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Instructions for g2_link 4.00 install on AlmaLinux

 

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Hi g2_link admins,

As you have seen by some recent posts of mine, I have been working on getting g2_link working alongside of the new dplus G3 version 3.2 on an AlmaLinux install. I think I worked out all the kinks and I documented the install by creating the attached "recipe".? These instructions should work for other admins as well assuming they have a working dplus G3 version 3.2 system running on AlmaLinux. Please note:

  • My attached instructions does not document the multiple options for dashboards, it just documents what I used on VY1RDS.
  • I do not used the supplied "my_scripts" or "cron" that was on va3uv's website, I used slightly modified versions as described in the next bullet point.
  • For the specific bits that are different than previous installs (some described below), I created a new tar file and place it on my website for download.? This is included in the attached documentation. These files include:
    • modified crontab entries, disabled by default except the update_gwys one.?
    • systemd services for use in AlmaLinux
    • slightly modified "my_scripts", and additional specific scripts I created for email notifications when new users register (work in progress, but mostly works), as well as a backup script that backups up g2_link config, dplus, and ircddb3 (if installed)
    • some customizations used on the vy1rds dashboard
    • patch file for g2_lh, to stop it from crashing (as per my last email, I still need to investigate why the condition comes up that was causing it to crash to begin with)

Please feel free to pick my work apart, reuse any or all of it, and/or re-incorporate any bits and pieces of this recipe or my tar file in official documentation for g2_link? (assuming it actually works on other gateway installs--it should).

I will be following this recipe on a backup gateway I will be building shortly, so if I notice any errors at that time I will update and resend.? Feedback welcome.

Enjoy,

Rob, VY1RDS

g2_link_install_on_vy1rds.txt
g2_link_install_on_vy1rds.txt

 

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I should really create a signature block, my call is not VY1RDS, its VY1RG, and I am one of the admins for the VY1RDS d-star repeater, which is managed and operated by the Yukon Amateur Radio Association (https://yara.ca)?

Rob, VY1RG (not VY1RDS).

From:[email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Robert Gillis <robert@...>
Sent:?September 6, 2024 09:17
To:[email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject:?[g2-link] Instructions for g2_link 4.00 install on AlmaLinux
?
Hi g2_link admins,

As you have seen by some recent posts of mine, I have been working on getting g2_link working alongside of the new dplus G3 version 3.2 on an AlmaLinux install. I think I worked out all the kinks and I documented the install by creating the attached "recipe".? These instructions should work for other admins as well assuming they have a working dplus G3 version 3.2 system running on AlmaLinux. Please note:

  • My attached instructions does not document the multiple options for dashboards, it just documents what I used on VY1RDS.
  • I do not used the supplied "my_scripts" or "cron" that was on va3uv's website, I used slightly modified versions as described in the next bullet point.
  • For the specific bits that are different than previous installs (some described below), I created a new tar file and place it on my website for download.? This is included in the attached documentation. These files include:
    • modified crontab entries, disabled by default except the update_gwys one.?
    • systemd services for use in AlmaLinux
    • slightly modified "my_scripts", and additional specific scripts I created for email notifications when new users register (work in progress, but mostly works), as well as a backup script that backups up g2_link config, dplus, and ircddb3 (if installed)
    • some customizations used on the vy1rds dashboard
    • patch file for g2_lh, to stop it from crashing (as per my last email, I still need to investigate why the condition comes up that was causing it to crash to begin with)

Please feel free to pick my work apart, reuse any or all of it, and/or re-incorporate any bits and pieces of this recipe or my tar file in official documentation for g2_link? (assuming it actually works on other gateway installs--it should).

I will be following this recipe on a backup gateway I will be building shortly, so if I notice any errors at that time I will update and resend.? Feedback welcome.

Enjoy,

Rob, VY1RDS
 

So happy to see this! I've been helping resuscitate the VE2RM gateway
(a ways south and east of VY1RDS ...). I've got everything working
under AL9 / G3.2 and have been waiting for "g2_link" (needs a new
name). I was even able to re-import the user database from the
left-for-dead former gateway system after I got it up and running.

Unfortunately, our 70-cm RF module (only one we have - ID-RP4000V) is
deaf. Sure, I can hit it using my ID-51+ from the bottom of the
tower, but not from much further away. OK, it's not *quite* that bad,
but I can hit the co-located 70-cm FM repeater from home ~20 km away
on that same HT. Not full quieting, but still. Not so with the
D-STAR repeater. But the network park works great!

ANYWAY, I look forward to attempting to follow your recipe and will
feed back any observations I have.

Thank you!

