Kent, First of all, the this gateway stuff, in my thoughts, should be discussed on the 'dstar-gateway' group, or the 'D-Star_Admin' group. Please take a moment and sign up on the yahoo group 'dstar-gateway' where a majority of the admins are. You asked about the 'timesync', the gateway has a complex BUT very powerful script (tool) that was loaded according to the the documents outlined on the how to join the G2 network. This is called 'gw_schedule'. It is wholly written by Brian Rhodes, NJ6N, the same person who also maintains the dstarusers.org site. I will not go into depth of what this script does, IT has been discussed earlier in the DSTAR days of G1 and G2, search the groups archives of all three yahoo groups and on the K5TIT forums. It is not wise to mess with this at any costs. TIMESYNC: this is the command that gateways will react to when this is issued by the G2 NETWORK ADMINS. It will sync the pc clock to "time.k5tit.org". Can that be changed? yes, but why does it need to be changed? What else can it do?, The USROOT can do various remote controlling commands, which does not need to explained on this group, being it is not an admin group. Email me privately or ask on the admin group for a detailed response. Evans F. Mitchell KD4EFM / WQFK-894
Fla. D-Star Tech Support Group http://www.florida-dstar.info <http://www.florida-dstar.info/> Polk ARES A.E.C. http://www.polkemcomm.org <http://www.polkemcomm.org/> BB8330 PIN: 30965B58 _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Storer, Darren Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 5:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] N7ARR clock Hi Kent, the time problem on N7ARR has now been resolved. N7ARR's clock was forward by 10 years, as you can clearly see from the dsync status that you pasted below; this had some very negative effects on the trust server, so an emergency time sync command was pushed to re-sync the server's clock. Pushing the sync was the last resort as the admin team were unable to contact you when they were working on the problem and dplus linking to N7ARR didn't seem to work at the time. The good news is that not only is the system clock correct now but the rogue entries in dstarusers.org have also been removed. 73 de Darren G7LWT 2009/12/14 Kent Johnson <w7...@narri. <mailto:[email protected]> org> Darren G7LWT, You say "N7ARR has a year of 2019" on it s clock. You may want to contact the N7ARR custodian and let them know! I think that is better for many reasons. I just checked by entering "date" at root and found the GW time is the same as my PC and cell phone. I saw no error message when checking GW history, but did note N7ARR timesync commencing 2019-12-13 21:05:00 2009-12-13 21:04:44 /dstar/scripts/gw_schedule 2.0h N7ARR timesync in 4 Minutes 2019-12-13 21:00:02 2009-12-13 20:59:46 /dstar/scripts/gw_schedule 2.0h Those who understand "timesync" may want to explain the above. What imitates " timesync " . Is that a cron? I saw a time error last week and did a manual timesync including stop/restart. I was not aware of further errors and don't see any now. If you do let me know. Kent W7AOR Cust N7ARR and Owner REF014 www.narri.org
