[Dxspider-support] usdb and dxqsl not working?

[Rene Olsen]

Hi.

It seems as if none of the data files I have from my old system can be used.

I also had to recreate the users.v3 file by running perl user_asc. The old users.v3 file didn't 
work. I don't recall spider giving out any errors when I started it, but the users just wasn't 
there.

My sh/dxqsl and sh/usdb also seems to be working now.

I deleted both the qsl.v1 and the usdb file in the data folder, and recreated them by running 
create_qsl and create_usdb. Luckily I have spots going back to 2002, so I guess the qsl.v1 
file has all the same information as the old one, eventhough it is quite a bit smaller. The new 
one is around 9 MB in size, and the old one is 12 MB in size. But maybe the old one has 
more information in it. I don't know. Is there any way to see how many entries the qsl.v1 file 
has?

Wether it is the change from 32 to 64 bit, or the change in perl version and newer versions of 
the modules I don't know. But I have had to recreate all the data files.

Vy 73 de René / OZ1LQH


On 27 Nov 2016 at 19:00, dxspider-support at dxcluster.or wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Just as I thought everything was working like it should I can see that sh/usdb and sh/dxqsl 
> doesn't seem to work.
> 
> It looks to me like the file qsl.v1 is not even being updated anymore.
> 
> Should this not just happen automatically?
> 
> Or does a db need to be created for it to work.
> 
> The docs really don't mention much about it.
> 
> Hopefully it is not something with the format of the qsl.v1 after I have moved from the old 32 
> bit machine running perl 5.6.1 to the current 64 bit system running perl v5.20.2.
> 
> Any idea what I have to do to get sh/usdb and sh/dxqsl to work again?
> 
> I would really hate to loose all the information in the qsl.v1 file, since it has been gathering 
> data for a lot of years.
> 
> I have of course downloaded the usdb file and done a create_usdb.pl and afterwards a 
> load/usdb.
> 
> But whenever I do a sh/usdb request I am just being told that it isn't found.
> 
> sh/usdb k3zo
> K3ZO    -> Not Found
> 
> sh/usdb w3lpl
> W3LPL   -> Not Found
> 
> And sh/dxqsl returns this:
> 
> sh/dxqsl 5h1ww
> Call           Manager   Times  Last Time Seen      De
> Sorry, but key: 5H1WW was not found in QSL
> 
> I have no idea what I have done wrong. Everything just worked on the old system.
> 
> Vy 73 de René / OZ1LQH
>