[arm-allstar] Crontab failure

[Patrick Perdue]

Don:

I expect this isn't working because your double quotes need to be 
escaped on the crontab itself.

I've not actually tested this, but perhaps the following would work.

00 08 * * * /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx \"rpt fun 530780 *3435450\"
30 12 * * * /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx \"rpt fun 530780 *1435450\"

Just to make things easier for myself, I generally just create small 
one-line bash scripts to perform simple connect/disconnects, then call 
those from cron instead of doing it there directly.

For example, you could create these two scripts:

</etc/asterisk/local/connect-rpt.sh>

#!/bin/bash

/usr/local/sbin/asterisk -rx ""rpt fun 530780 *3435450"


</etc/asterisk/local/disconnect-rpt.sh>

#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/sbin/asterisk -rx ""rpt fun 530780 *1435450"


Remember to make these two scripts executable.

chmod +x /etc/asterisk/local/connect.sh

chmod +x /etc/asterisk/local/disconnect.sh


Now, call them from cron.

00 08 * * * /etc/asterisk/local/connect-rpt.sh
30 12 * * * /etc/asterisk/local/disconnect-rpt.sh


This also gives you some additional flexibility. For example, you could 
play a local announcement one minute before connecting or disconnecting 
from that node, etc.

HTH.

73

N2DYI


On 7/6/2023 11:49 AM, Don VA7QU Poaps via ARM-allstar wrote:

> I have been having an issue with my PI4 not connecting to 435450 at 8 am
> and disconnecting at 12:30.
>
> I can manually connect and disconnect. I have no idea how to rectify.
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> # Do not remove the following line
> # required for lsnodes and allmon
> 15 03 * * * cd /usr/local/sbin; ./astdb.php cron
> 00 0-23 * * * (source /usr/local/etc/allstar.env ; /usr/bin/nice -19
> /usr/bin/p$
> 00 03 * * * sudo shutdown --reboot
> 00 08 * * * /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 530780 *3435450"
> 30 12 * * * /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "rpt fun 530780 *1435450"
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> By the way I'm on their whitelist to connect to repeater.
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> 73
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