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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I would like to sync the clock of my node every once in a while (like once a week)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To do this I am using: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ntpd –q<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I found that this kills one of my fobs (stops updating)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So – I thought that I would just stop asterisk, do the time sync and start Asterisk again.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I run this script from crontab<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/usr/local/bin/astdn.sh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/usr/sbin/ntpd -q<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>/usr/local/bin/astup.sh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>But when it gets to line 6 of astdn.sh (<span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>service asterisk stop)</span> it throws an error and does not really stop Asterisk. So it kills the fob.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am thinking this error has something to with the environment that crontab runs things in … how to fix?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tnx<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ken<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>