On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Jason KG4WSV wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Keith Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > t I just noticed, its permissions > > are set to -rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 1439 Apr 9 21:08 tnc-startup.d700 > > don't they have to be executable? > > no, but they have to be writable. i don't have a 232/usb device to > check, but i think the permissions should be 666 (rw-rw-rw-). But > then again, that setuid xastir executable should take care of that.
He's talking about the tnc-startup file above, not the serial port... > in case you haven't hit this, on the mac you'll probably want to "sudo > cmd" for each of the commands Curt mentioned, instead of doing an su > first. I never know if people have /etc/sudoers set up properly and know how to use sudo, so often I quote the brute-force method. Since I caught the sudo bug myself I always use it! -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
