Skippy Search
Welcome to Skippy Version 1.02 (Release Date 10 April 2020)
Version 1.02.1 (Release Date 15 April 2020)
The first OLSR mesh based network search engine
Skippy 1.02 has two known bugs. First bug is in file permissions, where ownership of /opt/search is not set to www-data, preventing Skippy from posting results. The second bug in in Skippy itself, where Skippy does not return the last result in the list.
These are now fixed in Skippy_1.02-1-all.deb, which can be installed with instructions below, and wi
ll either install from scratch or upgrade your existing Skippy Install. Thanks for your understanding during this period of
initial release of Skippy.
To Install on:
Debian Linux;
Ubuntu Linux;
Linux Mint; or,
Raspberry Pi,
Linux based systems, cut and paste the follow three lines into your terminal winodow on the server you wish to install Skippy:
sudo -s
wget http://mesahams.net/skippy_1.02-1-all.deb -O /usr/local/src/skippy_1.02-1-all.deb
apt-get update && apt-get install /usr/local/src/skippy_1.02-1-all.deb
vi /etc/skippy.conf # configure your node, everything in here is case sensitive.
Go into your node and create an advertisement and port, also forward port to server with Skippy. If router, also configure port forward on router as port forward to server.
Service: Skippy Mesh Search (linked) url yourcallsign:port/cgi-bin/skippy?search=_start