[Xastir] Xastir as root?

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:09:06PM +1000, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <vk3xci at aanet.com.au> flavor, containing:
> 
> Good evening all,
> 
> Do I have to run Xastir as rot to use soundmodem? I have soundmodem 
> running ok at last... another different story all together... but can't 
> seem to set up an interface for it?

Using Xastir with an ax.25 interface requires that it be "set UID root"
as described in the INSTALL document.

  sudo chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/xastir

This gives Xastir the root permissions it needs to access the ax.25 kernel
interface at start-up.  

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