[Dxspider-support] User_interval back to 11mins after update to build 196

[Dirk Koopman]

The ordering of the where the value  of the $user_interval is has 
changed. This is to make a common structure for both the "master" and 
"mojo" branches possible.

The normal way to change most parameters is to create a "startup" 
script. You do this by editing /spider/scripts/startup and adding:

set/var $main::user_interval = 30*60

to the (bottom of) the file. The value for this parameter is in seconds.

The startup file may already exist and will (likely) be a copy of 
startup.issue in the scripts directory. You can change any parameter in 
the system to your taste in this file.

I'm afraid that I didn't pick this up when I changed it as I am pretty 
sure that I have been asked about this before and I assumed that, as 
most people don't bother this, and those that have changed it in the 
past have been advised to use the startup script method. My apologies 
for the inconvenience.

As an aside, the default is very carefully chosen but probably no longer 
relevant as it is the maximum (simple) value to keep a BPQ node 
connected user connected in the event of there being absolutely no 
traffic on the link. Now, on a modern cluster node this happens so 
rarely that it can only really occur if the user has chosen to filter 
the output they get to the point where almost no traffic is received, If 
that *is* the case then it would be much better to use the "set/startup" 
command to set a user specific value.

Rather annoyingly, I see no help on "set/startup" or indeed 
"show/startup". Something else to put on my list...

You can, for instance, do "set/startup startup" (or "show/startup 
startup") from the command line if you are sysop. Anything you write 
into the command line is stored until you type /EX on a new line.  You 
can alter the 'user_default' script in the same way.

Dirk G1TLH

On 17/12/17 22:46, Martin Davies G0HDB wrote:
> Hello all, after an uptime of approx 6 months I recently rebooted the GB7DXC-5 DXCluster
> node, which runs on a Raspberry Pi Model B+.  I've subsequently found that after the reboot,
> which brought DXSpider V1.55 build 196 into operation (was previously 192 I think), the
> user_interval time between unsolicited user prompts in the absence of any user traffic seems
> to have reverted to the default value of 11mins even though the value in the DXVars.pm file
> is specified as 30mins ($user_interval = 30*60).
>
> Has anyone else observed this, and is it indicative of a change (or something else!) in build
> 196?
>
> 73, and thanks in advance,
>
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> Martin, G0HDB
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