FLEXD.CONF(5)

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💖 FLEXD.CONF(5) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the flexd.conf manual page — the Linux Programmer's Manual girlie herself, and she's here to spill all the tea about flexd's config file. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

flexd.conf — the flexd configuration file, periodt. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so, flexd.conf gets read by flexd at program startup, and it's literally what tweaks how the robot behaves. it's giving "settings menu but make it a text file." 🎀

every single line in flexd.conf has to be ONE of these two things:

  • a comment line, which starts with a # in the first column (like, column one, bestie, no sneaking spaces in front of it 🙈), OR
  • one of the commands listed down below ⬇️

commands and their arguments get separated by white space. now, if your argument has white space inside it, that's fine — just wrap it in double quotes and you're good. and yes, C-style escapes (\n, \x0A, \012 etc.) get parsed inside those double quotes too. iconic. ✨

here are the configuration commands available to you, queen: 👑

  • MyCall <xx#xx> — this sets up the callsign AND ssid you wanna use to connect to your flexnet neighbor so you can import destinations. do NOT use an ssid of your ax25 interface that you'll be polling from, because you might literally create a loop between your system and the flexnet neighbor. 😭 no loop drama, we're not doing that. example: MyCall kb1uuu-13
  • PollInterval <time/secs> — this string tells the robot how many times in SECONDS to poll your flexnet neighbor and import their destination table. in my production environment, 300 (that's 5 minutes) seemed to be fine. I would NOT go below 180 (3 minutes) because you may create more traffic than needed. like, chill, bestie. 🧚
  • FlexGate <xx#xx-##> — this is the callsign of your flexnet neighbor. the robot will read this callsign-ssid and attempt a connect to it every ## minutes assigned in PollInterval <time/mins>. be sure you do NOT configure it to connect to a service linked within the flexnet neighbor, such as a BBS! you will NOT receive any destinations to your system that way and the BBS will think you're attempting a feed. 🚫 absolutely not the vibe.
also note: your FlexNet destination host must reside in your uronode.route file or else flexd will not know the path where to connect and the robot will exit. 💀 that's the whole robot, gone, bye.

🎀 FILES 🎀

/usr/local/etc/ax25/flexd.conf
/usr/local/etc/ax25/uronode.routes

those two, right there. that's the ones. 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

uronode(8), uronode.perms(5), axports(5), ax25(4) — go read those too, iykyk. 📚✨

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the Linux version, dated 28 April 2013, living under the FLEXD.CONF(5) name. go forth and configure your robot. you're the main character of your own ax25 network now. 👑💖🦋

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