[Dxspider-support] User's records deleted, too old

[Dirk Koopman G1TLH]

Luigi Carlotto, IK5ZUK wrote:
> Hello Dirk, hello all !
> Some days ago my Linux box has suffered an HD failure and due to this 
> I've lost all the datas inside.
> Now I've installed a new disk with a brand new Linux release (Ubuntu 
> 8.04 Server LTS, previously it was running an old Fedora Core 5) and 
> spider with all the other stuff is working fine...
> In these days I had to enter manually for each local users the set/regi 
> and the relative password to connect (due to security I've enabled the 
> registration and for each registered call I set up a password) and 
> today, giving a sh/regi, I've discovered that a great part of the 
> registered users are deleted. Making some investigations with sh/log, 
> I've found that spider has deleted the users because "too old"...
> You can see below an example:
> 
> IK5ZUK-1 de IK5ZUK-6 10-Sep-2008 1400Z dxspider >
> sh/log iq0gh
> 01Sep2008 at 21:22:59 IK5ZUK registered IQ0GH
> 01Sep2008 at 21:23:29 IK5ZUK changed password for iq0gh
> 03Sep2008 at 00:01:00 IQ0GH deleted, too old
> 05Sep2008 at 08:17:55 IK5ZUK registered IQ0GH
> 05Sep2008 at 08:18:29 IK5ZUK changed password for iq0gh
> 10Sep2008 at 00:01:00 IQ0GH deleted, too old
> IK5ZUK-1 de IK5ZUK-6 10-Sep-2008 1400Z dxspider >
> 
> Why this ?? May be possible to change the "age level" for the user's 
> records or, at least, temporally disable the auto-delete for that ??
> 

This happens to user records that don't have any "useful" information on 
them and have not logged in, in the last year. For this not to occur, 
one of Lat+Long, qth or qra locator has to be present. One could argue 
that being registered should also prevent one being deleted, but 
(currently) that isn't the case.

There probably is a bug, in that the 'lastin' time is not updated when 
you register someone from scratch. The other way around this is simply 
to login as that newly registered user.

Dirk