[Dxspider-support] Wiki

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

The CentOS instructions use "git" to pull the files into the spider
directory rather than using a tarball. It's just another way to do it.
You can use either method. You are also not locked into putting it into
a folder under the sysop user. I put it in /var/spider instead and set
the link to it. My install has /var as a separate partition. Under
CentOS, /var is used to house other "server" related things like WEB,
FTP and email.

The other comment looks like the only difference being the '#' vs. '$'
at the start of the line. You don't type those characters. They simply
represent a "prompt" from the shell. It may be very different on your
system.

73 de Mike, W1NR

On 01/05/2017 10:14 AM, Ed via Dxspider-support wrote:
> I've been following the wiki and about to the point of total
> frustration. Thus morning I checked out the Centos instructions. I
> noticed right off that there are several differences in the install
> instructions. For example,
> 
> After you unpack the tarball ::
> 
> # cd ~sysop
> # tar xvfz spider-1.50.tar.gz
> # ln -s ~sysop/spider /spider
> # groupadd -g 251 spider (or another number)
> 
> But on the Centos page this is done *before* you work with the tarball.
> 
> Another example,
> 
> # chown -R sysop.spider spider
> # find . -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
> # find . -type f -exec chmod 775 {} \;
> 
> But the Centos page has this 
> 
> $ chown -R sysop.spider spider
> $ find . -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
> $ find . -type f -exec chmod 775 {} \;
> 
> So which is which and who is what ?
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Ed W3NR
> 
> 
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