[arm-allstar] Easier way to effect HamVoip updates?

[Tony Ross]

On 03/07/2018 10:33 AM, "Don Backstrom - AA7AU via arm-allstar" wrote:

>     I notice that several of the nodes which I've helped with and/or 
> use are not necessarily being regularly updated with the latest 
> on-line updates from HamVoip.
>
>     I think, in part, this is due to the fact that apparently one 
> needs to be either logged in with 1) a direct console session, or 2) a 
> remote SSH session -- and thereby use option #1 from your menu system 
> to effect the check/update. 

One always has the cron automated option to perform updates. "crontab 
-e" will edit the file, and one can add a line such as this:

30 0 * * 0 /usr/local/hamvoip-pacman/bin/pacman -Syu > /dev/null

This will update the system at 12:30 am every Sunday, re-directing into 
the null space the standard output of the command. Any errors will be 
emailed to the root user (or alias).

Any results can always be viewed in /var/log/pacman.log

     Tony