[Dxspider-support] Re: Keps update and 'run_cmd'

[Dirk Koopman]

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 13:13 +0200, Dick wrote:
> Thanks Thomas for a quick reply ...
> 
> I had done the same thing you mention in crontab some time ago and that
> doesn't work [ run_cmd('load/keps') ] .. As a matter of interest if i use
> 'wget' to obtain the keps from the Internet in the crontab it also doesn't
> work but placing it into my linux cron does work with slight syntax changes
> ... statistics which are run every 5 minutes from crontab do work ...
> 
> i must mention that if I'm in DX-Cluster as sysop, i can use the command
> 'load/keps' which does update the keps on my Node ...
> 
> My main problem as i see it, is i cannot get  ' run_cmd ' to execute ....

Erm... run_cmd is a standard DXSpider feature. It isn't anything to do
with any dos/windows/linux command with some similar name. If run_cmd
did not work, then nobody would be able to run any command, of any sort,
(eg: sh/dx) on your system.

Please attach the contents of your /spider/local_cmd/crontab to your
reply, so we can look at it.

Dirk
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Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk>