I played with that way back in the 90's...yeah, plenty easier these days. GeorgeC ----- Original Message ----- From: David KE6UPI To: George Csahanin Cc: app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] setting time Has anyone tried gpsd??? http://gpsd.berlios.de/ David On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:44 AM, George Csahanin <george@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 Message: 4 Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:55:48 -0500 From: "Ken" <ke2n@cs.com> To: <app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org> Subject: [App_rpt-users] astdn.sh from crontab Message-ID: <000801cba5e6$ea508e00$bef1aa00$@com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 /usr/sbin/ntpd -q /usr/local/bin/astup.sh 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 _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users