[Xastir] serial port permissions

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 07:08:43PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jjolin at itol.com> flavor, containing:
> Well this problem hasn't happened to me in a very long time.  The serial 
> port is not letting xastir run....hard fail it says in the terminal.  I 
> was using Mint 12 and upgraded to Mint 13.  I used to know how to fix 
> that permanently but I can't remember how.  Would appreciate some memory 
> refreshing.

Make sure you're in the same group as the serial port's group ownership 
("dialout", perhaps?).  Check that "id" returns a list of groups that includes
the one that ls -l on the serial port gives.

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