[drats_users] Daemon version of D-RATS for Linux?

[Pentti Gronlund]

Dan Smith writes:

> > Y'know, it strikes me that an ideal place to park a D-RATS server 
> > instance (capable of email gatewaying etc) would be on the G2 server 
> > itself. That way your local RF users could have D-RATS Internet access etc.
> 
> Yep, it's been suggested many-a-time.
> 
> > The D-RATS instance could communicate with the radio stack in the same 
> > way that DPLUS and others do - by forwarding their pre-assembled packets 
> > to the repeater controller's APIlike thing. Very similar in fact to the 
> > way that D-RATS and DVAR can swap data.
> 
> Yeah, the problem is, it seems wildly irresponsible to create yet
> another D-STAR protocol (reverse) implementation to sit right next to
> the other two already on the box.  I've asked Robin about adding a data
> socket to dplus.  I think the availability of such an interface would be
> the signal that it's time to put D-RATS on the gateway box :)

Dan,

I remember I asked yoiu this already but I seem to have forgot the
answer:

Is it possible to run a D-RATS repeater proxy in a Linux box without
X?

The reason I'm asking this is that currently we are running the proxy 
as a gateway with a simplex radio at the clubhouse on a hill. D-RATS
happily runs (sort of) in a Windows box we have for a ADS-B receiver.
However, I'd like to move it in a Debian box that runs aprx APRS igate
plus digipeater, and since last week also D-PRS -> APRS gateway. Un-
fortunately the box is an aging P700-class mini-ITX machine that does
not have X windows installed, nor will it have. It would be nice to
be able to just connect aprx to localhost port 9000 to listen to D-PRS 
positions.

Benjamin OH3BK
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