[Dxspider-support] Two Spider nodes on the same linux box

[Luigi Carlotto]

>> Hello Dirk, hello the list !
>>
>> Currently I'm running a single Spider node on my Linux box.
>> Due to differentiate the traffic on the node (node to node links and node
>> to users links) I would like to set up a second spider node, but running 
>> on
>> the same Linux computer where is running my actual node.
>>
>> Is it possible ??
>>
>> I suppose the following:
>> 1. Create a different local user, sysop2 for example, to run the second
>> cluster under.
>> 2. Change the internal cluster port for the second istance, from 27754 to
>> 27755 for example.
>>
>
> Although you don't need to do 1) it makes some things slightly easier.
>
> So.
>
> * create a new user (say sysop2)
> * login (or su or sudo bash) to root
> * cd ~sysop2
> * mkdir spider
> * cd /spider
> * cp -a * ~sysop2/spider
> * cd ~sysop2
> * chown -R sysop2:sysop2 spider
> * vi /etc/inittab
> * copy the line:
>
> sp:2345:respawn:su -c "perl /spider/perl/cluster.pl > /dev/null 2>&1" 
> sysop
>
> and change that second (new) line to
>
> sq:2345:respawn:su -c "DXSPIDER_ROOT=/home/sysop2/spider perl
> $DXSPIDER_ROOT/perl/cluster.pl > /dev/null 2>&1" sysop2
>
> so that you now have *two* lines where there was one.
>
> * now login as sysop2
> * firstly # out anything you have in spider/local_cmd/crontab (so you
> don't try to connect to the same things as the first node with the same
> callsign).
> * now edit your spider/local/DXVars.pm so that its $mycall and $myalias
> are different from your other node (different SSIDs) and, as you have
> suggested, change your $clusterport to 27755 or something other than 
> 27754.
> * edit your .bashrc and add
>
> export DXSPIDER_ROOT=/home/sysop2/spider
>
> to the end of the file.
>
> * logout and login as sysop2 again (VERY IMPORTANT)
> * echo $DXSPIDER_ROOT
> * check that a) get an answer and b) it is "/home/sysop2/spider"
> otherwise repeat from the "edit your .bashrc" stage again.
>
> * cd spider/perl
> * ./update_sysop.pl
> * edit spider/local/Listeners.pm
> * you either need to change the ['0.0.0.0', 7300] to say ['0.0.0.0,
> 7301] or use specific (different) IP addresses for each instance instead
> of '0.0.0.0'.
>
> you can now check whether it comes up OK by
>
> * ./cluster.pl
>
> You should see it launch and not complain about lock files and so forth.
>
> * now you can either stop it, login as root, run: telinit q
> * or just reboot.
>
> You will need to clean up your connect scripts. Make sure that the
> callsign you login as (to other nodes) is the new one with the new SSID.
>
> * If you use the curses based console program then it will automatically
> login to the correct node depending on what you login as.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Dirk


Dirk,
thank you very much !!! I'll try this soon...

73's de Luigi, ik5zuk