[pskmail] Re: jpskmail 0.3.8 server 0.9.20
- From: kz5ed <kz5ed@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:30:12 -0400
Hi Rein,
Thanks for the reply. Comments to your comments below.
Rein Couperus wrote:
Maybe I can add some info to Per's answers for even better understanding....
I still have some issues though since I every time I connect I get a
message telling me to update my account which I have done a number of times.
They appear to have gone through since another station saw them on his end.
Still no change and no ability to send email.
When the server has received your mail record it sends:
'Updating server;
'Updated record for KZ5ED'
When you don't get that, the record has not been stored on the server.
When the data is not valid the server will ask again next time you connect.
I have never seen the Updating Server Message.
I continue to get a request to update every time I connect.
I did this the first time I tried a few days ago and yesterday I tried
it five times.
Now I know what to expect and will continue to try and figure that out.
I then installed Server 0.9.20 on Ubuntu 9.04 with FLDIGI 3.12.4 since I
figured out maybe I could understand this better if I was familiar with
both ends.
The only issue after the installation is I got an Application Not Found
Message when trying to start.
I was able to resolve the issue by changing the rflinkserver.pl file to
executable and just for good measure change the owner from root to the
user.
Server pops up and gives the routes not found error.
Created routes and restarted and every thing looks good.
I see my server on the site and I beacon every ten.
This is wrong. The way to install the server is:
* untar the archive in your home directory (tar zxvf
pskmail_server-0.9.20.tar.gz)
* cd into the new directory (cd pskmail_server-0.9.20)
* from a terminal run: sudo ./libinstall.sh
* answer yes to most questions.....
* after the libraries have been installed run sudo ./install.sh
* cd to ~
+ run pskmail_server
These are the instructions I followed.
Since I am old I figured I had messed up the first time and followed
your instructions given to someone else to delete the program and did it
again.
When it happened again I figured out I needed to figure out what was
going on and dove into the scripts.
That is where I discovered that you were checking to see if the file
existed and if it was executable, if it failed it would throw throw the
file not found error..
I just did it manually and fixed the problem I think.
If you leave out one of these steps the system will miss the required
libraries and the program will not be installed properly.
Question 1: It appears from the instruction that we are to update the
data files manually. I cannot open either of the db files so I am
missing something. I ran out of time so I was not able to debug that
one. I read about using the template to create each of the accounts and
I tried but I was not able to. I am trying to use a text editor to open
the file I did not try vi or anything else.
Am I going down the right track?
wrong, the data can be sent to the server by the client, the sysop does
not need to touch it.If that is necessary cd to .pskmail/rflinkuser
and run ./userdb.pl
I was going to try this when I ran out of time. I figured that the
updating of the server is supposed to occur automatically but I was not
sure.
Question 2: When I get this up and running for the time being I will be
running on a spare radio that does not have cat control but works well
with FLDIGI and a Rigblaster you just have to tune it manually. I
figured that since I will not be scanning frequencies that will be fine
and I can leave it on 10148.00. Does anyone see a problem with that?
no problem. Set $scanning to "S" instead of "F" in the .pskmail/pskmailrc.pl
file.
the server will then scan modes, not frequency + modes
Thanks I will change that this evening
Question 3: Do I have to Register the Server with something / someone?
actually the server connects automatically to an APRS tier 2 server.
The hosts and ports are in the APRS section of .pskmail/pskmailrc.pl
If one APRS2 server is not available it will connect to the next one in the
list.
Question 4: Is there a setting to have the server Beacon on the Air or
do we not want to do that? The only beacon now is via the internet. Is
the Server supposed to key the radio when beaconing? Does it use FLDIGI
for communicating with the radio? I am a bit confused since the Server
Config file has a Radio Command Section. I thought server app worked as
an application and fldigi as the modem / Interface. I have my doubts
now because I was keying the radio and the beacon message went out so I
think the server is not able to communicate with fldigi to tell it to key.
You can see the beacon in the rx text window of fldigi.
This will only work if you follow the install instructions...
Any advice is appreciated.
Hope this helps:
73,
Rein PA0R
Thanks to everyone who documented their efforts previously their work
made this easier.
73
Eric
kz5ed
Thank you,
Eric,
kz5ed
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