[arm-allstar] cron job setup

[Doug Crompton]

Kevin,

cron time is local 24 hour time.

56 17 * * * 6 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun XXXXX *3XXXXX"

This would connect on Saturday at 17:56 or 5:56PM local

00 20 * * * 6 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun XXXXX *1XXXXX"

And this would disconnect on Saturday at 20:00 or 8 PM local

Make sure there are spaces between the '*' in the cron time

You use crontab -e to edit, crontab -l to list from the Linux prompt.

You might be better off from a reliability standpoint using *73 and *71
permanent connects.

You can put comment in a cron entry or comment out statments temporarily -

# Disconnect the mountaintop repeater
00 20 * * * 6 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun XXXXX *1XXXXX"

# Connect the mountaintop repeater
#56 17 * * * 6 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun XXXXX *3XXXXX"   << shown
commented so not using

Time order does not matter in cron.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*




On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 9:07 PM, "Kevin Halton via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> I am trying to setup a cron job to connect to a different node at a
> pre-determined time and then disconnect at another pre-determined time. My
> first question is the time to set is it LOCAL time that gets entered?
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> question, after I set these up do I need to restart asterisk? Last question
> does this look correct to start at 5:56pm and disconnect at 8pm?
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> 56 17 * * * 6 /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun XXXXX *3XXXXX"
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> 00 20 * * * 6/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun XXXXX *1XXXXX"
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