>
> Hello Richard, hello all,
>
> [listen only as root]
>
> > > Of course, I also want to be able to use Packet Radio from this
> > > user account since it doesn't seem to be good to do this from the
> > > root account.
> > > To see who is QRV I need to monitor the QRG, though.
> >
> > mheard [-d cmns] [-n] [-o cfpt] [-v] [port ...]
> >
> > Or simply mheard <port> you can then see who is on channel.
>
> Hmm, and how do I include this in some certain program? Excuse
> me, but I do not want wo waste all my consoles when I do Packet
> Radio.
How many consoles do we have 6 and then under X plenty more, i see no
problem there. you could also redirect the output to /dev/tty12 for example.
>
> > > Is this a suitable approach or do I miss something here?
> >
> > Yes, a small point, when a node has multiple ports at different speeds a
> > slow speed user starts a listen session on a fast link, say 19k2 he is on
> > 1k2, just imagen what would then happen.
> > Its happend to me and has locked up my machine, which uses an scc card.
> > Of cource that is an extream case.
>
> Yes, yes, here I must apologize. I took listen only as an example
> for other programs with the same funtionality on _client_ side, eg.
> for monitoring your local QRG for who is QRV.
>
> I _didn't_ want to start a listen on some remote server. This
> obviously does not make any sense. I wanted to start some sort of
> listen program on my _local_ box, ie. the one I sit in front of, as
> user without root permissions.
I changed permissions years ago as soon as i saw what people were doing.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gerd
>
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Regards Richard.
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