[Dxspider-support] SHOW/DX ignoring old spots

[Darren G0TSM]

Just one thing to remember, the higher the maxdays the longer a SH/DX 
search will take when it doesnt find what you are looking for.
I speed things up in windows by keeping the spot data in the disk cache by 
adding a line in the crontab file

3,7,12,17,22,27,32,37,42,47,52,57 * * * * run_cmd('SH/DX XYZ0XYZ')

This searches for a call which is never found so looks through all the spot 
data back to your maxdays limit.
The downside of this is that i guess a glitch in the power could corrupt 
the files?, but i've never had any problems.

Darren G0TSM/GB7EDX


At 21:12 05/05/2005, you wrote:
>Sorry !!!
>My mistake on cut and paste...
>
>...a line similar to the following:
>
>set/var $Spot::maxdays = 1000
>
>73 de Luigi, ik5zuk
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Chalmas" <rchalmas at users.ch>
>To: "The DXSpider Support list" <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
>Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 10:52 PM
>Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] SHOW/DX ignoring old spots
>
>
> > Hi Arnold,
> >
> > Congratulations for finding the solution to my problem !
> > I never had the idea to check this file.
> >
> > I tried on my test node to change $maxdays to 1000 before starting
> > the cluster software and it worked OK.
> > I tried this also on the real node and did a load/cmd_cache but
> > no result. Obviously, a restart of the node is needed, but I won't
> > do it now only for this reason.
> >
> > Thanks and vy 73's de            Robert - HB9BZA
> >
> > > I don't think it's a bug, if I understand it well those parameters are
> > > defined in /spider/perl/Spot.pm
> > >
> > > (search for $maxdays)
> > >
> > > Like always if you want to make changes copy Spot.pm to /spider/local
> > > and  make the changes in /spider/local/Spot.pm
> >
> > --
> > Robert CHALMAS, PO Box 1225, CH-1227 Carouge/GE, SWITZERLAND
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