SMS Gateway 4.4 - User's Guide
11. Command reference
Here we describe the syntax of each command in the software. You can use -v as an option for most of the commands to get syntax information for the command. To get debug information, especially good for smsd, use the -debug option.
11.1 Commands
11.1.1 sms
Place a message in queue
Parameters:
-v Display software version and command syntax
- Read data from stdin
-id Display the id of the message after it has been placed in the outgoing queue
-l file Read recipients from the specified file
-n string Add a note to the message. Displayed in the message queues
-t hh:mm Schedule the message for transmission at a specific time
-c id Specify a character set to use for the message
-s id Specify a symbol set to use for the message
-q Do not send messages to stdout (quiet)
-u username Send the message as the specified user
11.1.2 smsclean
Remove entries from the statistics
Parameters:
-v Display software version and command syntax
-older days Remove entries older than specified number of days
-to date Remove entries until specified date
11.1.3 smsd
The SMS Gateway daemon
Parameters:
-v Display software version and command syntax
-debug Print debug information to stdout
-gateways Display defined gateways
11.1.4 smsmime
Parses MIME messages
Parameters:
-v Display software version and command syntax
11.1.5 smsq
Display the message queues
Parameters:
-v Display software version and command syntax
-p Display the outgoing message queue (default)
-s Display the message queue for successfully sent messages
-f Display the message queue for failed messages
-n id Reschedule the message for transmission now
-reverse Display the queue in reversed order (last message first)
-t hh:mm id Reschedule the message for transmission at the specified time
-x Display extra information about the messages
11.1.6 smsrm
Remove a message from a queue
When used with the successfully sent or failed queues, the entries are not physically removed from the statistics file, they are only marked as deleted. Smsclean is used to delete entries permanently from the statistics file.
Parameters:
-v Display software version and command syntax
-all [p|s|f] Remove all messages in the specified queue(s)
-to yyyymmdd Remove all messages until the specified date
11.1.7 smsstat
Display message statistics (per gateway)
Parameters:
-v Display software version and command syntax
-g Show graph
11.1.8 smswho
Display users connected to smsd
Parameters:
-v Display software version and command syntax
-u Only display unique user names
11.2 Exit codes
The client programs use the following exit codes:
2 Error in serialisation file
3 Error in configuration file
4 Invalid argument
6 Could not connect to smsd
13 Invalid recipient
16 Could not read recipients file
52 Out of disk space