GAMMU-SMSD(1) Gammu GAMMU-SMSD(1)NAMEgammu-smsd - SMS daemon for Gammu
SYNOPSISgammu-smsd [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the gammu-smsd command.
gammu-smsd is a program that periodically scans GSM modem for received
messages, stores them in defined storage and also sends messages
enqueued in this storage.
The daemon can reload configuration file after sending hangup signal
(SIGHUP) and properly terminates itself on SIGINT and SIGTERM.
Program accepts following options (please note that long options might
be not accepted on some platforms):
-h, --help
Shows help.
-v, --version
Shows version information and compiled in features.
-c, --config=file
Configuration file to use, default is /etc/gammu-smsdrc, on Win‐
dows there is no default and configuration file path has to be
always specified.
If you run SMSD as a system daemon (or service), it is recom‐
mended to use absolute path to configuration file as startup
directory might be different than you expect.
See gammu-smsdrc for configuration file documentation.
-p, --pid=file
Lock file for storing pid, empty for no locking. Not supported
on Windows.
-U, --user=user
Drop daemon privileges to chosed user after starting.
-G, --group=group
Drop daemon privileges to chosen group after starting.
-d, --daemon
Daemonize program on startup. Not supported on Windows.
-i, --install-service
Installs SMSD as a Windows service.
-u, --uninstall-service
Uninstalls SMSD as a Windows service.
-s, --start-service
Starts SMSD Windows service.
-k, --stop-service
Stops SMSD Windows service.
-f, --max-failures=count
Terminate after defined number of failures. Use 0 to not termi‐
nate (this is default).
-X, --suicide=seconds
Kills itself after number of seconds.
-S, --run-service
Runs pogram as SMSD Windows service. This should not be used
manually, but only Windows Service manager should use this com‐
mand.
-n, --service-name=name
Defines name of a Windows service. Each service requires an
unique name, so if you want to run several SMSD instances, you
have to name each service differently. Default is "GammuSMSD".
-l, --use-log
Use logging as configured in config file (default).
-L, --no-use-log
Do not use logging as configured in config file.
-e, --install-event-log
Installs Windows EventLog description to registry.
New in version 1.31.90.
-E, --uninstall-event-log
Uninstalls Windows EventLog description to registry.
New in version 1.31.90.
SIGNALS
SMSD can be controlled using following POSIX signals (if your platform
supports this):
SIGHUP Reload configuration and reconnect to phone.
SIGINT, SIGTERM
Gracefully shutdown the daemon.
SIGALRM
Used internally for gammu-smsd-X
SIGUSR1
Suspends SMSD operartion, closing connection to phone and data‐
base.
SIGUSR2
Resumes SMSD operattion (after previous suspend).
Changed in version 1.22.91: Added support for SIGHUP.
Changed in version 1.22.95: Added support for SIGALRM.
Changed in version 1.31.90: Added support for SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2.
EXAMPLES
Linux/Unix Examples
Start SMSD as a daemon on Linux:
gammu-smsd--config /etc/gammu-smsdrc --pid /var/run/gammu-smsd.pid --daemon
Start SMSD as a daemon on Linux with reduced privileges:
gammu-smsd--config /etc/gammu-smsdrc --pid /var/run/gammu-smsd.pid --daemon --user gammu --group gammu
SMSD as a system wide daemon
To use SMSD as a daemon, you might want to use init script which is
shipped with Gammu in contrib/init directory. It is not installed by
default, either install it manually or check INSTALL file for instruc‐
tions.
Under Windows 7 you might need to disable UAC (user account control)
before you will be able to install SMSD service.
Windows Service Examples
Install Gammu SMSD Windows service:
gammu-smsd.exe -c c:\Gammu\smsdrc -i
Install two instances of SMSD Windows service:
gammu-smsd.exe -c c:\Gammu\smsdrc-1 -n Gammu-first-phone -i
gammu-smsd.exe -c c:\Gammu\smsdrc-2 -n Gammu-second-phone -i
To uninstall a Windows service:
gammu-smsd.exe -u
Troubleshooting Windows Service
If Gammu fails to start as a Windows service (you will usually get
"Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control
request in a timely fashion"), first check your SMSD logs. If they do
not contain any useful hint, try starting SMSD manually with exactly
same parameters as you installed the service (without -i).
For example the command line can look like:
gammu-smsd.exe -c smsdrc
You now should be able to get errors from SMSD even if it fails to
start as a service.
KNOWN LIMITATIONS
You can not use same phone by more programs in same time. However in
case you did not enable locking in [gammu] section, it might be able to
start the communication with phone from more programs. In this case
neither of the programs will probably work.
There is no way to detect that SMS message is reply to another by look‐
ing at message headers. The only way to achieve this is to add some
token to the message and let the user include it in the message on
reply.
AUTHOR
Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com>
COPYRIGHT
2009-2015, Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com>
1.36.8 December 08, 2015 GAMMU-SMSD(1)
