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Installation directories, files and the daemon port

Installation of TimesTen must be performed by the chosen instance administrator user. The instance administrator owns all files in the installation directory tree. Only the instance administrator can operate the instance.

Installation directories

The installer suggests default destination directories, based on the user performing the installation.

Instance home directory

The instance may be installed in any directory to which the instance administrator has sufficient permission.

On Unix, the installer suggests /opt/TimesTen/tt70 as in previous releases. For non-root users, the installer suggests the home directory of the user, usually defined by the environment variable $HOME.

On Windows, the installer suggests the directory pattern as used in previous releases of TimesTen, C:\TimesTen\tt70.

The TimesTen documentation refers to the installation directory as install_dir.

Daemon home directory

The “home” or current working directory of the running the main TimesTen daemon is known as the daemon home directory. This directory must be owned by the instance administrator, with rwxr-xr-xpermissions on UNIX systems. The daemon verifies both the permissions and ownership of this directory when it starts up.

On UNIX, the installer suggests the use of install_dir/info if installed as non-root or /var/TimesTen/tt70 if running as root.

On Windows, the install_dir\srv\info directory is used for this purpose, just as in previous releases.

Password file

If access control is selected at installation time, user and password data is stored in the file install_dir/srv/info/ttpasswd.

Initially, this file contains a single entry for the instance administrator. The presence of this file indicates to the daemon that Access Control has

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