From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kelly Black Subject: Re: Linux AX.25 Socket programming Date: 01 Jan 2003 16:48:27 -0600 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1041461308.10491.17.camel@edith> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux Hams mailing list On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 12:59, Jonathan Naylor wrote: > AX.25 (and NET/ROM and ROSE) server development can by careful design of > the server be made extremely easy. The program ax25d is exactly > analogous to inetd, in that it can launch programs when an incoming > connection is received. This is controlled by the ax25d.conf file which > also allows for different servers to be started depending on the > incoming interface and/or incoming callsign. The started program only > has to read and write to stdin and stdout respectively, ax25d is also > capable of passing command line arguments to the started program based > on a set of substitution parameters and literal text given in its > configuration file. Thanks G4KLX! Excellent!!! Does anybody know where I can find an example of a script that is doing just this read from stdin and write to stdout. Sounds like a great way to prototype a server quickly. Neat way to implement a quick service outside of the regular ones to get emergency services via a simple scripted telnet client as well! Kelly KB0GBJ