Re: pySerial in a daemon process

2007-08-27 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, paul wrote: > Before I had posted this question first thing I did was to look at / > dev/ttyS0, and indeed the group is dialout (gid=20)... What are the full protections on the serial port? That is, can you post the output of ls -l /dev/ttyS0 please? -- htt

Re: pySerial in a daemon process

2007-08-26 Thread paul
On Aug 26, 5:20 pm, Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > paul wrote: > > If I put these back in and try to run the daemon, the script fails > > when I try to connect to the serial port, with this error: > > serial.serialutil.SerialException: Could not open port: [Errno 13] > > Permission denied: '/dev/tty

Re: pySerial in a daemon process

2007-08-26 Thread Bjoern Schliessmann
paul wrote: > If I put these back in and try to run the daemon, the script fails > when I try to connect to the serial port, with this error: > serial.serialutil.SerialException: Could not open port: [Errno 13] > Permission denied: '/dev/ttyS0' Did you check the permissions on this file? Often yo

pySerial in a daemon process

2007-08-26 Thread paul
I am writing a daemon process that reads data from the serial port / dev/ttyS0. I am using pyserial & the method for setting up a daemon described in "Chris' Python Page" (http://homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/ python/) on an Ubuntu linux pc. Everything works great EXCEPT... in the daemon script, the