[Dxspider-support] start_connect not working

[Howard Leadmon]

   Mike, I don't show you connected.   What do you have in your connect 
script, and did you make sure you had me set as a spider node..


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Howard Leadmon - WB3FFV
PBW Communications, LLC
http://www.pbwcomm.com

On 3/2/2023 6:56 PM, Michael Walker via Dxspider-support wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Ok, that helps.  I was doing a crontab -e.  I am now looking at the 
> crontab file in /spider/local_cmd and the correct entries are there.
>
> I can't seem to figure out why wb3ffv-2 didn't connect.  If I do a 
> manual connect from the console, it works.
>
>
> # check every 10 minutes to see if ve7cc-1 is connected and if not
>
> 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('ve7cc-1') unless 
> connected('ve7cc-1')
> 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('wb3ffv-2') unless 
> connected('wb3ffv-2')
>
> 73
>
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 6:48 PM Mike McCarthy, W1NR via 
> Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>     The syntax in your /spider/local_cmd/crontab file (NOT the system or
>     user crontab!) should look something like
>
>     1,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * start_connect('wr3d') unless
>     connected('wr3d')
>
>     This example occurs every 10 minutes on the 1. Replace wr3d with the
>     node call you are connecting to.
>
>     W1NR
>
>
>     On 3/2/2023 6:32 PM, Michael Walker via Dxspider-support wrote:
>     > Hi all
>     >
>     > (sorry, I'm digging through issues -- and learning)
>     >
>     > I have in a cron under 'sysop'  a start_connect and it doesn't
>     seem to
>     > be working. (ok, it isn't working) as I dropped a link tonight
>     and it
>     > wasn't automatically re-connecting.  I had to do a connect from the
>     > console.
>     >
>     > Is start_connect a binary/script?  How can I manually test it.
>     >
>     > Again, thanks for your patience,
>     >
>     > 73, Mike va3mw
>     >
>     >
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