[Xastir] Looking for serial->IP widget

[Jerry Chamberlin]

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On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Alan Crosswell wrote:

> 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.
> > 
> 
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