Proper code for crontab

AllStarLink
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I’ve done a new install of the ASL-Beta 2, wanting and trying to get the asl to ID every thirty minutes or on the hour but I’m not having any luck.

I entered the following within crontab "00 0-23 * * * (source /usr/local/etc/allstar.env ; /usr/bin/nic -19 /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/sbin/saytime.pl $NODE1 > /dev/null)

but I think I may be mixing hamvoip coding with asl…

Could one advise where I set the ID to be active with CW, and the proper entry for crontab so that I could get this repeater to ID every thirty minutes, please?

Thanks,
William, KI5PHN

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That is the hourly node time cron
if you want to do a cron for every 30 min it will be something like this

30 * * * *  asterisk -r -x "rpt localplay NODE NUMBER HERE recording to play without extension

at least that’s how I have mine done and it works.

Forgot to mention my cron tab works because my sound file in in the folder /var/lib/asterisk/sounds
If the sound is in another folder then you will have to adjust the cron tab to point where the file is.

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William, can you say that you are adjusting or wanting to adjust the OS crontab or
the asl system scheduler ?

There is a difference but they are similar.
But commanding has a different perspective.

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The perl file is already executable, and good on ya for sourcing the environment first. I assume you simply misspelled “nice”, but it’s not a cpu-intensive perl script, so it’s not at all necessary, nor is it necessary to use parentheses to invoke a subshell. There is no textual output from either saytime.pl or say24time.pl, so simply put:

0,30 * * * * source /usr/local/etc/allstar.env; /usr/local/sbin/saytime.pl $NODE1

You can be even more efficient by manually entering your node number (assume node #12345):

0,30 * * * * /usr/local/sbin/say24time.pl 12345

You may wish to slightly stagger the times, e.g.:
29,59 …

Also, for CW ID, uncomment the apprpriate “idrecording=” line in /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf

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Thank you dwarnok for the info. I will try the "0,30 * * * * /usr/local/sbin/say24time.pl 12345’ and go from there.

I do appreciate all the input.

William, KI5PHN