[FADCA] ax25ipd not starting

[Dan Garley]

On Monday 13 June 2005 23:41, Bill Sinbine wrote:
> At 11:31 PM 6/13/2005, Chuck Hast wrote:
> >On 6/13/05, Bill Sinbine <n4xeo at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > > At 06:58 PM 6/13/2005, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > > >Bill,
> > > >I assume that you are shutting down and starting up your ax25 stack
> > > > since every so often I find that the ax25ipd daemon is not running. I
> > > > think
> >
> > you are
> >
> > > >probably restarting it with the rcax25 restart command which I do not
> >
> > think
> >
> > > >runs the ax25-up script. Your ax25ipd start up along with the start up
> > > > of fpac is in the ax25-up script and if it is not being run that
> > > > explains
> >
> > why I
> >
> > > >find the link to you gone and can not bring it back up when I try it,
> >
> > after I
> >
> > > >go in and restart the ax25ipd daemon then the link comes right up and
> > > >runs just fine...
> > > >
> > > >Tell me how you are starting your ax25 and fpac stuff does it start
> > > >automaticly
> > > >when you boot the machine or do you have to manually start stuff?
> > >
> > > It all starts automatically
> > >
> > > It might have to do with the dialup. I only get 12 hours runso I reboot
> >
> > it 3 times a day so it can be used all the time. this weekend
> >
> > > was a little different on the times. I normally re dial it at 6am
> > > before work then when I get home and before I go to bed.
> >
> >For some reason the ax25ipd daemon is not starting, I keep on going in and
> >finding that it is not running, I am trying to figure out why it is
> >not starting if
> >all of the rest is running.
> >
> >Maybe need to put a longer sleep in front of it.
> >
> >Why do you have to reboot it, why not just cause it to redial? I have not
> > done dialup but know that a lot of people do it and do not have to reboot
> > the machine,
> >just have the dialer re-dial.
>
> I'm sorry that I said reboot it should have been re dial...
>
> > > OAN it was locked up again today and I had to kill it to get it to
> > > reboot....Are there any utilities like Norton that I can run on it to
> > > see if there are any problems??
> >
> >Are there any sort of messages anywhere prior to the lockup? I wonder
> >what would be causing them... Well there are all sort of tools, but a
> >lockup is not so common unless something is messing memory up or
> >something else.
>
> I haven't seen it lock up I just walk in here and it is not running. I do
> have a gui open that I'm working with. I have to have that open so if it
> disconnects the dialup when I'm not here Barbara can come in and make it
> connect again. This is one of the things that I still need to get done. I
> still need to get the dialup loading at boot up and just reconnect or
> connect on demand. Then I wouldn't need to have the gui running other than
> to do stuff.. The screen just looks like a picture of the way I left it no
> message or anything at all. Remember I told you that it did it on Saturday
> also....
>
Being new to the list I don't know where you are in the linux curve, so 
heres .02 $.

Linux is multiuser, you have multiple terminals available, use for instance 
ctrl-alt-F4 to hop to the terminal on TTY4, then u can log in, check logs, ps 
to check process etc.  Many times when a session locks, all the other vt's 
are available. Your normal login session is most likely on  vt7, so 
ctrl-alt-F4 will put u back there.  

Also, can use the cron facility to schedule stuff, like launch script every 5 
min, check if modem active, redial if not. Endless possibilities for 
automation based on schedule.
Run suse 9.3 here.
73 Dan WH6A
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> 73, Bill Sinbine
> n4xeo at bellsouth.net
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