[Dxspider-support] Re: Auto updating Keplerian elements

[Eric Carling]

Assuming your Spider is running in Perl for Windows as mine is, it may be be 
of some interest that I could not make Jesus' method work and he did confirm 
that it was for Linux systems.

Paul YV1DIG kindly helped me out with the following and I find this works 
perfectly:

"I run the bat file daily as is not a big deal (at 00:00 hours).

Just make a .bat file like this called keps.bat (wich resides on a folder I 
created under /Spider called BAT
Also i downloaded the wget.exe, and the .dll's in the same folder

Keps.bat source is as following:

 C:\spider\bat\wget -nv --output-document=nasa.txt 
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe c:\spider\perl\convkeps.pl -p c:\spider\bat\nasa.txt
copy c:\spider\bat\nasa.txt c:\spider\packclus\nasa.txt

1st line is to get the AMSAT keps, but you just can use the source you want
2nd line converts the keps to the cluster proper configuration
3rd line is to put the file in the "file" area to be used by the users (just 
if you want to)

Then add to the CRONTAB the following :

5 0 * * * run_cmd('load/keps')

this is to load the keps, and all job is done. I added another line to let 
my users know that file is available and command sh/sat has updated keps:

6 0 * * * run_cmd('ann Keplerian Elements has been updated, file nasa.txt 
available')

This works fine... hope it helps to you"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "t3" <T3 at semarg.ath.cx>
To: "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Re: Auto updating Keplerian elements


>I seem to be having, almost the same problem
> i can D-load the keps with the script file, then i here the hard-disk 
> working, im guessing converting the keps over,
> then crash
> spider window closes
>
> Tony
> NN1D
>
>
> Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>
>>More info:
>>
>>The old keps.pm was in spider/perl
>>
>>The new keps.pm was in spider/local
>>
>>I copied the new one to spider/perl and did load/keps again.
>>
>>Still no change.
>>
>>--- Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I finally got around to Jesus' mail.
>>>
>>>I ran the wget and convkeps.pl commands manually, I have a new keps.pm 
>>>file.
>>>
>>>I did the load/keps command.
>>>
>>>sh/ssat still shows all very OLD elements (older than 1000 days).
>>>
>>>I restarted my cluster, same thing.
>>>
>>>Did I do something wrong?
>>>
>>>Am running on WINDOWS, not Linux
>>>
>>>73 - Jim AD1C
>>>telnet://dxc.ad1c.us
>>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863
>>USA +978-251-9933, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
>>
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