Rather than run as root, which allows Xastir to stomp all over your system if it misbehaves, perhaps it would be safer to chown the needed /dev/foo devices to the user that's running Xastir?
Just $0.02 from a network security engineer... Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Ray Wells wrote: > >> Have you changed permissions for xastir to run it as root? chmod 4755 >> xastir > > Also: Run xastir from an xterm so you can see error messages. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com > http://www.eskimo.com/~archer > Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown > Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. > The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
