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15 <H2><A NAME="s2">2. Administration</A></H2>
17 <H2><A NAME="ss2.1">2.1 How can I get Spider to restart automatically if it crashes?</A>
20 <P>Put this line into /etc/inittab ..
24 DX:3:respawn:/bin/su -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" sysop > /dev/tty7
27 <P>Run <EM>telinit q</EM> as root. Spider will restart so be aware. However, any
28 time you reboot, cluster.pl will start in tty7 and if it crashes, it should restart ok.
30 <H2><A NAME="ss2.2">2.2 How can I monitor traffic to and from a node or user?</A>
33 <P>There are 2 ways to achieve this. You can use the <EM>tail</EM> command like this ..
37 tail -f /spider/data/debug/167.dat |grep G0VGS
40 <P>or in later versions of Spider, there is a command called <EM>watchdbg</EM> in which
41 case you simply type ..
49 <H2><A NAME="ss2.3">2.3 My neighbouring node cannot use the RCMD command to me, he just keeps getting the "tut tut" message.</A>
52 <P>Assuming that the permissions are set correctly (perm level 5 required), it could be
53 that the home_node is set incorrectly. You can reset the home_node using the <EM>spoof</EM>
58 spoof gb7adx set/home gb7adx
61 <P>Assuming that the node_call you are changing is gb7adx.
63 <H2><A NAME="ss2.4">2.4 I do not seem to be sending any bulletin mail to my link partners, what is wrong?</A>
66 <P>There is a file in /spider/msg called forward.pl.issue. Rename this to
67 forward.pl and edit it to meet your requirements. You will need to issue
68 the command <EM>load/forward</EM> or restart Spider for the changes to
71 <H2><A NAME="ss2.5">2.5 How can I automatically limit the amount of debug logfiles that are stored?</A>
74 <P>Use the tmpwatch command. Create a file in /etc/cron.daily/ containing the line ...
78 /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 240 /spider/data/debug
81 <P>Remember to make it executable!
82 <P>This will limit your debug data down to the last 10 days
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