[Dxspider-support] autoload kepler elements

[Dirk Koopman]

I am trying to remember to gate the weekly 2 line elements to a bulletin
every week. I don't alway remember, but I usually manage it most weeks.

I have changed load/keps so that it does all that is required from a
message. So if the Keps message is no 12432 then

load/keps 12432

will do a convkeps.pl and load/keps all in one step. 

Now, why I didn't do the obvious thing and make load/keps load directly
from a file as well, I have no idea. But intend to sort that out RSN.

Dirk

On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 19:24, Steven Franke wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Simon Ravnic wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > With "wget http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasa.all" on my linux
> > I can download new kepler for e.g. every week. How can I automaticaly load
> > them into Dxspider with load/keps? Or do I have to issue a command manualy
> > each time?
> >
> 
> I believe that at present you must run convkeps.pl externally.
> 
> For example, if you have downloaded nasa.all to /spider/local, then from
> within /spider/local you can issue:
> 
> /spider/perl/convkeps.pl nasa.all
> 
> This creates the file /spider/local/Keps.pm. Then, from the console, issue
> load/keps.
> 
> I suppose that you could run convkeps.pl from a crontab entry, though I
> have not tried this.
> 
> BTW, to make it easy to verify that your keps update was successful it may
> be useful to run sh/sat _before_ updating the keps and then again _after_
> updating the keps, since the sh/sat command reports the age of the keps
> (in days). After load/keps, you should see that the age of the keps has
> decreased.
> 
> Steve, K9AN
> 
> 
> 
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