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As a guess I'd say that it's failing at the pipe into direwolf. Cron is not the best way to auto start programs. Now I vaguely recall some chatter on this a week or so ago and iirc there is a script included in direwolf source code for starting it as a systemd
service (this way any permissions and users are better handled)<br>
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However my memory is not as reliable as it once was!<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 14, 2020 1:27:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Australian APRS Users <ozaprs@aprs.net.au><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OZAPRS] Direwolf on RPi</font>
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Good afternoon and welcome to my nightmare </p>
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Running the latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite 32 bit –previously <span> </span>known as Raspbian Buster - on a Pi 3B+. Trying to auto-start direwolf at reboot. Wrote a cron job in nano using
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<span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Consolas; background:silver none repeat scroll 0% 0%">@reboot /usr/bin/rtl_fm –f 145.175M - | direwolf –c sdr.conf –r 24000 –D –</span><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Consolas"><span></span></span></p>
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The file saved without error and assured me that the new crontab had been installed. Now at reboot, quick as a flash, nothing happens. No error message. Nada. Almost as if the cron job isn’t being run... or read... or something. I know the command line works,
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So what have I done wrong, or not done right? 🤔<br>
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norm vk3xci<br>
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