Posted by Yessss on Thursday, January 13, 2011.

Technical -
1. Installation for Unix (Solaris/Linux)

Prerequisite: Java Run-Time Environment 1.2.2 or higher must be installed on the workstation.

Put the moshellxxx.zip on /tmp and unzip it.

Then run the install script:

cd /tmp
unzip -o moshellxxx.zip
bash moshell_install

Moshell contains an automated upgrade engine. When prompted to enter the directory where you
want to install moshell, it is recommended to enter the same directory as the previous revision of
moshell. The automated upgrade engine will take care of copying all your custom files (jar/xml
files, site files, etc.) across to the new revision.

For your safety the old revision gets moved to a different location so you can still access it if
needed. To run moshell, type moshell on the command line.

If the required jar files are not on the workstation, they will be fetched automatically from the
node. Thats it.

2. Installation for Windows (using Cygwin)

Note Go directly to step 13, MoShell Installation, if you have already installed and configured
Cygwin previously.

Prerequisite: Java Run-Time Environment 1.2.2 or higher must be installed on the workstation.
Java 1.3.1_15 or 1.3.1_16 is recommended because it uses the least amount of memory and
supports all features on MoShell. When running on Windows, Moshell uses a unix emulator
known as Cygwin.

2.4.1 Getting and installing cygwin

1. Go to the website http://www.cygwin.com/
2. Click on Install Now
3. Save the setup.exe file, then execute it.
4. Choose Install from internet, click Next

5. Root Directory C:\cygwin (It is not recommended to choose a different directory, especially if
it contains spaces)

IMPORTANT: Default Text File Type should be set to UNIX (NOT DOS !!! otherwise ftp
transfers get corrupted). Then click Next.

6. Select Internet Connection: put the proxy settings (generally use IE5 settings works with
ESOE PCs). Click Next.

7. Select Packages: Add the following packages: under Archive select unzip under
Interpreters select perl under Net select inetutils, openssh, and openssl under Shells select rxvt
optional: under Editors select vim (if you want to be able to edit files with vi)

8. Click Next, install will start

9. In the directory C:\Cygwin ,double-click on the file cygwin.bat. This will startup the Cygwin
window and create some files. Now close the Cygwin window.


Open an editor and edit the file cygwin.batch (MS-DOS Batch file) click right button


Delete the line: bash --login -i. At the end of the file add the following (replace xxxx with your
user id):


set USER=xxxx
set HOME=/home/xxxx
set SHELL=/bin/bash
rxvt -sl 65000 -e /bin/bash --login -i


IMPORTANT: Make sure that there are no spaces at the end of the lines otherwise the windows
environment variables dont get set correctly and your .Xdefaults file will not be read (meaning
that rxvt looks horrible!).


10. Open the file C:\Cygwin\etc\profile in a text editor and add the following 6 lines at the end of
the file (replace xxx with your user id!):


export USER=xxxx
export HOME=/home/xxxx
export SHELL=/bin/bash
mkdir -p $HOME
cd $HOME
source $HOME/.bashrc


11. Edit the file C:/Cygwin/etc/passwd in a text editor and make sure that there is a row with
your username and home directory. If the home directory (found towards the end of the line)
looks like /cygdrive/h then replace this with /home/youruserid (replace youruserid with your user
id!!). This is needed for ssh to function properly.


12. Start a Cygwin Terminal window by clicking on the icon in start menu or on desktop,
then run the following commands: (start program cygwin)

Create the following 3 files in your /home/youruserid directory: .bashrc, .inputrc, and .Xdefaults
This can be done with the commands:

touch .bashrc
touch .inputrc
touch .Xdefaults

13. Go to the directory C:\Cygwin\home\youruserid (from windows explorer) and open the
following 3 files in a text editor: In the .bashrc file, put the following lines: (click right button
and open with word pad) (delete all and copy all from .bashrc working file.)

unset PROMPT_COMMAND
export PS1="\[\033[1m\][\w]\\$\[\033[0m\] "
alias ls=ls -FX
set -o notify
set -o ignoreeof
shopt -s cdspell
shopt -s cdable_vars
shopt -s checkhash
shopt -s checkwinsize
shopt -s sourcepath
shopt -s histappend
export PATH=$PATH:/home/yourid/moshell (edit yourid)

The last line appends the moshell directory to your $PATH. This will enable you to call moshell
from any directory. In the .inputrc file, put the following lines: (click right button and open with
word pad)
(delete all and copy all from .inputrc working file.)

set bell-style visible
set convert-meta Off
set output-meta On
set input-meta On
set completion-ignore-case on
set completion-query-items 150
set mark-directories on
set visible-stats On
set show-all-if-ambiguous On
set expand-tilde On
"\e[D": backward-char
"\e[C": forward-char
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward
"\e[7~": beginning-of-line
"\e[8~": end-of-line
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": menu-complete
"\M-[2~": paste-from-clipboard # Insert
"\M-q": menu-complete
"\C-d": delete-char
"\C-l": clear-screen
"\C-xdf": dump-functions
"\C-xdv": dump-variables
"\C-xdm": dump-macros

(Type man bash if you want to get more information about what these lines do) In the .Xdefaults
file, put the following lines: (copy all from .Xdefauts working file.)

Rxvt*background: Black
Rxvt*foreground: White
Rxvt*saveLines: 65535
Rxvt*termName: xterm
Rxvt*geometry: 143x64+0+0
Rxvt*loginShell: true
Rxvt*font: "Lucida Console-11"
Rxvt*cutchars: "&()*,;<=>? []{|}

These are just examples of terminal properties, you can change them to fit your needs. Type man
rxvt to view all available properties.

14. Open a new cygwin terminal window. The window should be black with white text and the
prompt should like this: [~]$

If not, then go through the last 4 steps again and make sure you havent missed out anything.

15. Moshell installation (run program cygwin)

Follows these steps if you already have a working Cygwin environment.

Put the moshellxxx.zip file in c:\cygwin\tmp (copy moshell7.0zip file here)

Open the cygwin shell and go the /tmp directory. Run the following:

cd /tmp
unzip -o moshellxxx.zip(unzip o moshell7.0zip)
bash moshell_install

# Go home (C:/cygwin/home) copy moshell and moshell logfile folder from working file.

16. Running moshell for the first time If you have set the PATH variable correctly in your
~/.bashrc~/.bashrc~/.bashrc~/.bashrc file, you should be able to run moshell from any directory.
E.g:

moshell <ip address>

# If unknown command --- go home (C:/cygwin/home/moshell) check jarxml file and copy from
working jarxml file.