[Dxspider-support] Re: Auto updating Keplerian elements

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

Thanks, Eric.  I'll try this tonight.

--- Eric Carling <eric at g0cgl.f2s.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>--
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