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