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Field Day logger for Linux?

DISCUSSION James Washer 11 participants 15 messages Jun 23, 2006 – Jul 6, 2006

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If you know of a decent FD logger (or any logger with Dupe checking) for linux. Let me know ASAP

Thanks and 73s
- jim

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In reply to James Washer

N3FJP has a great one I use every year. Can't remember the web site, but google the call and you'll find it.

Good luck

'73 Jim - KC9AOP

Quoted 9 lines · James Washer

If you know of a decent FD logger (or any logger with Dupe checking) for linux. Let me know ASAP

Thanks and 73s
- jim
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Quoted 2 lines · Jim Bayer

N3FJP has a great one I use every year. Can't remember the web site, but google the call and you'll find it.

For linux? All I saw on his web page was "register now" for windows ... err ... stuff.

/Yomi

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Quoted 2 lines · Jim Bayer

N3FJP has a great one I use every year. Can't remember the web site, but google the call and you'll find it.

Err Linux??

Geoff

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Sorry about that. It's windows only.

I'm actually writing a logging program in php. It's on Sourceforge. It is a project I took over a little while ago and I've not done enough work on it yet. There is a field day looging function, but to be honest, I'm not sure how good it is.

Maybe I'll have it ready for next year. It is a php/MySQL app that is accessed via your browser.

I'd welcome any suggestions about the program. Here's a link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phphamlog

Jim - KC9OAP

Quoted 29 lines · Geoff Blake
Quoted 2 lines · Jim Bayer

N3FJP has a great one I use every year. Can't remember the web site, but google the call and you'll find it.

Err Linux??

Geoff

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6pack ROMS

In reply to Geoff Blake

I'm putting together some packet stuff here. I have an old 1276 TNC that's a 4.9Mhz Z80
TNC2 variant. Are the ROMS for 6pack on the net somewhere? I thought I'd
try them in this thing just for kicks, see how it goes.

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Re: 6pack ROMS

Quoted 5 lines · Cathryn Mataga

I'm putting together some packet stuff here. I have an old 1276 TNC that's a 4.9Mhz Z80
TNC2 variant. Are the ROMS for 6pack on the net somewhere? I thought I'd
try them in this thing just for kicks, see how it goes.
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I am using 6pack on my FPAC Linux switch here, it works quite well, and if the multi-drop part has been put in the code then you can can use mult- iple TNC's on a serial port. I have not done that piece yet, but so far mine appears to work quit well, I did have a TNC which was going out of synch but it was the TNC that had a issue and not the 6pack stuff.

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Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."
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kissattach/kissnetd versus ptyq ttyq and ptmx/pts

In my original Linux ham radio setup, I had the following...

/sbin/kissnetd -f 1064 /dev/ptyq3 /dev/ptyq4&
sleep 4
/sbin/kissattach -l /dev/ttyq3 lb1 192.168.0.2&
/sbin/kissattach -l /dev/ttyq4 lb2 192.168.0.3&

for creating the loopback device.

Seems that in Fedora 4 ptyq3 and ttyq3 don't exist anymore. I tried using MAKENODE ptyq3 and ttyq3 to create these device files, but I don't think they're working? I get this error.

kissattach: open: No such device or address

I've been googling the pseudo terminals for Linux and it seems that the new way is with ptmx/pts and ptyq3 and ttyq3 are the old style. But I'm not sure, will kissattach works with these? Or is there a way to get ptyq3 ttyq3 working in Fedora 5?

What's the right way to go about this, these days?

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Re: kissattach/kissnetd versus ptyq ttyq and ptmx/pts

Quoted 13 lines · Cathryn Mataga

In my original Linux ham radio setup, I had the following...

/sbin/kissnetd -f 1064 /dev/ptyq3 /dev/ptyq4&
sleep 4
/sbin/kissattach -l /dev/ttyq3 lb1 192.168.0.2&
/sbin/kissattach -l /dev/ttyq4 lb2 192.168.0.3&

for creating the loopback device.

Seems that in Fedora 4 ptyq3 and ttyq3 don't exist anymore. I tried using MAKENODE ptyq3 and ttyq3 to create these device files, but I don't think they're working? I get this error.

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kissattach: open: No such device or address

I've been googling the pseudo terminals for Linux and it seems that the new way is with ptmx/pts and ptyq3 and ttyq3 are the old style. But I'm not sure, will kissattach works with these? Or is there a way to get ptyq3 ttyq3 working in Fedora 5?

