[Dxspider-support] CTY-3105 Country Files - 03 March 2021

David Spoelstra davids at mediamachine.com
Thu Mar 4 03:14:29 CET 2021 

OK, found the problem. I was using http vs https when I fetched the file -
that made all the difference.

If anyone wants to use my DXSpider cron, you are most welcome. Just to make
sure everyone understands, you can put a crontab in /spider/local_cmd/ and
it will run. I put all my DXSpider stuff in there to keep everything
dealing with DXSpider in one place.

My DXSpider crontab in /spider/local_cmd/:

# /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 -Nq ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz &&
/spider/perl/create_usdb.pl usdbraw.gz")
2 5 * * 1 run_cmd("load/usdb")
4 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 -Nq
https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt && /spider/perl/
convkeps.pl -p nasabare.txt")
2 5 * * 5 run_cmd("load/keps")
4 5 * * 5 spawn("rm /tmp/nasabare.txt")

# Friday 1am local - Get latest cty.dat to be ready for any contest
6  5 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider/data && wget -Nq
https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat")
8  5 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider/data && wget -Nq
https://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw")
10 5 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider/data && /spider/perl/create_prefix.pl")
12 5 * * 5 run_cmd("load/prefixes")

# Friday 1am local - Update DXSpider to be ready for any contest
14 5 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider && git reset --hard && git pull")

-David, N9KT


On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 7:54 PM JOSEPH REED via Dxspider-support <
dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> Interesting,
>
> The -N means don’t download unless the file is newer.  Are you doing the
> wget -qn as sysop or another user?  I shamelessly use a crontab script
> written by another contributor (search the archives) or email me off list
> and it just happens without human intervention. That might be the way to go.
>
> Joe N9JR
>
> On Mar 3, 2021, at 6:00 PM, David Spoelstra via Dxspider-support <
> dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I figured out my problem. For some reason wget doesn't see the file as
> having been changed!
>
> $ wget -N http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat
> --2021-03-03 18:50:45--  http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat
> Resolving www.country-files.com (www.country-files.com)... 72.52.250.187
> Connecting to www.country-files.com (www.country-files.com)|72.52.250.187|:80...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 304 Not Modified
> File ‘cty.dat’ not modified on server. Omitting download.
>
> It doesn't update the file and inside it shows "C3,=VERSION;"
>
> So, instead I switched to curl and ran:
> curl -Os http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat
>
> This time it updated the file and inside it shows "J5,=VERSION;" which is
> correct and everything now works.
>
> Does anyone know why wget doesn't see the file as having been changed? Is
> it getting that information from the server?
>
> -David, N9KT
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 6:25 PM David Spoelstra <davids at mediamachine.com>
> wrote:
>
>> OK, now you guys made me check mine and I'm having problems too! I do the
>> following:
>>     cd /spider/data
>>     wget -qN http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat
>>     wget -qN http://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw
>> I check the dates and they look correct:
>> -rw-r--r--  1 sysop spider  77K Mar  3 18:03 cty.dat
>> -rw-r--r--  1 sysop spider 538K Mar  3 18:03 wpxloc.raw
>>
>> I look inside cty.dat and see: C3,=VERSION;
>>
>> Then I run:
>> /spider/perl/create_prefix.pl
>> which updates:
>>     -rw-r--r--  1 sysop spider 821K Mar  3 18:15 prefix_data.pl
>> Then I login to my cluster and run "load/prefixes" which works.
>>
>> But, when I run "sh/prefix version" I get: VERSION DXCC: 12 ITU: 27 CQ:
>> 14 LL: 42 35 N 1 37 E (VERSION, Andorra-C3)
>> Which doesn't match what you all are getting!
>>
>> When I looked in prefix_data.pl I see:
>>   '=VERSION' => '75',
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -David, N9KT
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 4:58 PM Luigi Carlotto IK5ZUK via Dxspider-support
>> <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Kjell,
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>
>>> I've understood now. But however despite having downloaded the last
>>> cty.dat from the following URL:
>>>
>>> https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat
>>>
>>> the DXCC entity identifying the version is not "Guinea-Bissau-J5" but
>>> "Cocos-Keeling-Islands-VK9C": so, if I'm not wrong, this means that the
>>> cty.dat file downloaded is not the last one.
>>>
>>> Of course, after cty.dat download in /spider/data, I've done the
>>> spider/perl/create_prefix.pl and finally, into the spider console done
>>> the "load/prefix" command.
>>>
>>> Kjell, please could you tell me the exact path for downloading the last
>>> cty.dat file ?
>>>
>>> Thank you and sorry for noise to the others.
>>>
>>> 73 Luigi IK5ZUK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Il 03/03/2021 22:17, Kjell Jarl via Dxspider-support ha scritto:
>>>
>>> Follow the path Jim outlined
>>>
>>>
>>> ---- Luigi Carlotto IK5ZUK via Dxspider-support skrev ----
>>>
>>> Sorry Guys,
>>> below is the output for "sh/prefix version" done in my spider:
>>>
>>> sh/prefix version
>>> VERSION CC: 201 IZ: 54 CZ: 29 LL: 12 9 S 96 49 E NH87 (VERSION,
>>> Cocos-Keeling-)
>>> (IK5ZUK-1) de IK5ZUK-6  3-Mar-2021 2040Z dxspider >
>>>
>>> Where is the version number ?
>>>
>>> 73 Luigi IK5ZUK
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Il 03/03/2021 21:37, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support ha scritto:
>>> > SH/PREFIX VERSION will also work. A rather off the wall SH/MOON
>>> > VERSION also works  :-)
>>> >
>>> > In fact any command that would show a location as part of its output
>>> > will work.
>>> >
>>> > Dirk
>>> >
>>> > On 03/03/2021 20:27, Jim Reisert AD1C via Dxspider-support wrote:
>>> >>> A question: I'm running DxSpider software, is there a command to see
>>> >>> what is the CTY version installed into the system ?
>>> >> One of these may work:
>>> >>
>>> >>    (*) SH/H VERSION
>>> >>    (*) SH/SUN VERSION
>>> >>
>>> >> (*) These are CC Cluster commands, but I think DX Spider uses the
>>> >> same ones.
>>> >>
>>> >> The callsign VERSION will be identified as a particular DXCC entity,
>>> >> which is always listed at the top of the release notes, for example:
>>> >>
>>> >>      https://www.country-files.com/cty-3105-03-march-2021/
>>> >>      VER20210303, Version entity is Guinea-Bissau, J5
>>> >>
>>> >> So it's easy to tell if you have (or do not have) the latest version
>>> >> of the country file, but if the version entity does NOT match, you
>>> >> will have go searching the older release notes to find out which
>>> >> version you DO have installed.  There is a search box in the
>>> >> upper-right hand corner of the web page I listed above, type in
>>> >> Version Entity and you will see them for each release.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
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