X-Git-Url: http://dxcluster.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=sgml%2Fadminmanual.sgml;h=1121bc82fd049fa8d80ec63f616e61d592165f48;hb=82d258561ef9e3bd65fd89a953a704ae8832f1cd;hp=8606e17d035a0682f6e8050556312bc0149b10fb;hpb=77393fe9b517e6307f47dc844d05afa2454bfba7;p=spider.git diff --git a/sgml/adminmanual.sgml b/sgml/adminmanual.sgml index 8606e17d..1121bc82 100644 --- a/sgml/adminmanual.sgml +++ b/sgml/adminmanual.sgml @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The DXSpider Installation and Administration Manual <author>Ian Maude, G0VGS, (ianmaude@btinternet.com) -<date>Version 1.33 (Revision 3) February 2001 +<date>Version 1.33 (Revision 1.21) February 2001 <abstract> A reference for SysOps of the DXSpider DXCluster program. </abstract> @@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ A reference for SysOps of the DXSpider DXCluster program. <sect1>Introduction <P> -This section describes the installation of DX Spider v1.35 on a -<htmlurl url="http://www.redhat.com" name="RedHat"> Linux Distribution. +This section describes the installation of DX Spider v1.46 on a +<htmlurl url="http://www.redhat.com" name="RedHat"> Linux Distribution. +Wherever possible I will try to include differences for other distributions. I do not intend to try and cover the installation of Linux or the setup of the AX25 utilities. If you need help on this then read Iains original -HOWTO on the <htmlurl url="http://www.dxcluster.org" name="DXSpider"> -website. +installation guide that comes with the Spider distribution. <P> I am assuming a general knowledge of Linux and its commands. You should @@ -34,24 +34,19 @@ know how to use <em>tar</em> and how to edit files using your favourite editor. <P> The crucial ingredient for all of this is -<htmlurl url="http://www.perl.org" name="Perl 5.004">. Now I know Perl 5.005 -is out and this will almost certainly work with it, but -<htmlurl url="http://www.redhat.com" name="RedHat 5.1"> comes with 5.004. -<em>Be Warned</em>, earlier versions of -<htmlurl url="http://www.redhat.com" name="RedHat"> <bf>do not</bf> come -with 5.004 as standard, you need to -<htmlurl url="ftp://upgrade.redhat.com" name="upgrade"> +<htmlurl url="http://www.perl.org" name="Perl">. Earlier versions of +Spider required perl 5.004, however it is now <it>STRONGLY</it> recommended +that you use at least version 5.005_03 as this is the version being used +in the development of Spider. <P>In addition to the standard Red Hat distribution you will require the -following <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html" name="CPAN"> modules: - +following modules from <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html" name="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html"> ... <P> <itemize> <item> MD5-1.7.tar.gz <item> Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz -<item> FreezeThaw-0.3.tar.gz -<item> MLDBM-2.00.tar.gz <item> TimeDate-1.08.tar.gz <item> IO-1.20.tar.gz <item> Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz @@ -70,7 +65,7 @@ but use the above list as the earliest versions usable. <P> I will assume that you have already downloaded the latest tarball of the DXSpider software and are ready to install it. I am assuming version -1.35 for this section but of course you would use the latest version. +1.46 for this section but of course you would use the latest version. <P> Login as root and create a user to run the cluster under. <bf><it>UNDER @@ -102,7 +97,7 @@ permissions. Copy the tarball to /home/sysop and do the following. <tscreen><verb> # cd ~sysop -# tar xvfz spider-1.35.tar.gz +# tar xvfz spider-1.46.tar.gz # ln -s ~sysop/spider /spider # groupadd -g 251 spider (or another number) </verb></tscreen> @@ -208,7 +203,7 @@ It should look something like this ... <tscreen><verb> $ cluster.pl -DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.35 +DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.46 Copyright (c) 1998 Dirk Koopman G1TLH loading prefixes ... loading band data ... @@ -273,6 +268,12 @@ each interface that you wish to allow connections on, use the following format . default * * * * * * - sysop /spider/src/client client %u ax25 </verb></tscreen> +or, if you wish your users to be able to use SSID's on their callsigns .. + +<tscreen><verb> +default * * * * * * - sysop /spider/src/client client %s ax25 +</verb></tscreen> + <sect1>Allowing telnet connects from users <P> @@ -3993,7 +3994,7 @@ for more information. <P> <tt> -<bf>show/badspotter</bf>Show all the bad spotters in the system +<bf>show/badspotter</bf> Show all the bad spotters in the system </tt> <P>