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svxlink - A general purpose voice services system for ham radio use

svxlink [--help] [--daemon] [--logfile=log file] [--config=configuration file] [--pidfile=pid file] [--runasuser=user name]

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.

Print a help message and exit.
Start the SvxLink server as a daemon.
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.
Specify a log file to put all output into. Both stdout and stderr will be redirected to the log file.
Specify a pid file to write the process ID into.
Specify which configuration file to use.

/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.

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.
Set this environment variable to 1 to make the Alsa audio code write zeros to the audio device when there is no audio to write available. This may be needed for some audio devices that take a long time to recover from an underflow condition.
Used to find the per user configuration file.

Tobias Blomberg (SM0SVX) <sm0svx at users dot sourceforge dot net>

SvxLink Devel <svxlink-devel at lists dot sourceforge dot net>

svxlink.conf(5), remotetrx(1)

JULY 2019 Linux