<div dir="ltr">OK, found the problem. I was using http vs https when I fetched the file - that made all the difference.<div><br></div><div>If anyone wants to use my DXSpider cron, you are most welcome. Just to make sure everyone understands, you can put a crontab in /spider/local_cmd/ and it will run. I put all my DXSpider stuff in there to keep everything dealing with DXSpider in one place.</div><div><br></div><div>My DXSpider crontab in /spider/local_cmd/:</div><div><br></div><div># /spider/local_cmd/crontab<br># MAKE SURE /spider/cmd_import EXISTS!<br># min, hour, day-of-month, month, day-of-week (0=Sun)<br># TIME IS UTC!<br><br># Connect to other nodes<br>* * * * * start_connect('w9pa') unless connected('w9pa')<br>* * * * * start_connect('wb3ffv') unless connected('wb3ffv')<br>* * * * * start_connect('ky4xx') unless connected('ky4xx')<br><br># Monday 1am local - Get latest FCC data (W1NR updates Sundays)<br>0 5 * * 1 spawn("cd /tmp && wget -Nq <a href="ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz">ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz</a> && /spider/perl/<a href="http://create_usdb.pl">create_usdb.pl</a> usdbraw.gz")<br>2 5 * * 1 run_cmd("load/usdb")<br>4 5 * * 1 spawn("rm /tmp/usdbraw.gz")<br><br># Friday 1am local - Get latest Keps to be ready for any contest<br>0 5 * * 5 spawn("cd /tmp && wget -Nq <a href="https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt">https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt</a> && /spider/perl/<a href="http://convkeps.pl">convkeps.pl</a> -p nasabare.txt")<br>2 5 * * 5 run_cmd("load/keps")<br>4 5 * * 5 spawn("rm /tmp/nasabare.txt")<br><br># Friday 1am local - Get latest cty.dat to be ready for any contest<br>6 5 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider/data && wget -Nq <a href="https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat">https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat</a>")<br>8 5 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider/data && wget -Nq <a href="https://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw">https://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw</a>")<br>10 5 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider/data && /spider/perl/<a href="http://create_prefix.pl">create_prefix.pl</a>")<br>12 5 * * 5 run_cmd("load/prefixes")<br><br># Friday 1am local - Update DXSpider to be ready for any contest<br>14 5 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider && git reset --hard && git pull")<br></div><div><br></div><div>-David, N9KT</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 7:54 PM JOSEPH REED via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Interesting,<div><br></div><div>The -N means don’t download unless the file is newer. Are you doing the wget -qn as sysop or another user? I shamelessly use a crontab script written by another contributor (search the archives) or email me off list and it just happens without human intervention. That might be the way to go.</div><div><br></div><div>Joe N9JR<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 3, 2021, at 6:00 PM, David Spoelstra via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr">I figured out my problem. For some reason wget doesn't see the file as having been changed!<div><br></div><div>$ wget -N <a href="http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat" target="_blank">http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat</a><br>--2021-03-03 18:50:45-- <a href="http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat" target="_blank">http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat</a><br>Resolving <a href="http://www.country-files.com/" target="_blank">www.country-files.com</a> (<a href="http://www.country-files.com/" target="_blank">www.country-files.com</a>)... 72.52.250.187<br>Connecting to <a href="http://www.country-files.com/" target="_blank">www.country-files.com</a> (<a href="http://www.country-files.com/" target="_blank">www.country-files.com</a>)|72.52.250.187|:80... connected.<br>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 304 Not Modified<br>File ‘cty.dat’ not modified on server. Omitting download.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It doesn't update the file and inside it shows "C3,=VERSION;"</div><div><br></div><div>So, instead I switched to curl and ran:</div><div>curl -Os <a href="http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat" target="_blank">http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat</a></div><div><br></div><div>This time it updated the file and inside it shows "J5,=VERSION;" which is correct and everything now works.</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone know why wget doesn't see the file as having been changed? Is it getting that information from the server?</div><div><br></div><div>-David, N9KT</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 6:25 PM David Spoelstra <<a href="mailto:davids@mediamachine.com" target="_blank">davids@mediamachine.