[Dxspider-support] Autostarting spider & client making

[Luigi Carlotto, IK5ZUK]

Bob,
thank you for your help: during the next week I will make some tests on my 
new Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server and I'll let you know...

73 de Luigi, ik5zuk


>I finally got things running with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server.  I did have
> to make one change in the startup file, adding a ">" to the
> redirection of the output.  I'm pretty sure this is also needed when
> redirecting to a tty, as well as to a file (I run DXSpider on a
> headless machine, so redirect to /tmp/cluster.log so I can access it
> remotely.  I updated the wiki to add the right arrow.
>
> Bob
>
> On Jul 25, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
>> I suspect that is the case and there should only be one
>> configuration in /etc/event.d pointing to a particular tty.  I
>> typically output to a file in /tmp rather than a tty so I can
>> access the process remotely (my spider node is on a headless box
>> and I plan to do that with the new one also).
>>
>> I am going to wait until after the IOTA contest to start tearing
>> down the computers, but hopefully it will happen next week.
>>
>> Bob, N7XY
>>
>> On Jul 25, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Ian J Maude wrote:
>>
>>> Interestingly Bob, I am in the process of building a new Ubuntu
>>> 8.04 box and I have Spider running. It restarts OK but does not
>>> output to the TTY. I wonder if you have to remove the TTY entry
>>> for the one younwant to use?
>>>
>>> Ian
>>>
>>> Ian J Maude, G0VGS
>>> Sysop GB7MBC DX Cluster
>>> K2 #4044 | K3 #455
>>> Sent from my iPod
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25 Jul 2008, at 16:06, Bob Nielsen <n7xy at clearwire.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Luigi,
>>>> I'm still running Ubuntu 6.06, but am going to build another box
>>>> with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server and will see if I can figure this all
>>>> out.  I should have it done within the next week and will let you
>>>> know.  I did a few tests earlier with upstart and spider would
>>>> start up at boot time, but I didn't check respawning.  If all
>>>> else fails, it appears that there is still a Ubuntu sysvinit
>>>> package which can be installed to get back to /etc/inittab but I
>>>> expect that other Linux distributions will also be switching to
>>>> upstart.
>>>>
>>>> Bob, N7XY
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 25, 2008, at 5:25 AM, Luigi Carlotto, IK5ZUK wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I have not tested, but isn't the ">" missing?
>>>>>> This is what it looks like in my old pc in inittab (RH 71.):
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DX:3:respawn:/bin/su -c "/usr/bin/perl /spider/perl/cluster.pl"
>>>>>> sysop
>>>>>> >/dev/tty7
>>>>>
>>>>> Kjell,
>>>>> thank you for your effort, but Ubuntu (from version 6.10) and
>>>>> Fedora Core (from version 9) have changed from using sysvinit to
>>>>> the use of upstart so using /etc/inittab won't work....
>>>>>
>>>>> Dirk, please if you are here, tell me something about...
>>>>> For the other sysops running spider over Ubuntu: how you've
>>>>> arranged your system to respawning spider on your Ubuntu system ?!?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any helps will be very appreciated ! ;)
>>>>>
>>>>>> 73
>>>>>> Kjell
>>>>>> SM7GVF
>>>>>
>>>>> 73 de Luigi, ik5zuk
>>>>>
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>>>> Bob Nielsen
>>>> n7xy at clearwire.net
>>>>
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