Re: Serial Port attributes to use pilot-xfer?

["Doug Royer [N6AAW]" <dougr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also - for Solaris users (+ other Unix's ?) - "man logindevperm"

It allows you to specify which devices will be owned by the
user logged into the console. My entry for the serial port
connected to the pilot is:

	/dev/ttya    0600 /dev/ttya    # Connection to Pilot

So, when I (dougr) am logged in, a ls -lL if /dev/ttya:

	crw-------   1 dougr    tty       29,  0 Oct 27 12:53 /dev/ttya


-Doug

> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:59:00 -0800 (PST)
> From: John Simmons <John.Simmons@Eng>
> Subject: Re: Serial Port attributes to use pilot-xfer?
> To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> > Subject: Serial Port attributes to use pilot-xfer?
> > To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-MD5: rh8+/MxS9Bnyw/KgKbNfMQ==
> > 
> > 
> > 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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-Doug
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