Custom Image restart?

Discussion in 'Feeding' started by RichardG, May 25, 2020.

  1. RichardG

    RichardG Member

    Hello, I am using the custom ADSBx image on a Pi4 with RLT-SDRBlogV3. This appears to work very well. At 04:00 BST every morning it appears to restart. Is this supposed to happen?, if it is supposed to happen why does it happen? and can I change/prevent this from happening?
    Many thanks
    Richard
     
  2. MDA

    MDA Administrator Staff Member

    Reboot is intentional (remote feeders sometimes are loosing wifi connection etc.).
    To disable remove/comment line in crontab.
    Code:
    sudo crontab -e
     
  3. RichardG

    RichardG Member

    Sorted. Thank you.
     
  4. James

    James Guest

    It's advisable to reboot occasionally or you might run into a issues with /run
     
  5. RichardG

    RichardG Member

    Ok. I'll set it up for weekly and see where I get.

    As a 'least competant feeder' what sort of issues may I bump into with /run? (I don't know what to expect) and also if you have time what do you mean by 'issues with /run'?

    Further question - the base image is set up with UTC time, if I change to local time on the Pi can I assume that this would not affect the MLAT?

    Many thanks.
     
  6. wiedehopf

    wiedehopf Administrator Staff Member

    configured timezone will make no difference, so set it as you like.


    df -h will show you disk usage.
    /run might run full with data because of issues. stuff whatever.
     
  7. RichardG

    RichardG Member

    Thank you for the answers. Will set time zone as appropriate.

    I have a 32Gb card in the feeder and now set up to restart 1/wk. I'll keep an eye on the /run size
     
  8. RichardG

    RichardG Member

    After deciding to uninstall Grafana/Prometheus from the image as I have been using graph1090 to keep the data, the run file size no longer seems to be increasing. Guessing at this point that issues with /run will not be an issue if it doesn't fill up. Time will tell.