Just installed the package in another system and saw that the install-message already mentions the permissions fix. Sorry for the noise :).
-- Manolis Tzanidakis mtzanidakis [at] gmail [dot] com http://mtzanidakis.com/ On Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Manolis Tzanidakis wrote: > On Tue (10/07/12), Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Manolis Tzanidakis > > > <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to setup a monitoring system that sends SMS messages when > > > > something is wrong. > > > > I'm looking for the simplest possible way to send a message from cli, > > > > something like: > > > > $ echo "Doomsday is coming!" | sendsms +1234567890 > > > > > > > > > > > > smstools package should do the trick... > > After a busy week I finally took some time to try smstools and I'd like > to report that it works. > The port's predefined defaults for /etc/smsd.conf are sane; I only > changed this line: > > device = /dev/cuaU0 > > to find my 3g modem. There are some permissions issues though, easily > fixed, like eg.: > > # usermod -G dialer _smsd > > to let the daemon access the device. I guess this could be the default > on a future version of the port, since all tty0? and ttyU? devices > have uucp:dialer ownership. Or at least include this information in the > port's install-message. I'm CC'ing this to the ports@ list for further > discussion.. > > And the permissions of /var/spool/sms need some tweaking to allow > non-root users to send sms, but I guess this is sysadmin's work. > > Anyway, thanks again for the suggestions. Hope this helps someone else > too. > > -- > Manolis Tzanidakis > http://mtzanidakis.com/ > mtzanidakis[at]gmail[dot]com
