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sugar
December 15th, 2008, 20:23
Hello guys, I've added the line kannel_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf in order to have the Kannel to start automatically when the system boots.

Then a user of Kannel mailing list told me this:
Try asking BSD mail groups how to set up init scripts in BSD. As far as the rest of Unices, you move the script in /etc/init.d and make an S* link from your default runlevel (rc3.d) -> ../init.d/kannel.


So did I something wrong?

Thanks in advance.
ale
December 15th, 2008, 20:34
What has been suggested is not valid for FreeBSD.
Adding the line you added in /etc/rc.conf is the correct way yo have it started at boot.
Now try /usr/local/etc/rc.d/kannel start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/kannel status
sugar
December 15th, 2008, 20:44
Let me know if I understood, shold I add the lines /usr/local/etc/rc.d/kannel start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/kannel status to the /etc/rc.conf ? or is ok with the kannel_enable="YES"

This is the output:
radius# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/kannel start
kannel_bearerbox already running? (pid=643).
kannel_smsbox already running? (pid=654).
kannel_wapbox already running? (pid=665).

radius# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/kannel status
kannel_bearerbox is running as pid 643.
kannel_smsbox is running as pid 654.
kannel_wapbox is running as pid 665.


Thanks
ale
December 15th, 2008, 21:06
You have to add kannel_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf , and it seems that you have done it yet.
This will let start the daemon at every boot.

The 1st line I've posted (...kannel start) is to start it manually.
Useful, for example, if you have just installed it and you want to start it without rebooting.
The 2nd, is to check the status.
As you can see from the output of the two commands, kennel is yet successfully running.
To make it clear, you don't have to put this lines in a file, you can just run them from a console.
sugar
December 15th, 2008, 21:10
It worked like a charm!...
One more thing, due a buggy port kannel port for FreeBSD i had to create manually the user kannel , I created it with no password... is that correct? or how can I have the kannel daemon to run as root? Look my 'top' output it shows all running as root but kannel...


PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
747 root 1 96 0 26956K 14028K select 1 0:00 0.00% httpd
737 mysql 10 96 0 62148K 20828K ucond 1 0:00 0.00% mysqld
644 kannel 13 96 0 16916K 3860K ucond 0 0:00 0.00% bearerbox
688 root 1 96 0 5892K 2344K select 0 0:00 0.00% nmbd
831 root 1 96 0 3448K 2632K select 0 0:00 0.00% proftpd
846 root 1 4 0 8384K 3828K sbwait 0 0:00 0.00% sshd
666 kannel 9 96 0 16404K 3804K select 1 0:00 0.00% wapbox
853 root 1 20 0 5476K 2548K pause 0 0:00 0.00% csh
849 aldo 1 96 0 8384K 3844K select 1 0:00 0.00% sshd
699 root 1 96 0 7680K 5728K select 0 0:00 0.00% perl5.8.8
692 root 1 96 0 8088K 3752K select 0 0:00 0.00% smbd
532 root 1 96 0 3156K 1196K select 1 0:00 0.00% syslogd
884 root 1 96 0 3488K 1792K CPU0 0 0:00 0.00% top
852 aldo 1 8 0 3592K 1564K wait 1 0:00 0.00% su
712 mysql 1 8 0 3456K 1432K wait 0 0:00 0.00% sh
851 aldo 1 8 0 3456K 1488K wait 1 0:00 0.00% sh
765 root 1 96 0 5848K 3188K select 0 0:00 0.00% sendmail
654 kannel 1 8 0 7188K 2204K nanslp 0 0:00 0.00% run_kannel_box
818 root 1 5 0 3156K 1064K ttyin 1 0:00 0.00% getty
671 root 1 96 0 3284K 2304K select 1 0:00 0.00% proftpd
775 root 1 8 0 3184K 1248K nanslp 0 0:00 0.00% cron
825 root 1 5 0 3156K 1064K ttyin 0 0:00 0.00% getty
821 root 1 5 0 3156K 1064K ttyin 1 0:00 0.00% getty
824 root 1 5 0 3156K 1064K ttyin 0 0:00 0.00% getty
819 root 1 5 0 3156K 1064K ttyin 1 0:00 0.00% getty
822 root 1 5 0 3156K 1064K ttyin 1 0:00 0.00% getty
820 root 1 5 0 3156K 1064K ttyin 0 0:00 0.00% getty
827 www 1 4 0 26956K 14052K accept 0 0:00 0.00% httpd
823 root 1 5 0 3156K 1064K ttyin 1 0:00 0.00% getty
826 www 1 4 0 26956K 14052K accept 0 0:00 0.00% httpd
828 www 1 4 0 26956K 14052K accept 1 0:00 0.00% httpd
790 www 1 4 0 13332K 9216K accept 1 0:00 0.00% httpd
829 www 1 4 0 26956K 14052K accept 0 0:00 0.00% httpd
759 root 1 96 0 5616K 3160K select 0 0:00 0.00% sshd
830 www 1 4 0 26956K 14052K accept 0 0:00 0.00% httpd
769 smmsp 1 20 0 5848K 3220K pause 0 0:00 0.00% sendmail
665 kannel 1 8 0 7188K 2140K wait 0 0:00 0.00% run_kannel_box
643 kannel 1 8 0 7188K 1856K wait 0 0:00 0.00% run_kannel_box
738 root 6 96 0 7036K 3292K uwait 0 0:00 0.00% radiusd
463 root 1 96 0 1888K 544K select 1 0:00 0.00% devd
ale
December 15th, 2008, 23:10
Why do you want to run it as root?
In your top I can also see mysqld running as mysql and httpd as www, ...
You should make sure that the user kannel has /usr/sbin/nologin as default shell and eventually fix it using chsh or chpass or vipw
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