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.
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Login as root
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Get the additional CPAN modules and install them (root)
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Create the "sysop" user and set a password (root)
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Put the Spider tarball in sysop and untar it (root)
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ln -s sysop/spider /spider (root)
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groupadd -g 251 spider (root)
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Add any more users you need to the group entry in /etc/group (root)
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Set the permissions on the spider tree (root)
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Fix permissions on ax25_call and netrom_call (root)
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Login as the sysop user
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cd to /spider (sysop)
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mkdir local (sysop)
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mkdir local_cmd (sysop)
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cp perl/DXVars.pm.issue local/DXVars.pm (sysop)
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cd to /spider/local and edit DXVars to set your details (sysop)
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cd ../perl (sysop)
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./create_sysop.pl (sysop)
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./cluster.pl (sysop)
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Spider should now be running and you should be able to login using the
-client program.
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Login as root
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Enter the correct line in ax25d.conf (root)
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Enter the correct line in /etc/services (root)
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Enter the correct line in /etc/inetd.conf (root)
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killall -HUP inetd (root)
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Spider should now be able to accept logins via telnet, netrom and ax25.