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From: Peter <pfheiss@philonline.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Minicom fails
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:00:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212200700.gBK704603967@philonline.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:04:04 EST." <200212190804.04757.sotl155360@earthlink.net>


 Peter said:
> After I run a RH7.3 upgrade I can't access anymore minicom as a user.
> I get the following message: ]$ minicom Device /dev/ttyS0 lock failed:
> Operation not permitted.


Thanks Frank!

The first thing I did was reading the man pages after the opening failure. I 
got nothing out of it.

What I did now was setting the group of /var/lock to user and I can open 
minicom again.

Was this the right way to do it?

Regards
-- 
Peter

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       reply	other threads:[~2002-12-20  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200212190804.04757.sotl155360@earthlink.net>
2002-12-20  7:00 ` Peter [this message]
2002-12-20 12:55   ` Minicom fails Frank Roberts - SOTL
2002-12-19  8:50 Peter
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-19  8:48 Peter

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