[Dxspider-support] dxspider on Centos

[Michael Walker]

If it is easier, I can now totally rebuild this box with a new distribution
of either Centos or Ubuntu.

Any recommendations?

Mike va3mw



On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Walker <mike at portcredit.net> wrote:

> 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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