[Dxspider-support] Spider install in windows

Mon Jul 5 20:42:01 BST 2010

Hello community,

I'm following this nice windows setup to help a friend of mine (HB9TVW) to setup his own DXCluster.
I've enough good experience with Linux setup but I was astonished to see how can be difficult to setup a windows box (I'm joking hi hi).
BTW ... I've troubles with the DB_FILE installation and this is the error I got when I run perl create_sysop.pl procedure:

C:\Spider\perl>perl create_sysop.pl
Can't locate DB_File.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /spider/local /spider/perl C:/Pe
rl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .) at /spider/perl/DXUser.pm line 12.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /spider/perl/DXUser.pm line 12.
Compilation failed in require at create_sysop.pl line 23.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at create_sysop.pl line 23.

OS: Windows XP 32bit

this is the version of ActivePerl I installed:

http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/releases/5.10.1.1007/ActivePerl-5.10.1.1007-darwin-9.8.0-291969.dmg

Any help will be much appreciated.

Vy 73 de HB9DHG Fulvio
http://www.hb9dhg.ch

On Oct 3, 2007, at 9:53 PM, Henk Remijn PA5KT wrote:

> I just did a spider install in Windows. 
> Took about one hour:
> 
> 
> Download the latest Activeperl version from 
> http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/Download.html. 
> I downloaded v5.8.8. 
> Install the package.
> 
> Reboot.
> 
> Open command prompt. 
> Add packages:
> 
> ppm install net-telnet 
> ppm install timedate 
> ppm install db_file
> 
> Download the latest spider cvs from 
> http://www.dxcluster.org/download/CVSlatest.tgz.
> 
> Extract the software to C:\ (Dont use another directory, make it working 
> first then you can always change things).
> 
> Installation: 
> My cluster call is PA5KT-5. 
> My link node is PA5KT-15. (This node needs to know you are a spider 
> cluster: set/spider pa5kt-5).
> 
>  From command prompt: 
> C:\spider>mkdir local
> 
> C:\spider>mkdir local_cmd
> 
> C:\spider>copy c:\spider\perl\DXVars.pm.issue c:\spider\local\DXVars.pm 
>         1 file(s) copied.
> 
> C:\spider>cd local 
> (I use write instead of notepad because write handles the cr/lf of the 
> files properly). 
> C:\spider\local>write DXVars.pm
> 
> Change the following lines in the DXVars.pm: 
> # this really does need to change for your system!!!!              
> # use CAPITAL LETTERS 
> $mycall = "PA5KT-5";
> 
> # your name 
> $myname = "Henk";
> 
> # Your 'normal' callsign (in CAPTTAL LETTERS) 
> $myalias = "PA5KT";
> 
> Save the file.
> 
> C:\spider\local>copy ..\perl\Listeners.pm . 
>         1 file(s) copied.
> 
> C:\spider\local>write Listeners.pm 
> Remove the # in front of the line: 
>              ["0.0.0.0", 7300],
> 
> Save the file.
> 
> C:\spider\local>cd ..\perl
> 
> C:\spider\perl>perl create_sysop.pl
> 
> C:\spider\perl>perl cluster.pl 
> cluster 
> DXSpider V1.54, build 0.162 started 
> Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Dirk Koopman G1TLH 
> loading prefixes ... 
> US Database not loaded 
> loading band data ... 
> loading user file system ... 
> starting listeners ... 
> Internal port: localhost 27754 using IntMsg 
> External Port: 0.0.0.0 7300 using ExtMsg::login 
> load badwords: Ok 
> Starting Dupe system 
> Read in Messages 
> Read in Aliases 
> Start WWV 
> Start WCY 
> Starting DX Spot system 
> Start Protocol Engines ... 
> DXChannel PA5KT-5 created (1) 
> reading existing message headers ... 
> load badmsg: Ok 
> load forward: Ok 
> load swop: Ok 
> reading cron jobs ... 
> cron: reading /spider/cmd/crontab 
> cron: adding 1 0 * * 3 DXUser::export("$main::data/user_asc") 
> cron: adding 5 0 * * * DXDebug::dbgclean() 
> cron: adding 0 3 * * * Spot::daily() 
> reading database descriptors ... 
> doing local initialisation ... 
> orft we jolly well go ... 
> queue msg (0)
> 
> 
> We are running....
> 
> 
> Open another command prompt: 
> Create a connect script:
> 
> C:\>cd \spider\connect
> 
> C:\spider\connect>copy con pa5kt-15 
> timeout 60 
> connect telnet www.remijn.net 7530 
> 'login:' 'pa5kt-5' 
> ^Z 
>         1 file(s) copied.
> 
> Make sure on pa5kt-15 your cluster node is configured as a spider node 
> (set/spider pa5kt-5).
> 
> 
> 
> telnet localhost 7300
> 
> login: pa5kt
> 
> Hello Henk, this is PA5KT-5 in Goes 
> running DXSpider V1.54 build 0.162 
> Cluster: 1 nodes, 1 local / 1 total users  Max users 1  Uptime 0 00:01 
> PA5KT de PA5KT-5  3-Oct-2007 1922Z dxspider > 
> set/spider  pa5kt-15
> 
> PA5KT-15 created as DXSpider style Node 
> PA5KT de PA5KT-5  3-Oct-2007 1924Z dxspider >
> 
> PA5KT de PA5KT-5  3-Oct-2007 1935Z dxspider > 
> connect  pa5kt-15
> 
> connection to PA5KT-15 started 
> PA5KT de PA5KT-5  3-Oct-2007 1936Z dxspider > 
> DX de F8DGY:     28009.0  LOOKING      beam sa                       1937Z 
> DX de IS0PGF:    10105.6  9U0A         53                            1937Z
> 
> And voila, we have a running cluster.
> 
> Some finetuning: 
> Go to another command prompt. 
> Edit the crontab so your connection is restored after connection is lost: 
> cd c:\spider\local_cmd
> 
> C:\spider\local_cmd>copy con crontab 
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * start_connect('pa5kt-15') 
> unless connected('pa5kt-15') 
> ^Z 
>         1 file(s) copied.
> 
> C:\spider\local_cmd>
> 
> In the telnet window disconnect the cluster 
> disconnect pa5kt-15
> 
> And then within 5 minutes the connection is automagically restored.
> 
> 
> 
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