Re: gpilotd / gnome-pilot issues
Ok, I added myself to dialout, but being as I do not use ppp at all to
connect its a rather odd group to be added to...but I did already have
permissions set up so that I could access the device, Jpilot was
working. I notice that lately it has been crashing almost always as
soon as I hit the sync button on the cradle.
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 08:02, James Strandboge wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 04:56, karrottop wrote:
> > I do not even know what the dialout group is, when I start the gnome
> > applet for gpilot it crashes immediately, Checking I do only have
one
> > gpilotd running (with pgrep) Thanks
>
> adduser yourusername dialout
>
> See 'man adduser'. To make sure if you need to be in the dialout
group,
> do:
>
> ls -l /dev/ttyUSB1
>
> It should look something like:
>
> [james@sirius ~]$ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB1
> crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 1 Mar 14 2002 /dev/ttyUSB1
>
> If not, do:
>
> chgrp dialout /dev/ttyUSB1
> chmod 660 /dev/ttyUSB1
>
> See 'man chgrp' and 'man chmod' for more info.
>
> Jamie
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