Do you mind if I post this on our website florida-dstar.info ?? 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 DH9FAX Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 7:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: Connecting to Reflector 030 Maybe I'm a little bit off topic, but up to Adrian's post: --- In [email protected], Adrian <vk4...@...> wrote: > Probably need K6ACS admin to restart dplus, to load the new reflector. > vk4tux ... here is how I modified dplus start and stop: because dplus will run as long as the gateway runs and it will never rotate its log file, I decided to force a restart of dplus once per week. I put a little script into the folder /etc/cron.weekly which guesses the actually status if linked or unlinked, posting a prerecorded message about restarting dplus service and rotate the log. Maybe others find this script usefully, and by the way it re-reads the information on available reflectors. Here comes the script: #!/bin/bash grep -i "remote gateway " /dstar/tmp/status > /dev/null LINKSTAT="$?" if [ "$LINKSTAT" = "0" ] ; then cp /dstar/tmp/dplusrestartlink.dvtool /dstar/tmp/play-a.dvtool sleep 1 cp /dstar/tmp/dplusrestartlink.dvtool /dstar/tmp/play-b.dvtool else cp /dstar/tmp/dplusrestart.dvtool /dstar/tmp/play-a.dvtool sleep 1 cp /dstar/tmp/dplusrestart.dvtool /dstar/tmp/play-b.dvtool fi sleep 1 for i in 6 5 4 3 2 1 ; do j=$(($i+1)) mv /var/log/dplus.log.$i /var/log/dplus.log.$j done mv /var/log/dplus.log /var/log/dplus.log.1 sleep 5 service dplus restart > /dev/null Additional information: we have repeater A and B connected, so I send out messages to these two ports. Version one will be played if a link is established and tells the user to reconnect after a while manually. The other message will just tell the users that dplus will be restarted. I recorded these message files using the echo function of dplus earlier. 73 de Reiner, dh9fax
