<html> <body> Beth; Are you familiar with the Freebsd ports packages? You might want to attempt to install the lsof, very very handy program. However in lieu of that program, you might do a ps -aewx and post it, if its not a too large. maybe we can spot something. Doug At 02:44 PM 6/6/2005, Stover, Beth wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi Doug, I don’t have lsof installed. I’ve tried rebooting the server, but I still get the same error. Beth Stover Systems Administrator 415.395.8768 -----Original Message----- From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [<a href="mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net" eudora="autourl">mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net</a>] On Behalf Of Doug Veldhuisen Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 12:34 PM To: Stover, Beth; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] sms_client Problem - Modem Locked? Beth: You might try using the command: lsof /dev/xxxx xxx is your modem line. The command should give you what it thinks is using your modem device. All else fails, you recycle the machine, you might have a program running your not aware of and this might kill it off. Doug At 02:00 PM 6/6/2005, Stover, Beth wrote: Hi, I tried posting to the sms_client user group, but no response. I'm hoping someone can help me here. My sms alerts stopped working a few days ago. When I try to run it from the command line, I get the following error: /usr/local/etc/sms (root) $ sms_client 1111111111'testing' Dialing SMSC 2222222222... Another program is using the modem. Waiting... There's a lock file in the modem lock directory, but it's empty: /var/lock/LCK..cuaa4 I'm using Freebsd ver 4.4 and sms_client 2.0.8y. Can someone help? Beth Stover Systems Administrator 415.395.8768 </blockquote></body> </html>