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+<P>This line works fine for RedHat distributions. It is also fine for SuSE up to
+7.0. From Suse 7.1 you need to add runlevels 2 and 5 like this ...
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+DX:235:respawn:/bin/su -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" sysop >/dev/tty7
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+<P>The line required for Slackware distributions is slightly different. My thanks to
+Aurelio, PA3EZL for this information.
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+DX:23:respawn:/bin/su - sysop -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" >/dev/tty7
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<P>This will automatically start DXSpider on tty7 (ALT-F7) on bootup and restart
it should it crash for any reason.
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# check every 10 minutes to see if gb7xxx is connected and if not
# start a connect job going
-0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('gb7xxx') if !connected('gb7xxx')
+0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('gb7xxx') if unless connected('gb7xxx')
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