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

[Michael Walker]

I think I am up, but a few automatic processes are not happening.

Let me work on this a bit and if I need help, I will reach out.

73 all

Mike va3mw


On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 2:12 PM Michael Walker via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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