diff --git a/core/scripts/sems b/core/scripts/sems
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--- a/core/scripts/sems
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@@ -1,139 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-# Copyright (c) 2002 Frauenhofer Gesellschaft FOKUS, Germany.
-# All rights reserved.
-# $Id$
-#
-# (shameless copy and past of Nils' ser init script)
-#
-# /etc/init.d/sems
-#
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides:          media
-# Required-Start:    $network
-# X-UnitedLinux-Should-Start: $network
-# Required-Stop:     $network
-# X-UnitedLinux-Should-Stop: $network
-# Default-Start:     3 5
-# Default-Stop:      0 1 2 6
-# Short-Description: SEMS
-# Description:       Start SEMS and provide the routing of SIP requests.
-### END INIT INFO
-
-# Jiri's change (startproc and fy could not have been found)
-PATH=/sbin:$PATH
-
-# Check for missing binaries (stale symlinks should not happen)
-SEMS_BIN=/usr/local/sbin/sems
-test -x $SEMS_BIN || exit 5
-
-# Check for existence of needed config file and read it
-SEMS_CONFIG=/usr/local/etc/sems/sems.conf
-test -r $SEMS_CONFIG || exit 6
-#. $FOO_CONFIG
-
-# Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status:
-#      rc_check         check and set local and overall rc status
-#      rc_status        check and set local and overall rc status
-#      rc_status -v     ditto but be verbose in local rc status
-#      rc_status -v -r  ditto and clear the local rc status
-#      rc_status -s     display "skipped" and exit with status 3
-#      rc_status -u     display "unused" and exit with status 3
-#      rc_failed        set local and overall rc status to failed
-#      rc_failed <num>  set local and overall rc status to <num>
-#      rc_reset         clear local rc status (overall remains)
-#      rc_exit          exit appropriate to overall rc status
-#      rc_active	checks whether a service is activated by symlinks
-#      rc_splash arg    sets the boot splash screen to arg (if active)
-. /etc/rc.status
-
-# Reset status of this service
-rc_reset
-
-# Return values acc. to LSB for all commands but status:
-# 0	  - success
-# 1       - generic or unspecified error
-# 2       - invalid or excess argument(s)
-# 3       - unimplemented feature (e.g. "reload")
-# 4       - user had insufficient privileges
-# 5       - program is not installed
-# 6       - program is not configured
-# 7       - program is not running
-# 8--199  - reserved (8--99 LSB, 100--149 distrib, 150--199 appl)
-# 
-# Note that starting an already running service, stopping
-# or restarting a not-running service as well as the restart
-# with force-reload (in case signaling is not supported) are
-# considered a success.
-
-case "$1" in
-    start)
-	echo -n "Starting SEMS"
-	## Start daemon with startproc(8). If this fails
-	## the return value is set appropriately by startproc.
-	startproc $SEMS_BIN -f $SEMS_CONFIG
-
-	# Remember status and be verbose
-	rc_status -v
-	;;
-    stop)
-	echo -n "Shutting down SEMS"
-	## Stop daemon with killproc(8) and if this fails
-	## killproc sets the return value according to LSB.
-
-	killproc -TERM $SEMS_BIN
-
-	# Remember status and be verbose
-	rc_status -v
-	;;
-    restart)
-	## Stop the service and regardless of whether it was
-	## running or not, start it again.
-	$0 stop
-	$0 start
-
-	# Remember status and be quiet
-	rc_status
-	;;
-    force-reload)
-	## Signal the daemon to reload its config. Most daemons
-	## do this on signal 1 (SIGHUP).
-	## If it does not support it, restart.
-
-	echo -n "Reload service SEMS "
-	## Otherwise:
-	$0 stop  &&  $0 start
-	rc_status
-	;;
-    reload)
-	## Like force-reload, but if daemon does not support
-	## signaling, do nothing (!)
-
-	## Otherwise if it does not support reload:
-	rc_failed 3
-	rc_status -v
-	;;
-    status)
-	echo -n "Checking for service SEMS "
-	## Check status with checkproc(8), if process is running
-	## checkproc will return with exit status 0.
-
-	# Return value is slightly different for the status command:
-	# 0 - service up and running
-	# 1 - service dead, but /var/run/  pid  file exists
-	# 2 - service dead, but /var/lock/ lock file exists
-	# 3 - service not running (unused)
-	# 4 - service status unknown :-(
-	# 5--199 reserved (5--99 LSB, 100--149 distro, 150--199 appl.)
-	
-	# NOTE: checkproc returns LSB compliant status values.
-	checkproc $SEMS_BIN
-	# NOTE: rc_status knows that we called this init script with
-	# "status" option and adapts its messages accordingly.
