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Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 21:10:41 UTC 2007


Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>> [root at k5di ~]# ls -al /dev/ttyS0
>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 2007-12-07 04:52 /dev/ttyS0
>> [root at k5di ~]#
>>
>> The only way I can ever use Com1 is to be root or belong to the uucp
>> Group.
> 
> not necessarily.  depending on how you access that port, it might have
> its attributes changed to match yours automatically.  from my system:
> 
> $ ls -l /dev/console
> crw------- 1 rpjday root 5, 1 2007-12-06 03:17 /dev/console
> 
> notice how i'm the owner of /dev/console?  i never changed that
> ownership -- that was done for me based on the fact that that's how i
> logged in.

What's a console and what does it have to do with a unix-like system?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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