NAME

       p10cfgd - remote configuration daemom for Gracilis PackeTen

SYNOPSIS

       p10cfgd [IP_PORT]

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1993 by Colorado Digital Eclectics (CODE)

       All rights reserved.

DESCRIPTION

       Rmtcfgd  is  a  server program used to send configuration files to a Gracilis PackeTen.  It can be run in
       background or it can be run by inetd.  If p10cfgd is to be run  by  inetd,  add  the  following  line  to
       /etc/services

       rmtcfg    1236/tcp  # Remote Configuration of PackeTen

       and add the following to /etc/inetd.conf

       # Remote configuration service for PackeTen
       rmtcfg  stream  tcp  nowait  root  /usr/bin/p10cfgd  p10cfgd

       P10cfgd  normally does not require the IP_PORT parameter. It listens for connections on IP Port 1236 as a
       default.

       The program will send on a line by line basis the file requested by the client that connects  on  the  IP
       Port.   The  only  expected  input  from  the  client is the file name.  When the file has been sent, the
       connection is closed. The requested file must be in the directory /etc/p10cfgd.

       Rmtcfgd maintains a log of its activity in  the  file  /var/log/p10cfgd.log.   Program  startup  and  all
       connections are logged in the file with GMT time stamps.  The file is opened in append mode.

       The  protocol used by the PackeTen is very simple.  The PackeTen opens a tcp connection to port 1236 on a
       host system. Once the connection is made, the PackeTen sends the name of the file it wants to  the  host.
       The  host  then  opens the file and sends it line by line to the PackeTen until all lines have been sent.
       The files to be transfered must be plain text files and each line must have at  least  one  character  in
       addition to the newline at the end.  P10cfgd replaces all blank lines with lines that contain two spaces.
       If you wish to send a blank line, to stop loading of part of a  LocalInfo  file  for  example,  place  an
       underscore  '_'  at the begining of the line. The entire contents of the line will be deleted and a blank
       line will be sent to the client.  At the end of the  file,  the  server  sends  a  time  command  (  time
       MMDDYYHHMM  )  with  the  UTC time on the server.  This will either set the time on the PackeTen or add a
       time stamp to the LocalInfo file.  The server then closes the connection.

       The remote configuration command used on the PackeTen is
            rmtcfg <server_host> <filename> [options]
            The valid options are
                 -t  <timeout in seconds>  default is 60 sec
                 -p  <IP port #>           default is 1236
                 -i                     the file is for LocalInfo
                 -h  <secondary server>    if the primary does not answer

       The rmtcfg  commands would be placed in to the EEPROM on the PackeTen so  that  they  would  be  executed
       during  a  reboot.   The  information  stored  in the EEPROM should include enough information to set the
       PackeTen up to allow communications with the primary  and  the  secondary  server.   This  would  include
       commands to set MYCALL and the IP_ADDRESS, to attach an interface to the channel with the server, routing
       information and  so  forth.   A  sample  EEPROM  configuration  for  a  PackeTen,  empire.wd0fhg.ampr.org
       [44.32.0.32], that gets its configuration from a remote system winfree.n3eua.ampr.org [44.32.0.2], over a
       9600 baud ax25 path would be:

            # first the general setup of the PackeTen
            ee hostname gw.wd0fhg
            ee sitename empire
            ee ipaddr  44.32.0.32
            ee mycall WD0FHG
            # Then we attach a 9600 ax25 interface as ax1
            ee attach sync302 1 hdx ax25 ax1 8192 256 9600 ext ext nrzi
            # and set the default route to send every thing out ax1
            ee route add default ax1 44.32.0.1
            ee password sure-thing
            #
            # Now we will ask for the remainder of the setup
            # from the server winfree.n3eua.ampr.org [44.32.0.2]
            # Note that we have a secondary server available at
            # [44.20.0.195] that would be used if winfree is down.
            # first the Local Information file
            ee com 0 rmtcfg 44.32.0.2 empire.info -i -h 44.20.0.195
            # and then the remaining configuration command file
            ee com 1 rmtcfg 44.32.0.2 empire.cfg -h 44.20.0.195
            #
            ee save
            #    end-of-eeprom setup

       Rmtcfgd started life as the simple server program in PERL by Larry Wall and R.L.  Schwartz  published  by
       ORA,Inc.

ENVIRONMENT

       No environment variables are used.

FILES

       /etc/p10cfgd/*      - files that can be accessed remotely
       /var/log/p10cfgd.log     - p10cfgd log file

AUTHOR

       John Conner, WD0FHG,  conner@empire.com
       hacked on by Bdale Garbee, N3EUA, bdale@gag.com.

SEE ALSO

       Gracilis, Inc. PackeTen Manual and NOS User's Manual

DIAGNOSTICS

       Complains if it can't open a file to remote client and to log file.