[Dxspider-support] SHOW/CONTEST shuts down Spider

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

Hi John,
   It is working here at W1NR.  Have you tried overwriting everything
with CVSlatest.tgz/.zip?  Be sure to reset permissions after.  Maybe
something is borked that CVS isn't picking up.

Mike, W1NR


John Buttery wrote:
> Hi
>
> A number of days ago I posted a message to say that SHOW/CONTEST caused
> Spider, on GB7WDX, to shut down
>
> I am running 1.54.173 on a linux server.
>
> The debug info is:
>
> 1191498988^<- I G7OPJ sh/contest
> 1191498988^-> D G7OPJ Can't use subscript on split at (eval 42) line 25,
> near "$m]"
> 1191498988^-> D G7OPJ G7OPJ de GB7WDX  4-Oct-2007 1156Z dxspider >
>
> 1191499015^<- I G7OPJ sh/contest sep2007 
> 1191499015^Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method
> DXCommandmode::cmd_show_contest() is deprecated at
> /spider/perl/DXCommandmode.pm line 532.
> 1191499015^ at /spider/perl/cluster.pl line 512 
> 1191499015^Non-existant field 'DXCommandmode::cmd_show_contest' at
> /spider/perl/cluster.pl line 512 
> 1191499015^DXChannel GB7DJK destroyed (3) 
> 1191499015^DXChannel G7OPJ destroyed (2) 
> 1191499015^DXChannel GB7WDX destroyed (1) 
> 1191499019^cluster 
> 1191499019^DXSpider V1.54, build 0.162 started 
> 1191499019^Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
>
> Any help would be much appreciated, as I have to keep deleting contest.pl
> after each CVS in order to stop it being used.
>
> Ideally, I would obviously like the command to be available.
>
> Best wishes
>
> John, g7opj
>