[Dxspider-support] Help request - unable to save user settings

[Michael Carper, Ph.D.]

Here's an update on this problem.

This problem went away just as mysteriously as it arrived. Lasted for about
a year +/-. Weird.

Mike, VK4/WA9PIE

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:43 AM Michael Carper, Ph.D. <mike at wa9pie.net>
wrote:

> Since sometime last fall, users making connection to my cluster (WA9PIE-2)
> have been unable to save settings.  So every time the user connects, they
> are greeted with:
>
> 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/qraPlease
> enter your Home Node, set/homenode <your home DX Cluster>WA9PIE de
> WA9PIE-2 29-Jan-2019 0739Z dxspider >
>
> In addition, users can't save filters (which, for the 800 - 1000 users
> that connect here, this is a significant problem).
>
> I've tried some things and haven't been successful.  The permissions are
> correct.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Has anyone seen this happen before?  Does anyone know of a way to fix it?
>
> At this point, the users.v3 file is complete rubbish and unimportant
> (since it's not retaining anything anyway).
>
> If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
>
> Mike, WA9PIE
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/pipermail/dxspider-support/attachments/20200324/9b8730d7/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image.png
Type: image/png
Size: 26294 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/pipermail/dxspider-support/attachments/20200324/9b8730d7/attachment-0001.png>