Without saying anything about whether Kannel, run by root, is secure or not: You can either choose that option
or chmod ugo+rw /dev/ttyS0 so ordinary users can also use your modem. Rene Kluwen Chimit -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nicholas Calugar Sent: maandag 29 december 2003 22:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with Debian Startup Scripts I have Kannel-Devel 1.3.1 installed using the Debian package. I had to edit a few lines in /etc/init.d/kannel-devel to start the boxes. I'm not exactly sure what this is checking, but I assume it's trying to decide whether or not to start the smsbox. As far as I can tell $START_SMSBOX is not defined: test ! -z $START_SMSBOX && ( . . . ) Also, this may be more of a Linux user group question: There is an argument given to start-stop-daemon: --chuid kannel With this argument, the bearerbox doesn't have permission to access the GSM Modem I have attached to /dev/ttyS0. Here is info from the bearerbox.log: 2003-12-29 10:31:17 [0] INFO: AT2[16195192314]: configuration shows modemtype <wavecom> 2003-12-29 10:31:17 [0] DEBUG: AT2[16195192314]: Reading modem definitions from </etc/kannel/kannel.conf> 2003-12-29 10:31:17 [0] DEBUG: AT2[16195192314]: Found <1> modems in config 2003-12-29 10:31:17 [0] INFO: AT2[16195192314]: read modem definition for <wavecom> 2003-12-29 10:31:17 [0] DEBUG: Started thread 5 (gw/smsc/smsc_at2.c:at2_device_thread) 2003-12-29 10:31:17 [5] INFO: AT2[16195192314]: opening device 2003-12-29 10:31:17 [5] ERROR: AT2[16195192314]: open failed! ERRNO=13 2003-12-29 10:31:17 [5] ERROR: System error 13: Permission denied 2003-12-29 10:31:17 [5] ERROR: AT2[16195192314]: at2_device_thread: open_at2_device failed. Terminating 2003-12-29 10:31:17 [5] ERROR: System error 13: Permission denied If I remove the argument, it starts fine but is run by root. I'm not sure if this is a security risk. Thanks, Nicholas Calugar 619-546-9803 866-404-2428 Chatter 3577 4th Ave. San Diego, CA 92103 www.2chatter.com
