[Dxspider-support] New build, things not working from within crontab

[Joaquin]

I forgot to tell you that what I have given you is for the *sysop *user 
and the *spider *group, if you do not define it that way, you will have 
to adapt it.

Kin

El 05/12/2022 a las 21:00, Joaquin via Dxspider-support escribió:
>
> Keith,
>
> Try doing this:
>
> su - sysop -c "cd /home/sysop"
> su - sysop -c "chown -R sysop.spider spider"
> su - sysop -c "find ./ -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;"
> su - sysop -c "find ./ -type f -exec chmod 775 {} \;"
>
> I don't have '&&' I use ';'. Look at my crontab:
>
>
> # AutoUpdate USDB
> 0 1 * * 1,3,5 spawn("cd /tmp; wget -qN ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz; 
> /spider/perl/create_usdb.pl usdbraw.gz")
> 5 1 * * 1,3,5 run_cmd("load/usdb")
> 10 1 * * 1,3,5 spawn("rm /tmp/usdbraw.gz")
>
> # AutoUpdate CTY.DAT
> 0 3 * * 0,2,5 spawn("cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN 
> http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat")
> 0 3 * * 0,2,5 spawn("cd /spider/local_data; wget -qN 
> http://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw")
> 2 3 * * 0,2,5 spawn("/spider/perl/create_prefix.pl")
> 3 3 * * 0,2,5 run_cmd("load/prefix")
>
> # AutoUpdate Keps
> 0 2 * * 2,4,6 spawn("cd /tmp; wget -qN 
> http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt; 
> /spider/perl/convkeps.pl -p nasabare.txt")
> 5 2 * * 2,4,6 run_cmd("load/keps")
> 10 2 * * 2,4,6 spawn("rm /tmp/nasabare.txt")
>
> Kin EA3CV
>
>
> El 05/12/2022 a las 20:44, Keith Maton via Dxspider-support escribió:
>> Right, I’ve spent two days with this and I’m now pulling out what 
>> little hair I have left.
>>
>> I’ve built a new cluster and I’m trying to get (to start with), my 
>> FCC database updated via crontab.
>>
>> I’ve added sysop into the SUDO group.
>>
>> I’m running a Raspberry Pi with DXSpider v1.57 (build 451).
>>
>> I’m logged onto the Pi as sysop, then I’ve done a sudo su because 
>> otherwise I can’t write to /spider/local_cmd
>>
>> My crontab file is thus:
>>
>>
>> # Check every 10 minutes to see if xxxx is connected and if not
>>
>> # start a connect job
>>
>> 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('pi4cc') unless connected('pi4cc')
>>
>>
>>
>> # Monday 01:00 - Get latest FCC data (W1NR updates Sundays)
>>
>> 16 16 * * 1 spawn("cd /tmp && wget -qN ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz 
>> && /spider/perl/create_usdb.pl usdbraw.gz")
>>
>> 20 16 * * 1 run_cmd("load/usdb")
>>
>> 25 16 * * 1 spawn("rm /tmp/usdbraw.gz")
>>
>>
>>
>> The connect lines are fine, that works perfectly.
>>
>> The first line of getting the FCC data partly works.  cd /tmp works 
>> and so does the wget command.  However, the final part doesn’t work. 
>>  It never creates /spider/local_data/usdb.v1
>> The third line works, it deletes the downloaded file.
>>
>> However, if I run cd /tmp && wget -qN ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz 
>> && /spider/perl/create_usdb.pl usdbraw.gz from the prompt, it works 
>> (although the file it creates has the wrong owner).
>>
>> To me, this looks like a permissions/ownership thing but I’ve tried 
>> so many things today and yesterday that I’ve kinda lost the will to live.
>>
>> These are the permissions on my crontab file in /spider/local_cmd
>>
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root spider 2020 Dec 5 12:16 crontab
>>
>> I also have stuff in crontab to update keps and cty.dat which don’t 
>> work either but I reckon that if I can get this one working, the 
>> others will work as well.
>>
>> I’m quite sure this is going to be something simple but I’ve stared 
>> at it for so long now that I need to refer to Dirk’s list of pre-reqs 
>> for the mojo upgrade, ie a supply of good, strong tea - preferably in 
>> pint mugs. A tin hat, stout boots, a rucksack with survival rations 
>> and a decent miners' lamp might also prove comforting.
>>
>> Please, can someone point me in the right direction.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> 73 Keith G6NHU
>>
>>
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