[App_rpt-users] setting time

[David KE6UPI]

Has anyone tried gpsd???

http://gpsd.berlios.de/


David

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:44 AM, George Csahanin <george at dyb.com> wrote:

> Ken, what I do is use ntpdate to set time, and fire it off by cron...
>
> 40 0,4,8,12,16,20 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate 65.68.232.27 (my time server)
>
> also tried netdate in place of ntpdate, though not on the ACID distro.
>
> GeorgeC
>
>
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> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:55:48 -0500
> From: "Ken" <ke2n at cs.com>
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> Subject: [App_rpt-users] astdn.sh from crontab
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> I would like to sync the clock of my node every once in a while (like once
> a
> week)
>
> To do this I am using:
>
> ntpd -q
>
> I found that this kills one of my fobs (stops updating)
>
>
>
> So - I thought that I would just stop asterisk, do the time sync and start
> Asterisk  again.
>
>
>
> I run this script from crontab
>
>
>
> /usr/local/bin/astdn.sh
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> /usr/sbin/ntpd -q
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> /usr/local/bin/astup.sh
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>
>
> But when it gets to line 6 of astdn.sh  (service asterisk stop) it throws
> an
> error and does not really stop Asterisk. So it kills the fob.
>
>
>
> I am thinking this error has something to with the environment that crontab
> runs things in . how to fix?
>
>
>
> Tnx
>
> Ken
>
>
> George J Csahanin
> W2DB
> Cedar Park, TX
>
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