Thanks for the replies, I backed up from the ax config files before a
system crash, no backup copies of the deamons were made so the whole
thing should'nt have worked.but it did, sort of.Ther's something very
strange going on here !.
I printed out the whole of ax25 utils ( DONT DO IT IT'S 2 REAMS OF
PAPER, 1000 pages) and the man pages are there, but tried to compile on
the machine at work which also runs RH5.1, and it woudnt compile at all.
I'll download the ax25 utils in rpm and try that, after I've freshly
reloaded the OS and onto a clean hard drive. The system is also
unstable as I ve seen netrom bc's from the node , after making a
alteration to nrports and then back to its pevious state, no more bc's.
it's also taking 10 mins to login to the kernel from the Tnos front end,
instananeous connect then 10 mins for the login prompt. also 10 mins for
mc to start.
I'm going off redhat rapidly , this whole mess started after I forced a
rpm to load and trashed the file system.
hvae fun over the weekend
73
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Wilcox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 10 December 1998 14:20
To: 'richard bown'
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: sorry folks the saga continues
Hey Richard,
I was in the same boat not long ago. There is nothing in the
DOCS that
says you don't have to patch 2.0.35 to use ax25-utils-2.1.42a, but you
don't. I sent an email to Terry Dawson, VK2KTJ who maintains the utils
and
he told me this. In any case, all you have to do is compile ax25 stuff
into
the kernel, and follow the directions in the ax25-utils-2.1.42a INSTALL
and
skip the part on patching the kernel. Everything else works fine. If
you
have an older version of ax25-utils already installed in your Linux
distribution, the you may have a man page problem. I my case, the man
pages
in /usr/local/man/1 preceded the news ones and I had to delete the old
ones
top get the new ones to come up without specifying a section.
Hope this helps!
73's
Jim
KE4IHI
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of richard bown
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 1998 6:14 AM
> To: Tomi Manninen
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: sorry folks the saga continues
>
>
> sorry if not knowing causes you offence!
> If your going to take the high and mighty attitude, why do
> you subscribe
> to this group. I thought was for mutual help.
> considering the fact I'm using kernel 2.0.35 which has the ax utils
> already built in how am I to install something which is
> already there ??
> and if i'm having problems finding the man pages , I'm not going to be
> the only one. the ax25 HOWTo covers the patch for the previous kernel,
> but there is no mention of the later stable kernels
> What you fail to remember is that probally years ago you were in the
> same position, and questions you asked were probally regarded
> by others
> with more experience as rubbish. We All learn by experience, and I was
> under the impression that the purpose of amatuer radio was a learning
> exercise.
>
> If the man pages are there, I've obviously missed howto install them,
> and as the ax 25 utils are already bolted on to 2.0.35 how are they to
> be built ??
>
>
> In message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Tomi Manninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Bown, Richard wrote:
> >
> >> Please no more "read the man pages" , the're not on either
> machine at
> >> this end, and a web search for "man netrom" and a few
> other things on
> >> alta vista failed to produce anything as well
> >
> >_INSTALL_ the man pages then! They _ALL_ come with the
> ax25-utils. If "man
> >netrom" doesn't work for you then you have not installed your
> >ax25-utilities properly. No more questions to the list
> please until you
> >have fixed that!
> >
>
> --
> richard bown
>