-	rc_status -v
-	;;
-    *)
-	echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
-	exit 1
-	;;
-esac
-rc_exit
diff --git a/core/scripts/sems.debian b/core/scripts/sems.debian
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index 32a793cd..00000000
--- a/core/scripts/sems.debian
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@@ -1,151 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-#
-# INSTRUCTIONS:
-#  - Copy this file to /etc/init.d/sems
-#  - Don't forget to copy the default file for this script to work properly 
-#
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides: sems
-# Required-Start: $syslog $network $local_fs $time
-# Required-Stop: $syslog $network $local_fs
-# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
-# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
-# Short-Description: Start the SEMS server
-# Description: Start the SEMS server
-### END INIT INFO
-
-PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
-DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/sems
-NAME=sems
-DESC=sems
-HOMEDIR=/var/run/sems
-PIDFILE=$HOMEDIR/$NAME.pid
-DEFAULTS=/etc/default/sems
-RUN_SEMS=no
-
-# Do not start sems if fork=no is set in the config file
-# otherwise the boot process will just stop
-check_fork ()
-{
-    if grep -q "^[[:space:]]*fork[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*no.*" /usr/local/etc/sems/sems.conf; then
-        echo "Not starting $DESC: fork=no specified in config file; run /etc/init.d/sems debug instead"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-}
-
-create_radius_seqfile ()
-{
-    # Create a radius sequence file to be used by the radius client if
-    # radius accounting is enabled. This is needed to avoid any issue
-    # with the file not being writable if sems first starts as user
-    # root because DUMP_CORE is enabled and creates this file as user
-    # root and then later it switches back to user sems and cannot
-    # write to the file. If the file exists before sems starts, it
-    # won't change it's ownership and will be writable for both root
-    # and sems, no matter what options are chosen at install time
-    RADIUS_SEQ_FILE=/var/run/sems/sems_radius.seq
-    if [ -d /var/run/sems ]; then
-        chown ${USER}:${GROUP} /var/run/sems
-
-        if [ ! -f $RADIUS_SEQ_FILE ]; then
-            touch $RADIUS_SEQ_FILE
-        fi
-
-        chown ${USER}:${GROUP} $RADIUS_SEQ_FILE
-        chmod 660 $RADIUS_SEQ_FILE
-    fi
-}
-
-test -f $DAEMON || exit 0
-
-# Load startup options if available
-if [ -f $DEFAULTS ]; then
-   . $DEFAULTS || true
-fi
-
-if [ "$RUN_SEMS" != "yes" ]; then
-    echo "SEMS not yet configured. Edit /etc/default/sems first."
-    exit 0
-fi
-
-set -e
-
-[ -z "$USER" ] && USER=sems
-[ -z "$GROUP" ] && GROUP=sems
-
-if test "$DUMP_CORE" = "yes" ; then
-    # set proper ulimit
-    ulimit -c unlimited
-    
-    # directory for the core dump files
-    # COREDIR=/home/corefiles
-    # [ -d $COREDIR ] || mkdir $COREDIR
-    # chmod 777 $COREDIR
-    # echo "$COREDIR/core.%e.sig%s.%p" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
-fi
-
-OPTIONS="-P $PIDFILE -u $USER -g $GROUP"
-
-case "$1" in
-  start|debug)
-        create_radius_seqfile
-
-        DBG_OPTIONS=""
-
-        if [ "$1" != "debug" ]; then
-            check_fork
-        else
-            DBG_OPTIONS="-D 3 -E"
-        fi
-
-        # FIXME
-        # This is a small hack to prevent some broken apps to be loaded
-        rm -f /usr/local/lib/sems/plug-in/py_sems.so /usr/local/lib/sems/plug-in/sw_prepaid_sip.so
-
-        echo "$DAEMON $OPTIONS $DBG_OPTIONS"
-        echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
-        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
-                --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS $DBG_OPTIONS || echo -n " already running"
-        echo "."
-        ;;
-  stop)
-        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
-        start-stop-daemon --oknodo --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
-                --exec $DAEMON
-        echo "."
-        ;;
-  restart|force-reload)
-        create_radius_seqfile
-
-        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"
-        start-stop-daemon --oknodo --stop --quiet --pidfile \
-                $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
-        sleep 1
-        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile \
-                $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
-        echo "."
-        ;;
-  status)
-        echo -n "Status of $DESC: "
-        if [ ! -r "$PIDFILE" ]; then
-                echo "$NAME is not running."
-                exit 3
-        fi
-        pid=`cat "$PIDFILE"`
-        if ps -p "$pid" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
-                echo "$NAME is running."
-                exit 0
-        else
-                echo "$NAME is not running but $PIDFILE exists."
-                exit 1
-        fi
-        ;;
-  *)
-        N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
-        echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload|debug|status}" >&2
-        exit 1
-        ;;
-esac
-
-exit 0
-
diff --git a/core/scripts/sems.default.debian b/core/scripts/sems.default.debian
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index f35618be..00000000
--- a/core/scripts/sems.default.debian
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-#
-# SEMS startup options:
-# INSTRUCTIONS:
-#  - copy this file to /etc/default/sems
-#
-
-# Set to yes to enable openser, once configured properly.
-RUN_SEMS=no
-
-# User to run as
-USER=openser
-#USER=ser
-
-# Group to run as
-GROUP=openser
-#GROUP=ser
-
-# Enable the server to leave a core file when it crashes.
-DUMP_CORE=no 
-