[FADCA] ax25ipd not starting

[Dan Garley]

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 22:36, Chuck Hast wrote:
> 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.
Is fpacuser a member of the appropriate groups?  If you get past the login and 
can enter a callsign, perhaps the next part of the code calls an app or 
service that requires specific group membership? For instance, in most 
non-ham apps if you want to use a modem u must be a member of "dialup" group 
etc.  Just guessing right now, havent seen the fpac code yet (but I have a 
pointer to it, haven't dl'd it yet).  Is there a ssh user/pw thatll allow 
general "poking around" in the files (read only would be fine).  I realise 
these are very basic suggestion, but sometimes it is that simple.
73 Dan WH6A