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+<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Linux Installation (Original version by Iain Philipps, G0RDI)</A></H2>
+
+<H2><A NAME="ss1.1">1.1 Introduction</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P>This section describes the installation of DX Spider v1.47 on a
+<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com">RedHat</A> 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
+installation guide that comes with the Spider distribution.
+<P>
+<P>I am assuming a general knowledge of Linux and its commands. You should
+know how to use <EM>tar</EM> and how to edit files using your favourite editor.
+<P>
+<P>The crucial ingredient for all of this is
+<A HREF="http://www.perl.org">Perl</A>. Earlier versions of
+Spider required perl 5.004, however it is now <I>STRONGLY</I> recommended
+that you use at least version 5.005_03 as this is the version being used
+in the development of Spider.
+<P>
+<P>In addition to the standard Red Hat distribution you will require the
+following modules from
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html">http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html</A> ...
+<P>
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI> Data-Dumper-2.101.tar.gz</LI>
+<LI> TimeDate-1.10.tar.gz</LI>
+<LI> IO-1.20.tar.gz (for perl 5.00403 and lower)</LI>
+<LI> Net-Telnet-3.02.tar.gz</LI>
+<LI> Curses-1.05.tar.gz</LI>
+<LI> Time-HiRes-01.20.tar.gz</LI>
+</UL>
+<P>
+<P><EM>Do</EM> get the latest versions of these packages and install them
+but use the above list as the earliest versions usable.
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss1.2">1.2 Preparation</A>
+</H2>
+
+<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
+1.47 for this section but of course you would use the latest version.
+<P>
+<P>Login as root and create a user to run the cluster under. <B><I>UNDER
+NO CIRCUMSTANCES USE ROOT AS THIS USER!</I></B>. I am going to use
+the name <EM>sysop</EM>. You can call it anything you wish. Depending
+on your security requirements you may wish to use an existing user,
+however this is your own choice.
+<P>
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+# adduser -m sysop
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+<P>Now set a password for the user ...
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+# passwd sysop
+# New UNIX password:
+# Retype new UNIX password:
+passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss1.3">1.3 Installing the software</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P>Now to unpack the DX Spider distribution, set symbolic links and group
+permissions. Copy the tarball to /home/sysop and do the following.
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+# cd ~sysop
+# tar xvfz spider-1.47.tar.gz
+# ln -s ~sysop/spider /spider
+# groupadd -g 251 spider (or another number)
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>If you do not have the command <EM>groupadd</EM> available to you simply
+add a line in /etc/group by hand.
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+# vi /etc/group (or your favorite editor)
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>You also need to add some others to the group, including your own callsign
+(this will be used as an alias) and root. The finished line in /etc/group
+should look something like this
+<P><CODE>spider:x:251:sysop,g0vgs,root</CODE>
+<P>
+<P>The next step is to set the permissions on the Spider directory tree and files ....
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+# chown -R sysop.spider spider
+# find . -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
+# find . -type f -exec chmod 775 {} \;
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+<P>This last step allows various users of the group <EM>spider</EM> to have
+write access to all the directories. This is not really needed just yet
+but will be useful when web interfaces start to appear.
+<P>
+<P>Finally, you need to fix the permissions on the ax25_call and netrom_call
+programs. Check where they are with the <EM>locate</EM> command and alter
+the permissions with the <EM>chmod</EM> command like this ..
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+# chown root ax25_call netrom_call
+# chmod 4775 ax25_call netrom_call
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss1.4">1.4 Setting callsigns etc</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P>Now login to your machine as the user you created earlier. In my case that
+user is called <EM>sysop</EM>. Once logged in, issue the following commands ....
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+$ cd /spider
+$ mkdir local
+$ mkdir local_cmd
+$ cp perl/DXVars.pm.issue local/DXVars.pm
+$ cd local
+$ vi DXVars.pm (or your favourite editor)
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+<P>Using the distributed DXVars.pm as a a template, set your cluster callsign,
+sysop callsign and other user info to suit your own environment. Note that
+this a perl file which will be parsed and executed as part of the cluster. If
+you get it wrong then perl will complain when you start the cluster process.
+It is important only to alter the text of any section. Some of the lines look
+a little odd. Take this line for example ....
+<P><CODE>$myemail = "ianmaude\@btinternet.com";</CODE>
+<P>
+<P>There appears to be an extra slash in there. However this has to be there
+for the file to work so leave it in.
+<P>
+<P><B>PLEASE USE CAPITAL LETTERS FOR CALLSIGNS</B>
+<P>
+<P>DON'T alter any file in /spider/perl, they are overwritten with every
+release. Any files or commands you place in /spider/local or /spider/local_cmd
+will automagically be used in preference to the ones in /spider/perl EVEN
+while the cluster is running!
+<P>
+<P>Save the new file and change directory to ../perl ....
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+$ cd ../perl
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+<P>Now type the following command which creates the basic user file with you as
+the sysop.
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+$ ./create_sysop.pl
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss1.5">1.5 Starting up for the first time</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P>We can now bring spider up for the first time and see if all is well or not!
+It should look something like this ...
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+$ ./cluster.pl
+DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.47
+Copyright (c) 1998 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
+loading prefixes ...
+loading band data ...
+loading user file system ...
+starting listener ...
+reading existing message headers
+reading cron jobs
+orft we jolly well go ...
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+<P>If all is well then login on another term or console as <EM>sysop</EM> and
+cd to /spider/src. Now issue the following command ...
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+$ ./client
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+<P>This should log you into the cluster as the sysop under the alias callsign we
+set earlier. In this case the callsign is G0VGS. The cluster callsign is set
+in the DXVars.pm file in /spider/local. In this case we will assume that this
+was set as GB7MBC. You should therefore see this when you login ....
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+G0VGS de GB7MBC 19-Nov-1999 2150Z >
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>If you do, congratulations! If not, look over the instructions again, you
+have probably missed something out. You can shut spider down again with the
+command ....
+<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+shutdown
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>
+<P>and both the cluster and the client should return to Linux prompts.
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss1.6">1.6 The Client program</A>
+</H2>
+
+<P>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
+<EM>incoming</EM> connects at the moment. Before you can use it though it
+has to be "made". CD to /spider/src and type <EM>make</EM>. You
+should see the output on your screen and hopefully now have a small C program
+called <EM>client</EM>. Leave it in this directory.
+<P>
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