My /dev/pilot goes away every time I reboot.

Cosme Faria Corrêa cosme at pcs.srv.br
Mon Apr 11 22:00:29 UTC 2005


1- Put yourself in uucp group.
2- Use /dev/ttyS0. :-)

Em Seg, 2005-04-11 às 15:55 -0400, Steven W. Orr escreveu:
> On Monday, Apr 11th 2005 at 11:57 -0600, quoth kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com:
> 
> =>On Monday 11 April 2005 11:47, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>> Is there a better solution than to recreate the device in rc.local?
> =>
> =>Create the following files:
> =>
> => /etc/udev/rules.d/10-visor.rules with this content:
> =>
> =>BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL="ttyUSB*", SYMLINK="pilot"
> =>
> =>/etc/udev/permissions.d/10-visor.permissions with this content:
> =>
> =>ttyUSB1:$local:uucp:0660
> =>
> =>For more info, look at this site:
> =>
> =>http://www.clasohm.com/blog/one-entry?entry_id=12096
> =>
> 
> Mea culpa. I forgot to 'splain myself: I am not running a palm off of a 
> USB port. I am running a palm that syncs off of a serial port. In this 
> case it's /dev/ttyS0 and the problem is that every time I reboot the 
> computer, the link /dev/pilot which points to /dev/ttyS0 goes away. Also, 
> the permissions get reset. So in the meantime I added this to my rc.local:
> 
> ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot
> chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0
> 
> 
> Is there a better way or is this as good as it gets?
> 
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