[Dxspider-support] Remote sysop'ing
Jan PA4JJ
pa4jj at pa4jj.nl
Sun Feb 3 20:42:04 GMT 2008
Ubuntu???
Running WinXP here....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Nielsen" <n7xy at clearwire.net>
To: "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Remote sysop'ing
> Jan,
> You appear to be missing the CPAN Curses module. In the Ubuntu 6.10
> system on which I run my node, it is in the libcurses-perl package.
> Perhaps there is a similar one for your distribution or you can get
> it from CPAN as explained in the DX Spider installation document.
> Mine is a headless system (no monitor, no keyboard) and I use remote
> access all the time, exactly the way Dirk mentioned (ssh into the box
> and run console.pl).
>
> 73, Bob N7XY
>
> On Feb 3, 2008, at 4:46 AM, Jan PA4JJ wrote:
>
>> Dirk,
>> When I do C:\spider\perl console.pl I get this message:
>>
>> Can't locate Curses.pm in @INC <@INC contains: /spider/local/spider/
>> perl
>> C:/Perl/site/lib C:/perl/lib.> at C:\spider\perl\console.pl line 36
>> Begin failed - - compilation aborted at C:\spider\perl console.pl
>> line 36
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dirk Koopman" <djk at tobit.co.uk>
>> To: "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 11:32 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Remote sysop'ing
>>
>>
>>> If the password is *not set* you still get 5 random numbers ([small]
>>> "security" feature). Just set it (with set/password). But to do
>>> that you
>>> will need to ssh to the box, as the sysop. If you can ssh to the
>>> box as
>>> sysop, why not just do that instead anyway and use console.pl (or
>>> as I
>>> do, have it symlinked as /usr/bin/dx and just type 'dx')?
>>>
>>> Dirk
>>>
>>> Jan PA4JJ wrote:
>>>> No matter what I type, all I get is
>>>>
>>>> Sorry
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> *From:* Peter <mailto:pc2a at pi4cc.nl>
>>>> *To:* The DXSpider Support list
>>>> <mailto:dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
>>>> *Sent:* Sunday, February 03, 2008 7:10 AM
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [Dxspider-support] Remote sysop'ing
>>>>
>>>> Its in the manual
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dxspider.org/main/usermanual_en-12.html#ss12.74
>>>> http://www.dxspider.org/main/usermanual_en-12.html#ss12.122
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>> Jim Snider schreef:
>>>>> On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 17:49 +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Jim Snider wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm running the N8OJ node here at my house and I use my
>>>>>>> iBookrunning
>>>>>>> MacloggerDX to watch the spots and log my operations. I'm
>>>>>>> trying
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> understand how to set up the sysop command from my linux
>>>>>>> box so I
>>>>>>> can do
>>>>>>> sysop commands down on my iBook from the telnet session.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is N8OJ running on?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Version 1.54 build 199
>>>>> Fedora 8 Linux
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 2. If you are on a local network then setup your sysop user
>>>>>> with a
>>>>>> password and you should get your sysop privileges retained
>>>>>> when you
>>>>>> login - but the password is sent in clear.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. As two (i.e. set up a password) but logging in over
>>>>>> radio, then
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> will have to use the 'sysop' command which works like a net/
>>>>>> rom
>>>>>> node
>>>>>> login. You say sysop, the node returns five numbers, which are
>>>>>> indexes
>>>>>> of letters in your password string, you type in sysop <list of
>>>>>> corresponding letters> in the correct order. The "clever"
>>>>>> bit is
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> you can intersperse those letters with any other letters,
>>>>>> it will
>>>>>> let
>>>>>> you in if it sees the five letters it asked for in the correct
>>>>>> order
>>>>>> somewhere in the string of letters that you return.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In DXVars.pm, node call is N8OJ and W8BS is the sysop.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I do sysop from the mac, it returns a group of numbers but I
>>>>> don't
>>>>> know what the password is. Is there someplace I can view
>>>>> it, or
>>>>> how can I set it?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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