[Dxspider-support] DXSpider crontabs in general

[James Snider]

Not sure if usb was working before.  I’m just running a standard install on a raspberry pi.

I tried your commands but I get the same results.  When we do the create_usdb.pl what is the name of the file that gets created and where does it reside?  I want to make sure that it’s getting created.

Jim W8BS

James Snider
jim at lexiann.com



> On Dec 26, 2020, at 12:02 PM, Stephen Carroll <scarroll659 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Jim,
> 
> I'm assuming you've had the USDB running previously and just updating?
> 
> If you are manually executing commands in the terminal window, here's what I've been using for the past year:
> 
> cd /spider/data
> 
> wget -qN ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz <ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz>
> /spider/perl/create_usdb.pl usdbraw.gz
> 
> rm usdbraw.gz
> 
> Then login and type: load/usdb
> 
> I'm somewhat new to linux and currently working on automating this process in crontab with the help of this listserver.
> 
> 73, Steve - AA4U
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/26/2020 6:27 AM, James Snider via Dxspider-support wrote:
>> Was playing with some of these commands this morning and was trying to update the usdb files so I did the following
>> 
>> 
>> cd /spider
>> wget ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz <ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz>
>> 
>> Then I executed this
>> 
>> /spider/perl/create_usdb.pl usdbraw.gz
>> 
>> It came back with this
>> 
>> 1462465 records
>> 
>> 
>> But when I log in and do load/usdb I get this
>> 
>> 
>> W8BS de W8BS-2 26-Dec-2020 1220Z dxspider >
>> load/usdb
>> US Database not loaded
>> W8BS de W8BS-2 26-Dec-2020 1221Z dxspider >
>> 
>> 
>> What am I missing here??
>> 
>> Jim W8BS
>> 
>> 
>> James Snider
>> jim at lexiann.com <mailto:jim at lexiann.com>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 24, 2020, at 2:21 AM, David Spoelstra via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk <mailto:dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Since we're sharing, I thought I'd give everyone my entire DXSpider crontab. Maybe I can help others and maybe someone has a better way of doing something than I do. BTW, mine has been running flawlessly for years.
>>> -David, N9KT
>>> 
>>> # /spider/local_cmd/crontab
>>> # MAKE SURE /spider/cmd_import EXISTS!
>>> # min, hour, day-of-month, month, day-of-week (0=Sun)
>>> # TIME IS UTC!
>>> 
>>> # Connect to other nodes
>>> * * * * * start_connect('w9pa') unless connected('w9pa')
>>> * * * * * start_connect('wb3ffv') unless connected('wb3ffv')
>>> * * * * * start_connect('ky4xx') unless connected('ky4xx')
>>> 
>>> # Monday 1am local - Get latest FCC data (W1NR updates Sundays)
>>> 0  5 * * 1 spawn("cd /tmp && wget -qN ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz <ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz>&& /spider/perl/create_usdb.pl <http://create_usdb.pl/> usdbraw.gz")
>>> 15 5 * * 1 run_cmd("load/usdb")
>>> 30 5 * * 1 spawn("rm /tmp/usdbraw.gz")
>>> 
>>> # Friday 1am local - Get latest Keps to be ready for any contest
>>> 0  5 * * 5 spawn("cd /tmp && wget -qN http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt <http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt> && /spider/perl/convkeps.pl <http://convkeps.pl/> -p nasabare.txt")
>>> 15 5 * * 5 run_cmd("load/keps")
>>> 30 5 * * 5 spawn("rm /tmp/nasabare.txt")
>>> 
>>> # Friday 2am local - Get latest cty.dat to be ready for any contest
>>> 0  6 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider/data && wget -qN http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat <http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat>")
>>> 15 6 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider/data && wget -qN http://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw <http://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw>")
>>> 30 6 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider/data && /spider/perl/create_prefix.pl <http://create_prefix.pl/>")
>>> 45 6 * * 5 run_cmd("load/prefixes")
>>> 
>>> # Friday 3am local - Update DXSpider to be ready for any contest
>>> 0  7 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider && git reset --hard && git pull")
>>> 
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