Re: [Xastir] AX25

2007-07-18 Thread Lance Cotton
Bill Vodall WA7NWP wrote: > Xastir does need SUID, but not because of the serial port. Xastir needs SU > privileges in order to open the eoc ax.25 port. That's a bit strange. Is the ax25 Listen command SUID? I know it (Listen) works once the associated serial port is set RW for the regular

Re: [Xastir] AX25

2007-07-17 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
> Xastir does need SUID, but not because of the serial port. Xastir needs SU > privileges in order to open the eoc ax.25 port. That's a bit strange. Is the ax25 Listen command SUID? I know it (Listen) works once the associated serial port is set RW for the regular user. Maybe Listen is doin

Re: [Xastir] AX25

2007-07-17 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
> chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir Thanks. I'll try that right away this evening. Thanks again - it worked. It appears Xastir is going to make a very handy gateway for this other packet channel. Adding a pop-up warning dialog for the ax25 setup should be a good beginner exercise in t

Re: [Xastir] AX25

2007-07-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, J. Lance Cotton wrote: > Xastir does need SUID, but not because of the serial port. Xastir needs SU > privileges in order to open the eoc ax.25 port. Yes. This is a Linux kernel driver limitation, so we can't work around it. Xastir has code in it to drop to regular user pri

Re: [Xastir] AX25

2007-07-16 Thread J. Lance Cotton
on 7/16/2007 10:40 AM Bill Vodall WA7NWP said the following: > The only problem is that the AX25 Interface isn't working. I set up > an interface, put in the name of the AX25 device ("eoc") clicked start > and nothing happens. No debug messages, no errors, nada. > > What's the trick here? > PS.

[Xastir] AX25

2007-07-16 Thread Bill Vodall WA7NWP
Hi, This weekend I started up Xastir initially with the intent of just watching the local traffic. Then I realized that I might as well use it with the AX25 (packet on Linux) connection to both view and Igate on another local packet channel. It should be very fun and even useful. The only prob

Re: [Xastir] AX25 interfacing

2007-03-04 Thread Curt Mills
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Lance Cotton wrote: > Xastir needs to be set SUID so that it can open an ax.25 socket. > > try a `chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir` first Yes. This will get you around possible permissions problems with the ports _and_ the kernel requirement that network protocol access requ

Re: [Xastir] AX25 interfacing

2007-03-04 Thread Stephen Brown Jr
That took care of it, thanks a mil! Stephen N1VLV On 3/4/07, Lance Cotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Xastir needs to be set SUID so that it can open an ax.25 socket. try a `chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir` first -Lance KJ5O Stephen Brown Jr wrote: > I'm in the process of setting up Xastir

Re: [Xastir] AX25 interfacing

2007-03-04 Thread Lance Cotton
Xastir needs to be set SUID so that it can open an ax.25 socket. try a `chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir` first -Lance KJ5O Stephen Brown Jr wrote: I'm in the process of setting up Xastir to use an AX25 interface and for some reason I get this when I try to connect to it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: [Xastir] AX25 interfacing

2007-03-04 Thread Jason Winningham
On Mar 4, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Stephen Brown Jr wrote: I also looked at the permissions for the pty port: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 0 2007-02-24 19:51 /dev/ptyp0 I think these things come in pairs - ptypX and ttypX. If it's a permission problem, you may need to check/change both. -Jason

[Xastir] AX25 interfacing

2007-03-04 Thread Stephen Brown Jr
I'm in the process of setting up Xastir to use an AX25 interface and for some reason I get this when I try to connect to it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ socket: Operation not permitted Sun Mar 04 12:12:27 EST 2007: Interface Error! Error opening interface 1 Hard Fail I am running Ubuntu 6.06 an