On Friday 01 January 2016 10:21:42 EBo wrote: > Various distros are a little different, but there is usally something > like a plugdev or usb group. If you add you user to that you might > get around the problem. > > On Jan 1 2016 3:13 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > This is essentially unrelated to LinuxCNC, but I believe is related > > to > > the install. > > > > I have a cron job that uploads the next years schedule for the front > > decks evening lights on Jan 1 of every year. I got an email > > advising me > > it couldn't access /dev/ttyUSB0 and that I should check permissions. > > > > Looking at it, root:root was the owner/group. So I became root and > > chowned it to me:me, and everything heyu related works once again. > > > > This had worked perfectly with whatever the defaults were, and did > > so 2 > > or 3 times because I wanted to turn them off early, since the last > > reboot 9+ days ago, so the only thing changed that sticks out like a > > sore thumb is the year. > > > > Does anyone have a clue, or should I just put the fix into > > /etc/rd.local? > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
Both me and heyu were members of group tty already. I just added us to plugdev too so we'll see after the next reboot. Thanks Ebo. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
