The DXSpider FAQ

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

Please mail any FAQs to the maintainer at the address above.

1. Installation

• 1.1 Where do I get DXSpider?
• 1.2 How do I use the patches?
• 1.3 If I use a tarball to overwrite my installation, what happens to my configuration?
• 1.4 I am running RedHat 5.2 and I am getting strange errors, what is wrong?

2. Administration

• 2.1 How can I get Spider to restart automatically if it crashes?
• 2.2 How can I monitor traffic to and from a node or user?
• 2.3 My neighbouring node cannot use the RCMD command to me, he just keeps getting the "tut tut" message.
• 2.4 I do not seem to be sending any bulletin mail to my link partners, what is wrong?