Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:33:48 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Port devel/arduino serial port problems [SOLVED] Message-ID: <20130314133348.fdbdc755.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <51418ED6.7000400@qeng-ho.org> References: <5140F60B.20106@qeng-ho.org> <51418ED6.7000400@qeng-ho.org>
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On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:48:22 +0000, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 03/13/13 21:56, Arthur Chance wrote: > > I'm trying to get devel/arduino working.[snip] > > I shouldn't work 13 hour days. Now I've had some sleep, I've spotted > what I missed last night. The underlying code from comms/rxtx is trying > to create a lock file in /var/spool/lock and that is only writeable by > user uucp and group dialer. Given that I have absolutely no serial > devices (or ports) on this box apart from the Arduino when it's plugged > in, can anyone see any problems with making the lock directory world > writeable? Simply add your user (or the account the program is running under) to the "dialer" group. This has been a common method to allow users to access dialing programs (which were reserved for root use without this group addition). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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