kannel

I am using kannel to send SMS via PHP. I want to know how can I check if a particular process is running. For kannel to run, a process named bearerbox should be running all time. I want to check if this process is running or not. Because if the process is not running then a mail will be sent to me notifying me about it. The easiest is to use pgrep , which has an exit code of 0 if the process exists, 1 otherwise. Here's an example. exec("pgrep bearerbox", $output, $return); if ($return == 0) { echo "Ok, process is running\n"; } You can use the exec command to find your process and then act

I know there are lots of 3rd party sites to send bulk SMS via the internet, but if I wanted to create one myself, how would I go about it? I know how to create an SMS gateway using my mobile phone, which is very slow. Is there any other way of creating an internet SMS gateway? IanW I designed something similar (although for far fewer text messages) for my employer. A Linux server is connected to a Bluetooth USB dongle for receiving data from embedded sensor devices in the lab and a Siemens TC35 GSM modem via a RS232 serial link. The server can send messages to selected employees phone if the

I am trying to send arabic sms (or french sms) from kannel and it does not get the client end perfectly ( somtimes ?????? for arabic words), after doing some analysis on the values sent between the bearebox,smsbox and smsc i found out that the error in encoding happens between my bearbox and smsbox. I have used charset=utf-8&coding=2 on my http request for sending sms but the same problem occurs Does anyone have any idea on what is the problem or better a solution ?? here is the code i use to send sms StringBuffer param = new StringBuffer() param.append("http://localhost:1025/cgi-bin/sendsms?"