[Smslink-users] SMSlink question...

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Hello,
I am using smslink.. and it reports to be:

   SMS-Link for Linux, ver 0.56b (11/05/04)

I have queuing setup, and it's working..with one very serious caveat.

If the sms_serv program is started while there are messages queued up waiting to be sent, it will send them fine... but then it will not send anything else.

I keep getting this in my logs: 
<DATE-TIME> <server> sms_serv[<PID>]: OUTBOX check canceled, <1> child procs already.

If I start the server with nothing in the queue, I get this in the logs:

<DATE-TIME> <server> sms_serv[<C-PID>]: initiating OUTBOX check.
<DATE-TIME> <server> sms_serv[<C-PID>]: FILE outbox check begins.
<DATE-TIME> <server> sms_serv[<C-PID>]: FILE outbox check: <0> queue file(s) processed.
<DATE-TIME> <server> sms_serv[<C-PID>]: FILE outbox check: finished.
<DATE-TIME> <server> sms_serv[<PID>]: OUTBOX check canceled, <1> child procs already.

( PID = parent thread PID, C-PID = Child thread PID.)

According to the online documentation, sms_serv should be automatically generating a PID file: /var/run/sms_serv.pid

This file is not being auto-generated by sms_serv.

I have tried modifying the init script so that it creates & destroys the PID file as appropriate.. and I have checked, the PID being stored in the file is correct.

I am guessing that sms_serv uses it's PID in order to determine if there are "child procs already" and aborts the outbox check if it finds that "pidof sms_serv" returns values other than that stored in /var/run/sms_serv.pid, but for some reason is not able to track the PID correctly on this system.

I have tried setting the --pidfile value (alternately using -i when --pidfile did not work) and it tells me that it is an unsupported option.

I have also tried making symlinks to the pidof executable in a couple of places it might be expected on other distributions.

This machine is running Debian 4 with a 2.6 series kernel.

It is an installation that was handed to me completely undocumented. (It shall NOT remain so!!! [he said valiantly]) ;)

Has anyone run across this?  

Thanks,

Todd M. Hébert.

Sorry about any company information below this line.. it is required under Irish law, so I cannot omit it.


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