[Dxspider-support] Is the usdbraw.gz being maintained? - RESOLVED

[Laurie, VK3AMA]

Hello Mike,

Problem has now been resolved.

A message Rick, SM6U, mentioned data/usdb.v1 and permissions/ownership 
of that file. I neglected to mention that this is on a Windows XP 
machine. Anyway the permissions were OK, they were not the cause.

I checked usdb.v1 and found it with a timestamp of 2011 despite my 
numerous tests yesterday. In the same folder was usdb.v1.new with a 
timestamp matching the last time I ran create_usdb.pl. The v1 file was 
over 3MB smaller than the v1.new file. I removed both usdb.v1 files and 
reran create_usdb.pl, problem solved.

Further testing indicates that the usdb.v1.new file created by 
create_usdb.pl never replaces the existing usdb.v1 file so the update is 
not loaded. Is this a Windows/Unix issue I don't know? It is easily 
overcome with an additional file copy command in my usdb 
download/create/update cron batch file.

Thanks to all those who helped.

de Laurie, VK3AMA

On 8/10/2012 12:16 AM, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
> Hello Laurie,
>    I have checked the latest usdbraw.gz created this morning as well
> as for the last couple of weeks and AH0KT does resolve as expected.
>    I suspect some sort of procedure error on your end. Be sure that
> you are running create_usdb.pl on the correct file. To be absolutely
> sure, do the following:
>
> cd /spider/data
> rm usdbraw.gz
> wget ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz
> /spider/perl/create_usdb.pl ./usdbraw.gz
>
> Now go on the console and 'load/usdb'
>
> This should now work. If not, let me know and I will try and debug the
> issue more.
>
> 73 de Mike, W1NR
>
>
> On 10/07/2012 01:41 AM, Laurie, VK3AMA wrote:
>> Today, while pursuing an issue with a AH0KT (Mariana Is) spot, from my
>> Spider node, being displayed as the United States in the CC User
>> (ARUser) program. Lee, VE7CC, advised that this is due to the CC11 data
>> not specify a State, despite the correct KH0 prefix being present in the
>> data and indicated that my Spider USDB was old.
>>
>> I downloaded the latest from here ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz (is that
>> the correct file?) and performed the necessary create_usdb.pl and
>> load/usdb.
>>
>> Performing a sh/usdb AH0KT on the console returned "Not Found".
>>
>> An FCC lookup of AH0KT produced the following - Issued: 03/08/2011 and
>> Expires: 03/08/2021 which suggest that the usdbraw.gz is at least 12
>> months out of date. Am I correct or am I missing something? Is the file
>> still being maintained?
>>
>> Regards
>> de Laurie, VK3AMA
>>
>>
>>
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