I have changed the owner of minicom as per your suggestion. Still can't
access it as user. I receive the following message:
"Cannot create lockfile. Sorry."
Still works fine logged in as user, then su root in the konsole and run
minicom as root. Is there any danger in running minicom as root?
Pat the Rat
Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear Pat:
>
> I think I know a solution. I once played with Minicom just for the fun
> of it and ran into the same root/user problem. The solution is, if I
> recall, very simple:
>
> First in a console type:
>
> whereis minicom
>
> If I recall, the rpm usually installs into /usr/local
>
> Now, using Konqueror as File Manager (as root -- in the console su to
> root, then type "konqueror" without the quotes), go to
> /usr/local/minicom or wherever the minicom executable is and go into
> Permissions. Read, write and exec should be checked for the user. Now
> change the owner from "root" to "user". That's all there is to it.
>
> Now close down Konqueror and launch minicom from your prompt as user:
>
> $minicom -c
>
> The -c is for color.
>
> This should do it. Hope this works.
>
> Benjamin
> --
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
