Bug#603169: ax25-tools: kissnetd broken with PTYs
Package: ax25-tools
Version: 0.0.8-13.1
Severity: normal
kissnetd assumes old-style PTYs, which are no longer supported.
The newer version does support them.
It is available from http://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/CVS --
http://www.linux-ax25.org/pub/ax25-tools/ax25-tools-0.0.10-rc2.tar.gz
and may also need the new library
http://www.linux-ax25.org/pub/libax25/libax25-0.0.12-rc2.tar.gz
One other note: debian/copyright should be updated to reflect the new website.
http://pi8cdr.halerbrug.nl:808/cmd?cmd=READ+LINUX+34 has instructions
for using the new system:
My english is horrible, but I try to tell you, how to use the
ham-applications under the new unix98-pseudo-terminals.
The actually ax25-tools (0.0.10-rc2) and ax25-apps (0.0.8-rc2)
packages are
compatible with the new unix98-pseudo terminals (programs: ax25ipd,
kissattach, net2kiss, kissnetd, mkiss and m6pack). There is also a new
tfkiss-version (1.25), which can work with the new pseudo-terminals.
The packages are available as source under <http://www.linux-ax25.org>
(without tfkiss).
There are also rpm-packages for opensuse
<http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hamradio/>
The unix98-pseudo terminal has got only one master file
"/dev/ptmx". If a
program open this file a corresponding client file is opened
automatically. The name of this file is "/dev/pts/NR". "NR" stands for
a
number, which cannot forseen.
Every ax25-program above, who opens the file /dev/ptmx shows you the
corresponding client-file on stdout screen:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ax25-tools depends on:
ii libax25 0.0.11-6.1 ax25 library for hamradio applicat
ii libc6 2.11.2-6+squeeze1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
ax25-tools recommends no packages.
Versions of packages ax25-tools suggests:
ii ax25-apps 0.0.6-16.2 AX.25 ham radio applications
ii talkd 0.17-14 Remote user communication server
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ax25/ax25d.conf changed [not included]
/etc/ax25/nrbroadcast changed [not included]
/etc/ax25/ttylinkd.conf changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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