[Xastir] ax25 question

[Steve Rogers]

The executable resides in the file  /usr/local/bin/xastir  but have not able to get ax25tnc to work on ubuntu 10.4, which means I will give it a shot another machine.
I running Ubuntu i386 version on a Hp AMD 64 with xastir-2.0.1 from CVS. thanks Kd5mkv



> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:31:42 -0700
> From: curt.we7u at gmail.com
> To: xastir at lists.xastir.org
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] ax25 question
> 
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Lee Bengston wrote:
> 
> > If you do not have a start-up script in /etc/init.d, I suspect your
> > xastir device port is not ax25 given it appears to be working without
> > the ax25 interface being set up.
> >
> > My ax25 interface in Xastir looks like this in the interface control box:
> >
> > Device  1     UP     AX25 TNC aprs
> 
> Yep.  Exactly what I was thinking.
> 
> Another thing to check is that you've done the following against the Xastir executable to allow it to run as root when opening the AX.25 port:
> 
>      sudo chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir
> 
> or wherever your Xastir executable lives...  The above is the default if you compile from sources without any special flags to relocate it.
> 
> A networking port has to be opened as root.  The above command sets the SUID flag on the executable, allowing it to run as root when the executable requests it.  In the Xastir code we assume root privilege only during the opening/closing of ports, and drop back to normal user privileges otherwise.  Good security practice.
> 
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