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Installation and Configuration Script for Dxspider

With this script you can install and configure in the few minutes the DxSpider Cluster

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Installation Steps

Download script.

Must be run as root user.

Uncompress & change permissions

Run script and follow the messages.

Script has been tested on the following Operating Systems (Linux Distributions)

CentOS 7
Raspbian 7 (Wheezy)
Raspbian 8 (Jessie)
Raspbian 9 (stretch)
Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)

Install DxSpider on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

Revision: 1.00 – 07/05/2018

Here you find my installation guide how to install DxSpider on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7.  Also you can find more information here wiki.dxcluster.org. If you need help please contact with me.

Furthermore if you don’t want make manual installation you can used my script for the installation and configuration Dxspider (The firewall and services must be configure manual).

1. First login as  root.

SeLinux is by default enabled and there is no need to disable it for running a telnet DxSpider node.

yum is the package manager

to update the system use

as the root user install the additional package repository EPEL

2. Add the extra packages needed by DXSpider

3. Create user sysop and setup password

4. Now download and  unpack the DX Spider distribution, set symbolic links and group permissions.

before adding the spider group it is advisable to check that group # 251 is not already in use

Which should produce no output, if 251 is already assigned to a group choose a different group Number here, On Redhat based distributions Group numbers below 500 are assigned to system services so choose a free group number below 500

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Install DxSpider on Raspberry Pi

Revision: 1.01 – 12/11/2018

Here you find my installations guide how to install dxspider on raspberry Pi. Also you can find more information here wiki.dxcluster.org. If you need help please contact with me.

Furthermore if you don’t want make manual installation you can used my script for the installation and configuration Dxspider.

1. Fisrt change user from pi to root

2. Create user sysop and setup password

3. Install perl libraries

4. Now download and  unpack the DX Spider distribution, set symbolic links and group permissions. Copy the tarball to /home/sysop and do the following.

If you do not have the command ‘groupadd’ available to you, simply add a line in /etc/group by hand.

You also need to add some others to the group, including your own callsign (this will be used as an alias) and root. The finished line in /etc/group should look something like this:

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