[Dxspider-support] Autostarting spider & client making

[Bob Nielsen]

On Jul 24, 2008, at 9:26 AM, Ian J Maude wrote:

> 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
>
>

Better yet, apt-get install build-essential

Bob, N7XY