[Dxspider-support] External Command showdx not working. Another way to do?

[Kin]

Hi John,

 

If I understand correctly, what you are looking for is something like this from console:

 

save /tmp/shdx.txt sh/dx on 40m

 

which in dxspider's crontab would be:

 

* * * * * run_cmd('save /tmp/shdx.txt , "sh/dx on 40m"')

 

Regards.

 

Kin EA3CV

 

De: Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces at tobit.co.uk> En nombre de John Spigel via Dxspider-support
Enviado el: viernes, 3 de febrero de 2023 4:30
Para: The DXSpider Support list <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>
CC: John Spigel <w1an.dxusa at gmail.com>
Asunto: [Dxspider-support] External Command showdx not working. Another way to do?

 

Sysops,

Im trying to get the external showdx command to work, but I get an error message from Prefix.PM

(*) Spot::init - reading in 2 days of spots into cache
Can't call method "get" on an undefined value at /spider/perl/Prefix.pm line 216
, <GEN1> line 1.

This did work on a vintage node. I directed the output to text files with periodic crontab updates. I suspect that the innumerable changes in Prefix.pm to accommodate the crazy callsigns causes this blip. Is there a ready way to do this? Or a simple tweak in the code to assign a default value?

Used to work like below. I do have really the old node running just to collect these spots and in a hurry to pull the plug. Is there a new, ready to go, way to do this?

sysop at DxSpider:~/spider/perl$ ./showdx on 40m
  7049.1  YO3FJM       3-Feb-2023 0223Z FT4                          <K4WMS>
  7129.0  W1AW/5       3-Feb-2023 0221Z  VOTA / Texas                  <N0TR>
  7074.6  IN3EJX       3-Feb-2023 0220Z                               <KF0GE>
  7047.5  VE3KAE       3-Feb-2023 0219Z  73 tks                       <EA5UB>
  7047.5  KN4QHZ       3-Feb-2023 0218Z  73 tks                       <EA5UB>
  7190.0  W1AW/4       3-Feb-2023 0218Z  LSB KP13eh -> EM83          <OH6BQH>
  7047.5  W4CPO        3-Feb-2023 0217Z  73 tks                       <EA5UB>
  7047.5  NS2X         3-Feb-2023 0215Z  73 tks                       <EA5UB>

  7047.5  WB9WOZ       3-Feb-2023 0215Z  73 tks                       <EA5UB>

  7074.8  LX2KD        3-Feb-2023 0215Z                                <N8IK>

73, John W1AN

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