[Dxspider-support] Auto-connect not working

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 23:20 -0400, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I'm running build 57.263 on Windows XP using Cygwin X/Perl
> 
> I have a w1nr connect script, and from the console, logged in as 
> sysop, I can connect by typing:
> 
>    connect w1nr
> 
> At the suggestion of W1NR, I created a startup script in the scripts 
> directory, with this line:
> 
>    connect w1nr
> 
> When I start DXSpider (perl cluster.pl), I get this error message:
> 
> 	reading cron jobs ...
> 	cron: reading /cygdrive/e/spider/cmd/crontab
> 	cron: adding 1 0 * * 3 DXUser::export("$main::data/user_asc")%0D
> 	cron: adding 5 0 * * * DXDebug::dbgclean()%0D
> 	cron: adding 0 3 * * * Spot::daily()%0D
> 	reading database descriptors ...
> 	doing local initialisation ...
> 	orft we jolly well go ...
> 	no connect script called "w1nr%0D" found in /cygdrive/e/spider/connect
> 
> Anyone know why it's not recognizing the connect comand in the startup script?

A connect script should be in spider/connect, not in spider/scripts.
That doesn't sound like the correct syntax for a connect script,
although I am running the Linux version and things might be different
with Windows (see Section 4.6 of installation_en.txt).

73, Bob N7XY