[Dxspider-support] user_asc creation issue

[Dirk Koopman G1TLH]

export_users

Brendan Minish wrote:
> Dirk
> 
> is there a command I can run to get the cluster to attempt to generate
> the user_asc file rather than modify the crontab line that reads 
> DXUser::export("$main::data/user_asc")
> 
> 73
> Brendan EI6IZ 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 13:26 +0100, Dirk Koopman G1TLH wrote:
>> 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 
>>>
>>
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