+ <p><b>You are responsible for arranging and looking after your
+ security - not me.</b>
+
+ <p><LI>As mentioned earlier, for AX25 connections <B><I>you</B></I> are expected to have the AX25 utilities installed, setup, tested and working. See the AX25-HOWTO for more info on this - it really is beyond the scope of this document DX Spider uses ax25d for incoming connections. You need to have entries like this:-
+ <PRE>
+[ether]
+NOCALL * * * * * * L
+default * * * * * * - sysop /spider/perl/client.pl client.pl %u ax25
+<bbs>
+NOCALL * * * * * * L
+default * * * * * * - sysop /spider/perl/client.pl client.pl %u ax25
+ </PRE>
+ <P>where 'ether' and 'bbs' are appropriate <B><I>KNOWN WORKING</B></I> axport and nrport names respectively. Obviously you can use different names, callsigns or whatever for your purposes, but it is up to you to get it to work. Note I use BPQ over ethernet which why I have the port names I have.
+
+ <p><LI>Find your <TT>netrom_call</TT> and <TT>ax25_call</TT> programs (which on my system live in <TT>/usr/sbin)</TT> and chmod them so that they are SUID <TT>root</TT>
+ <PRE>
+# chown root ax25_call netrom_call
+# chmod 4775 ax25_call netrom_call
+ </PRE>
+ <P>This has to be done to allow you to specify the correct callsigns on outgoing connects
+
+ <p><LI><a name="dxvar"></a>Login to your computer as sysop, and create the initial DX Spider parameters necessary to start the cluster for the first time.
+ <PRE>
+$ startx			(much easier to use X)
+$ cd /spider
+$ mkdir local
+$ mkdir local_cmd
+$ cp perl/DXVars.pm local
+$ cd local
+$ vi DXVars.pm			(or 'joe DXVars.pm' if you're a WordStar fan ;-)
+ </PRE>
+ <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.
+ <P><b>PLEASE USE CAPITAL LETTERS FOR CALLSIGNS</B>
+ <P>DON'T alter the DXVars.pm (or any other 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 whilst the cluster is running!
+ <PRE>
+:x