Installing

 1. verify that you have the prerequisites installed
      + perl
        the software has been tested with 5.6.1 and should work with most other
        versions of perl 5 as well.
        Find perl at www.perl.org
       
        Note: there are issues with some versions of perl on some operating
        systems, see bugs.html for additional details.
       
      + sendmail and qpage are recommended. either or both can be used to send
        notifications.
        Find sendmail at www.sendmail.org
        Find qpage at www.qpage.org
       
        Note: this does not need to be the real sendmail, as long as it looks
        and smells like sendmail. ie. qmail's sendmail compatible sendmail
        program will be just fine.
       
      + fping is used by the Ping Monitoring module for ping tests. While this
        is not required, it is highly recommended.
        Find fping at www.fping.com
       
      + a cgi capable web server, such as apache.
        Find apache at httpd.apache.org
      + Berkeley DB and perl DB_File
        Find DB at www.sleepycat.com
        DB_File ships with perl.
       
        Alternatively, ndbm, odbm, sdbm, or gdbm can be used, but they have not
        been extensively tested.
       
      + an understanding of UNIX file permissions and how to use and operate
        your web server.
       
    some additional modules that may be useful are listed in the advanced
    installation section.
 2. unbundle the tarball
 3. run ./Configure
    if upgrading from 3.2 or later, you can run ./Configure --upgrade
 4. answer any questions it asks
 5. run make
 6. run make install
 7. create 2 files in the data directory:
     1. config
     2. users
    in addition to the documentation, the tarball contains examples in the
    'examples' directory.
 8. configure your web server
      + be sure that $datadir is writable by the www user (or whatever uid your
        web server runs as)
      + copy icons to somewhere accessible by your web server (these locations
        get specified in config file, above) or feel free to replace them with
        your own icons, or no icons at all.
      + create a symlink in your cgi-bin directory to the arguscgi program
 9. start the argus server by running argusd
    or install the rc.argusd script as appropriate for your system.
10. check the argus log file ($datadir/log) and/or your syslog logs to verify
    that argus is operating correctly.
11. load the argus cgi interface in your web browser, and verify that
    everything is configured correctly.
12. perform any optional advanced configuration described in the advanced
    installation section.
13. you are finished, sing a happy song, or, optionally, send in a bug report
    or survey report

