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# Quick Installation:
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Execute ./install.sh 

... if you have suggestions or code to contribute,
please send them to pwhois-support@pwhois.org.


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# Additional Installation Details:
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This program is written mostly in PERL and requires a
new PERL system (5.6 or later, however 5.8.X is preferrable).

It also requires either MySQL 4.X or greater, or 
PostgreSQL 7.X or greater.  The PERL DBD modules for one or the
other of these databases is also required.

Several other PERL modules are also required.  See install.sh

To install, enter './install.sh' (as root) on the command-line and
the installation should commence. It will ask various questions
and isn't very robust, but may assist in the process of the install.
There are very few components.  Should you wish to install manually,
it shouldn't be difficult.

The primary steps are:

1. Create the User/Group for the pwhoisd process to run as
2. Install the binaries into their permanent locations we like /usr/sbin
        or /usr/local/sbin
3. Setup the init script if warranted (one is provided for a Debian Linux
        style system)
4. Create the database, user/password and import the tables. (See the
        postgresql/ or mysql/ directories for scripts to create these
        tables and the SQL commands.
5. Setup the cron entry to execute the pwhois-updatedb command at a defined
        interval.  A sample crontab file is provided as an example of what we run.
6. Edit the pwhoisd.conf configuration file, usually placed in
        /etc/pwhois/pwhoisd.conf
6. Import your first set of data using the pwhois-updatedb command
7. Start the pwhoisd server process

You are now ready to connect to your server and try it out.

        $ whois -h localhost <ip>

