The DXSpider Administration Manual v1.51 Ian Maude, G0VGS, (g0vgs@gb7mbc.net), and Charlie Carroll, K1XX, (k1xx@ptcnh.net) June 2004 revision 1 A reference for SysOps of the DXSpider DXCluster program. ______________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents 1. Routing and Filtering 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Route Filters 1.3 The node_default filter 1.4 General route filtering 1.5 General filter rules 1.6 Types of filter 1.7 Filter options 1.8 Default filters 1.9 Advanced filtering 1.10 Basic hop control 1.11 Hop Control on Specific Nodes 1.12 Isolating networks 1.13 A DXSpider Filtering Tutorial 2. Other filters 2.1 Filtering Mail 2.2 Filtering words from text fields in Announce, Talk and DX spots 2.3 Stopping (possibly bad) DX Spots from Nodes or Spotters 3. Mail 3.1 Personal mail 3.2 Bulletin mail 3.3 Forward.pl 3.4 The msg command 3.5 Message status 3.6 Filtering mail 3.7 Distribution lists 3.8 BBS interface 4. Scripts 5. Databases 5.1 Creating databases 5.2 Importing databases 5.3 Checking available databases 5.4 Looking up databases 5.5 Removing databases 6. Information, files and useful programs 6.1 MOTD 6.2 MOTD_NOR 6.3 Downtime message 6.4 Other text messages 6.5 The Aliases file 6.6 Console.pl 6.7 Updating kepler data 6.8 The QRZ callbook 6.9 Connecting logging programs 7. Java Web applet 8. Web based statistics 9. Security 9.1 Registration 9.2 Passwords 10. CVS 10.1 CVS from a Linux platform 10.2 CVS from a Windows platform 11. The DXSpider Command Reference 11.1 accept (0) 11.2 accept/announce [input] [0-9] (8) 11.3 accept/announce [0-9] (0) 11.4 accept/route [0-9] (8) 11.5 accept/spots [input] [0-9] (8) 11.6 accept/spots [0-9] (0) 11.7 accept/wcy [input] [0-9] (8) 11.8 accept/wcy [0-9] (0) 11.9 accept/wwv [input] [0-9] (8) 11.10 accept/wwv [0-9] (0) 11.11 announce (0) 11.12 announce full (0) 11.13 announce sysop (5) 11.14 apropos (0) 11.15 blank [] [] (0) 11.16 bye (0) 11.17 catchup all|[ ...] (5) 11.18 chat (0) 11.19 clear/announce [input] [0-9|all] (8) 11.20 clear/announce [1|all] (0) 11.21 clear/route [input] [0-9|all] (8) 11.22 clear/route [1|all] (0) 11.23 clear/spots [input] [0-9|all] (8) 11.24 clear/spots [0-9|all] (0) 11.25 clear/wcy [input] [0-9|all] (8) 11.26 clear/wcy [1|all] (0) 11.27 clear/wwv [input] [0-9|all] (8) 11.28 clear/wwv [1|all] (0) 11.29 connect (5) 11.30 dbavail (0) 11.31 dbcreate (9) 11.32 dbcreate chain [..] (9) 11.33 dbcreate cmd (9) 11.34 dbcreate remote (9) 11.35 dbimport (9) 11.36 dbremove (9) 11.37 dbshow (0) 11.38 debug (9) 11.39 delete/usdb ... (9) 11.40 delete/user ... (9) 11.41 demonstrate (9) 11.42 directory (0) 11.43 directory - (0) 11.44 directory (0) 11.45 directory all (0) 11.46 directory from (0) 11.47 directory new (0) 11.48 directory own (0) 11.49 directory subject (0) 11.50 directory to (0) 11.51 directory- (5) 11.52 disconnect [ ...] (8) 11.53 dx [by ] (0) 11.54 echo (0) 11.55 export (9) 11.56 export_users [] (9) 11.57 filtering... (0) 11.58 forward/latlong (8) 11.59 forward/opernam (1) 11.60 help (0) 11.61 init (5) 11.62 join (0) 11.63 kill (5) 11.64 kill - (0) 11.65 kill - (5) 11.66 kill [ [ ...] (0) 11.68 kill expunge [ (5) 11.70 kill full [ [ (5) 11.73 kill from (0) 11.74 kill to (0) 11.75 leave (0) 11.76 links (0) 11.77 load/aliases (9) 11.78 load/badmsg (9) 11.79 load/badwords (9) 11.80 load/bands (9) 11.81 load/cmd_cache (9) 11.82 load/forward (9) 11.83 load/keps (5) 11.84 load/keps [nn] (5) 11.85 load/messages (9) 11.86 load/prefixes (9) 11.87 merge [/] (5) 11.88 msg [data ... ] (9) 11.89 pc (8) 11.90 ping (1) 11.91 rcmd (1) 11.92 read (0) 11.93 read (0) 11.94 read- (5) 11.95 reject (0) 11.96 reject/announce [input] [0-9] (8) 11.97 reject/announce [0-9] (0) 11.98 reject/route [0-9] (8) 11.99 reject/spots [input] [0-9] (8) 11.100 reject/spots [0-9] (0) 11.101 reject/wcy [input] [0-9] (8) 11.102 reject/wcy [0-9] (0) 11.103 reject/wwv [input] [0-9] (8) 11.104 reject/wwv [0-9] (0) 11.105 reply (0) 11.106 reply (0) 11.107 reply b (0) 11.108 reply noprivate (0) 11.109 reply rr (0) 11.110 save [-d -t -a] "" [...] (9) 11.111 send [ ...] (0) 11.112 send copy (0) 11.113 send noprivate (0) 11.114 send private (0) 11.115 send rr (0) 11.116 set/address (0) 11.117 set/announce (0) 11.118 set/anntalk (0) 11.119 set/arcluster [..] (5) 11.120 set/baddx .. (8) 11.121 set/badnode .. (8) 11.122 set/badspotter .. (8) 11.123 set/badword .. (8) 11.124 set/bbs [..] (5) 11.125 set/beep (0) 11.126 set/clx [..] (5) 11.127 set/debug (9) 11.128 set/dx (0) 11.129 set/dxcq (0) 11.130 set/dxgrid (0) 11.131 set/dxitu (0) 11.132 set/dxnet [..] (5) 11.133 set/echo (0) 11.134 set/email ... (0) 11.135 set/here (0) 11.136 set/homenode (0) 11.137 set/hops ann|spots|route|wwv|wcy (8) 11.138 set/isolate (9) 11.139 set/language (0) 11.140 set/location (0) 11.141 set/lockout (9) 11.142 set/logininfo (0) 11.143 set/name (0) 11.144 set/node [..] (5) 11.145 set/obscount (8) 11.146 set/page (0) 11.147 set/password (0) 11.148 set/password (9) 11.149 set/pinginterval