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

Tue Oct 8 00:03:35 CEST 2019

A further search suggests that this directory is used by an MTA called 
'dma' which apparently stands for Dragonfly Mail Agent. Obviously not 
anything to do with DXSpider.

What you are seeing is the contents of stdout from cluster.pl. [Sidebar: 
I suppose it's probably about time I dispensed with this as it is a 
daemon and nobody looks at it - not even me!]

I don't know how you are starting cluster.pl, but I would expect to see 
something ending in "....cluster.pl > /dev/null" or "...cluster.pl > 
/dev/tty7" I (now) prefer the first version.

Does this help?

Dirk

On 07/10/2019 22:22, Howard Leadmon wrote:
>     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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