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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Be aware, I was woefully out of date. I had to update the OS through 2 iterations. I was
on 18.x of ubuntu. Now on 22.04.1 LTS.</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I'm pretty sure there were existing permissions issues with the (older) running version.
I did this from the root of the spider directory<br>
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due to my own inaction in keeping this up to date. <br>
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going. <br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 6, 2023 10:17 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Kelly Leavitt <kelly@catcorner.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] Nodes disconnecting after upgrade</font>
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IT9FTP-6 DXSP 6-Feb-2023 1459Z 11m 11s 0.12 2 300 90 Y 151.52.199.150</span><span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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I know they're not. I do development for a living. However, you can see above, the nodes are not staying connected now.<br>
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Ran the "upgrade" script update_dxspider.sh as sysop user. I got a lot of "permission denied" message for directories and files already owned by sysop.</div>
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However, the nodes are all disconnecting and reconnecting regularly. All node settings were lost during the upgrade too. I had to re-run set/spider for each one.</div>
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Might just try a clean install.<br>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk> on behalf of Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 6, 2023 10:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Dirk Koopman <djk@tobit.co.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] Nodes disconnecting after upgrade</font>
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<div class="x_PlainText">This email trail (and some similar ones like it) fills me with a certain
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amount of disquiet. This is because I cannot reproduce the errors on my <br>
test node, nor on the four (large) nodes that I have oversight of. It <br>
leaves me feeling somewhat powerless to make suggestions and/or to fix <br>
it. Programs are not supposed to have minds of their own...<br>
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Dirk G1TLH<br>
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On 06/02/2023 13:49, Mike McCarthy, W1NR via Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
> Do a 'set/spider w1nr' and see if it works.<br>
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> Mike, W1NR<br>
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> On 2/6/2023 6:25 AM, Kelly Leavitt via Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
>> Just checked through the logs. No mention of permission denied. Any <br>
>> other thoughts? It seems like the cron is ignoring the 'unless <br>
>> connected', forcing a disconnect and then reconnecting.<br>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
>> *From:* Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk> on <br>
>> behalf of gu6efb--- via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br>
>> *Sent:* Sunday, February 5, 2023 3:16 PM<br>
>> *To:* 'The DXSpider Support list' <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br>
>> *Cc:* gu6efb@cwgsy.net <gu6efb@cwgsy.net><br>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Dxspider-support] Nodes disconnecting after upgrade<br>
>><br>
>> Hi Kelly<br>
>><br>
>> Have a look in your debug log and see if you have any entries with <br>
>> permission denied, as after my upgrade I had a very similar issue and <br>
>> this was<br>
>><br>
>> Due to some files not having the right permissions after the upgrade.<br>
>><br>
>> It maybe something completely in your case but it’s someware to start.<br>
>><br>
>> 73 Keith GU6EFB<br>
>><br>
>> *From:*Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk> *On <br>
>> Behalf Of *Kelly Leavitt via Dxspider-support<br>
>> *Sent:* 05 February 2023 19:41<br>
>> *To:* Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk<br>
>> *Cc:* Kelly Leavitt <kelly@catcorner.org><br>
>> *Subject:* [Dxspider-support] Nodes disconnecting after upgrade<br>
>><br>
>> I have a cron job set up that is like this:<br>
>><br>
>> 3,8,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,53,57 * * * * start_connect('w1nr') <br>
>> unless connected('w1nr')<br>
>><br>
>> At every time in the cron job, w1nr is disconnected and re-connected. <br>
>> I don't recall it working like this.<br>
>><br>
>> As it stands now, I never have more than 2 nodes connected at any <br>
>> time. What is best practice?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks and 73 de Kelly, KE2L<br>
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