# Astdb.php is missing

**URL:** <https://community.allstarlink.org/t/astdb-php-is-missing/24876>\
**Category:** AllStarLink\
**Tags:** asl3\
**Created:** [August 3, 2026, 8:30pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/astdb-php-is-missing/24876 "2026-08-03T20:30:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Tom](https://community.allstarlink.org/user_avatar/community.allstarlink.org/tom/32/3049_2.png) [@Tom](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/Tom)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 8:30pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/astdb-php-is-missing/24876/1 "2026-08-03T20:30:57Z")

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I can't find astdb.php in recent releases. It's a handy tool to grep info from. Has it been replaced with an alternative? I see an sqlite3 file; but that's not as easily accessed.  
Tom / K5TRA

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**Author:** ![WA3WCO](https://community.allstarlink.org/user_avatar/community.allstarlink.org/wa3wco/32/3123_2.png) [@WA3WCO](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/WA3WCO)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 10:13pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/astdb-php-is-missing/24876/2 "2026-08-03T22:13:34Z")

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Have a look at :

> **[Other Software Products - AllStarLink Manual](https://allstarlink.github.io/adv-topics/other-software/)**
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> AllStarLink Manual

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**Author:** ![WA3WCO](https://community.allstarlink.org/user_avatar/community.allstarlink.org/wa3wco/32/3123_2.png) [@WA3WCO](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/WA3WCO)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/astdb-php-is-missing/24876/3 "2026-08-03T22:15:07Z")

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and I will also add that we're looking for an alternate mechanism to provide per-node data so that your system doesn't need to repeatedly download/refresh the file.

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**Author:** ![Tom](https://community.allstarlink.org/user_avatar/community.allstarlink.org/tom/32/3049_2.png) [@Tom](https://community.allstarlink.org/u/Tom)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://community.allstarlink.org/t/astdb-php-is-missing/24876/4 "2026-08-04T01:14:21Z")

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As a work around, I put my own copy of astdb.php in my /usr/local/sbin directory. I don't need it for any other dashboard (allmon3 is fine). I only run it if I want to lookup (with grep) node data associated with a particular callsign. I also us the extnodes file to grep the IP for a particular node.