[Dxspider-support] Spider won't start

[Dirk Koopman]

Oleg Chernyawski wrote:
> 
> Luigi - IK5ZUK wrote:
>> Yes, I've tryed to delete /spider/local/cluster.lck, but it's still 
>> not working... It's the first thing I've done ! ;-)
>> Antonio, about your suggestion, I've previously checked if there was 
>> more than one spider istance running at the same time. After ps 
>> aux|grep spider, I can confirm again that only one spider istance is 
>> running...
>>
>> Please, any other ideas about ?!?
>>
>> 73's de Luigi, ik5zuk
>>
>>   
> Ciao Luigi!
> 
> Do you have ICQ?  I can try to help you in realtime.
> 
> By the way,  try to run spider as root, from shell - just comment the 
> line which starts spider in /etc/iittab and  start ./cluster.pl from 
> <spider dir>/perl.    I had the problem like you said.
> 

And if you do run spider as "root" you will get very little sympathy 
from me!

Dirk