Hi Olu, Thanks for your e-mail. I tried creating the kannel folder manually and giving rw permission to kannel but that didn't seem to do the trick..
On another note, I tried to run the service with kannel user and I got this error. sudo -u kannel service kannel start Starting kannel bearer box: /usr/sbin/start-stop-kannel: Unable to set initgroups() with gid 494 [FAILED] Googled it a bit but no luck. I realised if I removed -chuid kannel:kannel from args="--start --background --chuid kannel:kannel --exec " it just works fine Thanks, Vedat From: Olu IT <t...@chethsoft.com<mailto:t...@chethsoft.com>> Date: Saturday, 28 February 2015 07:19 To: Vedat Coskun <vedat.cos...@lebara.com<mailto:vedat.cos...@lebara.com>>, "users@kannel.org<mailto:users@kannel.org>" <users@kannel.org<mailto:users@kannel.org>> Subject: Re: Kannel doesn't start on CentOS Since you could get kannel to work by manually starting the apps from /usr/bin then kannel installed/compiled properly. And if the manual start is also using same config, then at the least, the config is fine for the functionalities you specified. The problem the seemed to point to your init script. Check your init script. Does kannel have permission to write to the PID files location? On one of my installations (if I remember well, using Ubuntu), I had to modify the init script to check if the pid folder exists, if not, create it, and set permissions for kannel to write to it by chown to kannel preferably to chmoding to 777. That solved the problem for me in that case. You might want to test that this is the case for you first by manually creating the pid folder, in my case it was /var/run/kannel. Then, chown kannel /var/run/kannel. Then, service kannel start. If this doesn't work, you may want to share your /var/log/kannel/bearerbox.log & smsbox.log content. It will reveal more, provided your init is starting the services with enough verbosity to reveal more info. Hope this helps? BR, Olu Vedat Coskun <vedat.cos...@lebara.com<mailto:vedat.cos...@lebara.com>> wrote: Hi All, I think I'm having a bit of a problem with the Kannel start-up script. When I manually start the bearerbox and smsbox from /usr/sbin, both seem to work and I can send SMS. However when I use the init.d script even though the output says both bearerbox and sms box has started, 'service kannel status' tells me neither are working. There are no logs printed either. I installed Kannel using yum on a CentOS 6.5 virtual machine. The latest available version of it is Version: 1.4.3 Release: 5.el6. I'm also pasting the config file below and would appreciate if anyone can help. Thanks # Lebara Talk kannel configuration file group = core admin-port = 13000 admin-password = *** status-password = *** admin-deny-ip = "*.*.*.*" admin-allow-ip = "127.0.0.1" smsbox-port = 13001 #wapbox-port = 13002 box-deny-ip = "*.*.*.*" box-allow-ip = "127.0.0.1" wdp-interface-name = "*" log-file = "/var/log/kannel/bearerbox.log" log-level = 5 # SMSC Configuration group = smsc smsc = smpp smsc-id = "RHEL" host = ip port = port transceiver-mode = yes smsc-username = "****" smsc-password = "***" system-type = "RHEL" interface-version = 0x34 source-addr-ton = 1 source-addr-npi = 1 dest-addr-ton = 1 dest-addr-npi = 1 # SMS Box Configuration group = smsbox bearerbox-host = 127.0.0.1 sendsms-port = 13013 global-sender = 13013 sendsms-chars = "0123456789 +-" log-file = "/var/log/kannel/smsbox.log" log-level = 5 access-log = "/var/log/kannel/access.log" # SMS API Configuration group = sendsms-user username = username password = *** default-smsc = "RHEL" This email is confidential and may be subject to privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not copy or disclose its content but contact the sender immediately upon receipt. This email is confidential and may be subject to privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not copy or disclose its content but contact the sender immediately upon receipt.