[Dxspider-support] Keps

[Dirk Koopman]

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 21:47, Simon Ravnic wrote:
> > Has anyone automated the process of converting and load the Keps to
> > DXSpider?   Would you mind sharing the procedure?
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Here is what I do:
> in /etc/crontab there is the line:
> 
> 1 1 * * 7 root /spider/perl/kepler
> 
> and /spider/perl/kepler looks like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> cd /spider/perl
> rm nasa.all
> wget http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasa.all
> ./convkeps.pl nasa.all
> 
> As a root of the system I get an email everytime this script is run, which
> reminds me (automagically) to do a load/keps as a sysop in my S50DXS node. I
> don't how to
> automate this last step and would be glad to learn.
> 

in your /spider/local_cmd/crontab add:-

10 1 * * 7 run_cmd('load/keps')


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