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Hello Dirk,<br>
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Two things, first I looked and dma is not even an installed
package, not sure if something carried around from an older box, but
just very strange. At the same time, if I do a man on dma, I sure
get a page on it, but can't just remove the package.<br>
<br>
That said, I think your spot on with the stdout going into a never
ending mail queue, so for sure it seems something I need to get rid
of, as have the normal logs. I keep saying I am going to jump to
mojo, but just haven't had time to sit down and actually do it.<br>
<br>
In my cron for the spider account, I have a cron entry like this:<br>
<br>
# Set the path for executing cron jobs<br>
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin<br>
* * * * * /usr/local/sbin/dxspider.chk<br>
<br>
<br>
So I run the chk program to restart the node if it stops for any
reason, guessing I should direct the output from that to null it
seems..<br>
<br>
73's..<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/7/2019 6:03 PM, Dirk Koopman
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">A further search suggests that this
directory is used by an MTA called 'dma' which apparently stands
for Dragonfly Mail Agent. Obviously not anything to do with
DXSpider.<br>
<br>
What you are seeing is the contents of stdout from cluster.pl.
[Sidebar: I suppose it's probably about time I dispensed with
this as it is a daemon and nobody looks at it - not even me!]<br>
<br>
I don't know how you are starting cluster.pl, but I would expect
to see something ending in "....cluster.pl > /dev/null" or
"...cluster.pl > /dev/tty7" I (now) prefer the first version.
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<br>
Does this help?<br>
<br>
Dirk <br>
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Hello Dirk, <br>
<br>
Thanks for responding, and you are correct it's running under
FreeBSD 11.2 Stable at this time, and running under the
following version of perl:<br>
<br>
Perl 5, version 28, subversion 1 (v5.28.1) built for
amd64-freebsd-thread-multi<br>
<br>
<br>
Good question on it writing into this dma folder, but for sure
it's always done it, and I just wipe it out when it gets to
large. If I look at what is in the file, I see this: (just a
snip from the file)<br>
<br>
<br>
<- I EA4FIT-2
PC92^PY3NZ-8^76800.01^K^5PY3NZ-8:5455:0.115^9^8^H92^<br>
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^PY5JO-11^76785.02^A^^5PY3NZ-8^H93^<br>
<- I EA4FIT-2
PC92^PY3NZ-8^76801^A^^5PY5JO-11:177.40.36.192^H93^<br>
<- I EA4FIT-2
PC92^UT4ULP-5^76800.02^A^^7EI7MRE:2a00,1098,86,54,,1^H92^<br>
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^EA4RCH-5^76801^D^^5ON4KST^H95^<br>
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^PY1NB-4^76802^D^^5DH1TW-2^H95^<br>
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^F6KVP-3^76800^D^^5UR4QRH-2^H95^<br>
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^ON0NOL-9^76802^D^^5R2DGO-1^H95^<br>
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^F8KHI-3^76802^D^^5VE3CGR-5^H94^<br>
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^W5CMM-1^76800^D^^5M0KGX-3^H92^<br>
<- I EA4FIT-2 PC92^PA4JJ-3^76802^D^^5N2KI-9^H92^<br>
<- I VE2REA PC92^N6WS-6^76794^D^^5DB0SUE-7^H93^<br>
<- I VE2REA PC92^ON0NOL-9^76800^D^^5ON0DXC^H92^<br>
<- I VE2REA PC11^1840.0^PA0WCH^07-Oct-2019^2119Z^FT8
JO21RJ<>IM76HG^EA7FDR^EA1DX^H93^~<br>
<- I VE2REA PC92^IW2EVH-6^76800^D^^5IQ8XF^H94^<br>
<- I VE2REA PC92^PY1NB-4^76800^D^^5IW0QNL^H95^<br>
-> D KA1R DX de NX5T: 18120.0 V31JW 59 in
TX 2119Z%07%07<br>
-> D N9KT-2 PC61^18120.0^V31JW^ 7-Oct-2019^2119Z^59 in
TX^NX5T^N6WS-6^63.249.43.100^H28^~<br>
-> D F4GVE-2 PC61^18120.0^V31JW^ 7-Oct-2019^2119Z^59 in
TX^NX5T^N6WS-6^63.249.43.100^H28^~<br>
-> D SR9DDF-12 PC61^18120.0^V31JW^ 7-Oct-2019^2119Z^59 in
TX^NX5T^N6WS-6^63.249.43.100^H28^~<br>
-> D PY4OG-2 PC61^18120.0^V31JW^ 7-Oct-2019^2119Z^59 in
TX^NX5T^N6WS-6^63.249.43.100^H28^~<br>
-> D VE3TOK-1 PC61^18120.0^V31JW^ 7-Oct-2019^2119Z^59 in
TX^NX5T^N6WS-6^63.249.43.100^H28^~<br>
-> D G3LRS-2 PC61^18120.0^V31JW^ 7-Oct-2019^2119Z^59 in
TX^NX5T^N6WS-6^63.249.43.100^H28^~<br>
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<br>
<br>
It seems to just drop the blobs of data like this into the file
about ever say 30-60 seconds. I just assumed it was a logging
point for everything that it processed, but just never got
rotated..<br>
<br>
73's de WB3FFV<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/7/2019 4:53 PM, Dirk Koopman
via Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">There are a few things:<br>
<br>
1. DXSpider does not (intentionally) write to anywhere out
of the /spider tree.<br>
2. A swift search suggests that /var/spool/dma is a
FreeBSDism.<br>
3. What's in it?<br>
4. What are you running on?<br>
<br>
73 Dirk G1TLH<br>
<br>
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<br>
Probably a Dirk question, but it seems that DXspider uses a
never ending temp file, or I see no sign of rotation, and as
it's a temp name it's not simple to just add it to a rotate
script.<br>
<br>
I get notifications from my system ever so often that /var
is getting low, and when I look I find a file in
/var/spool/dma that is loaded with logging from the spider
node. A quick ls shows me this thing gets big..<br>
<br>
<b>-rw-rw---- 1 sysop other 98642690048 Oct 7 14:16
tmp_ChMmSPN1mE</b><br>
<br>
<br>
I tend to go in and stop the node, and get rid of the file,
but I had having to boot everyone to make sure I have a
truncated but usable temp file for the node to work with.
Are there any suggestions, or procedures for taking care of
this so the drive doesn't run low, and spider can hum along
nicely for months without incident??<br>
<br>
<br>
73's de WB3FFV<br>
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