Working on 147.075 with K8CTB, KC8AJH, N8FMD, K8RRL, KC8FHW, KD8BMI
Canaan Valley, WV Tower Climb 07172016
Antenna repair on 147.135 repeater with KC8AJH, N8FMD, K8CTB, K8RRL, KC8TQK, N8VCF, KB8FHW.
(Pictures included in full article)
Canaan Valley, WV Tower Climb 06172016
Repositioning and resealing a HAM radio antenna. (Pictures included in full article)
Barbour County Fairground Tower Climb
Allstar Changes
To change Allstar to use a # instead of * for the function character change these lines in rpt.conf. Reason this was done is because the repeater controller utilized * to initiate autopatch.
funcchar = # ; function lead-in character (defaults to ‘*’) endchar = * ; command mode end character (defaults to ‘#’)
Another issue we ran into was we had the duplex mode in usbradio.conf set to 0 which only allowed the controller to tx or rx at any given time. Changing this to 1 allowed us to send DTMF commands to the controller when it was transmitting.
Allstar Functions
Defining Functions in Allstar
Define these functions in /etc/asterisk/rpt.conf in the functions section.
1=ilink,1 ; disconnect link = *1<node>
2=ilink,2 ; monitor link = *2<node>
3=ilink,3 ; connect link transceive = *3<node>
4=ilink,4 ; remote command = *4<node>
5=macro,1 ; execute macro = *5<macro#>
70=ilink,5 ; system status
71=ilink,11 ; disconnect permanently connected link = *71<node>
72=ilink,12 ; connect link permanent monitor = *72<node>
73=ilink,13 ; connect link permanent transceive = *73<node>
75=ilink,15 ; play full system status
76=ilink,6 ; disconnect all links
77=ilink,16 ; reconnect previously disconnected links Continue reading Allstar Functions
Fall Climb
Ubuntu Release Upgrade Broke Apache2
After doing a release upgrade
do-release-upgrade
from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 my websites were going to the default vhost for apache. After looking at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf it had changed from looking for .cfg to .conf for the vhosts files. I just added the .cfg in addition to the .conf so both files would work at around line 218 in apache2.conf to include the virtual host configuration.
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.cfg
Remove Old Kernels Ubuntu
Try to do a release upgrade I ran into the issue of /boot not having enough free space. Here is how to resolve that.
Check which kernel you are actively using. DO NOT REMOVE THIS ONE!
uname -r
View all kernels installed on your system.
dpkg --list | grep linux-image
Remove the kernels not in use
apt-get purge linux-image-x.x.x.x-generic
Update grub
update-grub2
Reboot
Run Vhosts Under Separate UIDs/GIDs Apache2
To run vhosts under separate UIDs/GIDs in apache is very easy with mpm-itk. This will help secure your sites on your shared server.
First install apache2-mpm-itk
apt-get install apache2-mpm-itk
Next add a group and user
groupadd web1 useradd -s /bin/false -d /home/web1_admin -m -g web1 web1_admin
Now add this to the end of your vhost for your site. Be sure to place this inside the </virtualhost> tag and not outside of it.
AssignUserId web1_admin web1
For each of your sites you will user a different username and group. Now be sure to set your web directory to the correct user and group.
Example:
chown -R web1_admin:web1 /var/www/website