<title>The DXSpider Installation Manual v1.50</title>
<author>Iain Philipps, G0RDI (g0rdi@77hz.com) and
Ian Maude, G0VGS, (g0vgs@gb7mbc.net)</author>
-<date>July 2002 revision 0.2</date>
+<date>July 2002 revision 0.3</date>
<abstract>
A reference for SysOps of the DXSpider DXCluster program.
<P>
In addition to the standard Red Hat distribution you will require the
-following modules from <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/" name="http://www.cpan.org/modules/bymodule/"> , please note however that with later versions of perl, some of these
+following modules from <htmlurl url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/" name="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/"> , please note however that with later versions of perl, some of these
modules may be included with the distribution. Get the modules anyway and try
to install as below. If they complain, they are probably already a part of your
perl distribution.
</verb></tscreen>
<P>
-For SUSE distributions, the command would be ..
+For SuSE distributions, the command would be ..
<tscreen><verb>
# useradd -m sysop
<P>
This line works fine for RedHat distributions. It is also fine for SuSE up to
-7.0. From Suse 7.1 you need to add runlevels 2 and 5 like this ...
+7.0. From SuSE 7.1 you need to add runlevels 2 and 5 like this ...
<tscreen><verb>
DX:235:respawn:/bin/su -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" sysop >/dev/tty7
This will automatically start DXSpider on tty7 (ALT-F7) on bootup and restart
it should it crash for any reason.
+<P>
+NB: It should be noted that /dev/tty7 is only an example. Some SuSE systems will
+only accept upto tty6. It really does not matter which tty you run it on.
+
<P>
As root type the command <em>telinit q</em>. DXSpider should start up
immediately. You will see the output on tty7 and if you login as <em>sysop</em>