Steve Friedman wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, John Wendel wrote:
Steve Friedman wrote:
I look at the menu entry and see that it runs /usr/bin/esc. I strace
esc and see that it dies when it can't run "escd" (permission
denied). I also see it looking for lots of other files that don't
exist.
So, at last, my question; does anyone have this stuff working, and
if so, how?
What is the output of:
/sbin/chkconfig --list escd
I don't run that code, but you might also want to do an
"rpm -qfl /usr/bin/esc" to see what other daemons need to be running.
(Then, as root, do "/sbin/chkconfig escd on" so that the daemons will
start on the next reboot and "/sbin/service escd start" so they will
start this time.)
Useful, generic advice; but it doesn't' seem to apply in this case,
since escd isn't a daemon that is managed by chkconfig / service. The
are only 2 executables "esc" and "escd" and a script "esc".
It appears that one just runs "esc" and it should "do the right
thing". The documentation says to run esc at the command prompt or
click "Smart Card Manager" in the system menu.
As I said, I don't run that code; however, I noticed that esc required
pcsc-lite, which does have a daemon. Is pcscd up and running?
Steve Friedman
Yes, I noticed that myself and installed pcsc-lite and it is running.
It's strange that I had esc installed without pcsc-lite. Looks like
something broken in the installer, since I didn't install any of this
stuff by hand, I'm just using a default FC6 install.
And the initial problem was that esc and escd didn't have execute
permission. Which is also strange.
I now have pcscd and escd running, but I don't get any action from the
card reader. I would expect to be prompted for the card's PIN at some
point, but it isn't happening.
Maybe this reader isn't supported, which would explain why the vendor
has drivers at their website (that don't work with Fedora).
Thanks for the help. I'll report back if I ever get it working.
John