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">OK, now you guys made me check mine and I'm having problems too! I do the following:<div> cd /spider/data</div><div> wget -qN <a href="http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat" target="_blank">http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat</a><br> wget -qN <a href="http://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw" target="_blank">http://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw</a></div><div>I check the dates and they look correct:</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 sysop spider 77K Mar 3 18:03 cty.dat</div><div>-rw-r--r-- 1 sysop spider 538K Mar 3 18:03 wpxloc.raw</div><div><br></div><div>I look inside cty.dat and see: C3,=VERSION;</div><div><br></div><div>Then I run:</div><div>/spider/perl/<a href="http://create_prefix.pl/" target="_blank">create_prefix.pl</a></div><div>which updates:</div><div> -rw-r--r-- 1 sysop spider 821K Mar 3 18:15 <a href="http://prefix_data.pl/" target="_blank">prefix_data.pl</a></div><div>Then I login to my cluster and run "load/prefixes" which works.</div><div><br></div><div>But, when I run "sh/prefix version" I get: VERSION DXCC: 12 ITU: 27 CQ: 14 LL: 42 35 N 1 37 E (VERSION, Andorra-C3)</div><div>Which doesn't match what you all are getting!</div><div><br></div><div>When I looked in <a href="http://prefix_data.pl/" target="_blank">prefix_data.pl</a> I see:</div><div> '=VERSION' => '75',</div><div><br></div><div>What am I doing wrong?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>-David, N9KT</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 4:58 PM Luigi Carlotto IK5ZUK via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Kjell,<br>
Thanks for your help.<br>
<br>
I've understood now. But however despite having downloaded the last
cty.dat from the following URL:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat" target="_blank">https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat</a><br>
<br>
the DXCC entity identifying the version is not "Guinea-Bissau-J5"
but "Cocos-Keeling-Islands-VK9C": so, if I'm not wrong, this means
that the cty.dat file downloaded is not the last one.<br>
<br>
Of course, after cty.dat download in /spider/data, I've done the
spider/perl/<a href="http://create_prefix.pl/" target="_blank">create_prefix.pl</a> and finally, into the spider console
done the "load/prefix" command.<br>
<br>
Kjell, please could you tell me the exact path for downloading the
last cty.dat file ?<br>
<br>
Thank you and sorry for noise to the others.<br>
<br>
73 Luigi IK5ZUK<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<div>Il 03/03/2021 22:17, Kjell Jarl via
Dxspider-support ha scritto:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">Follow the path Jim outlined </p>
<br>
<br>
---- Luigi Carlotto IK5ZUK via Dxspider-support skrev ----<br>
<br>
Sorry Guys,<br>
below is the output for "sh/prefix version" done in my spider:<br>
<br>
sh/prefix version<br>
VERSION CC: 201 IZ: 54 CZ: 29 LL: 12 9 S 96 49 E NH87 (VERSION, <br>
Cocos-Keeling-)<br>
(IK5ZUK-1) de IK5ZUK-6 3-Mar-2021 2040Z dxspider ><br>
<br>
Where is the version number ?<br>
<br>
73 Luigi IK5ZUK<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Il 03/03/2021 21:37, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support ha scritto:<br>
> SH/PREFIX VERSION will also work. A rather off the wall
SH/MOON <br>
> VERSION also works :-)<br>
><br>
> In fact any command that would show a location as part of its
output <br>
> will work.<br>
><br>
> Dirk<br>
><br>
> On 03/03/2021 20:27, Jim Reisert AD1C via Dxspider-support
wrote:<br>
>>> A question: I'm running DxSpider software, is there a
command to see<br>
>>> what is the CTY version installed into the system ?<br>
>> One of these may work:<br>
>><br>
>> (*) SH/H VERSION<br>
>> (*) SH/SUN VERSION<br>
>><br>
>> (*) These are CC Cluster commands, but I think DX Spider
uses the <br>
>> same ones.<br>
>><br>
>> The callsign VERSION will be identified as a particular
DXCC entity,<br>
>> which is always listed at the top of the release notes,
for example:<br>
>><br>
>>
<a href="https://www.country-files.com/cty-3105-03-march-2021/" target="_blank">https://www.country-files.com/cty-3105-03-march-2021/</a><br>
>> VER20210303, Version entity is Guinea-Bissau, J5<br>
>><br>
>> So it's easy to tell if you have (or do not have) the
latest version<br>
>> of the country file, but if the version entity does NOT
match, you<br>
>> will have go searching the older release notes to find
out which<br>
>> version you DO have installed. There is a search box in
the<br>
>> upper-right hand corner of the web page I listed above,
type in<br>
>> Version Entity and you will see them for each release.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
><br>
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