[Dxspider-support] External Command showdx not working. Another way to do?
Dirk Koopman
djk at tobit.co.uk
Fri Feb 3 23:56:11 GMT 2023
Try it now.
And no, it was not a simple "tweak", especially as I enhanced it a bit.
showdx -h
73 Dirk G1TLH
On 03/02/2023 02:52, John Spigel via Dxspider-support wrote:
> 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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