When I start the kannel service with service kannel start everything goes OK, kannel does start, but it doesn't work. Log files aren't created and /var/log/kannel/ directory is empty but I don't know why.
My configuration is as follows:
group = core
admin-port = 13000
admin-password = pass
log-file = "/var/log/kannel/bearerbox.log"
log-level = 0
access-log = "/var/log/kannel/access_kannel.log"
store-file = "/var/log/kannel/store_sms"
smsbox-port = 13001
dlr-storage = internal
sms-resend-retry = 1
group = smsc
smsc-id = povoljye
smsc = smpp
host = **.***.***.***
port = 2775
smsc-username = "***"
smsc-password = "***"
address-range = ""
source-addr-ton = 0
source-addr-npi = 1
dest-addr-ton = 1
dest-addr-npi = 1
system-type = VMA
throughput = 1000
reconnect-delay = 5
connection-timeout = 120
transceiver-mode = true
denied-smsc-id = kemerovo
allowed-smsc-id = povoljye
preferred-smsc-id = povoljye
group = smsc
smsc-id = kemerovo
smsc = smpp
host = ***.***.***.***
port = 3102
smsc-username = "***"
smsc-password = "***"
address-range = ""
source-addr-ton = 0
source-add-npi = 1
dest-addr-ton = 1
dest-addr-npi = 1
system-type = VMA
throughput = 1000
reconnect-delay = 5
connection-timeout = 120
transceiver-mode = true
denied-smsc-id = povoljye
allowed-smsc-id = kemerovo
preferred-smsc-id = kemerovo
group = smsbox
bearerbox-host = localhost
sendsms-port = 13005
global-sender = 4105
log-file = /var/log/kannel/smsbox.log
log-level = 0
access-log = /var/log/kannel/access_smsbox.log
group = sendsms-user
username = "user1"
password = "pass"
concatenation = true
max-messages = 20
default-smsc = povoljye
group = sendsms-user
username = "user2"
password = "pass"
concatenation = true
max-messages = 20
default-smsc = kemerovo
group = sms-service
keyword = default
post-url = "http://domain.com/sms/%p/time/%t/coding/%c/smsc/%i"
concatenation = true
max-messages = 0
What could be the cause of this problem and how to find out more?
I'm guessing your /var/log/kannel isn't writable by the kannel user. Assuming a reasonably standard installation, you can try
sudo chown -R kannel:kannel /var/log/kannel
to make the kannel user the owner of the directory. Then restart it and the logs should appear there. Or you can try any other permission stuff to make the directory writable (chmod, add kannel to the owner group, or something else.)
You can also start Kannel from the command line in debug mode and see if anything interesting appears (by interesting I mean error messages about inaccessible directories or files,) e.g.:
/usr/local/sbin/bearerbox -v 0 -- /etc/kannel/kannel.conf
(That's assuming standard paths, if yours are different, you should change them.)