Re: [Sheflug] Re: Minicom

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 17:38 +0000, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> drwxrwxrwt 5 root uucp 120 2006--1-05 17:26 /var/lock
> 
> openSuSE 10.0.  Uhhmm ... am I looking at a group/user permissions 
> thing here ?  I think I am. Now says..
>
> minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied

Yeah.

Now you want to 'ls -l /dev/ttyS1', and see what group that file is. You
want to be in that group (for me, it's 'dialout', for you it's likely to
be different).

So, go into yast or whatever and add yourself to that group. You'll then
need to log right out and log back in again before you try minicom
again, because unix is old-school like that.

Cheers,

Alex.

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