Re: minicom..

[Dick Arnold <darnold@fgi.net>]

On Tue, 14 May 1996 Richard.Dansereau@ee.umanitoba.ca wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to get minicom properly setup.  When I try to run
> minicom as a non-priveledged user.. I get the error that
> 	/dev/cua1 permission denied
> The default permission settings on /dev/cua1 when you install
> Debian 0.93R6 is 660.  I can get things to work if I set the 
> permissions to 666 but isn't this somewhat of a security problem?
> Is there a secure way of setting this up?
> 
> Also, when I was previously using the slackware distribution
> minicom was in color.  I currently don't get it in color in an
> xterm.  Does debian come with a special color xterm?

Try /usr/bin/xminicom for xterm

Dick Arnold