Yeah, I was only thinking about the serial port. No coffee yet. It's a common thing to forget you need elevated privileges for serial access. One of those hardwired responses. Yours is a much better answer.
Thanks. --- David A. Lane, KG4GIY EC/RO Prince William County ARES®/RACES +1.703.628.3868 http://www.pwcares.org/ IM/Skype/Twitter: kg4giy > On May 18, 2016, at 6:12 AM, Iain R. Learmonth <i...@learmonth.me> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 18/05/16 11:08, David Lane wrote: >> Are you in the root/wheel group? Serial needs to be started with root. > > :/ > > On Debian systems, and its derivatives like Ubuntu, you can do: > > sudo adduser YOURUSERNAME dialout > > The dialout group is allowed to access the serial ports (historically > would have had a modem attached to them hence the name of the group). > > You should not need to be root to use a serial port, and this is pretty > bad practice. > > In recent versions of the Xastir Debian package, you also do not need to > be root to use the Linux kernel's AX.25 stack. You can add yourself to > the xastir-ax25 group using the same command as long as you enabled > non-root access when you installed the package. > > Thanks, > Iain. > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > Xastir@lists.xastir.org > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
