[Dxspider-support] Install question...

[Dale Harwood]

Dirk Koopman wrote:

> Please tell us if and where the installation instructions don't match
> reality. This will help us to improve them.
> 
> Dirk
> 

First let me say that the instructions have been great. I have only had 
two "issues". The one I asked about is listed below

^snip

> 1.6 Starting up for the first time
> 
> We can now bring spider up for the first time and see if all is well

> or not! It should look something like this ...
> 
> $ ./cluster.pl
> DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.50
> Copyright (c) 1998 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
> loading prefixes ...
> loading band data ...
> loading user file system ...
> starting listener ...
> reading existing message headers
> reading cron jobs
> orft we jolly well go ...
> 
> If all is well then login on another term or console as sysop and cd to 

>/spider/src. Now issue the following command ...
> 
> $ ./client
> 
> This should log you into the cluster as the sysop under the alias callsign 

>we set earlier. In this case the callsign is G0VGS. The cluster callsign is 

>set in the DXVars.pm file in /spider/local. In this case we will assume that this

> was set as GB7MBC. You should therefore see this when you login ....
> 

When I issue the client command without any call, it does not work as 
the instructions say. Up to this point I had not seen mention of the 
console.pl command, BUT, I am still reading  (-;

The other gotcha I ran into was I first found the install instructions 
for RedHat 5.1 and used them (had not see the other set of instructions 
at this point)

> In addition to the standard Red Hat distribution you will require the following 

>CPAN modules:
> 
> MD5-1.7.tar.gz
> Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz
> TimeDate-1.08.tar.gz
> IO-1.20.tar.tgz (only on perl 5.00503 and below, do: 'perl -v' to find out 

>what version you have)
> Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz
> Curses-1.06.tar.gz
> Time::Hires
> 


which varys slightly from the main instructions by the Digest-SHA1 package. The errors

pointed me in the direction once I found the instructions.

> In addition to the standard Red Hat distribution you will require the following 

>modules from http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/ , please note however that with 

>later versions of perl, some of these modules may be included with the distribution.

> Get the modules anyway and try to install as below. If they complain, they are 

>probably already a part of your perl distribution.
> 

>     * Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz
>     * TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz
>     * IO-1.20.tar.gz (for perl 5.00403 and lower)
>     * Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz
>     * Curses-1.06.tar.gz
>     * Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz
>     * Digest-SHA1-2.01.tar.gz
> 


Thanks again ! Looking forward to getting the rest of it configured. It is running now, 

working on the ax25 part making it co-exist with the bbs.



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  Dale Harwood   [ N4VFF ]

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