Package: smstools Version: 3.1-2+lenny1 Severity: important On a clean install on Lenny smsd fails to start with the following output in /var/log/smsd.log: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2010-05-23 14:21:26,2, smsd: Smsd v3.1 started. 2010-05-23 14:21:26,2, smsd: Running as smsd:dialout. 2010-05-23 14:21:26,2, smsd: Stats directory /var/log/smstools/smsd_stats is not writable. 2010-05-23 14:21:26,2, smsd: There was 1 major problem found. 2010-05-23 14:21:26,2, smsd: Smsd main program terminated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The permissions in /var/log/smstools are as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ ls -l total 8 -rw-r----- 1 smsd smsd 314 2010-05-23 14:21 smsd.log drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-04-03 12:40 smsd_stats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It seems that the folder smsd_stats should be writable by smsd. A work around is to issue the following command as root: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # chown smsd.smsd /var/log/smstools/smsd_stats/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=is_IS (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages smstools depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libmm14 1.4.2-3 Shared memory library - runtime ii ucf 3.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv smstools recommends no packages. smstools suggests no packages. -- debconf information: smstools/modems/devicebaudrate1: 19200 smstools/devicename: GSM1 smstools/modems/deviceincoming1: true smstools/deviceincoming: true smstools/configure: true smstools/devicebaudrateother: smstools/devicenode: smstools/modems/devicename1: GSM1 smstools/modems/devicenode1: /dev/ttyS0 smstools/devicebaudrate: 19200 smstools/configureanothermodem: false smstools/deviceinit: smstools/modems/deviceinit1: smstools/eventhandler: smstools/devicenodeother: smstools/configureanothermodem1: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
