MHEARDD(8)

🎀 MHEARDD(8) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Linux Programmer's Manual page for MHEARDD(8) — yes, the title is MHEARDD(8) and the manual name is Linux Programmer's Manual, folded right in here so you don’t gotta read a boring header line. We’re talking about the mheardd daemon. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

mheardd — collect information about packet activity. That’s the whole vibe: it’s the little packet-activity collector. 🦋

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

mheardd [-f] [-l] [-n number] [-p [!]port1[,port2,..]] [-v]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

mheardd is a daemon that collects the statistics about the activity on all the AX.25 channels that are configured. The list it generates is available for viewing by the mheard(1) program. The information collected is a superset of the information normally collected by similar mheard programs, and that is literally reflected in the options available for the viewing program. Logging to the system log file may be enabled, which will enable monitoring of pathological conditions — for example invalid frame types and invalid/unknown protocol IDs. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -f — deletes the existing mheard logging file at program startup; this is not the default. 🗑️
• -l — enables logging to the system log file. The default is off.
• -n number — sets the number of entries in the activity list file. Default is 100. The minimum value allowed is 10, and the maximum is 1000. 🔢
• -p [!]port1[,port2,..] — with -p, you instruct mheardd to only listen on specified ax25 ports. You may give more ports, separated by ,. If you introduce the port(s) by a leading !, then mheardd will listen on all ports except those you specified. 🫶
• -v — display the version.

🍓 FILES 🍓

• /var/ax25/mheard/mheard.dat
• /etc/ax25/axports

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

mheard(1), ax25(4).

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Jonathan Naylor G4KLX <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk>

okay that’s the whole thing, bestie — no cap. This page is from Linux, dated 10 December 2005, and the footer label is MHEARDD(8). slay. 💅✨