On Wednesday 25 September 2002 10:46 am, fliptop wrote: > 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.
Thanks, that got it. -- Geraint Jones -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
