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      David, thanks for the crontab layout.  <br>
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     I like it, simple and effective, and I am making the changes here
    with  slightly different times..<br>
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      73's de WB3FFV<br>
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Howard Leadmon - <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:howard@leadmon.net">howard@leadmon.net</a>
PBW Communications, LLC
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pbwcomm.com">http://www.pbwcomm.com</a>

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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/3/2021 9:14 PM, David Spoelstra
      via Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">OK, found the problem. I was using http vs https
        when I fetched the file - that made all the difference.
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        <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>
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        <div>My DXSpider crontab in /spider/local_cmd/:</div>
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        <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>
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          # 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" moz-do-not-send="true">ftp://ftp.w1nr.net/usdbraw.gz</a>
          && /spider/perl/<a href="http://create_usdb.pl"
            moz-do-not-send="true">create_usdb.pl</a> usdbraw.gz")<br>
          2 5 * * 1 run_cmd("load/usdb")<br>
          4 5 * * 1 spawn("rm /tmp/usdbraw.gz")<br>
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          # 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"
            moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/keps/current/nasabare.txt</a>
          && /spider/perl/<a href="http://convkeps.pl"
            moz-do-not-send="true">convkeps.pl</a> -p nasabare.txt")<br>
          2 5 * * 5 run_cmd("load/keps")<br>
          4 5 * * 5 spawn("rm /tmp/nasabare.txt")<br>
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          # 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"
            moz-do-not-send="true">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"
            moz-do-not-send="true">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" moz-do-not-send="true">create_prefix.pl</a>")<br>
          12 5 * * 5 run_cmd("load/prefixes")<br>
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          # Friday 1am local - Update DXSpider to be ready for any
          contest<br>
          14 5 * * 5 spawn("cd /spider && git reset --hard
          && git pull")<br>
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        <div>-David, N9KT</div>
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