Auto Refesh Interfaces & Sources on restart

ringzer

I have noticed that on restart of my Pi, I need to manually refresh the network interfaces and sources for it to work properly. It has been mentioned here before: #502231 but I didnt see a reply to this.

I have two questions:

1. Will this be fixed in a future release?
2. Is there any command I can add to a start up script to ensure this is automatically done?

Thanks. Awesome piece of software by the way!

ACX

Hi ringzer,
a refactoring of the network section is under development for the next 0.4 release, so please wait for it as it should solve all these issues.

ringzer

ACX,

Thank you for your reply and apologies for not replying until now.

Do you have a date for the release date of 0.4? I couldn't find it anywhere on here.

Also, I've tried looking around the code but can't find out what command would effectively refresh interfaces and sources. If you can help with with that command I can put that in crontab.

Thanks,

Ciaran

ACX

Please take a look at this post to follow the current 0.4 delevopment:
#8883

ringzer

To avoid issues I am seeing with the sources needing to be refreshed and avoid any other similar issues related to losing the Wi-Fi connection, I have decided to restart my Pi every day.

However a manual sources refresh is requried, but I have put together a script I can call using curl via cron (which incidentally needs to be enabled and started, see here for how to do this #37

Script - refresh_sources.sh

#!/bin/sh
printf "$(date) - Refreshing sources...\n"
curl --silent -d "Content-Length=10&Content-Type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded&mountall=1&Referer=http://192.168.0.15/sources/" http://192.168.0.15/sources/ > /dev/null
printf "$(date) - Finished refreshing sources\n"

You'll obviously need to change the location of your device in the above script.

cron

And you can setup the cron job using crontab -e command and add the following

30 2 * * * shutdown -r
45 2 * * * /scripts/refresh_sources.sh >> /tmp/refresh_sources.log

I appreciate this will likely be redundant when 0.4 comes out but I thought I should share my findings. It was a good little exercise for me to play around with inspecting headers using Tamper Data https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tamper-data/

ringzer

I've found I that I need to auto refresh the network interfaces from time to time, so I have modified my script to the following:

#!/bin/sh
printf "$(date) - Refreshing sources...\n"
curl --silent -d "Content-Length=10&Content-Type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded&mountall=1&Referer=http://192.168.0.15/sources/" http://192.168.0.15/sources/ > /dev/null
printf "$(date) - Finished refreshing sources\n"

printf "$(date) - Refreshing interfaces\n"
curl --silent -d "Content-Length=9&Content-Type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded&refresh=1&Referer=http://192.168.0.15/network/" http://192.168.0.15/network/ > /dev/null$
printf "$(date) - Finished refreshing interfaces\n"