What's the right way to go about this, these days? -

Hmm, well I'm still kind of stuck on this a little bit.

This is what I'm thinking is the situation, just puzzling at a few files here.

1. I don't see an obvious option to compile the kernel with ptyq/ttyq support. Maybe this is hidden somewhere? Or maybe this should be working, and I've missed it? This would be easiest. Maybe it's working on FC5 and I've confused myself into thinking it's not, but I don't know.

2. kissnetd and kissattach aren't that complicated. But it looks like they are designed to work with ptyq/ttyq style devices, and nothing related to ptmx exists.

3. I naively thought, well, I'll just put the servers on ptmx and fish around on /dev/pts/[0-9] to see if anything can connect, and this doesn't works. It seems to print some kind of messages but then it gets a read error.

4. It looks like from the man page ptmx needs a call to grantpt and to unlockpt. it looks like an open on /dev/ptmx creates a random slave name. So somehow this has to be printed out, or output to a file. and then use some shell magic to get those names to kissattach so it can connect to them?

5. This is speculation, but I think kissattach maybe doesn't have to change. But kissnetd does. There are some ioctl statements in kissattach, and I'm not sure of any of these..

6. Is this the tip of the iceberg? I use virtual ttys with mkiss also. Maybe that's all I need. I'm thinking of going in and adding a few lines to kissnetd and see how that goes. Unless someone who 'knows what's going on' has a better idea.

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Re: kissattach/kissnetd versus ptyq ttyq and ptmx/pts

Quoted 52 lines · Cathryn Mataga
Quoted 13 lines · Cathryn Mataga

In my original Linux ham radio setup, I had the following...

/sbin/kissnetd -f 1064 /dev/ptyq3 /dev/ptyq4&
sleep 4
/sbin/kissattach -l /dev/ttyq3 lb1 192.168.0.2&
/sbin/kissattach -l /dev/ttyq4 lb2 192.168.0.3&

for creating the loopback device.

Seems that in Fedora 4 ptyq3 and ttyq3 don't exist anymore. I tried using MAKENODE ptyq3 and ttyq3 to create these device files, but I don't think they're working? I get this error.

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kissattach: open: No such device or address

I've been googling the pseudo terminals for Linux and it seems that the new way is with ptmx/pts and ptyq3 and ttyq3 are the old style. But I'm not sure, will kissattach works with these? Or is there a way to get ptyq3 ttyq3 working in Fedora 5?

What's the right way to go about this, these days? -

Hmm, well I'm still kind of stuck on this a little bit.
This is what I'm thinking is the situation, just puzzling at a few files here.

1. I don't see an obvious option to compile the kernel with ptyq/ttyq support. Maybe this is hidden somewhere? Or maybe this should be working, and I've missed it? This would be easiest. Maybe it's working on FC5 and I've confused myself into thinking it's not, but I don't know.

2. kissnetd and kissattach aren't that complicated. But it looks like they are designed to work with ptyq/ttyq style devices, and nothing related to ptmx exists.

3. I naively thought, well, I'll just put the servers on ptmx and fish around on /dev/pts/[0-9] to see if anything can connect, and this doesn't works. It seems to print some kind of messages but then it gets a read error.

4. It looks like from the man page ptmx needs a call to grantpt and to unlockpt. it looks like an open on /dev/ptmx creates a random slave name. So somehow this has to be printed out, or output to a file. and then use some shell magic to get those names to kissattach so it can connect to them?

5. This is speculation, but I think kissattach maybe doesn't have to change. But kissnetd does. There are some ioctl statements in kissattach, and I'm not sure of any of these..

6. Is this the tip of the iceberg? I use virtual ttys with mkiss also. Maybe that's all I need. I'm thinking of going in and adding a few lines to kissnetd and see how that goes. Unless someone who 'knows what's going on' has a better idea.

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dev/ptyq3 is missing in your system, but did you look if other couple of pseudo tty could be there ?

ls -la /dev/ptyp*

I am using Mandriva 2006 distro and pseudo ttys are available even with 2.6 kernels. It appears that they managed to create them from udev (??).

