DireWolf/Linpq with Systemd.

I have a bad time behind me, I have had a lot of arguments with Systemd to start DireWolf and Linpq when booting 🙂
If you like Systemd, you can read some about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd

I want Linbpq to run under /dev/tty2 and DireWolf under /dev/tty3. This is because if I login remotely I can view the monitor from DireWolf with “conspy”. “conspy 3” Hit esc a few times to leave conspy.

Systemd does not want to accept the start line with >/dev/tty3 &

ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/direwolf -c /home/pd9q/direwolf.conf -l /home/pd9q/direwolf.log >/dev/tty3

This upper start line does not work.

So I had to come up with something else for that. So i wrote a start file. “direwolf.start”

cd /usr/local/bin
./direwolf -c /home/pd9q/direwolf.conf -l /home/pd9q/direwolf.log >/dev/tty3

Now i wrote a unit file to start DireWolf on boot.
/etc/systemd/system/direwolf.service

[Unit]
Description=DireWolf Deamon
After=network.target
After=sound.target
After=syslog.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/pd9q/linbpq/direwolf.start

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=direwolf.service

Now DireWolf is starting very nice on /dev/tty3

pd9q@packet:~ $ systemctl status direwolf.service
● direwolf.service - DireWolf Deamon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/direwolf.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-09-12 10:58:51 UTC; 1h 18min ago
 Main PID: 463 (bash)
   CGroup: /system.slice/direwolf.service
           ├─463 /bin/bash /home/pd9q/linbpq/direwolf.start
           └─474 ./direwolf -c /home/pd9q/direwolf.conf -l /home/pd9q/direwolf.log

Sep 12 10:58:51 packet systemd[1]: Started DireWolf Deamon.
pd9q@packet:~ $

I had the same problem with Linbpq, which I solved in the same way.

Linbpq start file “runbpq”

cd /home/pd9q/linbpq
sudo ./linbpq  >/dev/tty2

The unit file “linbpq.service”

[Unit]
Description=Linbpq Daemon
After=network.target
After=direwolf.target
StartLimitInterval=0

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
ExecStart=/bin/bash /home/pd9q/linbpq/runbpq
WorkingDirectory=/home/pd9q/linbpq

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=linbpq.service

Ok, let’s see if it is running

pd9q@packet:~ $ systemctl status linbpq.service
● linbpq.service - Linbpq Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/linbpq.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-09-12 10:58:51 UTC; 1h 23min ago
 Main PID: 464 (bash)
   CGroup: /system.slice/linbpq.service
           ├─464 /bin/bash /home/pd9q/linbpq/runbpq
           ├─473 sudo ./linbpq
           └─501 ./linbpq

Sep 12 12:13:36 packet LINBPQ[501]: BPQ32 Heartbeat Buffers 102
Sep 12 12:14:31 packet LINBPQ[501]: BPQ32 Heartbeat Buffers 99
Sep 12 12:15:27 packet LINBPQ[501]: BPQ32 Heartbeat Buffers 102
Sep 12 12:16:22 packet LINBPQ[501]: BPQ32 Heartbeat Buffers 102
Sep 12 12:17:17 packet LINBPQ[501]: BPQ32 Heartbeat Buffers 102
Sep 12 12:18:12 packet LINBPQ[501]: BPQ32 Heartbeat Buffers 100
Sep 12 12:19:07 packet LINBPQ[501]: BPQ32 Heartbeat Buffers 102
Sep 12 12:20:03 packet LINBPQ[501]: BPQ32 Heartbeat Buffers 102
Sep 12 12:20:58 packet LINBPQ[501]: BPQ32 Heartbeat Buffers 102
Sep 12 12:21:53 packet LINBPQ[501]: BPQ32 Heartbeat Buffers 102
pd9q@packet:~ $

Now have a look at /dev/tty2 “conspy 2”

G8BPQ AX25 Packet Switch System Version 6.0.16.30 July 2018
Copyright ▒ 2001-2018 John Wiseman G8BPQ
Current Directory is /home/pd9q/linbpq

Configuration file Preprocessor.
Using Configuration file /home/pd9q/linbpq/bpq32.cfg
Conversion (probably) successful

PORTS 1d9784 LINKS 1dce14 DESTS 1dfc58 ROUTES 1f9c58 L4 1fd058 BUFFERS 22f170

Initialising Port 01     TCPKISS IP 127.0.0.1 Port 8001 Chan A
Initialising Port 02     AXIP
Initialising Port 03     Telnet Server
Initialising Port 04     Loopback