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From: Gordon Haverland <haverlan@agric.gov.ab.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Using kermit when not logged in as root
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 07:59:04 -0700
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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> In article <76vso2$bc8$1@newnews.global.net.uk>,
> Tim Hedger <news@hedger.globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
> : I've set up Kermit (using the Redhat rpm installation) on my Redhat 5.2
> : Linux machine.
> :
> : Having spent some time getting it configured properly (with entries in the
> : relevant init files to configure the modem etc) as root, I logged on as
> : another user and tried to use it.
> :
> : I got errors in the startup of kermit, when it tried to SET LINE
> : /dev/modem - I got "permission denied"
> Please read the UNIX appendix of "Using C-Kermit" or the section of
> ckuins.doc (C-Kermit for UNIX Installation Instructions) on "Dialing Out and
> Coordinating with UUCP".
>
> The same obstacles must be dealt with in UNIX no matter what communication
> software you are installing. Minicom happened to come preinstalled this way
> so you didn't notice it.
I just went through a reinstall of C-Kermit on a SuSE 5.3 install.
YAST likes to set /dev/modem to point to /dev/ttyS_, instead
of /dev/cua_. Maybe the RedHat setup is similar.
Even running as root, this produces odd kermit behavior.
Try setting /dev/modem to point to the cua device.
My kermit setup is: kermit is owned uucp in group uucp and
is SUID. /dev/modem and/dev/ttyS_ are owned by uucp
in group uucp as well.
I hope this helps.
Gordon Haverland