Hi Jon, I just followed the following: i did "su nagios", ran the script and the errors popped out: ~# su nagios $ /usr/bin/sms_gnokii GNOKII Version 0.6.27 Couldn't read /home/nagios/.gnokiirc config file. Couldn't read /home/nagios/.gnokiirc config file. Couldn't read /etc/gnokiirc config file. Couldn't read /etc/gnokiirc config file. Config file cannot be read. I copied .gnokiirc from /root to /home/nagios and did chown nagios:nagios on it. Further, gnokii tries to send the message but it ends in another permission related error: Connecting Serial device: opening device USB Ignoring extra header, type 171, length 5 Found FBUS interface Can't set configuration: -1 Can't claim control interface: -1 Couldn't open PHONET device: Operation not permitted Error in link initialisation: 1 Telephone interface init failed: Command failed. Quitting. Command failed. Furthermore, i tried the following: chown -R nagios:nagios /dev/bus/usb/* chown -R nagios:nagios /dev/ttyACM0 and chmod 750 -R /dev/bus/usb/* chmod 750 /dev/ttyACM0 then I tried /usr/bin/gnokii --getnetworkinfo and It works without error. Now I restarted nagios. NO SMS SENT only Email notification. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Jon Angliss <<a href="mailto:jon@netdork.net">jon@netdork.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:10:30 +0800, "fernando renegado" <div class="Ih2E3d"><<a href="mailto:flrenegado@gmail.com">flrenegado@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >Hi, > </div><div class="Ih2E3d">>Just tested gnokii at the terminal as nagios user. It can send sms manually >as nagios user but when I restarted nagios, it failed to send sms. Also I >noticed that each time I reboot my nagios box, the permissions are denied. >And I have to chown and chmod the gnokii port and usb each time. Thanks for >your help. </div>chmod what port? Can you add the nagios user to the group that is part of the port owner? You still haven't provided a huge amount of information, like command definitions, or the likes. -- <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Jon Angliss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </div></div></blockquote></div>