[arm-allstar] Playnews pest

[Robert Conklin]

On a wide coverage UHF node I have automated the playnews script via a
cronjob to play the ARRL at 1900 Mondays, and the ARN at 1900 on Wednesdays
. Have had this setup for about two years now. The issue is that on
occasion, with no cause I can deduce, the news segments will play out of
order. Additionally, when this out of order play error happens, the
segments will play immediately following the 20 second break announcements,
20 second delay is truncated to about .5 second.
I have tried rebuilding the image and changing up the crontab start times.
Wondering is anyone else who uses the playnews script might have
encountered this and if they found a cause. All suggestions welcome. Thanks!

Here is what the crontab tasks look like:

#RUNS THE ARRL NEWS AT 7:00pm ON MONDAYS
40 18 * * 1 /etc/asterisk/local/disconnectall.sh 42754
42 18 * * 1 /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11 ARRL 19:00 42754 G
&> /dev/null 2>&1
30 19 * * 1 /etc/asterisk/local/disconnectall.sh 42754
#RUNS THE ARN NEWS AT 7:00pm ON WEDNESDAYS
40 18 * * 3 /etc/asterisk/local/disconnectall.sh 42754
42 18 * * 3 /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/playnews-0.11 ARN 19:00 42754 G &>
/dev/null 2>&1
30 19 * * 3 /ect/asterisk/local/disconnectall.sh 42754

We have two other local repeater nodes that have cronjobs to connect to
this node at 1845



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Robert Conklin
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