NAME¶

svxlink - A general purpose voice services system for ham radio use

SYNOPSIS¶

svxlink [--help] [--daemon] [--logfile=log file] [--config=configuration file] [--pidfile=pid file] [--runasuser=user name]

DESCRIPTION¶

svxlink is a general purpose voice service system for ham radio use. The SvxLink project contains multiple applications and this man-page describe the SvxLink server.

OPTIONS¶

--help

Print a help message and exit.

--daemon

Start the SvxLink server as a daemon.

--runasuser

Start the SvxLink server as the specified user. The switch to the new user will happen after the log and pid files has been opened.

--logfile=log file

Specify a log file to put all output into. Both stdout and stderr will be redirected to the log file.

--pidfile=pid file

Specify a pid file to write the process ID into.

--config=configuration file

Specify which configuration file to use.

FILES¶

/etc/svxlink/svxlink.conf (or deprecated /etc/svxlink.conf)

The system wide configuration file. See svxlink.conf(5) for further details.

~/.svxlink/svxlink.conf

Per user configuration file. See svxlink.conf(5) for further details.

/etc/svxlink/svxlink.d/*

Additional configuration files. Typically one configuration file per module.

ENVIRONMENT¶

ASYNC_AUDIO_NOTRIGGER

Set this environment variable to 1 if you get an error about ioctl: Broken pipe during startup of the SvxLink server when using OSS audio.

ASYNC_AUDIO_ALSA_ZEROFILL

Set this environment variable to 0 to stop the Alsa audio code from writing zeros to the audio device when there is no audio to write available. ASYNC_AUDIO_UDP_ZEROFILL Set this environment variable to 1 to enable the UDP audio code to write zeros to the UDP connection when there is no audio to write available.

HOME

Used to find the per user configuration file.

AUTHOR¶

Tobias Blomberg (SM0SVX) <sm0svx at svxlink dot org>

REPORTING BUGS¶

Bugs should be reported using the issue tracker at https://github.com/sm0svx/svxlink.

Questions about SvxLink should not be asked using the issue tracker. Instead use the group set up for this purpose at groups.io: https://groups.io/g/svxlink

SEE ALSO¶

svxlink.conf(5), remotetrx(1)