[PLUG] Anyone familiar with minicom?

Keith ac7xc1nx at comcast.net
Tue Feb 2 09:37:57 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 01:21 -0800, Mike Connors wrote:
> Keith wrote:
> > I can run minicom as root on openSuSE 11.2, but when I attempt to run it
> > as a user I get the message "Cannot create lockfile. Sorry.". I have
> > checked to make sure that I have permissions in that group, dialout, for
> > that device and I can operate it without minicom. Is there a permission
> > problem with the lock file? I can run the same version of minicom in
> > Fedora as a user with no problems.
> Dumb question, but is the username that you're using in the group that 
> has the
> correct permissions?


Yes, the user name is in the user group. The device can be operated by
the user using other programs, just minicom complains about a lockfile.





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