[Xastir] serial port error with serial GPS

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Brigette?

Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
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> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Jerry Chamberlin wrote:
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>>Univ of Oklahoma.
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>>On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, 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
>>>>>"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!"
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