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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>That was an interesting few minutes as I just as I used your command that you showed RCMD partner_call SH/VER and all of my node connection with the exception of three are all running <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Old software some of them very old.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I agree with many of the sentiments of recent posts about the state of the network.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>At our local radio club Friday meeting this was a hot topic and without exception all of the members present want to see 2FA to be able to login to a DXcluster and bad nodes disconnected.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>This is something that I am not sure how we achieve without some additional coding by Dirk and others but this should not be entirely up to them as they have not caused this issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>If all DXclusters had as a minimum registration to log on this would help and DXcluster all using the most up-to-date software but it’s going to take the majority of sysops to play an active role <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>and I can see this being the most difficult part.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I am no Linux expert but I manage to keep the clusters here up-to-date and this forum is a fantastic resource with lots of help if required you just need to ask.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I think we need to collectively start to think about what we do, as it can’t stay as is for any longer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>73 Keith GB7DXG-1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Dxspider-support <dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Danilo Brelih via Dxspider-support<br><b>Sent:</b> 11 February 2023 08:38<br><b>To:</b> Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk><br><b>Cc:</b> Danilo Brelih <danilo.brelih@siol.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Dxspider-support] Dx-World and DxCluster<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support je 10.2.2023 ob 17:04 napisal:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>I have added my views to this website. Will it make a difference? I hope so. Dirk G1TLH <o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p>Maybe it is time to start taking small steps ourselves.<o:p></o:p></p><p>My partners all have latest Mojo build installed except one. Today I wrote owner of the outdated node an email saying that I am suspending my connection with him until he upgrades his system and then I can restore the connection easily.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Let's check the version installed used by our partner node with:<o:p></o:p></p><pre>RCMD partner_call SH/VER<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>RCMD 'sh/ver' sent to partner_call<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>S50U de S50CLX 11-Feb-2023 0751Z 2.4481 dxspider ><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>DX Spider Cluster version 1.55 (build 0.181 git: 65ed61f[r]) on Linux<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Copyright (c) 1998-2023 Dirk Koopman G1TLH<o:p></o:p></pre><p>Because his system is outdated I removed connection routine from my /spider/local_cmd/crontab line starting with # and this line will be ignored.<o:p></o:p></p><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>#0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('partner_call') unless connected('partner_call')<code><o:p></o:p></code></pre><pre><code><o:p> </o:p></code></pre><pre><code><o:p> </o:p></code></pre><p>Next disconnect your outdated node issuing DISC command from console.<o:p></o:p></p><pre>DISC partner_call<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Node partner_call has logged out<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Channel partner_call disconnected<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>S50U de S50CLX 11-Feb-2023 0810Z 2.4481 dxspider ><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><p>If your outdated node is connecting to you then use lockout command from console which prevents it from connecting to your node.<o:p></o:p></p><pre>SET/LOCKOUT partner_call<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><p>Maybe this is only "one small step for man, but one giant leap for ......" <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif'>😉</span><o:p></o:p></p><p>CU Dan S50U sys S50CLX<o:p></o:p></p><pre><code><o:p> </o:p></code></pre><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://s50e.si/gorje.html">Gorje, Cerkno h=604m</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>