[Xastir] Error opening interface 0 Hard Fail

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Mike Swiatkowski, AA9VI wrote:

> What causes "Interface Error! Error opening interface 0 Hard Fail"?

As root:

     chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir

That gives Xastir SUID Root privileges when opening/closing/manipulating ports.  Xastir code is smart enough to drop those privileges the rest of the time, and only invoke them when doing the mentioned operations.

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