Ensure that your CVS session or your unZIPped file have left you with a directory "C:\spider\local"; if not, go to "C:\spider\" and create one. If "C:\spider" is missing, go back and figure out why, because it shouldn't be.
Now create your own local copy of the DXVars.pm file by:-
copy c:\spider\perl\DXVars.pm.issue
c:\spider\local\DXVars.pm
Now you'll need to edit this file using a text editor. If nothing else, you can simply
cd \spider\local
and then
notepad DXVars.pm
to bring up an editor window containing the file. As an absolute minimum you must adjust the following items in DXVars.pm:-
You really also ought to update the $mylatitude, $mylongitude, $myqth and $myemail variables. And unless you are absolutely certain you know what you're doing, you should change nothing else in this file.
On the assumption that you'll be using the SV2AGW Packet Engine to interface your radios to the cluster, you should now create your own local copy of AGWConnect.pm by:-
copy c:\spider\perl\AGWConnect.pm
c:\spider\local\AGWConnect.pm
and then
notepad AGWConnect.pm
to bring up an editor window containing the file. You must consider adjusting the following items in AGWConnect.pm:-
Next you need to create the initial user files, etc. A tool is supplied which will do this for you. To run the tool:-
cd \spider\perl
perl create_sysop.pl
If all goes according to plan, you will see no output from this program, and after a brief wait, your DOS prompt will be returned.
Depending on how brave you are, you might now care to try the following:-
perl cluster.pl
If you did everything you were told, your DOS window will now hold a display which looks something like:-
DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.47
Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
loading prefixes ...
loading band data ...
loading user file system ...
starting listeners ...
Internal port: localhost 27754
load badwords: Ok
reading in duplicate spot and WWV info ...
reading existing message headers ...
load badmsg: Ok
load forward: Ok
load swop: Ok
@msg = 0 before delete
@msg = 0 after delete
reading cron jobs ...v cron: reading /spider/cmd/crontab
cron: adding 1 0 * * 0
DXUser::export("$main::data/user_asc")
reading database descriptors ...
doing local initialisation ...
orft we jolly well go ...
queue msg (0)
Now, if that's what you've got, you are very nearly home and dry (in as far as these particular experiments are concerned, anyhow)
To access your new cluster (from the local machine) find yourself another "DOS box" and do the following:-
cd \spider\perl
perl winclient.pl
If you are rewarded with a display which looks something like:-
Hello Iain, this is GB7SJP in Amersham, Bucks running DXSpider V1.47
Cluster: 1 nodes, 1 local / 1 total users Max users 2 Uptime 0 00:00
M0ADI de GB7SJP 4-Mar-2001 1511Z >
You've arrived. Try some commands, and see how they feel. (In case you were wondering, "Iain", "M0ADI" and "GB7SJP" all came from the version of DXVars.pm that was on the machine when I started the winclient.pl)
If you want to enable inbound "TELNET" connections, you've got a little more work to do. From a handy "DOS box" that's not doing anything else, do the following:-
copy \spider\perl\listeners.pm \spider\local
cd \spider\local
notepad listeners.pm
The following lines need attention:-
["0.0.0.0", 7300],
On my machine, I've simply uncommented the "0.0.0.0" entry by removing the '#' from the front of the line.
If you don't have a static hostname for your machine, and you intend to allow folk to connect to your machine across the internet, then I'd suggest you pay a visit to www.dyndns.org and create one for yourself. While it's free, it will take a modest an amount of effort on your part to read, understand and implement what needs to be done to set this up.
If you want to connect this to another cluster, then you'll want to negotiate a link with someone. For experimental purposes, I'm happy to allow folk to connect to GB7DXA (spud.ath.cx), on the understanding that the system may or may not be there and may or may not be connected to anything particularly useful at any given moment. Contact me by Email if you want me to set up a connection for you.