[Dxspider-support] M$ Window support

[Dirk Koopman]

This will NOT work on Windows boxes because Strawberry Perl does not 
support spawning.

Dirk

On 15/02/2023 09:59, Kin via Dxspider-support wrote:
> Luc,
>
> BadIP is used at *application* level, not TCP/IP, so it is more than advisable to enable it in the dxspider crontab:
>
> # TOR & Others BadIPs
> 30 * * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torexit')
> 30 * * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.torrelay')
> 30 * * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN http://www.dxspider.net/download/badip.global')
> 31 * * * * run_cmd('load/badip')
>
> Kin EA3CV
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk> En nombre de Luc Goeman - ON1GL via Dxspider-support
> Enviado el: miércoles, 15 de febrero de 2023 9:03
> Para: dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk
> CC: Luc Goeman - ON1GL <on1gl at skynet.be>
> Asunto: Re: [Dxspider-support] M$ Window support
>
> THANKS Dirk !
>
>    just upgraded the test machine, the spawn-problem is gone here 😄
>
> I'm not doing any badip things on pc's, that's something that is handled by the router/firewall in the network (mikrotik/routerboard) sorry cant help you with that 🙁
>
> more testing this evening
>
> 73
>
> Luc
>
> On 15/02/2023 8:17, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
>> I believe that I have fixed most of the problems reported on the
>> 'mojo' branch whilst running on Windows. Those users that are on this
>> platform should upgrade. Linux/BSD/unix users don't need to update.
>>
>> There remains one intractable problem on Windows which is present on
>> all perl distributions (apart, possibly, from ActiveState) which is
>> the inability of perl programs to spawn other processes. So, until
>> some solution is found, 'mojo' DXSpider instances running on Windows
>> are limited to running all commands, that on Linux/BSD/unix start
>> subprocesses, will run 'inline' in the same way as the 'master' branch
>> does on all platforms.
>>
>> I'm given to understand that badip does not work (properly?) on
>> Windows. If someone can give me more information about this I would be
>> grateful. If someone is running a node using ActiveState perl on
>> Windows, please get in touch so I can coordinate some testing.
>>
>> 73 Dirk G1TLH
>>
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