<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Norm. <div><br></div><div>Direwolf is one of those amateur apps that has extensive documentation written to support it - including auto start. </div><div><br></div><div>In this case it is very much RTFM. <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wb2osz/direwolf/master/doc/User-Guide.pdf">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wb2osz/direwolf/master/doc/User-Guide.pdf</a><br><br><div dir="ltr">__<div><br></div><div>Wade</div><div><br></div><div>VK1MIC.com<br><table width="351" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin-top: 10px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 0px;"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 14 Jul 2020, at 13:27, Norm McMillan <vk3xci@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Good afternoon and welcome to my nightmare </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">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 <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas;background:silver none repeat scroll 0% 0%">crontab –e</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Consolas"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">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, that’s how I’m starting it at the
moment.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">So what have I done wrong, or not done right? 🤔<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:5pt 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">norm vk3xci<br></p>
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