From: pa3gcu (ybrwhzd.nnvddzn@muskegoncc.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 23:53:18 EEST
On Monday 26 August 2002 20:08, Andrew B. wrote:
> Hello Bop,
>
> use -c option with ax25ipd command line - point to
> /etc/ax25/ax25ipd.conf directly...
>
> Hint: Search old linux-ham mailing list archive
>
>
> Monday, August 26, 2002, 6:25:19 AM, you wrote:
> NB> Hi
> NB> I am trying to run the ax25ipd and each time i do i get
> NB> config not found or could not be open the config file is in
> NB> /etc/ax25 dir so wonder why it wont load any ideas!
> NB> thanks
> NB> Bob N1UAN
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew mailto:cjrpdgab.nybf@novis.pt
The search engine in the linux hams archive is broken and has been for a long
time, i used www.google.com to find the following.
From, http://www.febo.com/packet/linux-ax25/ax25-config.html
There is one thing to watch out for with the new ax25 packages.
If you install the ax25 stuff from Debian or RedHat packages, they will be
installed in /usr/sbin with the config files in /etc/ax25. But... if you
obtain the sources and build them yourself, the programs will be installed in
/usr/local/sbin with the config files in /usr/local/etc/ax25. That can cause
problems if the home-built programs need to read, for example, the axports
file and are looking for it in /usr/local/etc/ax25 when it really lives in
/etc/ax25.
The workaround is simple, though it's not The Right Thing according to the
filesystem standards: make /usr/local/etc/ax25 a symbolic link to /etc/ax25.
That way, no matter which directory a program looks in for its configuration
files, it will find the same ones.
To do that, issue this command: ln -s /etc/ax25 /usr/local/etc/ax25
Now that is a good workaround, however if one reads documentation before
installing the ax25lib, apps and tools then one see's in the INSTALL file the
following;
To build it you type:
./configure
make
make install
By default, it will install the files in /usr/local. To change this
so that binaries go in /usr and the conf files go in /etc
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
make
make install
It should have made more impression on, USE the ./configure option to get the
things installed in the correct place. (If correct place is the right word).
This is really a FAQ, it has been discussed many times, but it still has NOT
been altered to get things defaulty installed where they really belong.
Having said that, it has always been a disscussion about where the default
directorys really should be.
There seems to be some small descrepancy when a program looks into /etc/ax25
when it has been installed into /usr/local, but we are hams are we not...
-- Regards Richard aqdaivqa.bbgce@alpha.ru http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" in the body of a message to wsjebq@mill.co.uk More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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