[Dxspider-support] user_asc creation issue

[Dirk Koopman G1TLH]

This is a userfile corruption issue, which I have not experienced. 
However it seems to be caused by some kind of duff data.

Have you looked at the generated user_asc? There are probably some (a 
lot) of repeated lines. You probably need to find the repeated callsigns 
in the non-expanded user_asc, delete those, regenerate the users.v3 file 
and see what happens.

Dirk

Or I go look...

Brendan Minish wrote:
> hello 
> 
> i am helping to mind a dxspider cluster and i have an issue where
> user_asc grows to the point where it fills the entire hard disk
> (normally it's got around 6.5G free space available)
> 
> The cluster is running on centos 5.3 64bit and the host machine is an
> XEN virtual machine 
> 
> Dxspider is running the latest build 
> 
> this cluster was moved from another machine, whihc was running an old
> version of slackware (32 bit)  
> 
> the move was done by git-pulling a new version, copying across the data
> and then running update_sysop.pl
> 
> I have tried removing users.v3 and recreating the user database from an
> old (pre-migration ) copy of user_asc but the problem reoccurs. 
> 
> the problem persists, how do I resolve &/or debug this issue, preferably
> whilst preserving the user database largely intact ? 
> 
> the perl (&perl modules) and virtual machine configuration is identical
> to my own cluster (EI7MRE) which does not exhibit this issue 
>