operation.md

Operation - How To Run

Manually

{path to binary} -c {path to config file} -o {path to log file} &

Example

./vfrb -c vfrb.ini -o vfrb.log &

The log will be in the specified file.

As Service

By invoking ./run.sh install, the systemd service for VFR-B was automatically configured to start after boot.

Watch the log with

journalctl -u {servicename}.service

Commandline arguments

VFRB supports a few commandline arguments to control its behavior.

Argument	Explanation
-h / --help	Show an overview of all arguments and their usage.
-c / --config	Set the configuration file to use.
-v / --verbose	Enable debug logging
-g / --ground-mode	Forcibly enable ground mode.
-o / --output	Set a file where to pu all the logs.

Run as docker container

Assuming the docker image was built correctly as described here, you can run the VFRB inside a minimal container without messing up your host with dependencies or whatever. Also you can run the VFRB on any platform you like, wherever docker is available. To run a docker container execute like docker run --name VFRB -p <PORT>:4353 -dit user/vfrb:latest [OPTIONS]. Where PORT can be any port you like and OPTIONS can be any VFRB commandline argument, except for -c.