[Dxspider-support] [sysops] Temp Files..

Mon Oct 7 23:22:51 CEST 2019

     Hello Dirk,

  Thanks for responding, and you are correct it's running under FreeBSD 
11.2 Stable at this time, and running under the following version of perl:

Perl 5, version 28, subversion 1 (v5.28.1) built for 
amd64-freebsd-thread-multi

Good question on it writing into this dma folder, but for sure it's 
always done it, and I just wipe it out when it gets to large.  If I look 
at what is in the file, I see this:  (just a snip from the file)

<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^PY3NZ-8^76800.01^K^5PY3NZ-8:5455:0.115^9^8^H92^
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^PY5JO-11^76785.02^A^^5PY3NZ-8^H93^
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^PY3NZ-8^76801^A^^5PY5JO-11:177.40.36.192^H93^
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^UT4ULP-5^76800.02^A^^7EI7MRE:2a00,1098,86,54,,1^H92^
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^EA4RCH-5^76801^D^^5ON4KST^H95^
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^PY1NB-4^76802^D^^5DH1TW-2^H95^
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^F6KVP-3^76800^D^^5UR4QRH-2^H95^
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^ON0NOL-9^76802^D^^5R2DGO-1^H95^
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^F8KHI-3^76802^D^^5VE3CGR-5^H94^
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^W5CMM-1^76800^D^^5M0KGX-3^H92^
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^PA4JJ-3^76802^D^^5N2KI-9^H92^
<- I VE2REA PC92^N6WS-6^76794^D^^5DB0SUE-7^H93^
<- I VE2REA PC92^ON0NOL-9^76800^D^^5ON0DXC^H92^
<- I VE2REA PC11^1840.0^PA0WCH^07-Oct-2019^2119Z^FT8 
JO21RJ<>IM76HG^EA7FDR^EA1DX^H93^~
<- I VE2REA PC92^IW2EVH-6^76800^D^^5IQ8XF^H94^
<- I VE2REA PC92^PY1NB-4^76800^D^^5IW0QNL^H95^
-> D KA1R DX de NX5T:      18120.0  V31JW        59 in 
TX                       2119Z%07%07
-> D N9KT-2 PC61^18120.0^V31JW^ 7-Oct-2019^2119Z^59 in 
TX^NX5T^N6WS-6^63.249.43.100^H28^~
-> D F4GVE-2 PC61^18120.0^V31JW^ 7-Oct-2019^2119Z^59 in 
TX^NX5T^N6WS-6^63.249.43.100^H28^~
-> D SR9DDF-12 PC61^18120.0^V31JW^ 7-Oct-2019^2119Z^59 in 
TX^NX5T^N6WS-6^63.249.43.100^H28^~
-> D PY4OG-2 PC61^18120.0^V31JW^ 7-Oct-2019^2119Z^59 in 
TX^NX5T^N6WS-6^63.249.43.100^H28^~
-> D VE3TOK-1 PC61^18120.0^V31JW^ 7-Oct-2019^2119Z^59 in 
TX^NX5T^N6WS-6^63.249.43.100^H28^~
-> D G3LRS-2 PC61^18120.0^V31JW^ 7-Oct-2019^2119Z^59 in 
TX^NX5T^N6WS-6^63.249.43.100^H28^~

It seems to just drop the blobs of data like this into the file about 
ever say 30-60 seconds.   I just assumed it was a logging point for 
everything that it processed, but just never got rotated..

73's de WB3FFV

---
Howard Leadmon - howard at leadmon.net
PBW Communications, LLC
http://www.pbwcomm.com

On 10/7/2019 4:53 PM, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support wrote:
> There are a few things:
>
> 1. DXSpider does not (intentionally) write to anywhere out of the 
> /spider tree.
> 2. A swift search suggests that /var/spool/dma is a FreeBSDism.
> 3. What's in it?
> 4. What are you running on?
>
> 73 Dirk G1TLH
>
> On 07/10/2019 19:24, Howard Leadmon wrote:
>>
>>  Probably a Dirk question, but it seems that DXspider uses a never 
>> ending temp file, or I see no sign of rotation, and as it's a temp 
>> name it's not simple to just add it to a rotate script.
>>
>>  I get notifications from my system ever so often that /var is 
>> getting low, and when I look I find a file in /var/spool/dma that is 
>> loaded with logging from the spider node.   A quick ls shows me this 
>> thing gets big..
>>
>> *-rw-rw----  1 sysop  other  98642690048 Oct  7 14:16 tmp_ChMmSPN1mE*
>>
>>
>> I tend to go in and stop the node, and get rid of the file, but I had 
>> having to boot everyone to make sure I have a truncated but usable 
>> temp file for the node to work with.   Are there any suggestions, or 
>> procedures for taking care of this so the drive doesn't run low, and 
>> spider can hum along nicely for months without incident??
>>
>>
>> 73's de WB3FFV
>>
>>   
>> ---
>> Howard Leadmon -howard at leadmon.net
>> PBW Communications, LLC
>> http://www.pbwcomm.com
>>
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