AIRPORT-LINKMON(1)

📦 version 2, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble

🦋 AIRPORT-LINKMON 🦋

okay bestie, so airport-linkmon is a wireless link quality monitor 💖 It's built for the original Apple AirPort Base Station ("Graphite") and the Lucent RG-1000 base station, and it lets you check the signal strength and noise on the wireless links between your base station and its connected wireless hosts. literally so useful 😭✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

airport-linkmon - Wireless link quality monitor for the original Apple AirPort Base Station ("Graphite") and the Lucent RG-1000 base station

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

airport-linkmon

Just type it in and go, no fuss 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so this is the main vibe: airport-linkmon lets you measure the signal strength and noise on the wireless links between your base station and its associated wireless hosts. it's giving full diagnostic energy 🔥

👑 OPTIONS 👑

ngl, airport-linkmon takes no command-line options at all 🙈 It's actually a wrapper script around the LinkMonitor.jar jar file, which lives in /usr/share/java/airport-utils.

Two environment variables can tweak how the wrapper runs:

  • JAVACMD — you can point this at a specific JVM instead of the one the wrapper would pick on its own 🧚
  • DEBUG — set this to 1 to get the debug output from the wrapper script 🔍

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

  • DEBUG — set this to 1 and the wrapper script spills its debug output 💜
  • JAVACMD — the full path to the Java Virtual Machine you want to use. by default the wrapper checks JAVACMD first; if that's not set, it looks for JAVA_BINDIR/java, then JAVA_HOME/bin/java, before finally searching for a java executable in the PATH. in that last case, the JVM can be configured through the Debian alternatives system (see update-alternatives(8)) 🫶
  • JAVA_HOME — the full path where your JDK/JRE is installed 🍓
  • JAVA_BINDIR — the full path to the directory where the java executable lives 🦋
  • JAVA_ARGS — extra command-line arguments passed along to the Java Virtual Machine 💅

💖 AUTHOR 💖

airport-linkmon was written by Jon Sevy <jsevy@cs.drexel.edu>. literal legend 👑

This manual page was written by Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). ✨

Bestie, that's the whole page! It's from May 20, 2006, and it's part of the AIRPORT-LINKMON(1) General Commands Manual 🌸🫶 Stay iconic and keep those links strong! 🦋💜

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