Nokia WAP and SMS gateway User Manual

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Chapter 2. Installing the gateway

3. Install or upgrade the DEB package:

dpkg -i kannel-

VERSION

.deb

Removing Kannel

1. Log in as root:

2. Remove the package keeping configuration files:

dpkg --remove kannel

3. Remove the package completely:

dpkg --purge kannel

After you have installed Kannel from the DEB packages you should now be able to run the Kannel init.d
script that will start Kannel as a WAP gateway. Run the script as root.

/etc/init.d/kannel start

To stop the gateway just run the same script with the stop parameter.

/etc/init.d/kannel stop

If Kannel is already running and you just want to quickly stop and start the gateway,e.g.to set a new
configuration option, run the script with the restart parameter.

/etc/init.d/kannel restart

If you don’t want Kannel to run as a daemon, run:

update-rc.d -f kannel remove

If you want to restore Kannel runing as a daemon, you need to add a symbolic link to the Kannel script
from the runlevel you want Kannel to run in. E.g. to run Kannel in default runlevel, just run:

update-rc.d kannel defaults

Kannel package starts by default with a wapbox daemon. To activate smsbox or select which box you
want to start, edit /etc/default/kannel and comment/uncomment START_xxxBOX.

To run Kannel as a SMS gateway you need to edit the configuration file which is at
/etc/kannel/kannel.conf. In /usr/share/docs/kannel/examples/ there are example files. They have some
basic examples of the configuration groups needed to run Kannel as a SMS gateway. For more detailed
information please read the section "SMS gateway configuration" later in this same document.

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