[Dxspider-support] Updating Question - *** not able to start ***

[Michael Walker]

Thanks Mike

I was not aware of that document.  I did notice that it has not been
updated since 2020 and that is does say it really isn't required for
clusters that have less than 50 users.

For the Cron entries, I assume those are ok when run under 'sysop' and not
'root'.

Well, that didn't work out so well.  I carefully walked through all the
steps in the upgrade document and there were no errors along each step of
the way.

I had not run it as a service, so I added dxspider to init.d following
these instructions.  https://www.sv5fri.eu/?p=2292471

sysop at va3mw-cluster:/etc/init.d $ ls -l dxs*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1391 Mar  1 13:56 dxspider

I also did run create_sysop.pl.   The RTFM comment isn't really helpful.  ;)

root at va3mw-cluster:/etc/init.d# service dxspider start
root at va3mw-cluster:/etc/init.d# service dxspider status
* dxspider.service - LSB: Dxspider
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/dxspider; generated)
   Active: active (exited) since Wed 2023-03-01 13:57:28 EST; 3min 59s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 21757 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/dxspider start (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)

Mar 01 13:57:28 va3mw-cluster systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Dxspider...
Mar 01 13:57:28 va3mw-cluster dxspider[21757]: Starting DxSpider Server...
Mar 01 13:57:28 va3mw-cluster systemd[1]: Started LSB: Dxspider.
Mar 01 13:57:28 va3mw-cluster su[21765]: (to sysop) root on none
Mar 01 13:57:28 va3mw-cluster su[21765]: pam_unix(su-l:session): session
opened for user sysop by (uid=0)
Mar 01 13:57:37 va3mw-cluster dxspider[21757]: /usr/bin/tac: write error:
Broken pipe
Mar 01 13:57:37 va3mw-cluster dxspider[21757]: VA3MW-7 missing, run the
create_sysop.pl script and please RTFM at /spider/perl/cluster.pl lin

*Mar 01 13:57:37 va3mw-cluster dxspider[21757]: Can't call method "sync" on
an undefined value at /spider/perl/QSL.pm line 51.*Mar 01 13:57:37
va3mw-cluster dxspider[21757]: END failed--call queue aborted.
root at va3mw-cluster:/etc/init.d#

Now, I can't start the cluster due to the failure in QSL.pm.


Mike va3mw

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 12:16 PM Mike McCarthy, W1NR via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> Please refer to the file /spider/UPGRADE.mojo to upgrade. Then you will
> need to load the badip files. Best to do it in the spider crontab file
> with:
>
> # Blacklist. TOR & Others
>
> 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')
>
> 73 de Mike, W1NR
>
> On 3/1/2023 11:54 AM, Michael Walker via Dxspider-support wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I need some help with this and when you answer this, consider the fact
> > that many of us do not work in this environment.  We we understand what
> > is going on, there are big gaps in the intricacies of the solution.
> >
> > Personally, I am not a GIT user at all.  But, I have no problem working
> > in Linux?
> >
> > Part of the other challenge is trying to search through all the emails
> > to find the answer I was looking for regarding updating.  I found some
> > answers, but there is so much noise is it hard to understand exactly
> > what is correct.
> >
>
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