[Dxspider-support] User database/info seems to vanish

[Michael Carper, Ph.D.]

Well, actually, after adding space... I still find that this comes up every
time I connect (even after filling it out):

Please enter your name, set/name <your name>
Please enter your QTH, set/qth <your qth>
Please enter your location with set/location or set/qra
Please enter your Home Node, set/homenode <your home DX Cluster>


On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 11:03 PM Michael Carper, Ph.D. <mike at wa9pie.net>
wrote:

> I'll look into that, Dirk.  But since doubling the disk space, the
> original problem I reported has vanished.
>
> Mike, WA9PIE
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 6:55 PM Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I'm struggling to understand why (one presumes) DXSpider is consuming so
>> much disk space.
>>
>> On GB7DJK I have 20 years of data
>>
>> spots 3.4G
>> logs 5.5G
>> debug 1.3G
>>
>> debug is only so big because I have several users and node links, each
>> day is 120-150MB and there will be up to 11 files.
>>
>> Is there any evidence in the debug files of restarts? (grep orft debug/*)
>>
>> This is what a "normal" restart or stoppage from any signal except KILL
>> should look like:
>>
>> If you find that string in one of your debug files, what happens before
>> that? Specifically before the actual start string - something like:
>>
>> 1542243714^DXSpider V1.57, build 135 (git: c60ec0c[r]) started
>> 1542243714^Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
>>
>> "orft we jolly well go" is the end of initialisation and "bye bye
>> everyone - bye bye" indicates the end of a controlled shutdown (either by
>> command or a TERM or other catchable signal). [ed: (cough) older people in
>> the UK may recognise these as catch phrases from the TV and radio]
>>
>> They are there as erm.. "unusual" strings that one can grep for.
>>
>> 73 Dirk G1TLH
>>
>> On 23/11/2018 00:14, Michael Carper, Ph.D. wrote:
>>
>> I just doubled the disk space.  It's now got (55% free):
>>
>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sda1        40G   17G   21G  45% /
>> tmpfs           1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /dev/shm
>>
>> Mike, WA9PIE
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:57 PM Michael Carper, Ph.D. <mike at wa9pie.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dirk,
>>>
>>> The specs on this machine are as follows:
>>>
>>> Google Cloud Platform
>>> Machine type; n1-standard-1 (1 vCPU, 3.75 GB memory)
>>> ********
>>> Disk Usage (GB)
>>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/sda1        20G   18G  1.5G  93% /
>>> tmpfs           1.8G     0  1.8G   0% /dev/shm
>>> ********
>>> Memory Usage (MB)
>>>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>> Mem:          3707       3587        120          0        159       3045
>>> -/+ buffers/cache:        382       3324
>>> Swap:            0          0          0
>>> ********
>>>
>>> ...maybe it's low on disk space?
>>>
>>> Mike, WA9PIE
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 6:38 AM Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <
>>> dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What machine is this running on and what are you using for disk space?
>>>>
>>>> Dirk
>>>>
>>>> On 15/11/2018 07:36, Michael Carper, Ph.D. via Dxspider-support wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Greetings all.
>>>>
>>>> Recently, it seems my node (WA9PIE-2) has lost its user database.  The
>>>> node has probably restarted without cause.
>>>>
>>>> I say the node has lots its user database because my own login is
>>>> greeted with the following:
>>>>
>>>> Hello WA9PIE, this is WA9PIE-2 in Prosper, TX
>>>> running DXSpider V1.55 build 0.181
>>>> ===
>>>> Questions about the WA9PIE-2 Global DX Spotting Network:
>>>> email: mike at wa9pie.net
>>>> ===
>>>> Cluster: 396 nodes, 344 local / 3207 total users  Max users 6269
>>>> Uptime 3 22:26
>>>> Please enter your name, set/name <your name>
>>>> Please enter your QTH, set/qth <your qth>
>>>> Please enter your location with set/location or set/qra
>>>> Please enter your Home Node, set/homenode <your home DX Cluster>
>>>> WA9PIE de WA9PIE-2 15-Nov-2018 0727Z dxspider >
>>>>
>>>> I've logged into my own node many times and have set all these values.
>>>> Why would it lose them?  Why would it restart?
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else seen this happen?  Does anyone know what I can do to
>>>> avoid it and get the node back to "normal?"
>>>>
>>>> Mike, WA9PIE
>>>>
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