[Xastir] AX25 interfacing

Curt Mills archer at eskimo.com
Sun Mar 4 16:08:14 EST 2007


On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Lance Cotton 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

Yes.  This will get you around possible permissions problems with
the ports _and_ the kernel requirement that network protocol access
requires root privileges.

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