<!-- Title information -->
-<title>The DXSpider Installation Manual v1.47</title>
+<title>The DXSpider Installation Manual v1.49</title>
<author>Iain Philipps, G0RDI (g0rdi@77hz.com) and
Ian Maude, G0VGS, (ianmaude@btinternet.com)</author>
-<date>Version 1.47, April 2001 revision 1.0</date>
+<date>November 2001 revision 1.0</date>
<abstract>
A reference for SysOps of the DXSpider DXCluster program.
<P>
<itemize>
-<item> Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz
-<item> TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz
-<item> IO-1.20.tar.gz (for perl 5.00403 and lower)
-<item> Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz
-<item> Curses-1.05.tar.gz
-<item> Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz
+<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Data/Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz" name="Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz">
+<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Date/TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz" name="TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz">
+<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/IO/IO-1.20.tar.gz" name="IO-1.20.tar.gz (for perl 5.00403 and lower)">
+<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Net/Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz" name="Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz">
+<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Curses/Curses-1.06.tar.gz" name="Curses-1.06.tar.gz">
+<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time/Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz" name="Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz">
</itemize>
<P>
-<em>Do</em> get the latest versions of these packages and install them
-but use the above list as the earliest versions usable.
+Copy the CPAN modules listed above to a convenient place on your computer. One good place would be /usr/local/packages, and the instructions which follow will assume that that's where you have put them.
+
+<P>
+Log in as 'root', and make sure you're at '/root' before you continue. Here are exactly the commands you must issue next: -
+
+<verb>
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz
+# cd Data-Dumper-2.10
+# perl Makefile.PL
+# make test
+# make install
+# cd ..
+#
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz
+# cd TimeDate-1.10
+# perl Makefile.PL
+# make test
+# make install
+# cd ..
+#
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/IO-1.20.tar.gz
+# cd IO-1.20
+# perl Makefile.PL
+# make test
+# make install UNINST=1
+# cd ..
+#
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz
+# cd Net-Telnet-3.02
+# perl Makefile.PL
+# make test
+# make install
+# cd ..
+#
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Curses-1.06.tar.gz
+# cd Curses-1.06
+# perl Makefile.PL
+# make test
+# make install
+# cd ..
+#
+# tar xvfz /usr/local/packages/Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz
+# cd Time-HiRes-01.20
+# perl Makefile.PL
+# make test
+# make install
+# cd ..
+</verb>
+
+<P>
+Do not fall into the trap of thinking they're all the same, just because they nearly are! Pay particular attention to the instructions of IO, above.
+
<sect1>Preparation
on your security requirements you may wish to use an existing user,
however this is your own choice.
-<P>
<tscreen><verb>
# adduser -m sysop
</verb></tscreen>
+<P>
+For SUSE distributions, the command would be ..
+
+<tscreen><verb>
+# useradd -m sysop
+</verb></tscreen>
+
<P>
Now set a password for the user ...
$ ./create_sysop.pl
</verb></tscreen>
+<sect1>The client program
+
+<P>
+In earlier versions of Spider, all the processes were Perl scripts. This
+was fine but with a lot of users your computer memory would soon be used up.
+To combat this a new client was written in "C". This client only works for
+<em>incoming</em> connects at the moment. Before you can use it though it
+has to be "made". CD to /spider/src and type <em>make</em>. You
+should see the output on your screen and hopefully now have a small C program
+called <em>client</em>. Leave it in this directory.
+
+
<sect1>Starting up for the first time
<P>
<P>
and both the cluster and the client should return to Linux prompts.
-<sect1>The Client program
-
-<P>
-In earlier versions of Spider, all the processes were Perl scripts. This
-was fine but with a lot of users your computer memory would soon be used up.
-To combat this a new client was written in "C". This client only works for
-<em>incoming</em> connects at the moment. Before you can use it though it
-has to be "made". CD to /spider/src and type <em>make</em>. You
-should see the output on your screen and hopefully now have a small C program
-called <em>client</em>. Leave it in this directory.
-
<sect>Linux quick installation guide
# 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 unless connected('gb7xxx')
+0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('gb7xxx') unless connected('gb7xxx')
</verb></tscreen>
<P>