[Dxspider-support] Need Help with Fedora and AX25

[Dave Hawes]

We have a DX Spider cluster in the Philadelphia area, which formerly had a 
2m user input.  A new computer and a Linux upgrade has resulted in the 2m 
input no longer working.  Alan, KF3B, has been troubleshooting the problem, 
and needs some assistance in getting it working again.  If you have any 
suggestions, please contact Alan directly at kf3b at ptd dot net.  Here is the 
background from Alan:

I installed a fresh spider on Fedora 19 and ported some user specific data from our 
older Fedora (FC16) . All works very well in the new installation except for two 
problems,

First - all traffic are logged BOTH in /spidr/data/debug/2013/day AND ALSO 
appended to /var/log/messages

Spider is launched as shown below in 'ps' command output

[root at spider spider]# ps axfj | grep cluster
1 843 843 838 ? -1 S 0 0:00 sudo -u spideradmin -b 
/spider/perl/cluster.pl > /dev/tty7
843 844 843 838 ? -1 S 501 0:44 \_ /usr/bin/perl -w 
/spider/perl/cluster.pl > /dev/tty7
[root at spider spider]#

Have also tried > /dev/null 
and
> /dev/null 2>&1
but same results, appending entries to /var/log/messages as well as writing the 
/data/debug files ....

How can I prevent /var/log/messages from having spot traffic appended? We don't 
need or want system logging, only logging local to spider.

Second problem - In earlier Fedora, we had a perfectly functional AX25. With the 
Fedora 19, I cannot make AX25 work. Copying over /etc/ax25/* which used to work 
no longer works. Rewrote our /etc/init.d/ax25 launcher but no joy there. Seems like 
nothing works. Have you heard of this problem? How do you recommend I isolate 
exactly what's failing. 

The node supports 100+ users during contests and more than 40 users routinely. The 
new box is a serious i5 on an Intel MOBO with appropriate add on kit.

I'd like some hints on how to troubleshot AX25, step by step. I don't want to reinvent 
the wheel. There must be some Linux tools that are generally useful for this task. 

For example, how do I know that the TNC is connected well to the system? We have 
tested the TNC connection with terminal emulator (putty) and it looks good. 

In Linux, 'kissattach' provides a connection from TNC to ethernet which then is 
handled by 'ax25d' that in turn connects to a program in spider called 'client'. I'd like 
to be able to "snoop" on these connections to make sure everyone is doing what he 
should be doing,

Everything looks like it should be working, but we don't have a 2 meter connection 
yet. Also, Chas and I have put in a huge amount of time. Outside advice from good 
Linux/AX25 people would be very helpful and much appreciated.


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