[Xastir] AX25 interfacing

[Stephen Brown Jr]

That took care of it, thanks a mil!

Stephen
N1VLV

On 3/4/07, Lance Cotton <joe at lightningflash.net> wrote:
>
> Xastir needs to be set SUID so that it can open an ax.25 socket.
>
> try a `chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir` first
>
> -Lance KJ5O
>
> Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> > I'm in the process of setting up Xastir to use an AX25 interface and for
> > some reason I get this when I try to connect to it:
> >
> > sbrown at onyxia:~$ socket: Operation not permitted
> > Sun Mar 04 12:12:27 EST 2007:
> >        Interface Error!  Error opening interface 1 Hard Fail
> >
> > I am running Ubuntu 6.06 and trying to use this port as an AXIP link to
> > another machine. I have the port defined in AXPORTS, and kissattached it
> to
> > /dev/ptyp0 with no issues.
> >
> > Thinking this might have been a permissions issue, I started up Xastir
> > using
> > sudo and sure enough it worked as intended. I also looked at the
> > permissions
> > for the pty port:
> >
> > crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 0 2007-02-24 19:51 /dev/ptyp0
> >
> > Looking at that should tell me that it should work as my normal user,
> but
> > that doesn't appear to be the case. I also added my username (sbrown) to
> > the
> > root and tty group under /etc/group.
> >
> > Any clue why this won't work as a normal user? I'm sure it's a
> permissions
> > issue somewhere, but I haven't quite pinpointed it yet.......
> >
> > 73's
> > Stephen
> > N1VLV
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>
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