/dev/ttySx problems... solved

stan mcintosh mcintosh at triad.rr.com
Fri Nov 10 11:59:27 UTC 2006


Gene Heskett wrote:
> selinux is set permissive, and an ls -l of /dev/ttyS* show this:
>
> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Nov  9 16:35 /dev/ttyS0
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 65 Nov  9 16:35 /dev/ttyS1
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 66 Nov  9 16:35 /dev/ttyS2
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 67 Nov  9 16:35 /dev/ttyS3
>
>   
Cool use of your serial port.  Have you gone into your /dev directory 
and 'chmod o+rw ttyS*' as root?

If this is too much of a noob approach, then I'm busted ;>)

My privileges are:
[root at localhost dev]# ls -l ttyS*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Nov  9 19:29 ttyS0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Nov  9 19:31 ttyS1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 4, 66 Nov  9 14:13 ttyS2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 4, 67 Nov  9 14:13 ttyS3

Regards,
stan





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