The DXSpider Administration Manual v1.49

Ian Maude, G0VGS, (ianmaude@btinternet.com)

1. Routing and Filtering

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Route Filters
• 1.3 The node_default filter
• 1.4 General route filtering
• 1.5 General filter rules
• 1.6 Types of filter
• 1.7 Filter options
• 1.8 Default filters
• 1.9 Advanced filtering
• 1.10 Basic hop control
• 1.11 Hop Control on Specific Nodes
• 1.12 Isolating networks

2. Other filters

• 2.1 Filtering Mail
• 2.2 Filtering words from text fields in Announce, Talk and DX spots
• 2.3 Stopping (possibly bad) DX Spots from Nodes or Spotters

3. Mail

• 3.1 Personal mail
• 3.2 Bulletin mail
• 3.3 Forward.pl
• 3.4 The msg command
• 3.5 Message status
• 3.6 Filtering mail
• 3.7 Distribution lists
• 3.8 BBS interface

4. Scripts

5. Databases

• 5.1 Creating databases
• 5.2 Importing databases
• 5.3 Checking available databases
• 5.4 Looking up databases
• 5.5 Removing databases

6. Information, files and useful programs

• 6.1 MOTD
• 6.2 MOTD_NOR
• 6.3 Downtime message
• 6.4 Other text messages
• 6.5 The Aliases file
• 6.6 Console.pl
• 6.7 Updating kepler data
• 6.8 The QRZ callbook

