[ale] /dev/pilot does not exist

alelist alelist at christopherrussell.net
Sat Jul 10 18:39:16 EDT 2004


>10 Jul 2004 16:01:07 -0400
>From: "James P. Kinney III" wrote:
>
>
>>On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 15:50, alelist wrote:
>> Situation-
>> /dev/pilot does not exist
>
>> ?Advice please..
>> Should I make a soft link between ttyS0 and /dev/pilot...?
>
>Yep! symlink from the ttyS0 to pilot will work. Make sure that the
>tyS0
>has permissions that allow the console user to read and write. If >it's
>just you on the box, set it mode 666. Otherwise, you'll need to make >a
>group "pilot", put the appropriate users into the pilot group, chown
>root:pilot /dev/ttyS0 , chmod 660 /dev/ttyS0

James, thanks. this did the trick!

ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot
chmod 0666 /dev/pilot

chris
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