On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 at 10:00, Geraint Jones opined: GJ:On Tuesday 24 September 2002 3:41 pm, fliptop wrote: GJ:> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 at 13:24, Geraint Jones opined: GJ:> GJ:> GJ:I'm trying to get the output from a barcode scanner into my CGI script. GJ:> What I GJ:would like to see is the barcode going straight into a text box GJ:> in my GJ:browser. I am using Device::SerialPort to read the output which GJ:> works fine as GJ:a normal Perl script, but I don't know how to allow Perl GJ:> CGI scripts to GJ:access my /dev/ttyS1 port. Any help on this matter would GJ:> be greatly GJ:appreciated. GJ:> GJ:> you may have a permission problem. does the user your webserver runs as GJ:> have permission to read from /dev/ttyS1? GJ: GJ:Probably not. How do I go about permitting Apache to see ttyS1?
you just use chown like any regular file or directory. if your webserver runs as nobody, for example, you'd type (as root): chown nobody:uucp /dev/ttyS1 and that will give nobody access to read from the ttyS1 port. of course, i'm assuming your ports are owned by uucp. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
