Re: modem permissions

[Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>]

The permissions for my serial ports are all:
crw-rw----
     ^
You need to be able to write to the serial port.
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 paul@dial.pipex.com wrote:

> First time I`ve had to come back for a while!
> I`m trying to set up minicom but I can`t access the modem. Here`s the relevant info:
> 
> bash-2.03$ minicom
> minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS2: Permission denied
> bash-2.03$ ls -l  /dev/ttyS2
> crw-r-----    1 root     dialout    4,  66 Jan 16 19:23 /dev/ttyS2
> bash-2.03$ groups
> paul mail dialout dip