Robbie - try this: su <root password required> chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir exit <back to normal user>
This is covered and explained near the end of the Fedora HowTo on the wiki. http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:Fedora At the end of the section titled:" Get and compile Xastir from CVS" Note, I believe this 'fix' will work for other distros as well. Well, assuming this works for you - let us know, k? 73 kd7nm wrote: > This sounds like it might be that your user isn't on the > list accepted users for serial ports. You might need to add > your user login account to that group. Check the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/> ls -l /dev/ttyS0 > crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 2006-10-23 16:46 /dev/ttyS0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/> > > This is the directory command to check permissions on ttyS0, > and if you read across, you see that the owner is "root", > and the group is "uucp". To enable xastir to work when I'm > logged in with my user account "bob", I had to go into my > users and groups manager, and insure that the "bob" account > was a member of the "uucp" group. > > I use SuSE Linux v10.0, and with that Linux distribution, > that's a feature of the YaST system management tool. I > suspect that if my system hadn't auto-archived a bunch of > stuff, that I'd find out what Linux distribution you're > using, though I probably still don't know where to find an > application to do what YaST does for me. So - take a look > in /etc/group and find the group entry that matches the > group entry in your /dev/ttyS0 directory listing, and add > your login user account to it - assuming it's not already > there. With any luck, it's that simple! > > 73, Bob, KD7NM > > ----- Original Message Follows ----- > From: "Robbie, wa9inf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: xastir@xastir.org > Subject: [Xastir] Serial port > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:49:09 -0500 > >> Well, here is a follow up to my MFJ serial tnc problem... >> >> I have validated that the hardware is working by using >> minicom on both ttyS0 and ttyS1 at 9600,8,n,1 All the >> 144.390 packets are decoded.. >> >> Now that leaves me with an Xastir problem I guess?? I can >> not make either ports go "up" in the Interface Control >> screen, :-( >> >> Is there something I failed to do in Xastir while I was >> installing it? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Robbie >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xastir mailing list >> Xastir@xastir.org >> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > Xastir@xastir.org > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
