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      Mike, I don't show you connected.   What do you have in your
    connect script, and did you make sure you had me set as a spider
    node..<br>
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Howard Leadmon - WB3FFV
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/2/2023 6:56 PM, Michael Walker via
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        <div>Hi Mike, </div>
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        <div>Ok, that helps.  I was doing a crontab -e.  I am now
          looking at the crontab file in /spider/local_cmd and the
          correct entries are there.</div>
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        <div>I can't seem to figure out why wb3ffv-2 didn't connect.  If
          I do a manual connect from the console, it works.</div>
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        <div><span style="font-family:monospace;font-size:large"># check
            every 10 minutes to see if ve7cc-1 is connected and if not</span><br>
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            <font color="#0000ff">0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * *
              start_connect('ve7cc-1') unless connected('ve7cc-1')<br>
              0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('wb3ffv-2') unless
              connected('wb3ffv-2')</font></font><br>
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        <div>73</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 6:48 PM
          Mike McCarthy, W1NR via Dxspider-support <<a
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          0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The
          syntax in your /spider/local_cmd/crontab file (NOT the system
          or <br>
          user crontab!) should look something like<br>
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          1,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * start_connect('wr3d') unless
          connected('wr3d')<br>
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          This example occurs every 10 minutes on the 1. Replace wr3d
          with the <br>
          node call you are connecting to.<br>
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          W1NR<br>
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          On 3/2/2023 6:32 PM, Michael Walker via Dxspider-support
          wrote:<br>
          > Hi all<br>
          > <br>
          > (sorry, I'm digging through issues -- and learning)<br>
          > <br>
          > I have in a cron under 'sysop'  a start_connect and it
          doesn't seem to <br>
          > be working. (ok, it isn't working) as I dropped a link
          tonight and it <br>
          > wasn't automatically re-connecting.  I had to do a
          connect from the <br>
          > console.<br>
          > <br>
          > Is start_connect a binary/script?  How can I manually
          test it.<br>
          > <br>
          > Again, thanks for your patience,<br>
          > <br>
          > 73, Mike va3mw<br>
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