Help with Smart Card Manager

[John Wendel]

Steve Friedman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, John Wendel 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.)
> 
> Steve Friedman
> 
> 


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.

This mess looks like something RH got from Mozilla, it installs in 
/usr/lib/esc-<version> and has all that Chrome, XUL, js junk that 
'zilla uses.

Thanks

John