Linux-Hams archive - October 1997: Re: ttylinkd error

Re: ttylinkd error

Craig Small ()
Wed, 1 Oct 1997 20:31:06 +1000 (EST)


Dave J Brown is rumoured to of said:
> Now by the looks of the code, to enable the pms to work I will have to
> configure the config.h file in the lib/ directory of the utils to define the
> MY_TALK as "/usr/sbin/ttylinkd -c m1aax" etc. Would it not be better if pms
> strcat'ted MY_TALK plus the relevant argv[] entry for the system call? I'm
> sorry if I am overlooking something obvious, but there is an association
> between M1AAX and my login name of djb2.
Nope, the -c is for the callsign of the user, not the sysop, so it changes
depending who wants to talk to you. You need the PMS to send you that
information, it needs to call ttylinkd with the -c <user> field too.

I am not sure if the PMS can do this.

- Craig vk2xlz

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