[Dxspider-support] export_user command

[Bill Coleman N2BC]

Thanks Dirk & Tom

I did delete the .ooo files, but I also had a recent backup!

My user files are 5+Mb.   Tried running user_asc but found I had to delete 
the users.V3 file first.  All is well.

Oh, why am I messing with the cluster in the middle of a contest??? 
Horrible electrical storm here, never heard such static crashes on 20 & 15, 
ever!

Best 73, Bill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirk Koopman" <djk at tobit.co.uk>
To: "Bill Coleman N2BC" <n2bc at stny.rr.com>; "Dxspider-Support" 
<dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] export_user command


> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 10:33 -0400, Bill Coleman N2BC wrote:
>> My DXSpider cluster has been quite well behaved for eons.  Most recent
>> changes are a switch to K1EA for spot feeds and updated WINXP to SP2.
>> Over the past couple weeks the 10G harddrive has filled twice.
>>
>> The users_asc file was 7Gb in both cases.
>>
>> Now I see that the base CRONTAB file has an export-user command in it.
>> I have commented it out.  I have also deleted the 5 generations of
>> users_asc (the .o, .oo, .ooo  etc.).
>>
>> Another observation, my users.V3 is 8Mb - I thought (dangerous) that
>> this would only have my registered users, but it obviously has many
>> many more.
>>
>> So, finally, to my questions:
>>
>> 1) Is there something abberant about my users.V3 file?
>
> Almost certainly, yes, there is. But the way to find out what that is is
> to do an export_user command and then to study the output.
>
> It is a shame that you have removed all the .oooo files (I am presuming
> that these where a lot smaller than 7Gb).
>
> To give you some idea of what is 'normal' here is a listing of my data
> directory:-
>
> -rw-rw-r--   1 djk djk 31039488 Oct 14 11:42 usdb.v1
> -rw-rw-r--   1 djk djk 12769128 Oct 27 01:02 user_asc
> -rw-rw-r--   1 djk djk 12751956 Oct 20 01:02 user_asc.o
> -rw-rw-r--   1 djk djk 12724503 Oct 13 01:02 user_asc.oo
> -rw-rw-r--   1 djk djk 12693723 Oct  6 01:02 user_asc.ooo
> -rw-rw-r--   1 djk djk 12672537 Sep 29 01:02 user_asc.oooo
> -rw-rw-r--   1 djk djk 12645141 Sep 22 01:02 user_asc.ooooo
> -rw-rw-r--   1 djk djk 23310336 Oct 29 14:53 users.v3
>
> You need to know that my users.v3 is the result of 5 years of
> accumulation in a point of the network that sees every PC41 that goes
> around the world.
>
>> 2) What is the purpose of the export_user command in the base CRONTAB
>> file?  I cannot find a companion import function for rebuild or ???
>
> The admin manual tells you how, but basically:
>
> 1. stop the node.
> 2. perl user_asc
> 3. note the errors.
> 4. restart the node.
>
> The user_asc is the exported version of your user file. It allows you to
> rebuild it. It has some simple validation in it.
>
> If you had a .oo or earlier file that was a more reasonable size I would
> recommend doing the above, as I think your user file is, in some way,
> corrupt.
>
> However, if you manually do 'export_asc' and then look at the result, it
> should be obvious what is wrong with it. It should be possible to edit
> out the the rubbish. Alternatively, the validation may just ignore the
> duff records.
>
> Lines look like:
>
> 2E1GTC  bless( {qth => 'Wymondham',lang => 'en',lat => '52.5625',name
> => 'Andrew',node => 'GB7TLH',qra => 'JO02NN',group => ['loca
> l'],sort => 'U',homenode => 'GB7TLH',long => '1.125',call =>
> '2E1GTC',lastin => '920711434'}, 'DXUser' )
>
> You can delete any complete line and that entry will not be imported.
> Please don't fiddle with any of the data within a line unless you really
> do know what you are doing.
>
> Dirk G1TLH
> -- 
> Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk>
>
>