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Spider not starting
i get this error when i try to start the spider
Checking for another instance of spider
Starting spider
No such file or directory at spider.pl line 118

Any ideas's, I was using telnet.

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Please make sure that the file <b>spider.log</b> exists in the folder <b>Plugins/Spider</b>.

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spider.log is there.

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ANy other ideas?

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What is line 118 of spider.pl?? (and the few lines around it). That sort of information helps.

GT hasn't updated the spider recently, I don't think, and I've been able to run each version as a vanilla install without a problem.

This sort of error _usually_ is a configuration error. The spider may have some logic that if you've moved your directories around from the links default, it's not setting properly. But, without looking at the error.log messages and the code for line 118, it's hard to help :)

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Hi Ken,

This is a problem that occurs occasionally. It happens when the mod of the spider.log file is not writable by the spider. The easiest thing to do is to enter the admin/Plugins directory and execute the following command.

chmod -R a+w Spider

Or whatever it takes to allow the spider.pl to write to the .log file and the directory BUT also allowing the web user to write to the directory as well.

hope this helps,
Aki

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If you run into a talented person doing freelance work, and can really make this SPIDER work ... send them my way...PLEASE

Len

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Didn't you read your original post in the Custom Jobs Forum???? Someone ALREADY replied to your Post.

Regards,

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I thought about all the advice everyone had given me and I checked line 118. it basically was directing the path to spider.log

I checked my paths in the web admin setup section. I added /home to the beginning of the path and that fixed it.
I still have to play around with it and make sure everything works.

Thanks everyone.

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Hi,

I ran into the same problem. Cannot find file spider.log error line 118.

This is where the file should be opened. You can replace the

$CFG->{admin_root_path} variable by the true path but as far as I can see

there are no general variables defined, because next error that appears is that

there is an undefied value.

/Plugins/Spider/spider.logCan't call method "debug_level" on an undefined value
at ./spider.pl

Thank you for any help

Regards

Niko