However, last year, knowing that pseudo ttys would become obsolete, I performed some trials with /dev/ptmx and you can find the results of my tests at the following URL.

http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/Unix98-pseudo-tty/

You will find a script that explains what I intended to do.
I modified mkiss (the source available at that time may have evolve since), kissattach and some files of ax25ipd utility.

It worked well, but consider this as alpha code. I did not go further because there was no more need here with pseudo tty again present in Mandriva distro.

73 de Bernard, f6bvp

http://f6bvp.org
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO/
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO-FR/

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RE: kissattach/kissnetd versus ptyq ttyq and ptmx/pts

In reply to Cathryn Mataga

I seem to recall that you need to select this support when the kernel is built. You also need to select KISS and AX.25 support as well. I would try recompiling the kernel with these enabled.

I just looked on my SuSE 10.1 system (kernel 2.6.16) and the pty devices are there (SuSE enables most everything in the default kernel as well as mkiss and ax25) so the kernel must still support it.

What were you using before going to FC4? I made the switch from RH to SuSE mainly to avoid having to recompile kernels all the time. Also I find the SuSE system management much more robust than Fedora.

Mike, W1NR

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Subject: kissattach/kissnetd versus ptyq ttyq and ptmx/pts

In my original Linux ham radio setup, I had the following...

/sbin/kissnetd -f 1064 /dev/ptyq3 /dev/ptyq4& sleep 4 /sbin/kissattach -l /dev/ttyq3 lb1 192.168.0.2& /sbin/kissattach -l /dev/ttyq4 lb2 192.168.0.3&

for creating the loopback device.

Seems that in Fedora 4 ptyq3 and ttyq3 don't exist anymore. I tried using MAKENODE ptyq3 and ttyq3 to create these device files, but I don't think they're working? I get this error.

kissattach: open: No such device or address

I've been googling the pseudo terminals for Linux and it seems that the new way is with ptmx/pts and ptyq3 and ttyq3 are the old style. But I'm not sure, will kissattach works with these? Or is there a way to get ptyq3 ttyq3 working in Fedora 5?

What's the right way to go about this, these days?
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RE: kissattach/kissnetd versus ptyq ttyq and ptmx/pts

In reply to Cathryn Mataga
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In my original Linux ham radio setup, I had the following...

/sbin/kissnetd -f 1064 /dev/ptyq3 /dev/ptyq4& sleep 4 /sbin/kissattach -l /dev/ttyq3 lb1 192.168.0.2& /sbin/kissattach -l /dev/ttyq4 lb2 192.168.0.3&

for creating the loopback device.

Seems that in Fedora 4 ptyq3 and ttyq3 don't exist anymore. I tried using MAKENODE ptyq3 and ttyq3 to create these device files, but I don't think they're working? I get this error.

kissattach: open: No such device or address

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I've been googling the pseudo terminals for Linux and it seems that the new way is with ptmx/pts and ptyq3 and ttyq3 are the old style. But I'm not sure, will kissattach works with these? Or is there a way to get ptyq3 ttyq3 working in Fedora 5?

What's the right way to go about this, these days? -

Hi,
I'm running AX25 on a Centos 4.3 system with kernel 2.6.16 and it works well.

You can enable the pty devices in the kernel config under Device Drivers > Character Devices > Legacy (BSD) PTY Support

One oddity I found with the original Centos/Redhat kernel was the extra serial ports I have installed appeared at high numbers for some reason (something like /dev/ttyS44 / 45 / 54 / 55)

I used the latest release kernel from kernel.org and this put them back normal sequence from ttyS0 - ttyS5. It also made the whole system rather more stable, I think the Redhat kernel is a bit behind with the AX25 updates.

Robert Jenkins, G8TBF.

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Re: kissattach/kissnetd versus ptyq ttyq and ptmx/pts

Quoted 4 lines · Robert Jenkins

I'm running AX25 on a Centos 4.3 system with kernel 2.6.16 and it works well.

You can enable the pty devices in the kernel config under Device Drivers > Character Devices > Legacy (BSD) PTY Support

Yeah, this was the problem. I missed this option I guess. Thanks for the replies
from everyone. I recompiled and now kissattach is behaving well. I just went in
the kernel and turned on ham radio, oops. Maybe I'll make some notes on my website, how "Legacy PTY" is needed.

I guess as long as this Legacy PTY stuff is still around this isn't a huge problem. Am going to now move on to the rest of the setup.