[Dxspider-support] Keeping spots from propagating beyond the local cluster

[Dirk Koopman]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:51, Dan Bookwalter wrote:
> Dirk
> 
> ideally i would like to have a specific command that
> only sends the dx spot to the local cluster. otherwise
> the users could use the regular dx command... i would
> prefer not to rely on the filters on the upstream
> cluster.
> 
> i am new to Linux and am starting to play around with
> PERL... i wasnt sure if i could accomplish my goals
> using the PC11 event (i came from windows programming
> :-) ) in the local.pm file.

Linux doesn't really come into this. If there is any fiddling to be done
it will be in perl. 

Have you discovered / RTFM the filtering docs? 

I know that you say that you want a separate command but that is really
only justified if the circumstances of use are effectively random. For
example: a user decides on a spot by spot basis whether they want *that*
spot to propagate WW or locally.

Unfortunately, that then begs the question as to: why? 

Even more unfortunately there probably isn't much sympathy in the
DXCluster world for people that on the one hand accept WW spots but, on
the other, are not prepared to share their spots WW.   

So, I think you are going to have to give us a much better idea as to
what it is that you want *actually* do and then let me/the group suggest
methods of achieving it.

Dirk G1TLH