[Dxspider-support] Wiki

Mike McCarthy, W1NR lists at w1nr.net
Thu Jan 5 16:56:47 GMT 2017


Creating the link and setting ownership can only be done by root so the
# vs. $ is a bit misleading. The wiki could be clarified a bit I guess.

W1NR

On 01/05/2017 11:17 AM, Ed wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 10:40:32 -0500
> "Mike McCarthy, W1NR" <lists at w1nr.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks, but I am familiar with git and as you say, either way works.
> The rest of your comments are getting a little on the deep side for me. 
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>> 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.
> 
> I'm very familiar with the command line, believe me. My comment is
> asking why are the instructions so different. What is done as root on
> the wiki page is done as user on the Centos page. So which one is
> correct, they both can't be. You can't do this on one page,
> 
> $ chown -R sysop.spider spider
> $ find . -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
> $ find . -type f -exec chmod 775 {} \;
> 
> and this on the other 
> 
> # chown -R sysop.spider spider
> # find . -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
> # find . -type f -exec chmod 775 {} \;
> 
> and as far as I know $ this has always been user and this # has always
> been root.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious here as to why one set of instructions
> contradicts the other ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ed W3NR
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>> 73 de Mike, W1NR
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>> 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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