svxlink - A general purpose voice services system for ham radio use
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Description
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.
Environment
ASYNC_AUDIO_NOTRIGGER
Set this environment variable to 1 if you get an error about ioctl:Brokenpipe 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.
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.
Name
svxlink - A general purpose voice services system for ham radio use
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=logfile
Specify a log file to put all output into. Both stdout and stderr will be redirected to the log
file.
--pidfile=pidfile
Specify a pid file to write the process ID into.
--config=configurationfile
Specify which configuration file to use.
Reporting Bugs
Bugs should be reported using the issue tracker at https://github.com/sm0svx/svxlink.
Questions about SvxLink should not be asked using the issue tracker. Instead use the group set up for
this purpose at groups.io: https://groups.io/g/svxlink
See Also
svxlink.conf(5), remotetrx(1) Linux AUGUST 2021 SVXLINK(1)
Synopsis
svxlink[--help][--daemon][--logfile=logfile][--config=configurationfile][--pidfile=pidfile][--runasuser=username]
