<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Mine is very similar to Steve, except I use quotes rather than apostrophes and I cd into local_data before I run create_prefix. It all works so I assume “ and ‘ are handled the same.<div><br></div><div><div>00 05 * * * run_cmd("download http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat")</div><div>01 05 * * * run_cmd("download http://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw")</div><div>02 05 * * * spawn("cd /spider/local_data ; /spider/perl/create_prefix.pl")</div><div>03 05 * * * run_cmd("load/prefix”)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 8 Apr 2023, at 10:12, Stephen Carroll via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto"><div>Jan,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Several problems with your crontab:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. No need to download "wpxloc.dat" it's not used in dxspider, only need "wpxloc.raw"</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2. Remove "#" from start of cty.dat line. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">3. If needed use " ; " instead of " | " between commands.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">4. Use another " * " instead of "0,1,2,3,4,5,6" if running the command every day.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">5. Several builds ago, Dirk created a 'download' command. Read the /spider/Changes file. I've replaced my "spawn" and "wget" like this:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-size:12.8px">0 0 * * * run_cmd('download </span><a href="https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-size:12.8px">http://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat</a>'<span style="font-size:12.8px">)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">1 0 * * * run_cmd('download </span><a href="https://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-size:12.8px">http://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw</a>'<span style="font-size:12.8px">)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">2 0 * * * spawn('</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">/spider/perl/</span><a href="http://create_prefix.pl/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244);font-size:12.8px">create_prefix.pl</a>'<span style="font-size:12.8px">)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">3 0 * * * run_cmd('load/prefix')</span><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div>Hope this helps.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">73, Steve - AA4U </div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 8, 2023, 3:23 AM dxcluster 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Shoud I use a ; instead of the | ??<br>
<br>
Op 8-4-2023 om 10:16 schreef dxcluster via Dxspider-support:<br>
> Kin<br>
> I discovered that the script for auto uploading cty.dat and wpxloc raw <br>
> is not working.<br>
> When I do sh/h version I see version Turk-Caicos-Islands-VP5.<br>
> So I do:<br>
><br>
> sysop@raspberrypi:~ $ cd /spider/local_data<br>
> sysop@raspberrypi:/spider/local_data $ wget -qN <br>
> <a href="https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat</a><br>
> sysop@raspberrypi:/spider/local_data $ wget -qN <br>
> <a href="https://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw</a><br>
> sysop@raspberrypi:/spider/local_data $ /spider/perl/<a href="http://create_prefix.pl/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">create_prefix.pl</a><br>
> <a href="http://create_prefix.pl/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">create_prefix.pl</a>: creating LOCAL prefix files<br>
><br>
> Then in the console<br>
> load/prefix<br>
> Sh/h version now gives me<br>
> VERSION Annobon-Island-3C0: 165 degs - dist: 3812 mi, 6135 km <br>
> Reciprocal heading: 351 degs<br>
><br>
> I am using this script:<br>
> #Auto update cty.dat<br>
> 0 0 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 spawn("cd /spider/local_data | wget -qN <br>
> <a href="https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.country-files.com/cty/cty.dat</a>")<br>
> #1 0 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 spawn("cd /spider/local_data | wget -qN <br>
> <a href="https://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.dat" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.dat</a>")<br>
> 2 0 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 spawn("cd /spider/local_data | wget -qN <br>
> <a href="https://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.country-files.com/cty/wpxloc.raw</a>")<br>
> 3 0 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 spawn("cd /spider/local_data | <br>
> /spider/perl/<a href="http://create_prefix.pl/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">create_prefix.pl</a>")<br>
> 4 0 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 run_cmd("load/prefix")<br>
><br>
> Something wrong?<br>
><br>
> 73<br>
> Jan<br>
> PA4JJ<br>
><br>
><br>
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