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-<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Installation (Original version by Iain Phillips, G0RDI)</A></H2>
+<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Installation (Original version by Iain Philipps, G0RDI)</A></H2>
-<P>Last modified: 13 January 2001 by Ian Maude, G0VGS
-<P>
<H2><A NAME="ss1.1">1.1 Introduction</A>
</H2>
-<P>This section describes the installation of DX Spider v1.35 on a
-<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com">RedHat</A> Linux Distribution.
+<P>This section describes the installation of DX Spider v1.46 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
-HOWTO on the
-<A HREF="http://www.dxcluster.org">DXSpider</A>
-website.
+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 5.004</A>. Now I know Perl 5.005
-is out and this will almost certainly work with it, but
-<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com">RedHat 5.1</A> comes with 5.004.
-<EM>Be Warned</EM>, earlier versions of
-<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com">RedHat</A> <B>do not</B> come
-with 5.004 as standard, you need to
-<A HREF="ftp://upgrade.redhat.com">upgrade</A><P>
+<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
-<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html">CPAN</A> modules: -
+following modules from
+<A HREF="http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html">http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html</A> ...
<P>
<P>
<UL>
-<LI> MD5-1.7.tar.gz</LI>
-<LI> Data-Dumper-2.10.tar.gz</LI>
-<LI> FreezeThaw-0.3.tar.gz</LI>
-<LI> MLDBM-2.00.tar.gz</LI>
-<LI> TimeDate-1.08.tar.gz</LI>
-<LI> IO-1.20.tar.gz</LI>
+<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
<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
-1.35 for this section but of course you would use the latest version.
+1.46 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
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
# cd ~sysop
-# tar xvfz spider-1.35.tar.gz
+# tar xvfz spider-1.46.tar.gz
# ln -s ~sysop/spider /spider
# groupadd -g 251 spider (or another number)
</PRE>
<P>
<P><B>PLEASE USE CAPITAL LETTERS FOR CALLSIGNS</B>
<P>
-<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 while the cluster is running!
+<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>
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
-$ create_sysop.pl
+$ ./create_sysop.pl
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
-$ cluster.pl
-DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.35
+$ ./cluster.pl
+DXSpider DX Cluster Version 1.46
Copyright (c) 1998 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
loading prefixes ...
loading band data ...
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<P>If all is well then login on another term or console as <EM>sysop</EM> and
-cd to /spider/perl. Now issue the following command ...
+cd to /spider/src. Now issue the following command ...
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
<PRE>
-$ client.pl
+$ ./client
</PRE>
</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<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>
+<P>
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