7. Security

• 7.1 Registration
• 7.2 Passwords

8. CVS

9. The DXSpider command set

• 9.1 accept/announce (0)
• 9.2 accept/announce (extended for sysops) (8)
• 9.3 accept/route (8)
• 9.4 accept/spots (0)
• 9.5 accept/spots (extended for sysops) (8)
• 9.6 accept/wcy (0)
• 9.7 accept/wcy (extended for sysops) (8)
• 9.8 accept/wwv (0)
• 9.9 accept/wwv (extended for sysops) (8)
• 9.10 announce (0)
• 9.11 announce full (0)
• 9.12 announce sysop (5)
• 9.13 apropos (0)
• 9.14 bye (0)
• 9.15 catchup (5)
• 9.16 clear/announce (8)
• 9.17 clear/route (8)
• 9.18 clear/spots (0)
• 9.19 clear/spots (extended for sysops) (8)
• 9.20 clear/wcy (0)
• 9.21 clear/wcy (extended for sysops) (8)
• 9.22 clear/wwv (0)
• 9.23 clear/wwv (extended for sysops) (8)
• 9.24 connect (5)
• 9.25 dbavail (0)
• 9.26 dbcreate (9)
• 9.27 dbimport (9)
• 9.28 dbremove (9)
• 9.29 dbshow (0)
• 9.30 debug (9)
• 9.31 delete/user (9)
• 9.32 directory (0)
• 9.33 directory (extended for sysops) (5)
• 9.34 disconnect (8)
• 9.35 dx (0)
• 9.36 export (9)
• 9.37 export_users (9)
• 9.38 filtering (0)
• 9.39 forward/latlong (8)
• 9.40 forward/opername (1)
• 9.41 help (0)
• 9.42 init (5)
• 9.43 kill (0)
• 9.44 kill (5)
• 9.45 kill full (5)
• 9.46 kill/expunge (6)
• 9.47 links (0)
• 9.48 load/aliases (9)
• 9.49 load/badmsg (9)
• 9.50 load/badwords (9)
• 9.51 load/bands (9)
• 9.52 load/cmd_cache (9)
• 9.53 load/forward (9)
• 9.54 load/messages (9)
• 9.55 load/prefixes (9)
• 9.56 merge (5)
• 9.57 msg (9)
• 9.58 pc (8)
• 9.59 ping (1)
• 9.60 rcmd (1)
• 9.61 read (0)
• 9.62 read (extended for sysops) (5)
• 9.63 reject/announce
• 9.64 reject/announce (extended for sysops) (8)
• 9.65 reject/route (8)
• 9.66 reject/spots (0)
• 9.67 reject/spots (extended for sysops) (8)
• 9.68 reject/wcy (0)
• 9.69 reject/wcy (extended for sysops) (8)
• 9.70 reject/wwv (0)
• 9.71 reject/wwv (extended for sysops) (8)
• 9.72 reply (0)
• 9.73 send (0)
• 9.74 set/address (0)
• 9.75 set/announce (0)
• 9.76 set/arcluster (5)
• 9.77 set/baddx (8)
• 9.78 set/badnode (6)
• 9.79 set/badspotter (8)
• 9.80 set/badword (8)
• 9.81 set/beep (0)
• 9.82 set/bbs (5)
• 9.83 set/clx (5)
• 9.84 set/debug (9)
• 9.85 set/dx (0)
• 9.86 set/dxgrid (0)
• 9.87 set/dxnet (5)
• 9.88 set/echo (0)
• 9.89 set/email (0)
• 9.90 set/here (0)
• 9.91 set/homenode (0)
• 9.92 set/hops (8)
• 9.93 set/isolate (9)
• 9.94 set/language (0)
• 9.95 set/location (0)
• 9.96 set/sys_location (9)
• 9.97 set/logininfo (0)
• 9.98 set/lockout (9)
• 9.99 set/name (0)
• 9.100 set/node (9)
• 9.101 set/obscount (9)
• 9.102 set/page (0)
• 9.103 set/password (0)
• 9.104 set/password (9)
• 9.105 set/pinginterval (9)
• 9.106 set/privilege (9)
• 9.107 set/spider (5)
• 9.108 set/sys_qra (9)
• 9.109 set/qra (0)
• 9.110 set/qth (0)
• 9.111 set/register (9)
• 9.112 set/talk (0)
• 9.113 set/wcy (0)
• 9.114 set/wwv (0)
• 9.115 set/wx (0)
• 9.116 show/baddx (1)
• 9.117 show/badnode (6)
• 9.118 show/badspotter (1)
• 9.119 show/badword (1)
• 9.120 show/configuration (0)
• 9.121 show/configuration/node (0)
• 9.122 show/connect (1)
• 9.123 show/date (0)
• 9.124 show/debug (9)
• 9.125 show/dx (0)
• 9.126 show/dxcc (0)
• 9.127 sh/dxstats (0)
• 9.128 show/files (0)
• 9.129 show/filter (0)
• 9.130 show/filter (extended for sysops) (5)
• 9.131 show/hfstats (0)
• 9.132 show/hftable (0)
• 9.133 show/hops (8)
• 9.134 show/isolate (1)
• 9.135 show/lockout (9)
• 9.136 show/log (8)
• 9.137 show/moon (0)
• 9.138 show/muf (0)
• 9.139 show/newconfiguration (0)
• 9.140 show/newconfiguration/node (0)
• 9.141 show/node (1)
• 9.142 show/prefix (0)
• 9.143 show/program (5)
• 9.144 show/qra (0)
• 9.145 show/qrz (0)
• 9.146 show/registered (9)
• 9.147 show/route (0)
• 9.148 show/satellite (0)
• 9.149 show/sun (0)
• 9.150 show/time (0)
• 9.151 show/vhfstats (0)
• 9.152 show/vhftable (0)
• 9.153 show/wcy (0)
• 9.154 show/wwv (0)
• 9.155 shutdown (5)
• 9.156 spoof (9)
• 9.157 stat/db (5)
• 9.158 stat/channel (5)
• 9.159 stat/msg (5)
• 9.160 stat/route_node (5)
• 9.161 stat/route_user (5)
• 9.162 stat/user (5)
• 9.163 sysop (0)
• 9.164 talk (0)
• 9.165 type (0)
• 9.166 who (0)
• 9.167 wx (0)
• 9.168 wx (enhanced for sysops) (5)