On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:48:22 +0000, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 03/13/13 21:56, Arthur Chance wrote: > > I'm trying to get devel/arduino working.[snip] > > I shouldn't work 13 hour days. Now I've had some sleep, I've spotted > what I missed last night. The underlying code from comms/rxtx is trying > to create a lock file in /var/spool/lock and that is only writeable by > user uucp and group dialer. Given that I have absolutely no serial > devices (or ports) on this box apart from the Arduino when it's plugged > in, can anyone see any problems with making the lock directory world > writeable?
Simply add your user (or the account the program is running under) to the "dialer" group. This has been a common method to allow users to access dialing programs (which were reserved for root use without this group addition). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
