[Dxspider-support] restarts

[Dirk Koopman]

Gunnar Widell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Get restarts when sm7gvf-6 dx-spider connects.
> The problem "probably" started after I took some updates for my Fedora 
> Core 5 box. My old PIII 500MHz died during my vacation in CE5, after 
> many years of service, and now on the new computer dx-spider has 
> problems. (I use the same HD, Linux installation and spider, only new 
> computer).
> 
> Could be a user database problem, and I have tried the "stop spider, 
> perl user_asc" procedure, but my computer runs out of memory (1GB RAM + 
> swap) and kills the process after a wile.
> 
> How to continue?
> 

Do an ls -l /spider/data
look to see if the user_asc is significantly larger / different from the 
  .o or .oo etc versions.

Avoid the files that are significantly larger. Look at the ascii files 
with the editor of your choice. Remove any suspicious lines.

Try again.

Dirk