On Jan 1 2016 9:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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.
Let me know if that works. What I was also trying to imply is that you might need to look at the docs for your distro and see if there is anything specific that needs to be done. Fortunately/Unfortunately, as soon as I fix this problem (which each install/new-user, I promptly forget what I put in the magic sauce... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
