Re: mheard.dat file

[Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com>]

On 6/12/05, Richard Adams <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> wrote:
> On Sunday 12 June 2005 13:37, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > > I have not been using ax25 for a long while so i have no idea why.
> > >
> > > Surely you could create a symbolic link in /var/ax25 pointing to
> > > /etc/ax25.
> >
> > You know the thing about not seeing the forest for the trees. Of course
> > that is the fix. Thank you I shall go and make it so...
> >
> > Still wonder why it is doing that, seems that if I recall correctly that
> > path is hard coded into mheardd, indeed I took the mheardd which is running
> > correctly on one machine and put it on another and still had the same
> > problem.
> >
> > On the other machine it is creating the mheard.dat file in the /etc/ax25
> > directory so no amount of file creation will fix it, but a symlink
> > will I am sure.
> 
> One used to be able to define where the files should be located during compile
> time, you use options under the ./configure program.
> 
> Here is part of the INSTALL file from ax25-apps-0.0.4
> 
> 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
> 
> Now i hope you see what you are donig correctly/incorretly....
> 
> Regards Richard...
> 

I was just using the binaries that came with knoppix, but looks like I am
going to have to build them my self. But the wierdness is this, on my
machine it is looking for the mheard.dat file in the /var/ax25/mheard
directory, I moved it to a machine running the same Knoppix and it
is looking for it in the etc/ax25 directory, so there is something else
at work here, I just have to figure out what it is. First thing will be do
build a clean mheardd and mheard files, with the paths set up the way
I want them and then test it out.



-- 
Chuck Hast 
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