Re: Serial Port attributes to use pilot-xfer?

[John Simmons <John.Simmons@Eng>]

Well it was simple enough, I should have figured; Pilot owner, sysadmin, and 
very cool dude Jim Bagnol came up with the solution.  Here it is in case you 
ever mess with your serial ports and can't get pilot-xfer back:

The problem comes with certain options set by "admintool".  It will change the 
permissions on the device (e.g. /dev/ttyb), and will change the owner to "uucp" 
and the group to "tty".  "Admintool" does not provide an undo, once these 
changes are made.

To fix, change the owner back to root, the group back to "sys", and the 
permissions back to 666, e.g.:

As root:

1. chmod 666 /dev/ttyb
2. chown root /dev/ttyb
3. chgrp sys /dev/ttyb
4. touch /reconfigure
5. reboot

And then you are back in business.

John



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> Hello,
> 
> I have been using pilot-xfer for quite some time to back up files, install new 
> utilities, etc.  I moved recently, and somehow my serial port configuration 
got 
> changed.  Now when I attempt to use pilot-xfer, I get the following error:
> 
> pi_bind: Permission denied
> 
> I had to fix the problem once before, a long time ago, when I first started 
> using pilot-xfer.  I know it has something to do with serial port 
configuration, 
> and that "admintool" does not address the level of detail necessary to fix it, 
> but rather there is a configuration file I need to fix.
> 
> Does anyone know what the file(s) are that I need to edit, and what defaults 
> need to be in place to fix this?
> 
> Please email to me directly, as I think I have been temporarily dropped from 
the 
> alias due to my office move.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
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