Help with Smart Card Manager

[Steve Friedman]

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