[Xastir] serial port error with serial GPS

[Alan Crosswell]

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/

My wife is one of the authors.  And she's not that old:-)
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Brian D Heaton wrote:
> How about how many remember Kermit?
> 
> 			THX/BDH
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:06, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> 
>>This is a test.  How many on this list remember what 'uucp' means/meant?
>>
>>gerry n5jxs
>>
>>Curt, WE7U wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Amanda K. Martino wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have Xastir compiled with ImageMagick support on a P3 machine running
>>>>Linux Red Hat 9. I've tried using both serial TNC and serial GPS with
>>>>Xastir. Serial TNC works just fine. Serial GPS, however, gives me an
>>>>"Error opening Interface 0. Hard fail" when I try to start the interface.
>>>>I did run the chmod 4555 /usr/local/bin/xastir command when I compiled
>>>>Xastir, and my procedure for starting up Xastir is as follows:
>>>>login to linux as user capstone
>>>>su to root
>>>>xastir & from a terminal window as root.
>>>
>>>
>>>Once you've done the "chmod" command, it allows Xastir to gain root
>>>priviledges when it needs to, such as when opening ports.  You don't
>>>need to "su" in order to run Xastir, and in fact it's not
>>>recommended because then when Xastir tries to drop priviledges when
>>>it doesn't need them, you're still running as root.
>>>
>>>I'd run Xastir as the "capstone" user.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I don't see how it could be a permissions problem, but as I'm new to
>>>>Xastir I don't have much to base that on except what I just described
>>>>above. As mentioned before, serial TNC works perfectly fine. Does anyone
>>>>have any suggestions as to what might be causing this? Thanks in advance
>>>>for any help.
>>>
>>>
>>>If you do an "ls -l /dev/ttyS?" you'll see the permissions and
>>>user/group for your serial devices.  You are probably using
>>>/dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 for your ports, right?
>>>
>>>In your /etc/group file, add your "capstone" user to whatever group
>>>the serial ports belong to.  On my system it's the "uucp" group.
>>>Change the permissions on the serial devices to 660 if they're not
>>>already.  Mine look like this:
>>>
>>>crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  64 2003-10-02 13:45 /dev/ttyS0
>>>crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  65 2003-10-02 13:45 /dev/ttyS1
>>>crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  66 2003-10-02 13:45 /dev/ttyS2
>>>crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  67 2003-10-02 13:45 /dev/ttyS3
>>>
>>>After that, you should be able to come in using the "uucp"
>>>permissions as the "capstone" user, and run Xastir as the "capstone"
>>>user as well.  Make sense?
>>>
>>>Also make sure you have the case correct for the device name in the
>>>Interface->Properties dialog for that interface.  You need a capital
>>>'S'.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Curt, WE7U			    archer at eskimo dot com
>>>Arlington, WA, USA		http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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