[olug] What am I forgetting

[CM Miller]

>> What am I forgetting to change?
>> I have a program that keys my radio through comm. 1
>>ttyS0.
>> It works fine if I am logged on as root or switched
>>to su but otherwise it
>> won't key xmitter.
>> I have changed ownership and group and set all the
>>rights.  What am I
>> missing?
>> Thanks

>Tom,
>
>Try running 'setserial /dev/ttyS0' as the non-root
>user you want to run 
>your application with and see what you get.
>
>Default:
>
>crw-------    1 root     uucp       4,  64 Sep 19
>08:05 /dev/ttyS0
>
>result:
>$ setserial /dev/ttyS0
>/dev/ttyS0: Permission denied
>
>
>Here is what mine looks like after I changed it 
>(command: chown jlarsen /dev/ttyS0):
>
>crw-------    1 jlarsen  uucp       4,  64 Sep 19
>08:05 /dev/ttyS0
>
>$ setserial /dev/ttyS0
>/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
>
>
>This should allow the given username to access the
>serial port.


I'm having the same problem with my Knoppix laptop. 

I run 

setserial /dev/ttyS0 

And it is then ok. 

But, if I reboot, then the problem come back. 

Is there any permanet way to fix this? 

thanks

-Chris 



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