On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:11:33AM -0500, Derek Ragona typed: > At 07:39 PM 4/14/2008, Steve Franks wrote: > >I have two terminal programs - cutecom and minicom, both built from > >ports with no tweaks. Minicom will fire up and hit the serial port > >just fine, but cutecom can't open it except with sudo. I tried > >tweaking devfs.conf (as well as a straight chmod on /dev/cuad0), and > >it doesn't seem to rectify the problem. I've also got several linux > >ports that hit usb devices via libusb that won't connect without sudo > >- obviously, I'd like not to have to run user-type apps with sudo on > >my system.... > > > >Thanks, > >Steve > > You may want to try chown the device as well as chmod'ing it. If this > works you will likely need a script to reset these settings on reboot. You > can add a cron job under root to do this @reboot.
A more convenient option is putting the user who starts whateven terminal program into the "dialers" group Ruben _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"