The crontab file

General Information

The following relates to all versions of DXSpider and is not platform related.

The crontab file

Check for, and establish connections

Login as 'sysop' and create a file in /spider/local_cmd called crontab. Edit it with your favourite editor and add a line like this (I have included a comment)

# Establish connections
# check every 10 minutes to see if gb7xxx is connected and if not, start a connect job going
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * start_connect('gb7xxx') unless connected('gb7xxx')

The callsign involved will be the callsign of the cluster node you are going to connect to. This will now check every 10 minutes to see if gb7xxx is connected, if it is then nothing will be done. If it is not, then a connect attempt will be started.

Keep DXspider up-to-date with the latest version

# Check for update using EA3CV's update utilities each night prior to update
30 22 * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_cmd; wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EA3CV/dxspider_info/main/check_build.pl -O /spider/local_cmd/check_build.pl')
32 22 * * * spawn('cd /spider/local_cmd; wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EA3CV/dxspider_info/main/undo_newbuild.pl -O /spider/local_cmd/undo_newbuild.pl')
35 22 * * * run_cmd('load/cmd')
#
# Check for updates on weekdays at 23:35 and 03:07, avoiding contest times at weekends. Y 5 is yes to backups, and keep 5 of them.
35 23 * * 1,2,3,4,5 run_cmd("check_build Y 5")
07 03 * * 1,2,3,4,5 run_cmd("check_build Y 5")