[Dxspider-support] problems when moving to dxspider

[Filip Jonckers]

Hi guys ! 
we had a lot of performance problems at on0nol during this weekends CQWW
so I would 
like to install The Spider.... 
(Can Spider run fine on a Pentium 166MMX with 64Mb during a cqww ??) 
This is my first installation of dx-spider so don't shoot me if I do
something very stupid :-) 
I've been using the clx cluster for several years and have been working
with Linux since kernel 0.99 ... 
I have a spare Pentium 166MMX (compaq deskpro) with 128Mb ram and Redhat
7.1 standard (fresh) installation 
production will be running Redhat 7.2 as I just downloaded that one... 
downloaded full version 1.48 via sourceforge.net .... 
when building/installing the necessary modules I have a problem when
running the tests for the Net::Telnet package 
I have included the complete make cycle so you can see what happens: 
[root at kenny dxspider]# tar xzvf Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz 
Net-Telnet-3.02/
Net-Telnet-3.02/Makefile.PL
Net-Telnet-3.02/ChangeLog
Net-Telnet-3.02/lib/
Net-Telnet-3.02/lib/Net/
Net-Telnet-3.02/lib/Net/Telnet.pm
Net-Telnet-3.02/t/
Net-Telnet-3.02/t/select.t
Net-Telnet-3.02/README
Net-Telnet-3.02/MANIFEST
[root at kenny dxspider]# cd Net-Telnet-3.02
[root at kenny Net-Telnet-3.02]# perl Makefile.PL 
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Net::Telnet
[root at kenny Net-Telnet-3.02]# make
mkdir blib
mkdir blib/lib
mkdir blib/lib/Net
mkdir blib/arch
mkdir blib/arch/auto
mkdir blib/arch/auto/Net
mkdir blib/arch/auto/Net/Telnet
mkdir blib/lib/auto
mkdir blib/lib/auto/Net
mkdir blib/lib/auto/Net/Telnet
mkdir blib/man3
cp lib/Net/Telnet.pm blib/lib/Net/Telnet.pm
Manifying blib/man3/Net::Telnet.3pm
[root at kenny Net-Telnet-3.02]# make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib
-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 -e 'use
Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose); $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t
t/select............NOK 3FAILED test 3 
Failed 1/3 tests, 66.67% okay
Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
t/select.t 3 1 33.33% 3
Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 1/3 subtests failed, 66.67% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29
[root at kenny Net-Telnet-3.02]# make install
Skipping /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Net/Telnet.pm (unchanged)
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Net::Telnet.3pm
Writing
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/auto/Net/Telnet/.packlist
Appending installation info to
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux/perllocal.pod
[root at kenny Net-Telnet-3.02]# 
note: the skipping (unchanged) is there because I did this a few times
over ... 
------------------------ 
An error in the installation document: 
section 1.5 Starting up for the first time: 
section 1.6 "The client program" should be moved before: 
Now issue the following command: 
./client 
the program doesn't exist yet at that point..... :-) 
and additionally.... 
when starting "./client" you get an error "Must have at least a
callsign" 
and when I issue: 
./client on1tst 
nothing happens and after a long time I get: Error on connect to
localhost port 27754 (110) 
yet, when I check the listener ports: 
# netstat -ln | grep 27754
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:27754 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 
hmm..... 
using perl/console.pl is doing nothing (except the nice line at the
bottom with the time and sysop callsign) 
setup Listeners.pm on 0.0.0.0:7300 (defaults) 
and telnet localhost 7300 is also doing nothing... 
BUT... when I telnet form another system... it works !! 
is this the result of the Net::Telnet problems above ? 
------------------------ 
some other questions: 
are the AX25 libs/utils necessary when using dxspider ? 
(cfr. change permissions on ax25_call ....) 
I don't have them on my test system .... 
is it safe to use the same callsign in $mycall and $myalias ? 
(let's say if your cluster is at home and you only have 1 callsign) 
that's all for now :-) 
As I do some programming in Perl myself (at work) I would like to
contribute 
some stuff myself in the future... 
Filip, ON1AFN 

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