Antenna repair on 147.135 repeater with KC8AJH, N8FMD, K8CTB, K8RRL, KC8TQK, N8VCF, KB8FHW.
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Repositioning and resealing a HAM radio antenna. (Pictures included in full article)
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.
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
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
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
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