Bugzilla Bug 119566

Running smsclient fails because it cannot write to the non-existant 
directory /var/adm:

ERROR: Opening logfile: /var/adm/smslog

I could not find any config option to specify the log file, so this probably 
has to be fixed at compile-time (logs should go into /var/log).


Also, the default config file specifies /etc/smslock as the lock file 
(probably used to prevent multiple instances of smsclient to run 
simultaneously).
According to FHS-2.3 this file should go into /var/lock. As /var/lock is 
usually readonly for smsclient users, I suggest you create /var/lock/smsclient
owned by group dialout and put the lock file there.

Slight correction: /var/adm exists, but the user running smsclient obviously 
has no write access to it, so the log file cannot be created.

fixed in 2.0.9a.

changes are:
 - services are installed now in /usr/share/smsclient
 - use /var/lock/sms/client.lock as lock file (/var/lock/sms is writable for
group dialout)
 - create|change permissions|change group of /var/log/smsclient.log on postinst
 - all /var/spool mumbo-jumbo is removed (that directory structure isn't used
by those 2 installed programs)
 - add documentation and metadata description

Works like a charm now, thanks!