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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word;overflow-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;line-break:after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi again,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>You can look at the DXSpider Wiki for the configuration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Having a well defined crontab is essential for dxspider to fully function. For example, automatically downloading CTY, BadIPs, ...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>If you have a dynamic or local IP with dhcp, it is important to have the associated variables updated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Kin EA3CV<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>PS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>You can look at this, but it's not official:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e1kb63ffol4vm77/AADUibqHbP5ta346jmXgmbJ3a?dl=0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b>De:</b> Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk> <b>En nombre de </b>Terry Hunt via Dxspider-support<br><b>Enviado el:</b> martes, 14 de febrero de 2023 13:44<br><b>Para:</b> The DXSpider Support list <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br><b>CC:</b> Terry Hunt <terry@thenuttyhunt.house><br><b>Asunto:</b> [Dxspider-support] 2 more newbie questions<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello everyone, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I do have a couple newbie questions for things I have not seen.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I guess I have one other question I have not seen anywhere<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for all the help so far,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Terry<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Thanks,<br>Terry Hunt<br>Terry@thenuttyhunt.house<br>Amateur Call: K4HNT<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>