Re: Linpac - Final hurdle?

From: Tomi Manninen (wmcyvj.eysmctldna@bbsc.net)
Date: Sat Jul 14 2001 - 16:08:44 EEST

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    On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Steve Fraser wrote:

    > Phil wrote:
    > >
    > > Linpac expects to find the axports file under /etc/ax25; on my system it is
    > > under /usr/local/etc. How do I overcome this minor inconvenience?
    > >
    > > I really don't want to reinstall the ax25 utilities yet again.
    >
    > This is probably a left over from the 2.1.42a utils changed to the later
    > utils, which altered the default location. Programs which dont use the API's
    > to process ports etc can get caught by this change.
    >
    > The easiest solution I've found is to use a symbolic link in /etc/ax25,
    > like:
    > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 20 16:30 ax25ipd.conf ->
    > /usr/local/etc/ax25/ax25ipd.conf
    > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Apr 25 2000 axports ->
    > /usr/local/etc/ax25/axports

    Better yet, link the whole ax25 directory. Something like:

      cd /etc
      ln -s /usr/local/etc/ax25 . 

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