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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain KSMS

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2.2 Requirements

2.3 Compilation and installation

In order to compile and install KSMS on your system, type the following in the base directory of the KSMS distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install

Since KSMS uses

autoconf
you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at Olaf Lösken

2.4 Patching yaps

The patch enables yaps to be run either in intercative mode or as a server run from inet using tcpd. Nothing else has been modified.

As a result you get a binary yaps and a configuration file yaps.rc. On my system yaps runs as bin/uucp (user/group). Check that yaps is working as a single program started from the shell.

(! ISDN worked well, but it took me a while to find out that the analog modem has to be fixed to V.22bis 2400/1200 to get a connection to the service provider)

Installing yaps in server mode

Now edit your /etc/inetd.conf

Add a line:

8090   stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/bin/yaps

perhaps the path to tcpd or yaps has to be adjusted. The port number 8090 is arbitrary and may be changed, but only choose an unused port number and set the port number of KSMS to the same value. (ksmsrc) You may also edit the /etc/services and add a "yaps 8090/tcp" row at the end of the file and enter

yaps   stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/local/bin/yaps

in /etc/inetd.conf which gives the same result.

And don't forget to:

% kill -HUP <id of inetd>

2.5 Testing the modification of yaps

% telnet localhost 8090

you should get a response message telling you the yaps version. Now enter a pager number followed by a space and the message. Hit the enter key twice, this should trigger your modem or ISDN interface to dial the modem gateway of your telco provider.

yaps has been developed by Ulrich Dessauer. If you have problems with a patched yaps program, check the original version first. If the problem only occurs in the patched version, contact the author of KSMS.

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