73,
Peter

On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 12:17?PM Robert Gillis via groups.io
<robert@...> wrote:

Hi g2_link admins,

As you have seen by some recent posts of mine, I have been working on getting g2_link working alongside of the new dplus G3 version 3.2 on an AlmaLinux install. I think I worked out all the kinks and I documented the install by creating the attached "recipe". These instructions should work for other admins as well assuming they have a working dplus G3 version 3.2 system running on AlmaLinux. Please note:


My attached instructions does not document the multiple options for dashboards, it just documents what I used on VY1RDS.
I do not used the supplied "my_scripts" or "cron" that was on va3uv's website, I used slightly modified versions as described in the next bullet point.
For the specific bits that are different than previous installs (some described below), I created a new tar file and place it on my website for download. This is included in the attached documentation. These files include:

modified crontab entries, disabled by default except the update_gwys one.
systemd services for use in AlmaLinux
slightly modified "my_scripts", and additional specific scripts I created for email notifications when new users register (work in progress, but mostly works), as well as a backup script that backups up g2_link config, dplus, and ircddb3 (if installed)
some customizations used on the vy1rds dashboard
patch file for g2_lh, to stop it from crashing (as per my last email, I still need to investigate why the condition comes up that was causing it to crash to begin with)


Please feel free to pick my work apart, reuse any or all of it, and/or re-incorporate any bits and pieces of this recipe or my tar file in official documentation for g2_link (assuming it actually works on other gateway installs--it should).

I will be following this recipe on a backup gateway I will be building shortly, so if I notice any errors at that time I will update and resend. Feedback welcome.

Enjoy,

Rob, VY1RDS


--
Peter Laws | VE[23]UWY / N5UWY | plaws0 gmail com | Travel by Train!
 

Rob et al - Many thanks
?
- whilst i started to follow the recipe, being new to this i could not find 'my scripts'? when i got to this point
?
# Copy the scripts to the my_scripts directory
cp /root/alma_temp/myscripts/* /root/my_scripts
?
Hope you can give me a pointer / wget link
?
73
?
?Murray G6JYB
 

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There was probably a command to create the directory.

# create standard directories
cd /
mkdir /root/g2_link
mkdir /root/my_scripts

Terry

Terry M Stader KA8SCP
WB1GOF Repeaters Proprietor?

On Sep 7, 2024, at 2:45?PM, Murray Niman <g6jyb@...> wrote:

?
Rob et al - Many thanks
?
- whilst i started to follow the recipe, being new to this i could not find 'my scripts'? when i got to this point
?
# Copy the scripts to the my_scripts directory
cp /root/alma_temp/myscripts/* /root/my_scripts
?
Hope you can give me a pointer / wget link
?
73
?
?Murray G6JYB

--
Terry Stader - KA8SCP
D-STAR Gateway & Reflector Admin
 

I had made the local folders
- but where do you actually download the (modified?) scripts from….?
?
73
?
?Murray?
 

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Hi Murray,

I had a typo in my instructions—I missed an _?

The correct command is:
? ? ?cp /root/alma_temp/my_scripts/* /root/my_scripts
?as opposed to?
? ??cp /root/alma_temp/myscripts/* /root/my_scripts

Those scripts (? the ones found in /root/alma_temp/my_scripts/?) are the ones I supply in the ??package. Before this command, you would have downloaded this package (with the wget ?command, and then extracted this file afterwards.

I hope this helps.

Rob


From:[email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Murray Niman <g6jyb@...>
Sent:?September 7, 2024 13:48
To:[email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject:?Re: [g2-link] Instructions for g2_link 4.00 install on AlmaLinux
?
I had made the local folders
- but where do you actually download the (modified?) scripts from….?
?
73
?
?Murray?
 

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Hi Murray,

I have never used Monlink so I cannot comment.? From what I understand Monlink interacts directly with dplus, and the scripts that are supplied with g2_link are simply cron jobs that interact directly with g2_link—so yes, I believe they would conflict as they dont "talk" to one another.? With that said, I never used Monlink so I could be wrong.

Rob, VY1RG

From:?Murray Niman <murray.niman@...>
Sent:?September 8, 2024 14:49
To:?Robert Gillis <robert@...>
Cc:[email protected] <[email protected]>; g6jyb@... <g6jyb@...>
Subject:?Re: [g2-link] Instructions for g2_link 4.00 install on AlmaLinux
?
Many thanks !

Also. ?Can Monlink scheduling continue to run , or would we get conflicts?
- trying to get best of both worlds:)

73

?Murray?



On 7 Sep 2024, at 22:32, Robert Gillis <robert@...> wrote:

?
Hi Murray,

I had a typo in my instructions—I missed an _?

The correct command is:
? ? ?cp /root/alma_temp/my_scripts/* /root/my_scripts
?as opposed to?
? ??cp /root/alma_temp/myscripts/* /root/my_scripts

Those scripts (? the ones found in /root/alma_temp/my_scripts/?) are the ones I supply in the ??package. Before this command, you would have downloaded this package (with the wget ?command, and then extracted this file afterwards.

I hope this helps.

Rob


From:[email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Murray Niman <g6jyb@...>
Sent:?September 7, 2024 13:48
To:[email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject:?Re: [g2-link] Instructions for g2_link 4.00 install on AlmaLinux
?
I had made the local folders
- but where do you actually download the (modified?) scripts from….?
?
73
?
?Murray?

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