[Dxspider-support] Autostarting spider & client making

[Ian J Maude]

Luigi Carlotto, IK5ZUK wrote:
> Hello the list !
> Here I'm playing with my new linux box, running Ubuntu server 8.04.
>
> Due to my plan to migrate my old spider nodes running on an old Fedora 
> Core
> 5 to a new Ubuntu server 8.04 distro, I have made a brand new spider
> installation. Now I have two problems: the first is autostarting 
> spider, and the other is making the C client program.
>
> As written on the spider wiki, I've created  the file 
> /etc/event.d/dxspider as follows:
>
> ----------------------------------
> #DXSpider startup script
> #
> # This service maintains a getty on tty8 from the point the system is
> # started until it is shut down again.
>
> start on runlevel 3
> start on runlevel 5
>
> stop on runlevel 0
> stop on runlevel 1
> stop on runlevel 2
> #stop on runlevel 3
> stop on runlevel 4
> #stop on runlevel 5
> stop on runlevel 6
>
> respawn
>
> exec /bin/su - sysop -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" 
> /dev/tty8
Is spider actually starting?  It could be that it is but that you simply 
cannot output to tty8.  What does  'ps auxw |grep cluster.pl' tell you?

On the client issue, is gcc installed?  apt-get install gcc

73 Ian

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Ian J Maude, G0VGS
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