Friday, July 31, 2020
Restart gpsd on a daily basis using expect!
cron…
26 3 * * * /root/bin/startgpsd.sh >> /var/log/startgpsd.log # Run Monthly at the 9th day for Leap second file # #20 2 9 * * /usr/bin/update-leap >> /var/log/update.leap.second.log
which runs a shell script which calls an expect script.
#!/bin/sh -e ####################################################################### # LED Pin - wiringPi pin 0 is BCM_GPIO 17. (Physical pin 11) # DATE=`/bin/date` echo "========================================================================" echo $DATE /root/bin/startgpsd.exp
root@ntpd1:~/bin# cat startgpsd.exp #!/usr/bin/expect -f spawn $env(SHELL) match_max 100000 send -- "cd /etc/rc.d/r" expect -exact "#" send -- "./rc.gpsd stopr" expect -exact "#" send -- "./rc.gpsd stopr" expect -exact "#" send -- "./rc.gpsd startr" expect -exact "#" send -- "exitr" expect eof root@ntpd1:~/bin#