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16 <H2><A NAME="ss2.1">2.1 How can I get Spider to restart automatically if it crashes?</A>
19 <P>Put this line into /etc/inittab ..
23 DX:3:respawn:/bin/su -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl" sysop > /dev/tty7
26 <P>Run <EM>telinit q</EM> as root. Spider will restart so be aware. However, any
27 time you reboot, cluster.pl will start in tty7 and if it crashes, it should restart ok.
29 <H2><A NAME="ss2.2">2.2 How can I monitor traffic to and from a node or user?</A>
32 <P>There are 2 ways to achieve this. You can use the <EM>tail</EM> command like this ..
36 tail -f /spider/data/debug/167.dat |grep G0VGS
39 <P>or in later versions of Spider, there is a command called <EM>watchdbg</EM> in which
40 case you simply type ..
48 <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>
51 <P>Assuming that the permissions are set correctly (perm level 5 required), it could be
52 that the home_node is set incorrectly. You can reset the home_node using the <EM>spoof</EM>
57 spoof gb7adx set/home gb7adx
60 <P>Assuming that the node_call you are changing is gb7adx.
62 <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>
65 <P>There is a file in /spider/msg called forward.pl.issue. Rename this to
66 forward.pl and edit it to meet your requirements. You will need to issue
67 the command <EM>load/forward</EM> or restart Spider for the changes to
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