[Dxspider-support] Permissions

[Bob Nielsen]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:43:20PM -0500, Jim - KC4HW wrote:
> Some how the permission have gotten screwed up on my DXSpider.  All 
> was fine, until I accidently bumped the reset switch on my 7.2 Red Hat 
> with 2.4.18 kernel, DXSpider V1.49 build 56.953
> 
> Now I am getting a series of error messages that indicated that the 
> permissions are denied at /spider/perl/DXLog.pm and 
> /spider/perl/Spot.pm and /spider/data/spots/2004/010.dat  etc etc.
> 
> I have discovered that the permissions for these files are set for "root", 
> which when changed (chown) to "sysop" will work properly.  But maybe 
> for that one day, then when days are changed (ie to 011.dat) then the 
> permission will be set for "root"??
> 
> Anybody got any help here??
> 
> Thanks
> Jim Johnson, KC4HW
> Melbourne, Florida
> http://www.kc4hw.net
> DXCluster RF Connection: 144.95
> Telnet://kc4hw.homelinux.net:8000
> 

Are you running spider as sysop?  You should have something like the
following in your inittab:

DX:23:respawn:/bin/su -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" sysop > /dev/tty8

73, Bob N7XY