[Dxspider-support] 2 more newbie questions

[Kin]

Hi again,

 

Regarding the use of passwords, I think it is convenient only for those who
want to send information (spots, ann, ...) to the network. For the rest it
is not necessary.

If you allow sending without clear authentication, it is possible to send
junk to the network, just look at the fight against a few operators who are
spreading junk all over the nodes.

 

You can look at the DXSpider Wiki for the configuration.

 

Secondly I can tell you that dxspider is very stable, but personally I like
to have information about controlled or uncontrolled restarts of the
cluster.pl service.

I also monitor my neighbouring nodes and receive regular reports on the
total number of nodes and users, which is not important, but can indicate a
problem.

Having a well defined crontab is essential for dxspider to fully function.
For example, automatically downloading CTY, BadIPs, ...

If you have a dynamic or local IP with dhcp, it is important to have the
associated variables updated.

 

Kin EA3CV

 

PS

You can look at this, but it's not official:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e1kb63ffol4vm77/AADUibqHbP5ta346jmXgmbJ3a?dl=0

 

 

 

De: Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk> En nombre de
Terry Hunt via Dxspider-support
Enviado el: martes, 14 de febrero de 2023 13:44
Para: The DXSpider Support list <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
CC: Terry Hunt <terry at thenuttyhunt.house>
Asunto: [Dxspider-support] 2 more newbie questions

 

Hello everyone,  

Thanks to the people that contacted me and allowed me to be an adjacent
node.  I now am connected to 3 nodes and spots seem to be flowing in like
they should.

 

I do have a couple newbie questions for things I have not seen.

 

1.  Security - I turned on registration, but passwords, do Sysops normally
turn this on? If so, I see the Sysop has to configure the first.  Is it
possible to setup a script to automagically set the initial password to the
users call sign and then hand control back to the user for setting something
different?

2.  Is there any variables that can be used in MOTD to give status of
cluster?  If so is there a list of them somewhere?

I guess I have one other question I have not seen anywhere

Is there any best practices from an administration point of view.  Things to
check / do at regular intervals?  I am thinking check for updates, patch
system (normally I do that monthly) but is there anything from cluster
operation that tends to be problematic I should monitor?

 

Thanks for all the help so far,

Terry

 

 

Thanks,
Terry Hunt
Terry at thenuttyhunt.house
Amateur Call: K4HNT

 

 

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