[Xastir] Automated Xastir

[Tom Hayward]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 02:44:53PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <esarfl at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>> You can configure cron to run a script that sends a beacon via
>> Xastir's server port. This is convenient if you are already running
>> Xastir.
>
> But remember that Xastir's server port does NOT normally allow you to gate
> anything from the server port to the TNC.  It only forwards that information
> to the APRS-IS if you're connected to that.

Oops, I thought that was the whole point of the udp listener.

I prefer the "beacon" program for this kind of thing anyway.

Tom KD7LXL