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-<H2><A NAME="s8">8. Security</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="s8">8.</A> <A HREF="adminmanual.html#toc8">Web based statistics</A></H2>
-<P>From version 1.49 DXSpider has some additional security features. These
-are not by any means meant to be exhaustive, however they do afford some
-security against piracy. These two new features can be used independently
-of each other or in concert to tighten the security.
-<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss8.1">8.1 Registration</A>
-</H2>
+<P>From version 1.50, you can use the freeware software MRTG to produce
+really nice graphical statistics on your web site. For an example
+try
+<A HREF="http://www.gb7mbc.net/mrtg/stats.html">http://www.gb7mbc.net/mrtg/stats.html</A>.</P>
+
+<P>The following should help you get it all working.</P>
-<P>The basic principle of registration is simple. If a user is not registered
-by the sysop, then they have read-only access to the cluster. The only
-thing they can actually send is a talk or a message to the sysop. In
-order for them to be able to spot, send announces or talks etc the sysop
-must register them with the <EM>set/register</EM> command, like this ...
+<P>First you need to download the latest version of MRTG from
+<A HREF="http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/">http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/</A>.
+You will also need the following files..</P>
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
-set/register g0vgs
+libpng-1.0.14.tar.gz
+zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz
+gd-1.8.3.tar.gz
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-<P>The user g0vgs can now fully use the cluster. In order to enable
-registration, you can issue the command ...
+</P>
+<P>Login to your machine as the root user, put all the downloaded files
+in /usr/local/src/ (or wherever you prefer) and untar and compile them.
+All the information to compile and install these sources come with them.
+After compilation and installation, you will find MRTG in /usr/local/mrtg-2.</P>
+
+<P>Now copy all the files in /usr/local/src/mrtg-2.9.22/images/ to
+/spider/html/mrtg/</P>
+
+<P>You now need to make 2 symbolic links like below...</P>
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
-set/var $main::reqreg = 1
+ln -s /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg /usr/bin/mrtg
+ln -s /usr/local/mrtg-2/lib/mrtg2 /usr/lib/mrtg2
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-<P>Any users that are not registered will now see the motd_nor file rather
-than the motd file as discussed in the Information, files and useful
-programs section.
-<P>
-<P>Entering this line at the prompt will only last for the time the cluster
-is running of course and would not be present on a restart. To make the
-change permanent, add the above line to /spider/scripts/startup. To
-read more on the startup file, see the section on Information, files
-and useful programs.
-<P>
-<P>To unregister a user use <EM>unset/register</EM> and to show the list
-of registered users, use the command <EM>show/register</EM>.
-<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss8.2">8.2 Passwords</A>
-</H2>
+</P>
+
+<P>Now login to the cluster as your sysop user and run the command
+"mrtg all".</P>
-<P>At the moment, passwords only affect users who login to a DXSpider
-cluster node via telnet. If a user requires a password, they can
-either set it themselves or have the sysop enter it for them by using
-the <EM>set/password</EM> command. Any users who already have passwords,
-such as remote sysops, will be asked for their passwords automatically
-by the cluster. Using passwords in this way means that the user has a
-choice on whether to have a password or not. To force the use of
-passwords at login, issue the command ...
+<P>Now you are nearly there! Login as the sysop user and change to the
+/spider/html/mrtg/ directory. Now run the command <EM>indexmaker</EM> as
+shown below...</P>
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
-set/var $main::passwdreq = 1
+indexmaker --output stats.html --columns=1 --title "MRTG statistics for GB7DJK" ../../mrtg/mrtg.cfg
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
-<P>at the cluster prompt. This can also be added to the /spider/scripts/startup
-file as above to make the change permanent.
+</P>
+<P>Changing the callsign for your own cluster callsign of course!</P>
+
+<P>And finally you need to login as the root user and create one last
+symbolic link. Where this points will depend on where your html
+documents are kept. For RedHat systems you use...</P>
<P>
-<P>Of course, if you do this you will have to assign a password for each of
-your users. If you were asking them to register, it is anticipated that
-you would ask them to send you a message both to ask to be registered and
-to give you the password they wish to use.
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+ln -s /home/sysop/spider/html/mrtg /home/httpd/html/mrtg
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+</P>
+<P>and for SuSE systems...</P>
<P>
-<P>Should a user forget their password, it can be reset by the sysop by
-first removing the existing password and then setting a new one like so ...
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+ln -s /home/sysop/spider/html/mrtg /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/mrtg
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+</P>
+<P>If you now point your browser to your website as below it should all
+be happening!</P>
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
-unset/password g0vgs
-set/password g0vgs new_password
+http://www.xxx.xxx/mrtg/stats.html
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+</P>
+<P>Of course, to get the stats to update, you need to add some information
+in the spider crontab file as below...</P>
<P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
+<PRE>
+# Update stats for mrtg on website
+00,05,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * run_cmd('mrtg all')
+</PRE>
+</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+</P>
+<P>This will update the site every 5 minutes.</P>
+
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