[Dxspider-support] Starting listeners fails, new user problem

[spatari at cc.hut.fi]

Hi there,

I still have this problem, although I updated yesterday to RH 8.0 with Perl 
5.8.0. I updated also to the latest CVS-sources. No cure :(

Could the problem be related to the networking of my standalone machine? I have 
not configured any networking support yet. Should there be running some sort of 
process, which would assing the requested socket?

Please help a desperate packet enthusiast,

BR de Simo OH2LRE



-------------------------
Dear fellows,

I encountered the following start-up problem. Running on RH 7.3, with perl5 
(revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1, rpm is perl-5.6.1-34.99.6) and DXSpider 
1.50 package. When starting the ./cluster.pl in /spider/perl I got the 
following outcome:

$ ./cluster.pl
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
DXSpider Version 1.50, build 57.052 started
loading prefixes ...
loading band data ...
loading user file system ...
starting listeners ...
IO::Socket::INET: Cannot assign requested address
Could not create socket: Cannot assign requested address 
	Msg::new_server('IntMsg', 'localhost', 27754, 'CODE(0x88ddc28)') called 
at ./cluster.pl line 416

What have I done wrong? I have installed all the needed CPAN modules according 
to the intallation document. I understood from CPAN FAQ that all the CPAN 
modules which are installed properly should be mentioned in the perllocal.pod 
file under perl lib directory. But my perllocal.pod has only the Data Dumper 
markings on it. No mention about the other CPAN modules! Has the installation 
of those modules failed?

During the troubleshoot of this start-up process I was considering the update 
of perl to 5.8.0, did try it from a rpm file, but the rpm instructed me that I 
should update also other rpms libc.so.6 etc... but as my system is a standalone 
without internet connection it is so frustrating to burn CDs everyday at 
work ;) I wonder if there would be an easy way to fix this problem.

For your information I am a new user for DXSpider and relatively new linux user 
too. Though I have managed an original PacketCluster DOS-version node for ages.

Your help is appreciated,
Simo OH2LRE, op. at OH2K