minor changes to README and INSTALL

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### From 2.1
One of the new features introduced in 2.2 is a user authentication system. Because the users in previous versions do not have a password, after upgrading you would not be able to login.
One of the new features introduced in 3.0 is a user authentication system. Because the users in previous versions do not have a password, after upgrading you would not be able to login.
For that reason the upgrade script will ask you to create a new account during the upgrade, which you can then use to change the password for the existing accounts.
If, for whatever reason this does not work, the upgrade script automatically change the username of all existing users to their email addresses, which you could use for the forgot password screen.
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The update script has been designed to prevent itself from running multiple times. It has a maximum timeout of 10 minutes.
After that the script is assumed dead and the cronjob will run again.
If you want to change the 10 minutes timeout, find the constant "PSM_CRON_TIMEOUT" in src/includes/psmconfig.inc.php.
If you want to change the 10 minutes timeout, find the constant "PSM_CRON_TIMEOUT" in src/includes/psmconfig.inc.php.
## Troubleshooting
If you have problems setting up or accessing your monitor and do not know why, enable debug mode to turn on error reporting.
To enable debug mode, add the following line to your config.php file:
define('PSM_DEBUG', true);

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## Summary
PHP Server Monitor is a script that checks whether your websites and servers are up and running.
It comes with a web based user interface where you can add and remove servers and websites from the MySQL database,
It comes with a web based user interface where you can manage your services and websites,
and you can manage users for each server with a mobile number and email address.
Features:
* Monitor services and websites (see below).
* Email and SMS notifications.
* View history graphs of uptime and latency.
* User authentication with 2 levels (administrator and regular user).
* Logs of connection errors, outgoing emails and text messages.
* Easy cronjob implementation to automatically check your servers.
There are two different ways to monitor a server:
* Service
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* Mosms - <http://www.mosms.com>
* Textmarketer - <http://www.textmarketer.co.uk>
For these gateways you need an account with sufficient credits.
If logging is enabled in the configuration, it will log any connection errors, emails and text messages sent.
The latest log records will be displayed on your web interface.
The cron/status.cron.php can be added as a cronjob which will keep the server status up to date.
Please note: for these gateways you will need an account with sufficient credits.
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