On Tue (10/07/12), Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Manolis Tzanidakis > ><mtzanida...@gmail.com> 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
