On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 08:35, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > I have to have minicom setuid root, even though I have added myself to > > > > > the dialout group, which according to the man page should allow access > > > > > to serial port devices. Any suggestions for what's wrong? > > > > > > > > You need to add yourself to the dialout group as root and then relogin. > > > > That should solve your problem. > > ... > > > If you read my original post you will see I have already done this; in > > > fact, I've been added to the dialout group for a long time. > > > > The next logical step would be to check the device files for proper > > group ownership: > > > > $ ls -l /dev/ttyS0 > > crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jul 5 2000 /dev/ttyS0 > > > > -- > > groetjes, carel > > Sorry for a follow-up to my own message: after changing the permissions > and making *two* reboots minicom has now started working correctly. No > idea what happened here, but thanks anyway.
Sorry about knee jerking a response without fully reading your post before. What does dmesg say about the serial ports now as opposed to before? Perhaps your syslog can tell you something about what changed. --mike
