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- <h2>Connecting to other Clusters</h2>
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<p>At the moment, anybody can connect inwards at any time from outside, either by ax25 or by
telnet (assuming you have followed the instructions in <a href="install.html">installation</a>
instructions. However, in order to connect outwards, you will need to create <em>connect</em> scripts.
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<p><em>Connect</em> scripts live in the <tt>/spider/connect</tt> directory and are simple ascii scripts
that are written using a normal editor. There are a couple of examples in the issue directory.
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<p>Here are a couple of basic types, first a telnet connection:-
<pre>
timeout 15
connect telnet dirkl.tobit.co.uk
'login' 'gb7djk'
'word' 'gb7djk'
- client /usr/bin/perl /spider/perl/client.pl gb7djk-1 telnet
+ client gb7djk-1 telnet
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<p>and an ax25 example:-
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'Connect' 'c np7'
'Connect' 'c gb7dxm'
'Connect' ''
- client /usr/bin/perl /spider/perl/client.pl gb7dxm ax25
+ client gb7dxm ax25
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<p>A connection is started manually by typing in <tt>connect <scriptname></tt> on a sysop enabled
<tt>client.pl</tt> session. For example:-
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G1TLH de GB7DJK 13-Dec-1998 2041Z > connect gb7djk-1
connection to GB7DJK-1 started
G1TLH de GB7DJK 13-Dec-1998 2043Z >
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<p>You can watch the progress of the connection (if you have the standard debugging enabled) on the
<tt>cluster.pl</tt> screen and you should see something like this:-
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<- D GB7DJK-1 PC38^GB7DJK-1^~
<- D GB7DJK-1 PC18^ 1 nodes, 0 local / 1 total users Max users 0 Uptime 0 00:00^5447^~
etc
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<p>The connect scripts consist of lines which start with the following keywords or symbols:-
<ul>
<p><li><b>#</b> All lines starting with a <b>#</b> are ignored, as are wholly blank lines.
<p>When the left hand string has found what it is looking (if it is) then the right hand string is
sent to the connection.
<p>This process is repeated for every line of <tt>chat</tt> script.
- <p><li><b>client</b> starts the client program and should be exactly as you would want it with an incoming
- connection.
+ <p><li><b>client</b> starts the connection, put the arguments you would want here if you were
+ starting the client program manually. You only need this if the script has a different name to
+ the callsign you are trying to connect to (i.e. you have a script called <tt>other</tt> which actually
+ connects to <tt>GB7DJK-1</tt> [instead of a script called <tt>gb7djk-1</tt>]).
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