[FADCA] ax25ipd not starting

[Chuck Hast]

On 6/14/05, Dan Garley <dpgarley at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.

Dan, I am accessing it using ssh sessions, usually I will have 2 of them going
so I can see what happen when one goes off in the weeds, but at times I have
taken both of them out. I am over in Tampa, Bill is in Ft Pierce...
> 
> 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.

I use SuSE on my work laptop so as to avoid the viru/trojan/worm atractor
that is WinXP that I have to have on that machine since it belongs to my
employer, but they have allowed me to partition the thing and put SuSE
on the other partition, which is just fine to me.

Back to Bill's problem, we are trying to get the fpacuser login that I
have running on my switch up and running on his, i.e. if you ssh into
24.129.134.206
login fpacuser
password fpac
You can give it your call at that point and you are in the switch as though
you had connected to it from the radio side. Bill wants to make that standard
network wide where we can, so I was trying to set his machine up to work
the same way but something just is not allowing it. I have set up a user
called fpacuser given it fpac as the password, when I log into it, it just folds
up shop and goes away. I have set things up in /etc/passwd and also in
/etc/shells, also the permissions are set correctly but something :"ain't
right:"
So that is where we are right now.


-- 
Chuck Hast 
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."