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Requestsupportteamtospentsparetimeindevelopingascripttoautomatetheprocess.

onp4workspace,needtocreateauserid

Stepstoconfigureanewclientonp4workspace:

1)Creatinguseronthesystemanditshomedirectory.

useraddpriyapasswdpriya

2)mkdir/home/priya

3)chownpriya/home/priya/

4)chmod-R744/home/priya

5)Changedefaultshellto'bash'.

vi/etc/passwd

priya:x:1038:1039::/home/priya:/bin/bash

6)Loginasusera/cinanotherwindowandaddfollowingentriedtotheuserprofile'vi.profile'#exportP4PORT=192.168.0.195:1666exportP4USER=p4userexportP4CLIENT=priya

aliasll='ls-lh'

set-ovi

7)Loginasrootandcreateperforceclientworkspace

p4client-tbuilderpriya

8)modifytheroot:'/home/priya/p4workspace'

9)Loginasusera/cinanotherwindowandcreatep4workspaceonclientm/cand

syncperforcecode.

mkdirp4workspace

cdp4workspace

p4sync./...

10)Allowperforceclientworkspacetomountonbuildmachines.Modifythefollowingin

11)Loginasrootuserandmodify'vi/etc/exports'

/home/priya/p4workspace192.168.0.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)/home/priya/p4workspace192.168.1.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)

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exportfs-a

12)AfterthisTrytomounttheworkspaceintoanybuildmachine

mount192.168.0.195:/home/priya/p4workspace/mnt/p4workspace/