svxlink1

Usage

Overview

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.