The upstream source assumes you will use a traditional hard-wired serial
port, but those are getting rare. Rather than refactor the code, I've just
-made the Debian package always open the device /dev/REG. All you need to
-do is symlink this to whatever your actual serial port is with something like:
-
- cd /dev
- ln -s ttyUSB0 REG
+made the Debian package always open the device /dev/REG. Associated with this,
+the package delivers a udev rules file that creates a /dev/REG symlink to
+/dev/ttyS0. If you need some other device linked, creating an appropriate udev
+rule is likely the best way to do that.
The 'port' field in the REG line of the eggrc file will be ignored, so just
leave it set to '0'.
- - - - -
+The systemd service file used to invoke the daemon hard-codes virtual terminal
+8 as the place to run the eggsh program. That means you can use Alt-F8 on
+your system's console to go see what the program is doing. Note that we're
+assuming the machine running this program is not running X. If it is, you
+may need to tweak the service file to pick some other virtual terminal.
+
+ - - - - -
+
If the EGG computer is behind a firewall, it must be programmed
to allow UDP packets on port 2510 outgoing packet and UDP port
1105 for an incoming connection.
gcpegg (5.1-15) unstable; urgency=medium
- * stop trying to force which VT eggsh is launched on
+ * switch to systemd service file and udev rule, allows removing the
+ dependency on openvt and all the related weird behaviors
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 26 Oct 2019 14:53:32 -0600
+ -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:58:58 -0600
gcpegg (5.1-14) unstable; urgency=medium