[Dxspider-support] Autostarting spider & client making

[Ian J Maude]

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
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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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