[Dxspider-support] dxspider on Centos

[Michael Walker]

Hi Brendan

I thought I would do a reply all...

They must have changed things and the wiki is not up to date any more.

rpm -Uvh
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

gives you


error: skipping
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm-
transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
warning: u 0x930bca0 ctrl 0x930cab8 nrefs != 0 (download.fedoraproject.orghttp)


If you go look at the URL, it doesn't even resolve.  The name resolves
to 67.215.65.132, but if I try http://67.215.65.132, I get a 404 error.



Mike va3mw


On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Here are some notes I prepared a couple of years back back on installing
> dxspider
> on centos, use in conjunction with the install notes on the dxspider
> wiki.
>
>
>
>
> I have installed quite a few dxspider nodes on Centos, work on centos
> systems as a systems administrator and am a certified RHCE, feel free to
> ask further questions if if required.
>
> up2date is long gone from redhat and fedora based distros
>
>
> these instructions will also apply pretty much verbatim all recent
> versions of fedora.
>
> Linux Centos5.x (&RHEL5.x)
> Centos is a good choice for building clusters since it's a binary
> rebuild of Redhat Enterprise linux and as a result has a long support
> lifespan. It's very popular for servers due to it's long support
> lifecycle
>
> see http://www.centos.org/
>
> For centos Install the EPEL repository, this makes perl-Curses available
> within the packaging system, this is not required on fedora
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#What_is_EPEL.3F
>
> Follow the instructions there for 'version proof' install instructions
> For the current version, as root issue the following command
>
> rpm -Uvh
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
>
> install the packages required for dxspider
>
> yum install perl-TimeDate perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-Curses perl-Net-Telnet
> git gcc
>
> # adduser -m sysop
>
> # passwd sysop
> # New UNIX password:
> # Retype new UNIX password:
>  passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully
>
> (yes I know that /home/sysop/spider we are about to link to does not
> exist yet but the plan is to use git to pull it in as the sysop user a
> bit later and I am root right now and doing it in this order does not
> break anything.
>
> # ln -s ~sysop/spider /spider
> # groupadd -g 251 spider
>
> Use the following commands to add the users to the spider group, I am
> not sure what ins meant by 'alias' and adding the user's call?
>
> # usermod -aG spider sysop
> # usermod -aG spider root
>
> Change to user sysop
>
> # su - sysop
>
> use git to get latest DXspider build
>
> $ git clone git://scm.dxcluster.org/scm/spider
>
> Fix up permissions (AS THE SYSOP USER, current walk-though should be
> edited to show $ instead of # here to reflect this )
>
> Very bad things happen if you run these as root and in the wrong place,
> so we need to make it abundantly clear that these are to be run as the
> sysop user in the sysop's home directory /home/sysop
>
> $ chown -R sysop.spider spider
> $ find . -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
> $ find . -type f -exec chmod 775 {} \;
>
>
> Go do the DXvars thing.
>
> Autostarting
>
> the inittab trick works fine on centos 5.x, this will probably change on
> 6.x so for 6.x and fedora use the upstart script
> I considered writing a proper service init script but it's likely to
> change in the next release, so not today ..
>
>
>
> --
> 73
> Brendan EI6IZ
>
>
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