[Xastir] Looking for serial->IP widget

[Alan Crosswell]

why not just hack on aprsd to do this?  UI and backend services are very 
different animals.
/a


Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jack Twilley wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have two different desires which are contradictory:
>>
>> * I like rebuilding Xastir from CVS to test changes and updates
>> * I like long-term data collection
>>
>>I am looking for a small, simple program that will sit on my serial
>>port, listen to my TNC, and store the data in files based on date/time
>>information.  This program must also provide a server that is
>>compatible with Xastir.  I guess what I'm looking for is an igate but
>>with logging.
>>
>>Does anyone have any suggestions?  Please let me know.
> 
> 
> Yea.  Xastir-2!
> 
> What we need is someone to start the ball rolling.  This seems like
> a perfect time to do it!
> 
> 
> 1) Separate the I/O code off into it's own daemon.
> 
> 2) Create an SQL database that's fed by the I/O daemon.
> 
> 3) Tweak the rest of Xastir to feed from the database.
> 
> 
> A more short-term solution:
> ---------------------------
> 1) Use Xastir's logging functions to store everything received in
> log files.
> 
> 2) Use cron to split them up by day/hour/whatever and perhaps
> archive/expire them.
> 
> 3) Tweak Xastir so that when it starts up, it auto-slurps the log
> files (or some of them).
> 
> You could also set up a Perl server that's local to your box, and
> have it feed Xastir when Xastir first starts up.  I have code that
> you could start from, to make this job easier.
>