[Xastir] ax25 question

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Lee Bengston wrote:

> I find it strange that the Keyspan usb to serial adapter worked fine
> when talking to a serial TNC or a serial KISS TNC but didn't want to
> work as an ax25 interface.

It might come down to permissions/ownership of the port.  If you did the "chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir" command, then Xastir switches to "root" when opening ports.

When I start up AX.25 ports at home I need to be root to issue the commands.  I put them all in one script for "up", another for "down", but did not integrate those scripts into the /etc/init.d scripts yet to auto-run when starting the machine.  I seldom boot my machines so for me it's not a big deal.

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