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

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

> This ONLY applies to the mojo branch.
>
> Two things:
>
> 1. There is a bug in the routine that selects which version of a file
> (that could exist in both /spider/data and /spider/local_data).
> 2. When you download your local versions of cty.dat and wpxloc.raw, you
> should put them in /spider/local_data *NOT* /spider/data
>

Hi Dirk,

I assume I should update the instructions here to specifically call out the
Mojo branch?  Or is a fix pending?

https://www.country-files.com/dx-cluster/dx-spider/

Thanks - Jim



> Put something like this in /spider/local_cmd/crontab:
>
> 0  2 * * 0 spawn("cd /spider/local_data && wget -qN
> https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat")
> 5  2 * * 0 spawn("cd /spider/local_data && wget -qN
> https://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw")
> 10 2 * * 0 spawn("/spider/perl/create_prefix.pl")
> 12 2 * * 0 run_cmd("load/prefix")
>
> Please update from git.
>
> 73 Dirk G1TLH
>
> On 15/03/2021 11:25, Mike Costello via Dxspider-support wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> > Thanks for the hint.
> >
> > Works for me.   Now showing the correct prefix version.   Obviously a
> mojo
> > issue
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Mike G3YPP
> > MX0NCA-2 running 1.57 build 338
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> >   Luigi,
> >
> > Thank you but it didn?t occur to me to see what happened if I deleted
> > /spider/local_data/prefix_data.pl.  And as you saw it executed with
> success.
> > After the upgrade I still had a /spider/data/prefix_data.pl.  I deleted
> it
> > and ran load/prefixes from the console.  It did not report success.  So I
> > created a new prefix_data.pl file and copied it to /spider/data and ran
> > load/prefixes. A sh/prefix version showed 106 EI success!  It still
> reads it
> > from the /spider/data directory.
> >
> >   It?s not a fix that will work with my crontab script, but a workaround
> > until a fix is implemented.  Mojo users take note.
> >
> >   Joe N9JR
> >
> >
> >
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