[arm-allstar] on connect script help

[Russell Thomas]

Awesome, thanks!

is it possible to use other variables in the awk call?

when congpm calls my msg scrip it's using $1 and $2 to be the node numbers.



On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 11:07 AM David McGough <kb4fxc at inttek.net> wrote:

>
> Russell,
>
> You can pull data from the /var/log/asterisk/astdb.txt file for each node
> number and use that data to give more info about the nodes.
>
> Something to be aware of however, is that the astdb.txt file data
> "quality" isn't fantastic, since users are allowed to basically enter
> free-form data on the ASL portal site.  Also, there are even cases where
> the node Trustee's callsign is missing, which IMO is not good.
>
> Here is a simple bash example to extract the callsign column from this
> file for node 2286:
>
> NODE=2286
>
> ASTDB="/var/log/asterisk/astdb.txt"
>
> CALL=$(awk '-F|' '$1 ~ /^'$NODE'$/ {print "callsign: "$2}' < $ASTDB)
>
> echo $CALL
>
>
> 73, David KB4FXC
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2022, "Russell Thomas via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>
> > I've been running this bash script for a few years, and it's functioned
> > flawlessly.
> >
> > echo "Node $2 connected to node $1 at $(date +%Y-%m-%d.%H:%M:%S):" | mail
> > -s "My repeater" 6165551212 at vtext.com # verizon text message
> >
> > Are there variables I can use to get the callsign and/or the node
> > information to "pretty up" my message?
> >
> > 47923 KV4S 432.200 Chelsea, Alabama
> >
> > 73,
> > Russell Thomas, KV4S
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