<div dir="ltr"><div>News is working well now, am writing the temporary news file to a USB drive. Auto-mounting USB storage with udev to the /media directory working well too.</div><div>Thank you very much for you help and fast response Doug!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">--</div><div dir="ltr">Robert Conklin<div><font size="4"><b><a href="http://qrz.com/db/N4WGY" target="_blank">N4WGY</a></b></font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Doug Crompton via arm-allstar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" target="_blank">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Robert,<br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"> You can put playnews and its associated files wherever you want but I recommend making a directory under /etc/asterisk/local called playnews. Then change the VOICEDIR variable in the script to point to that directory. Don't change /tmp - that is a ramdisk - you don't want to be writing all the temporary files to the SD when it runs. Here is my cron - obviously sub your node, times. etc.<br><br>30 20 * * 1 /etc/asterisk/local/playnews/<wbr>playnews-0.9 ARRL 21:01 27225<br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Start script at 8:30 PM on Monday. Actually play ARRL news at 9:01 PM to node 27225. Node has to be on the same server as the playnews script. Play globally.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">I hope that answers your question. Let me know how you make out.<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-2950862233516391243gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><font size="4">73 Doug<br></font></b></div><b><font size="4">WA3DSP<br></font></b></div><b><font size="4"><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio" target="_blank">http://www.crompton.com/<wbr>hamradio</a><br></font></b></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Robert Conklin via arm-allstar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org" target="_blank">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Having some trouble with the playnews script. <div>Wondering if I have script directory wrong. The cronjob sample in the playews-9.0 readme gives a directory of "/etc/asterisk/playnews". I put the script files at "/etc/asterisk/local/playne<wbr>ws" and changed the cronjob accordingly. The actual script file is named "playnews-0.9", should that be the directory name?</div><div>Also, If I leave the TMPDIR as the default /tmp, will this be a problem? The SD card has 64GB capacity.</div><div>Thanks!<br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-2950862233516391243m_7534507845327996875gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">--</div><div dir="ltr">Robert Conklin<div><font size="4"><b><a href="http://qrz.com/db/N4WGY" target="_blank">N4WGY</a></b></font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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