On Dienstag, Juli 8, 2003, at 11:13 Uhr, Alan McNatty wrote:
Hello,
run_kannel_box is a strange beast (at least to me). It's purpose seems
unclear (or more appropriately 'undocumented'). I understand it's part
of the utils directory (out of main source) but it is part of standard
build (eg: debian packages).
Andres could you explain a bit about what it's function is .. the man
page is brief. I have yet to review source code in detail - but if it's
supposed to restarting failed services I would be interested in doing
some work/testing with it (potentially adding syslog support to begin
with).
run_kannel_box starts up a process (either bearerbox, webbox or smsbox) and make's sure that if it fails, it gets restartet.
Here's how I start kannel on my computer from /etc/rc.d/init.d/kannel. I let the processes run as user "kannel" at the same time:
RUN=/var/run/kannel
BIN=/usr/local/sbin
DELAY="1"
CONF="/etc/kannel.conf"
RUNBOX="${BIN}/run_kannel_box"
BEARERBOX="${BIN}/bearerbox"
SMSBOX="${BIN}/smsbox"
WAPBOX="${BIN}/wapbox"
PID_SMSBOX="$RUN/smsbox.pid"
PID_BEARERBOX="$RUN/bearerbox.pid"
PID_WAPBOX="$RUN/wapbox.pid"
echo "Starting bearerbox"
su -c "${RUNBOX} --pidfile ${PID_BEARERBOX} --min-delay ${DELAY} ${BEARERBOX} ${CONF} &" kannel
sleep 10
echo "Starting smsbox"
su -c "${RUNBOX} --pidfile ${PID_SMSBOX} --min-delay ${DELAY} ${SMSBOX} ${CONF} &" kannel
sleep 10
echo "Starting wapbox"
su -c "${RUNBOX} --pidfile ${PID_WAPBOX} --min-delay ${DELAY} ${WAPBOX} ${CONF} &" kannel
if you start a kannel box process with run_kannel_box it will keep the process restarting if it fails.
Try it yourself and try to kill any of the box processes, and you will see they restart. pretty much like safe_mysqld in mysql.
to kill the processes, I kill the process of the PID file above which is the corresponding run_kannel_box process.
Andreas Fink
Global Networks Switzerland AG
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