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.
>
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