister root-directory {ROOT} as well as other predefined paths (given in the table below) which fit nicely into the the filesystem layout of common Linux distributions.

Table 1.1. paths to files

What | Default (when build from source) | Windows | RPM
--- | --- | --- | ---
Root | /usr/local/lib/bs | C:\bigsis | /usr/share/bigsister
Binaries | {Root}/bin | {Root}\bin | {Root}/bin
Agent Binaries | {Root}/uxmon | {Root}\bin | {Root}/uxmon
Web Pages | {Root}/www | {Root}\www | /var/lib/bigsister/www
CGI Scripts | {Root}/cgi | {Root}\cgi | /var/lib/bigsister/cgi
RW-Files | {Root}/var | {Root}\var | /var/lib/bigsister
configuration files | {Root}/etc | {Root}\etc | /etc/bigsister
Release Notes and HOWTO | /usr/local/lib/bigsister/doc |  | /usr/share/doc/packages/bigsister
Default User Account | bs |  | bigsis
Big Sister URL | /bs | /bigsis | /bigsis
CGI URL | /cgi/ | /cgi/ | /cgi/

The Big Sister- and the CGI-url are not physical paths - rather they are the path where the Big Sister HTML-Display and its CGI programs appear when accessed from the outside world via the web server.

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