Add FAQ on restarting user file

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 <H2><A NAME="ss2.5">2.5 How can I automatically limit the amount of debug logfiles that are stored?</A>
 </H2>
 
-<P>Use the tmpwatch command.  Add a line in /etc/cron.daily like this ...
+<P>Use the tmpwatch command.  Create a file in /etc/cron.daily/ containing the line ...
 <P>
 <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
 <PRE>
 /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 240 /spider/data/debug
 </PRE>
 </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+<P>Remember to make it executable!
 <P>This will limit your debug data down to the last 10 days
 <P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss2.6">2.6 I updated my Linux distribution and now Spider cannot read the users</A>
+file or the dupefile, what is the problem?</H2>
+
+<P>Almost certainly this is a change in the db format of perl.  Follow these
+few steps to correct the problem.
+<P>
+<UL>
+<LI>stop the cluster (disable any autostart in inittab)</LI>
+<LI>cd /spider/data</LI>
+<LI>issue the command perl user_asc</LI>
+<LI>restart the cluster</LI>
+</UL>
+<P>That should solve the problem.
+<P>
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