OK thanks for the reply, I am running Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 \n \l?with Linux 5.10.11-v7+ armv7l
What I know so far, I started with HAMPI because it had other software that my club wanted. I installed direwolf, PAT and QtTermTCP and wrote a boatload of scripts.
We can CHAT with each other on and off all day and it never fails, I recently installed a CHAT server at our repeater site to stop all the P2P chatting. Now QtTerm uses AGW and that never seems to fail. We are using both the LINUX version on the PI and also the PC version and connecting to the PI over WiFi to use as a modem.
Now PAT can connect and get mail over and over without issue to the RMS / CMS server. The only issue we have had is what I reported here and that is trying to send PAT mail using a alias. Today I released a updated version to our group removing the the via DIGIPEATER and the problem will just be a known bug.
I changed all the dial alias as follows:
? ? "P2P w8dsb via LRK": "ax25:///LRK/w8dsb?freq=145050",? ? ?<=== old does not work stack bug
? ? "P2P w8dsb via w8lrk-5": "ax25:///w8lrk-5/w8dsb?freq=145050",? ?<=== new way that does work
I did this for all the club members on packet so the list is kinda long
So I did have to cheat some in the beginning, the tmp/kisstnc port that is created when direwolf starts up for some reason was always busy or locked so I had to play some scripting games.
Example of how I was able to attached ax25 port to use:
#!/bin/bash
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sleep 50
sudo /usr/sbin/kissattach /tmp/kisstnc radiovhf &
sudo /usr/sbin/kissattach /dev/pts/1 radiovhf &
sudo /usr/sbin/kissattach /dev/pts/2 radiovhf &
afterwhich I do this:
#!/bin/bash
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# script called from crontab and start direwolf both require this delay
sleep 60
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sudo /usr/sbin/kissparms -c 1 -p radiovhf -s 100 -r 63 -t 600 -l 100 &
I don't think any of this is causing the digi issue. but as long as a user does not stop and restart direwolf more then twice all is good. I told them to always reboot if they shut it down by accident.
I know I could run as a service but everyone wants to watch it like a lava lamp.
Thanks for finding out this is a bug and helping me find a work a round for now....73
W8DSB