On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 04:17:13PM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > I want to use minicom as a user but I am getting a "cant create > lockfile" failure. It works fine as root. I dont wish to change the > perms on /var/lock unless I have to - so whats the gentoo way to get > minicom working as a user? Also what group(s) do I need for serial > port access (/dev/ttyS0 so I presume tty, or is it uucp or both/either) > once I get past the lockfile problems.
On my system: ls -ld /var/lock drwxrwxr-x 3 root uucp 4096 Sep 10 10:32 /var/lock ls -l /dev/tts/0 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 4, 64 Sep 10 10:32 /dev/tts So, being a member of uucp and tty will let minicom do what it needs to do. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
