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

[John Spigel]

Kin, thanks that works beautifully in spider console, but I tried in 
spidercron with several iterations and was unable to get better than an 
'Invalid command' message in the text file. If I am able to get it to 
function in spidercron it does has potential. I was trying to get it 
from the command line as an external functions as in the past. Either 
way will be good in the end. I'm open for suggestions.
73, John W1AN

On 03-Feb-23 04:25, Kin wrote:
>
> 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>
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>    7047.5  WB9WOZ       3-Feb-2023 0215Z  73 tks                       <EA5UB>
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>   7074.8  LX2KD        3-Feb-2023 0215Z                                
> <N8IK>
>
> 73, John W1AN
>
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