<title>The DXSpider Installation and Administration Manual
<author>Ian Maude, G0VGS, (ianmaude@btinternet.com)
-<date>Version 1.33 (Revision 1.21) February 2001
+<date>Version 1.33 (Revision 1.22) March 2001
<abstract>
A reference for SysOps of the DXSpider DXCluster program.
</abstract>
in the development of Spider.
<P>In addition to the standard Red Hat distribution you will require the
-following <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html" name="CPAN"> modules: -
+following modules from <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html" name="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html"> ...
<P>
<itemize>
<P><bf>PLEASE USE CAPITAL LETTERS FOR CALLSIGNS</bf>
<P>
-DON'T alter the DXVars.pm (or any other file) in /spider/perl, they are
-overwritten with every release. Any files or commands you place in /spider/local
-or /spider/local_cmd will automagically be used in preference to the ones in
-/spider/perl EVEN while the cluster is running!
+DON'T alter any file in /spider/perl, they are overwritten with every
+release. Any files or commands you place in /spider/local or /spider/local_cmd
+will automagically be used in preference to the ones in /spider/perl EVEN
+while the cluster is running!
<P>
Save the new file and change directory to ../perl ....
the sysop.
<tscreen><verb>
-$ create_sysop.pl
+$ ./create_sysop.pl
</verb></tscreen>
<sect1>Starting up for the first time
It should look something like this ...
<tscreen><verb>
-$ cluster.pl
+$ ./cluster.pl
DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.46
Copyright (c) 1998 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
loading prefixes ...
cd to /spider/perl. Now issue the following command ...
<tscreen><verb>
-$ client.pl
+$ ./client.pl
</verb></tscreen>
<P>
is accepting telnet logins by issuing the following command ....
<tscreen><verb>
-client.pl login telnet
+./client.pl login telnet
</verb></tscreen>
You should get a login prompt and on issuing a callsign, you will be given
<P>
That is now set, it is as simple as that. To prove it, login on yet another
-console as sysop and issue the command ...
+console as sysop, cd to spider/perl and issue the command ...
<tscreen><verb>
-client.pl gb7baa (using the callsign you set as a node)
+./client.pl gb7baa (using the callsign you set as a node)
</verb></tscreen>
<P>
You should get an initialisation string from DXSpider like this ...
<tscreen><verb>
-client.pl gb7baa
+./client.pl gb7baa
PC38^GB7MBC^~
</verb></tscreen>
</verb></tscreen>
<P>
-This line works fine for RedHat and SuSE distributions. The line required for
-Slackware distributions is slightly different. My thanks to Aurelio, PA3EZL for
-this information.
+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 ...
+
+<tscreen><verb>
+DX:235:respawn:/bin/su -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" sysop >/dev/tty7
+</verb></tscreen>
+
+
+The line required for Slackware distributions is slightly different. My thanks to
+Aurelio, PA3EZL for this information.
<tscreen><verb>
DX:23:respawn:/bin/su - sysop -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" >/dev/tty7