Installing YSF Reflector on Ubuntu 16.04 Server

This is more for my documentation for myself but if it can help anyone else, feel free to use it.

This was partially compiled with the help of the K-Link Repeater Network Website for the Rasberry-Pi with edits below to work with Ubuntu 16

Prerequisites:

Fresh install of Ubuntu 16

Let’s get started…..

• Enter root mode: sudo su

• Install git: apt-get install git

• Install Build-Essentials: sudo apt-get install build-essential

• Install htop process viewer: apt install htop

• Install sysv-rc-conf: apt install sysv-rc-conf

• Create mmdvm group: groupadd mmdvm

• Create mmdvm user: useradd mmdvm -g mmdvm -s /sbin/nologin

• Copy the source code from github: git clone https://github.com/g4klx/YSFClients.git

• Browse to the YSFReflector directory in user folder: cd ./YSFClients/YSFReflector

• Compile git code: make clean all

You will need to edit the YSFReflector.ini and customize it with your settings.

• While you are in the YSFReflector Directory, type: nano YSFReflector.ini

Name=Your Reflector's name
Description=Your Reflector's description
FilePath=/usr/local/bin/
FileRoot=YSFReflector

• There is also a line that says Daemon=1, change it to Daemon=0

• Save the file CTRL+X and select Y to overwrite existing file.

Now we need to move some files around:

• Move executable: mv YSFReflector /usr/local/bin

• Move YSFReflector.ini to /etc/ : mv YSFReflector.ini /etc

Now you will need to create a script file to help automatically start YSFReflector at boot.

Browse to the following directory: /etc/init.d

• cd ~

• cd /etc/init.d

Create file called YSFReflector.sh (Make sure you are in the “/etc/init.d” directory.

• nano YSFReflector.sh

• Copy and paste the following text into the nano editor.

• #!/bin/bash
  ### BEGIN INIT INFO
  #
  # Provides:             YSFReflector
  # Required-Start:       $all
  # Required-Stop:        
  # Default-Start:        2 3 4 5
  # Default-Stop:         0 1 6
  # Short-Description:    Example startscript YSFReflector
  
  #
  ### END INIT INFO
  ## Fill in name of program here.
  PROG="YSFReflector"
  PROG_PATH="/usr/local/bin/"
  PROG_ARGS="/etc/YSFReflector.ini"
  PIDFILE="/var/run/YSFReflector.pid"
  USER="root"
  
  start() {
        if [ -e $PIDFILE ]; then
            ## Program is running, exit with error.
            echo "Error! $PROG is currently running!" 1>&2
            exit 1
        else
            cd $PROG_PATH
            ./$PROG $PROG_ARGS
            echo "$PROG started"
            touch $PIDFILE
        fi
  }
  
  stop() {
        if [ -e $PIDFILE ]; then
            ## Program is running, so stop it
           echo "$PROG is running"
           rm -f $PIDFILE
           killall $PROG
           echo "$PROG stopped"
        else
            ## Program is not running, exit with error.
            echo "Error! $PROG not started!" 1>&2
            exit 1
        fi
  }
  
  ## Check to see if we are running as root first.
  ## Found at
  ## http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/shell-root-user-check-script.html
  if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
        echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
        exit 1
  fi
  
  case "$1" in
        start)
            start
            exit 0
        ;;
        stop)
            stop
            exit 0
        ;;
        reload|restart|force-reload)
            stop
            sleep 5
            start
            exit 0
        ;;
        **)
            echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|reload}" 1>&2
            exit 1
        ;;
  esac
  exit 0
  ### END

• Save the file by pressing CTRL+X and select Y

• Enable file to be executed: chmod +x YSFReflector.sh

• Set Script to run at startup: sysv-rc-conf YSFReflector.sh on

REBOOT!

Once rebooted, you can type “htop” (after you login) and you should see the YSFReflector in the list of running services.