DXSpider on the pi
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Tim G3PJD
Has anybody tried Bill, N6WS' procedure for installing DX Spider on Raspi? I have had two attempts, the second one after re-formatting and re imaging my SD, but both attempts failed at "CP -a /home/sysop/spider.new/ /spider" (my quote marks) with the error message 'cannot overwrite non-directory /spider with directory /home/sysop/spider.new/'
I am running 2012-12-16 Raspbian Wheezy on a 4GB SDHC and a Pi model B. As I am new to Debian I am somewhat at a loss (English understatement for 'clueless'!). Any help appreciated 73 Tim G3PJD
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John G8BPQ
Tim,
I used it a while ago, but I cant remember if I adapted it at
all.
The message suggests that /spider doesnt exist, which suggests
that either the
ln -s ~sysop/spider /spider failed, or there isn't a spider folder under user sysop's home directory. Actually, I cant see where in the instructions the spider
folder is created - but I may be missing it!
73, John
From: Raspberry_Pi_4-Ham_RADIO@... [mailto:Raspberry_Pi_4-Ham_RADIO@...] On Behalf Of g3pjd Sent: 07 February 2013 16:50 To: Raspberry_Pi_4-Ham_RADIO@... Subject: [Raspberry_Pi_4-Ham_RADIO] DXSpider on the pi Has anybody tried Bill, N6WS' procedure for installing DX Spider on Raspi? I
have had two attempts, the second one after re-formatting and re imaging my SD,
but both attempts failed at "CP -a /home/sysop/spider.new/ /spider" (my quote
marks) with the error message 'cannot overwrite non-directory /spider with
directory /home/sysop/spider.new/'
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Tim G3PJD
John
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Thanks for the thoughts. Indeed, despite my my ignorance of the language I can't see how spider/ gets created. Think I will create it and try again! 73 Tim G3PJD
--- In Raspberry_Pi_4-Ham_RADIO@yahoogroups.com, "John Wiseman" wrote:
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n6ws
Hi Tim, The symbolic link /spider is created with: ln -s ~sysop/spider /spider Also, there are a few changes made recently. Make sure you are using v1.03 of the instructions. 73, Bill N6WS
On 02/07/2013 10:03 AM, g3pjd wrote:
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John G8BPQ
Ok, Bill,
But where is ~sysop/spider created?
73, John From: Raspberry_Pi_4-Ham_RADIO@... [mailto:Raspberry_Pi_4-Ham_RADIO@...] On Behalf Of Bill Shell Sent: 08 February 2013 00:44 To: Raspberry_Pi_4-Ham_RADIO@... Cc: g3pjd Subject: Re: [Raspberry_Pi_4-Ham_RADIO] Re: DXSpider on the pi
Hi Tim, The symbolic link /spider is created with: ln -s ~sysop/spider /spider Also, there are a few changes made recently. Make sure you are using v1.03 of the instructions. 73, Bill N6WS
On 02/07/2013 10:03 AM, g3pjd wrote:
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K2DMS <k2dms@...>
CP -a /home/sysop/spider.new/ /spider
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maybe should be cp -a /home/sysop/spider.new/ /spider Unless CP is an alias to cp.
--- In Raspberry_Pi_4-Ham_RADIO@yahoogroups.com, "g3pjd" wrote:
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Rusty Haddock <rusty@...>
K2DMS wrote:
>CP -a /home/sysop/spider.new/ /spider > >maybe should be > >cp -a /home/sysop/spider.new/ /spider > >Unless CP is an alias to cp. I hafta ask -- why aren't you simply creating a symbolic link? sudo ln -s /home/sysop/spider.new /spider Not sure how much file space is used by ~sysop/spider.new but it's getting duplicated with a 'cp'. A symbolic link is simply a "pointer" yet effectively connects /spider to ~sysop/spider.new. On the other hand, if you want to keep the spider.new directory pristine in case something goes wrong... 'cp' is not a bad thing. Sorry for jumping in out of the left-field bleachers. :) -Rusty- -- _____ Rusty Haddock <=> AE5AE |\/ o \ o Way out yonder in the | ( -< O o Van Alstyne (TX) Metropolitan Area |/\__V__/ Math illiteracy affects 7 out of 5 people!
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Tim G3PJD
CP in caps is my typo in this posting. I typed it correctly when loading the SD.
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Note to self: Read through more carefully before hitting 'SEND'! 73 Self
--- In Raspberry_Pi_4-Ham_RADIO@yahoogroups.com, "K2DMS" wrote:
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Tim G3PJD
As I understand it, the contents of spider.new are copied to /spider by this line, and the next line in the procedure removes the directory spider.new.
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If I am right, then this little glimmer of understanding is clear progress for me!! Not sure what a left field bleacher is, but it sounds painful! 73 Tim G3PJD
--- In Raspberry_Pi_4-Ham_RADIO@yahoogroups.com, Rusty Haddock wrote:
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n6ws
Tim, Were you able to get DXSpider to run using v1.05 of the instructions? 73, Bill N6WS
On 02/11/2013 03:29 AM, g3pjd wrote:
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Jim Thisdale
the easiest way to do this that I know of is using a GUI file manager, 2nd way is using the file manager in webmin.
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if you want to do it from the command line then try this: you could try reading the manual on the copy command: man cp or just try this: cd /home/sysop/spider.new cp -R * /spider this might also work: cp -R .. /spider that will copy all files without a "." in them. if there are files with periods in the filenames, you might have to run it again with *.* the switch [-R | -r | --recursive] should copy the sub-directories recursively. -Jim- Visit my Pi running ircddb, dvrptr, Apache & many other things: http://n1jmm.no-ip.org
On 2/7/13 11:50 AM, g3pjd wrote:
Has anybody tried Bill, N6WS' procedure for installing DX Spider on Raspi? I have had two attempts, the second one after re-formatting and re imaging my SD, but both attempts failed at "CP -a /home/sysop/spider.new/ /spider" (my quote marks) with the error message 'cannot overwrite non-directory /spider with directory /home/sysop/spider.new/'
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