In earlier versions of Spider, all the processes were Perl scripts. This
-was fine but with a lot of users your computer memory would soon be used up.
-To combat this a new client was written in "C". This client only works for
-incoming connects at the moment. Before you can use it though it
-has to be "made". CD to /spider/src and type make. You
-should see the output on your screen and hopefully now have a small C program
-called client. Leave it in this directory.
+
This section is designed for experienced Spider sysops who want to install
+Spider from scratch. It is simply a check list of things that need to be
+done without any explanations. The name in brackets at the end of each line
+is the user that should be doing that process.
+
+
+
Login as root
+
Get the additional CPAN modules and install them (root)
+
Create the "sysop" user and set a password (root)
+
Put the Spider tarball in sysop and untar it (root)
+
ln -s sysop/spider /spider (root)
+
groupadd -g 251 spider (root)
+
Add any more users you need to the group entry in /etc/group (root)
+
Set the permissions on the spider tree (root)
+
Fix permissions on ax25_call and netrom_call (root)
+
Login as the sysop user
+
cd to /spider (sysop)
+
mkdir local (sysop)
+
mkdir local_cmd (sysop)
+
cp perl/DXVars.pm.issue local/DXVars.pm (sysop)
+
cd to /spider/local and edit DXVars to set your details (sysop)
+
cd ../perl (sysop)
+
./create_sysop.pl (sysop)
+
./cluster.pl (sysop)
+
+
Spider should now be running and you should be able to login using the
+client program.
+
+
+
Login as root
+
Enter the correct line in ax25d.conf (root)
+
Enter the correct line in /etc/services (root)
+
Enter the correct line in /etc/inetd.conf (root)
+
killall -HUP inetd (root)
+
+
Spider should now be able to accept logins via telnet, netrom and ax25.
+