Gnokii and Hobbit

On 8/20/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 07:34:58AM +0200, Michael Magua wrote:

In hobbit-alerts.cfg I have:

HOST=mail
    MAIL user-d7ae79a03f32@xymon.invalid REPEAT=20 SERVICE=smtp
#SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/smsalert FORMAT=SMS
#SCRIPT echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | gnokii --sendsms <cell number> FORMAT=SMS

Both of those script calls are commented out as I was trying various
things. Here is my /usr/local/bin/smsalert:

#!/bin/sh
echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | gnokii --sendsms <cell number>

Your SCRIPT command is partially wrong; the "recipient" parameter is
missing. This is typically the phone-number for the SMS recipient.
If you don't want to use it, just put some dummy value there. This
parameter is passed to the script as $RCPT.

I tested it myself, and found two possible problems:

1) Make sure the "hobbit" user can access the serial port. In my
   setup, the user must be in the "dialout" group to access the
   /dev/ttyS0 file (the serial port device); check the file
   permissions on your serial device.

2) gnokii complains if the message test is more than 160 characters.
   Change your script command to
      echo "${BBALPHAMSG:0:160}" | gnokii --sendsms "$RCPT"

If you still have problems, the ~hobbit/server/logs/page.log has the
output from the script commands, so you should check that for
errors.


Regards,
Henrik

Hi

I have no clue why this still isn't working!

Now in hobbit-alerts.cfg I have:

SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/smsalert FORMAT=SMS

And /usr/local/bin/smsalert is:

#!/bin/bash
echo "${BBALPHAMSG:0:160}" | gnokii --sendsms 012345678

Where 012345678 is my cellnumber. Permissions are fine because user
hobbit can send an sms via the command line by doing `echo "hello" |
gnokii --sendsms 012345678`. I then get an sms.